Category: religion

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• An Interview with the Devil (Peterborough) (GUEST POST)

  

  Guest artist Malcolm (of Dublin, NH) dramatizes of an old supernatural fiddler legend from Peterborough…

  Marek

  28 August, 2015

  1700-1799, death, guest artist, music & dance, Peterborough, religion

  devil, Ella Gertrude Kinscella, fiddler, Hazel Gertrude Kinscella, Old Baker Moore, Peterborough

• “No Doing Things on a Sunday” (Peterborough, 1700s) (GUEST POST)

  

  Peterborough resident Daniel portrays the strict sabbath laws of the town’s early settlers, as related in Kinscella’s Chronicles of Peterborough: NEXT: One practical joke from 1754 >>

  Marek

  26 August, 2015

  1700-1799, guest artist, Peterborough, sabbath

  church, Peterborough, sabbath, sunday, swears

• Safe House

  

  After a harrowing experience in backwoods Georgia, Jonathan Daniels arrives at Atlanta in the middle of the night ..

  Marek

  27 July, 2015

  1960s, civil rights, Jonathan Daniels, Keene, NH history, Reference Links, religion

  Atlanta, civil rights, coffee, Georgia, Jonathan Daniels, Judith Upham, segregation, travel

• Jonathan Daniels in Selma

  

  Here’s a 2-page church integration splash from an upcoming mini-comic:

  Marek

  30 April, 2015

  1960s, civil rights, Jonathan Daniels, Keene, religion

  Alabama, church, civil rights, Jonathan Daniels, segregation, Selma

• Colby 95: Sunday

  

  A sabbath (of sorts) in camp:

  Marek

  18 December, 2014

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

  chaplain, civil war, Freeman Colby, sunday, washington

• Of One Blood All Nations (Sandwich, NH)

  

  1838: Sandwich petitions Congress to end the “nefarious traffic in slaves” in the District of Columbia…

  Marek

  6 November, 2013

  1830s, government, NH history, religion, Sandwich, SOURCE=Sandwich Historical

  abolition, congress, petition, sandwich, slavery

• NH’s Largest Comic Strip? (Columbia)

  

  This comic takes the form of 16 stone panels stretching over an enormous wooded semi-circle… and the surprise ending will really rev you up!

  Marek

  11 April, 2013

  1920s, Colebrook, Columbia, religion

  colebrook, Columbia, giant comics, sculpture, stone

• Sabbath Hawks (Weare)

  

  What a difference a century of Holy Sundays can make!

  Marek

  27 January, 2013

  1600-1699, 1800-1899, chicken, colonial, eagle+hawk, hunting, judicial branch, Massachusetts, sabbath, SOURCE=Little, Weare

  Edward Gove, hawk, hunting, Josiah Gove, sabbath, weare

• Elder Hovey’s Sabbath (Weare)

  

  Even religious law can have loopholes…

  Marek

  9 December, 2012

  1760s, colonial, firewood, religion, sabbath, Weare

  Levi Hovey, Samuel Hovey, Simeon Hovey, weare

• Sarah Josepha Hale on Thanksgiving (1864)

  

  Hale reflects on the national holiday she helped create in the midst of Civil War. (Note her “peculiarly” 19th century conceptions of politics, gender, charity, & religion.)

  Marek

  21 November, 2012

  1860s, charity, Civil War, harvest, Newport, politics, religion, Sarah Josepha Hale

  civil war, Sarah Josepha Hale, Thanksgiving

• Welcome to New Hampshire (Hopkinton, 1781)

  

  Mr. Peabody just wants to drive his oxen from Maine to his new home in Henniker, NH…

  Marek

  4 November, 2012

  1780s, animals, cows, Henniker, Hopkinton, Maine, religion, sabbath

• Hurricane Letter from Henniker (1938) (Part 3)

  

  Dorothy’s account of the Hurricane of ’38 continues, with some rather surprising twists… 

  Marek

  31 October, 2012

  1930s, animals, chicken, Contoocook, Henniker, Hillsboro, Hopkinton, milk, mills, religion, weather

  1938, animals, bridge, clean up, damage, flood, food-temp, Henniker, Hillsboro, Hopkinton, hurricane, water

• Powers of Witches (Weare)

  

  Here’s an overview of witches and their supernatural powers, from the early days of Weare:

  Marek

  28 October, 2012

  1700-1799, cats, colonial, ghosts, religion, SOURCE=Little, Weare, weather, witches

• Live Free in Court

  

  The story of the NH state motto takes a surprising turn: Are we free to NOT display it? << BEFORE: Choosing a state motto … NEXT: Live free or die in the U.S. SUPREME COURT! >> SOURCES: 

  Marek

  12 October, 2012

  “Live Free or Die”, 1970s, constitution, executive branch, government, judicial branch, Lebanon, religion

  constitution, constitutional, court, freedom, license plates, live free or die, maynard, motto, police, wooley

• State House Facade (Concord)

  

  Here’s a QUICK SKETCH of the State House East Facade, with special surprise reading… I just could not help but notice that, even though I’ve spent countless hours drawing in tons of churches and cathedrals, I have simply never before encountered an actual BIBLE READING MARATHON… until I sat down on the NH State House…

  Marek

  8 September, 2012

  architecture, NH culture, NH State House, religion

  bible, facade, government, nh, porch, religion, state house