Category: NH culture

• Republic of Indian Stream (Highway Marker #0001)

  

  “Once a sovereign nation”…

  Marek

  7 May, 2018

  1800-1899, 1830s, 1840s, constitution, SOURCE=roadside markers

  Canada, constitution, Indian Stream, markers, Pittsburg, United States

• Frontier Quarrels

  

  Five reasons for the raid…

  Marek

  10 January, 2017

  1600-1699, 1690s, corn, cows, death, fish, Massachusetts, Merrimack, NH history, SOURCE=roadside markers

  1697, abenaki, corn, cotton mather, cows, fish, Hannah Dustin, hannah duston

• Hannah Dustin (1697)

  

  “Famous example of frontier heroism.” (sic)

  Marek

  4 December, 2016

  1600-1699, 1690s, death, Massachusetts, Merrimack, NH history, Penacook, SOURCE=roadside markers

  1697, abenaki, Hannah Dustin, hannah duston, haverhill, Massachusetts, massacre, raid

• The First Bridle Path

  

  Ethan Allen Crawford ramps up his tourism business…

  Marek

  15 October, 2016

  1810s, Ethan Allen Crawford, hiking, NH history, White Mountains

  Ethan Allen Crawford, mount washington, path, tip-top house, White Mountains

• Willey Family Disaster

  

  A COMICS POEM; Extrapolated from Frank Leavitt’s original 3-verse poem (1885):

  Marek

  13 October, 2016

  1800-1899, 1820s, death, poetry, White Mountains

  avalanche, disaster, Frank Leavitt, poetry, rain, White Mountains, Willey

• Tom & Hen Hike Chocorua

  

  Drawn from Thomas Cole’s diary.

  Marek

  20 September, 2016

  1800-1899, 1820s, Art, cows, forestry, Henry Cheever Pratt, hiking, weather, White Mountains

  Chocorua, cow, curse, diary, Henry Cheever Pratt, Thomas Cole, White Mountains

• NH Constitution Article 10: Right of Revolution.

  

  “The people MAY and of right OUGHT TO…”

  Marek

  22 June, 2016

  1780s, constitution, government, NH culture, NH State Comicstitution, SOURCE=NH.gov

  constitution, corruption, nh, revolution, state

• NH Constitution Article 9: No Hereditary Office or Place

  

  Free elections, not family dynasties!

  Marek

  20 June, 2016

  1780s, constitution, government, NH culture, NH State Comicstitution, SOURCE=NH.gov

  constitution, nh, state

• NH Constitution Article 8: Accountability of Magistrates & Officers; Public’s Right to Know.

  

  Open, accessible government, for the people…

  Marek

  18 June, 2016

  1780s, constitution, government, NH culture, NH State Comicstitution, SOURCE=NH.gov

  accountability, constitution, nh, public, state

• NH Constitution Article 7: State Sovereignty.

  

  State’s rights, reserved for the people of NH…

  Marek

  16 June, 2016

  1780s, constitution, government, NH culture, NH State Comicstitution, SOURCE=NH.gov

  constitution, nh, rights, state

• NH Constitution Article 6: Morality and Piety.

  

  This one explains why public schools and other state institutions don’t celebrate any one religion’s holidays

  Marek

  17 March, 2016

  1980s, constitution, government, NH culture, NH State Comicstitution, religion, SOURCE=NH.gov

  constitution, morality, nh, religion, rights

• NH Constitution Article 5: Religious Freedom Recognized.

  

  A logical extension of freedom of conscience.

  Marek

  14 March, 2016

  1980s, constitution, government, NH culture, NH State Comicstitution, religion, SOURCE=NH.gov

  constitution, god, nh, religion, rights, state government

• NH Constitution Article 4: Rights of Conscience Unalienable

  

  Some rights you just can’t give away.

  Marek

  13 March, 2016

  1980s, constitution, government, NH culture, NH State Comicstitution, SOURCE=NH.gov

  conscience, constitution, nh, rights, state government

• NH Constitution Article 3: Society, its Organization and Purposes

  

  Balancing NATURAL RIGHTS with the compromises and exchanges of SOCIETY…

  Marek

  9 March, 2016

  1980s, constitution, government, NH culture, NH State Comicstitution, SOURCE=NH.gov

  constitution, feature, nh, rights, society, state government

• NH Constitution Article 2a: The Bearing of Arms

  

  This one’s short and to the point.

  Marek

  7 March, 2016

  1980s, constitution, government, NH culture, NH State Comicstitution, SOURCE=NH.gov

  arms, constitution, feature, nh, rights, state government

• NH Constitution Article 2: Natural Rights

  

  Life, liberty, property, happiness… This article has it all.

  Marek

  1 March, 2016

  1780s, constitution, government, NH culture, NH State Comicstitution, SOURCE=NH.gov

  constitution, happiness, liberty, nh, property, rights, state government

• NH Constitution Article 1: Equality of People; Origin & Object of Government

  

  “All [people] are born equally FREE and INDEPENDENT…”

  Marek

  29 February, 2016

  1780s, constitution, government, NH culture, NH State Comicstitution, SOURCE=NH.gov

  constitution, equality, feature, freedom, nh, rights, state government

• Colby & Bacon on a Night March

  

  The officers, no doubt, feel a certain urgency …

  Marek

  12 February, 2016

  1800-1899, 1860s, 39th MA, Civil War, Civil War Diary of Freeman Colby, hiking, NH history

  antietam, civil war, coffee, Freeman Colby, jonas bacon, sugar, walking, washington

• Choirmaster Power Play

  

  Brother Joshua makes his move …

  Marek

  9 February, 2016

  1800-1899, 1820s, Hutchinson Family, Hutchinson Family Singers, Milford, music & dance, NH history, religion

  1820s, church, joshua hutchinson, Milford, music

• Empty Rooms

  

  Yet more neighborly concern for the Hutchinson family’s new home …

  Marek

  27 January, 2016

  1800-1899, 1820s, Hutchinson Family, Hutchinson Family Singers, Milford, music & dance, NH history

  1820s, Milford, music, polly hutchinson

• Resolved

  

  Early 19th century Baptist activism, hosted at the old district two school house …

  Marek

  23 January, 2016

  1800-1899, 1800s, Hutchinson Family, Hutchinson Family Singers, Milford, NH history, politics, religion

  1800s, abolition, alcohol, baptist, Milford, prayer, school, slavery, temperance

• The Twin Buglers

  

  Milford’s most unusual marching band …

  Marek

  19 January, 2016

  1800-1899, 1820s, Hutchinson Family, Hutchinson Family Singers, Milford, music & dance, NH history

  1820s, caleb hutchinson, joshua hutchinson, Milford, militia, music, polly hutchinson

• Musical Family

  

  Decades later, townsfolk fondly remembered one voice in the local church choir…

  Marek

  9 December, 2015

  1800-1899, 1800s, Hutchinson Family, Hutchinson Family Singers, Mont Vernon, music & dance, religion, sabbath

  Jesse Hutchinson Sr., Mont Vernon, Polly Leavitt Hutchinson, Sarah Leavitt

• Clean Living

  

  The musical history of NH’s famous Singing Hutchinsons runs deep… and complicated:

  Marek

  2 December, 2015

  1790s, corn, Hutchinson Family, Hutchinson Family Singers, Milford, music & dance

  Andrew Hutchinson, corn, dance, Jesse Hutchinson Sr., Milford, tobacco, violin