Yankees believed in multiple uses of gear

“A Snowy Monday, The Cooperage, Hancock, New Hampshire,’’ by Lilla Cabot Perry

In the Hancock, New Hampshire, historical society…is the town coffin, once used to bury the poor. {Thrifty Yankees, using the same coffin, and thriftier still — for years it was used as a chicken feeder on a farm.)

— Howard Mansfield (born 1957) historian, from In the Memory House. He lives in Hancock.

Hancock Historical Society