LIVE FREE and DRAW

STORIES & COMICS from the GRANITE STATE ~ drawn from PRIMARY SOURCES ~ by Marek Bennett

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hhs-1862-FreemanColby-48-forts-DETAIL-www.MarekBennett Colby 27: Ellsworth & Lee - 1862: Colby surveys his surroundings & recalls the big names that shaped history here ...
Hopk-JonesBK-1860-12-02_05-Wood-Dan+Evelyn-DETAIL Thanksgiving Letter (B K Jones, Dec 2d 1860, #3) (Guest Post) - 1860: Burleigh sends news about his family's Thanksgiving activities...
hhs-1865-DeafMute-25-Snow-DETAIL-www.MarekBennett.com Swett 10: Snow-balling in June - 1865: The restorative powers of the White Mountains during the closing months of the Civil War...
EHH-1862-42-School-DETAIL-www.MarekBennett.com Hawks 42: 300 Pupils - 1862: Dr. Esther loses her voice teaching 300 freedmen students at a time ...

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UPCOMING EVENTS:

130515-Banner-rgb-02-www.AANNH.org “Drawing from the Past”: History Comics Workshop for Educators & Others… (15 May, Plymouth) - A day-long workshop bringing together teachers, members of local historical societies and interested community members in an interdisciplinary approach to exploring history with COMICS...
MECAF+EHH MECAF 2013 @ Portland, ME (19 May) - LIVE FREE AND DRAW shares a table with the e'er-verdant Trees & Hills Comics Group at Northern New England's premiere indie comics show!
130722-SandwichJunior Junior Historians’ Week @ Sandwich, NH (22-26 July) - Join us for a week of local history exploration & discovery at Sandwich Historical Society… Participants in SHS’s annual “Junior Historians’ Week” gather each summer to dig into treasures of local history; this… Read More →

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FEATURED SERIES:

1603: Journal of Martin Pring

~ NH’s first business trip ~

1862: Civil War Diary of Esther Hill Hawks

~ NH female doctor volunteers to work with Freedmen… ~

1862: Civil War Letters of Joseph Rogers

~ Warner leather-worker writes home ~

ROADSIDE HISTORICAL MARKERS

~ Drive-by History ~

1861: Civil War Diary of Freeman Colby
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~ NH teacher goes to war… ~

1865: Adventures of a Deaf-Mute in the White Mountains

~ Silent guide explores NH’s mountains in the years after the Civil War ~

Recent GUEST ARTISTS:

Hopk-JonesBK-1860-12-02_04-Chickens-DanH-DETAIL Thanksgiving Letter (B K Jones, Dec 2d 1860, #2) (Guest Post) - 1860: Burleigh relates a classic NH Thanksgiving... (Drawn by guest artist Dan Haines of Hopkinton)
Hopk-JonesBK-1858-04-25-AltheaBarton-MayDay-01-DETAIL Mayflowers (B K Jones, April 25th 1858) (Guest Post) - 1858: Burleigh K. Jones has some fun times planned for May Day, but life around the capital still seems unbearably dull... (Drawn by guest artist Althea Barton)
Hopk-JonesBK-1858-03-06-HeatherMitchell-Buttons-01-DETAIL I am Pedling Buttons (B K Jones, March 6th 1858) (Guest Post) - 1858: Be careful what you wish for! Burleigh K. Jones just can't get rid of those buttons he had his brother send him from Boston! (Drawn by guest artist Heather Mitchell) ...

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1900-1999
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