Marek events, news

“Drawing from the Past” @ NHSCA-AIE Conference (26 Oct.)

LF&D presents a Saturday morning workshop at the 2013 Statewide Arts Education conference ...

Marek 1860s, 39th MA, Civil War, Civil War Diary of Freeman Colby, hiking, NH history, SOURCE=HHS

Colby 34: Trouble in Camp

1862: Colby & Bacon may have "straggled" in a field the night before, but they're up at dawn and on the road ...

Marek 1990s, food, guest artist, Keene, NH history, pumpkins

Diary of a Keene Pumpkin (GUEST POST)

Guest artist Rudy takes a whimsical pumpkin's-eye-view of the early days of the Keene Pumpkin Festival...

Marek 1850s, corn, economics, metals & minerals, NH history, SOURCE=Little, Weare

Bank of John Gillet (Weare)

1855: This story of home-grown finance comes from William Little's chapter on "Peculiar People" in Weare ...

Marek 1860s, 39th MA, Civil War, Civil War Diary of Freeman Colby, hiking, NH history, SOURCE=HHS

Colby 33: Straggling Commenced

1862: Colby's regiment gets back to basics on its first hard night march ...

Marek 1870s, 2000-2099, construction, education, guest artist, Keene, NH history, SOURCE=HSCC

“More Than One Million Bricks” (GUEST POST)

Guest artist Bea Reel uses her latest strip to detail the construction of the new high school in 1876...

Marek 1860s, Civil War, Civil War Diary of Esther Hill Hawks, Esther Hill Hawks, Massachusetts, NH history, Reference Links

Hawks 14: The Shell Road

1862: Scenic South Carolina in the midst of war ...

Marek 1860s, 39th MA, Civil War, Civil War Diary of Freeman Colby, hiking, NH history, Reference Links, SOURCE=HHS

Colby 32: We Plodded Doggedly On

1862: The sun goes down & the miles drag on ...

Marek 2000-2099, environment, guest artist, Keene, NH history

Keene, 2013-??? (GUEST POST)

An imaginative glimpse of Keene's present and distant future (and past?!), drawn by guest artist Peter Fedrizzi ...

Marek 1860s, 39th MA, Civil War, Civil War Diary of Freeman Colby, hiking, NH history, SOURCE=HHS

Colby 31: Dusty Roads

1862: Troop movements along the Potomac ...

Marek 1830s, death, guest artist, New Hampton, NH history, Sandwich, SOURCE=Sandwich Historical, Weed Family Letters

A Scene Such as I Never Before Witnessed (New Hampton, NH) (GUEST POST)

1835: GUEST ARTIST "E.J.P." (of Sandwich, NH) details Larkin's adventure in a House of Death ...

Marek 1830s, death, guest artist, New Hampton, NH history, Sandwich, SOURCE=Sandwich Historical, Weed Family Letters

The Most Excruciating Torture (New Hampton, NH)

1835: GUEST ARTIST draws the next episode in the education of Larkin Weed:

Marek events

Junior Historians’ Comics Share @ Sandwich Old Home Days (18 August)

Sandwich Historical Society's JUNIOR HISTORIANS CAMP presents... the 2013 Camp Comic Book!

Marek 1860s, Civil War, Civil War Diary of Esther Hill Hawks, death, Esther Hill Hawks, Freedmen, Massachusetts, NH history, Reference Links

Hawks 13: From a Military Point of View

1862: Dr. Hawks lays out some of the military realities of her surroundings ...

Marek 1830s, food, New Hampton, NH history, Sandwich, SOURCE=Sandwich Historical, Weed Family Letters

All the Mirth that the Mind could Invent (New Hampton, NH)

1835: After classes, Larkin Weed & friends descend on "a place of resort for bathing":

Marek 1860s, Civil War, Civil War Diary of Esther Hill Hawks, Esther Hill Hawks, Freedmen, NH history, Reference Links

Hawks 12: No One Is Punished

1862: General Saxton confronts the ruthless tide of violence against former slaves ...

Marek 1830s, education, guest artist, New Hampton, NH history, Sandwich, SOURCE=Sandwich Historical, Weed Family Letters

Larkin’s Classes (New Hampton, NH) (GUEST POST)

1835: Larkin describes his classes and hints at adventures to come ...

Marek 1830s, education, medicine, New Hampton, NH history, Sandwich, SOURCE=Sandwich Historical, Weed Family Letters

JUNE 1835: Larkin Weed to Phebe Weed (New Hampton, NH)

1835: Larkin Weed writes home to his sister Phebe at Sandwich, describing his experiences in a single day of classes ...

Marek 1860s, 39th MA, Civil War, Civil War Diary of Freeman Colby, hiking, NH history, SOURCE=HHS

Colby 30: Night’s March!

1862: The orders go out: It's a night's march! ...

Marek 1850s, cats, guest artist, guns, hunting, Keene, NH history, rabbit

Mr. Wheelock Mistakes a Cat for a Rabbit (Keene)

Here's a double-header GUEST POST of a favorite hunting anecdote from Thomas C. Rand's "Sketch of Keene, Gem of the Ashuelot Valley"...

Marek 1860s, 39th MA, Civil War, Civil War Diary of Freeman Colby, NH history, SOURCE=HHS

Colby 29: Chance Meeting

Colby runs into his fiancee's older brother-in-law in camp at Arlington Heights ...

Marek 1700-1799, colonial, guest artist, Keene, NH history, SOURCE=Griffin, wheat

Upper Crust of Keene

Guest cartoonist Bea Reel drew this page from Griffin's History of Keene, NH during our recent FAMILY COMICS WORKSHOP at Keene Public Library: