January, 1863: Writing home while on picket duty.
Category Archives: NH history
Republic of Indian Stream (Highway Marker #0001)
“Once a sovereign nation”…
Frontier Quarrels
Five reasons for the raid…
May 18, 1864: Marching (by Molly)
Captured 9th NH men march farther South …
Hannah Dustin in the Snow
A wandering cartoonist visits the site of a massacre…
Hannah Dustin (1697)
“Famous example of frontier heroism.” (sic)
The First Bridle Path
Ethan Allen Crawford ramps up his tourism business…
Willey Family Disaster
A COMICS POEM; Extrapolated from Frank Leavitt’s original 3-verse poem (1885):
Ethan Allen Crawford
Spaulding’s “Giant Mountaineer”…
Ravages of the Wind-Fiend
Two painters summit Mt. Chocorua in 1828…
The Legend of Chocorua
One version of a local legend.
Tom & Hen Hike Chocorua
Drawn from Thomas Cole’s diary.
