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Comics History from the Granite State ~ by Marek Bennett

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    • Journal of Martin Pring (1603)
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    • Civil War Diary of Freeman Colby (1861-1863)
    • Civil War Diary of Esther Hill Hawks (1862)
    • 1862: Civil War Letters of Joseph Rogers (Warner)
    • 1864: Charles W. Wilcox Diary
    • Adventures of a Deaf-Mute in the White Mountains (1865)
    • 1911: Weeks Act Comics
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Category: NH culture

Republic of Indian Stream (Highway Marker #0001)

“Once a sovereign nation”…

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

Frontier Quarrels

Five reasons for the raid…

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

Hannah Dustin (1697)

“Famous example of frontier heroism.” (sic)

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

The First Bridle Path

Ethan Allen Crawford ramps up his tourism business…

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):

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

Tom & Hen Hike Chocorua

Drawn from Thomas Cole’s diary.

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…”

constitution, corruption, nh, revolution, state

NH Constitution Article 9: No Hereditary Office or Place

Free elections, not family dynasties!

constitution, nh, state

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

Open, accessible government, for the people…

accountability, constitution, nh, public, state

NH Constitution Article 7: State Sovereignty.

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

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

constitution, morality, nh, religion, rights

NH Constitution Article 5: Religious Freedom Recognized.

A logical extension of freedom of conscience.

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

NH Constitution Article 4: Rights of Conscience Unalienable

Some rights you just can’t give away.

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…

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

NH Constitution Article 2a: The Bearing of Arms

This one’s short and to the point.

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

NH Constitution Article 2: Natural Rights

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

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…”

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

Colby & Bacon on a Night March

The officers, no doubt, feel a certain urgency …

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

Choirmaster Power Play

Brother Joshua makes his move …

1820s, church, joshua hutchinson, Milford, music

Empty Rooms

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

1820s, Milford, music, polly hutchinson

Resolved

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

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

The Twin Buglers

Milford’s most unusual marching band …

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

Musical Family

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

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:

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

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