Category: NH history

• Freeman Colby Vol. 2, Episode 1: New Year’s Day, 1863

  

  January, 1863: Writing home while on picket duty.

  Marek

  8 April, 2019

  39th MA, Civil War, Civil War Diary of Freeman Colby, Henniker

  Civil War, Freeman Colby, Maryland, picket, Poolesville, Potomac, slavery, virginia

• 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

• May 18, 1864: Marching (by Molly)

  

  Captured 9th NH men march farther South …

  Marek

  30 December, 2016

  1860s, 9th NH, Civil War, Civil War Diary of Charles Wilcox, guest artist

  9th NH, Charles W. Wilcox, Civil War, march, prisoners, virginia

• Hannah Dustin in the Snow

  

  A wandering cartoonist visits the site of a massacre…

  Marek

  5 December, 2016

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

  Hannah Dustin, highway, history, markers, Penacook, truth

• 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

• Ethan Allen Crawford

  

  Spaulding’s “Giant Mountaineer”…

  Marek

  5 October, 2016

  1700-1799, 1790s, Ethan Allen Crawford, NH history, NH people, White Mountains

  Ethan Allen Crawford, fire, Giant’s Grave, Guild Hall, Vermont, White Mountains

• Ravages of the Wind-Fiend

  

  Two painters summit Mt. Chocorua in 1828…

  Marek

  4 October, 2016

  1800-1899, 1820s, Henry Cheever Pratt, White Mountains

  Chocorua, drawing, Henry Cheever Pratt, Thomas Cole, White Mountains

• The Legend of Chocorua

  

  One version of a local legend.

  Marek

  22 September, 2016

  1800-1899, 1820s, Henry Cheever Pratt, White Mountains

  Chocorua, curse, hunter, indians, money, White Mountains

• 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

• Wilcox Timeline (by Jess & Molly)

  

  An overview of major events from Wilcox’s diary & letters…

  Marek

  7 September, 2016

  1800-1899, 1860s, 9th NH, Civil War, Civil War Diary of Charles Wilcox, guest artist, Keene, series, SOURCE=HSCC

  9th NH, Charles W. Wilcox, civil war

• May 11, 1864: Eating and Marching (by Logan)

  

  Wilcox has scarcely enough time to warm his dinner before being ordered into battle…

  Marek

  7 September, 2016

  1860s, 9th NH, Civil War, Civil War Diary of Charles Wilcox, guest artist

  9th NH, Charles W. Wilcox, civil war, prisoners, Spottsylvania Courthouse, virginia

• May 13, 1864: ‘We lay down on the grass to rest’ (by Sammy)

  

  Wilcox & Co. do their best to survive as prisoners backstage at one of the war’s major battles… Drawn by guest artist Sammy during COMICS CAMP at the Historical Society of Cheshire County: from the Civil War Diary of Charles W. Wilcox |< << 13-14 May 1864 >> SOURCES: Sammy draws from Wilcox’s diary entries for 13-14 May: … & from the […]

  Marek

  22 August, 2016

  1860s, 9th NH, Civil War, Civil War Diary of Charles Wilcox, guest artist

  9th NH, Charles W. Wilcox, Civil War, mud, prisoners, rain, Spottsylvania Courthouse, virginia

• May 12, 1864: Overcoat (by Keegan)

  

  Wilcox must make an unfair trade with a Confederate surgeon…

  Marek

  16 August, 2016

  1860s, 9th NH, Civil War, Civil War Diary of Charles Wilcox, guest artist

  9th NH, blanket, Charles W. Wilcox, civil war, coat, prisoners, rubber, virginia

• May 12, 1864: Captured by Confederates! (by Zander)

  

  Wilcox & 48 fellow officers become prisoners of war …

  Marek

  11 August, 2016

  1860s, 9th NH, Civil War, Civil War Diary of Charles Wilcox, guest artist

  9th NH, Charles W. Wilcox, civil war, prisoners, virginia

• May 8, 1864: Rebel Cavalry Charge (by Lee)

  

  “Laid on our arms all night last night about a mile from the battlefield…”

  Marek

  11 August, 2016

  1860s, 9th NH, Civil War, Civil War Diary of Charles Wilcox, guest artist

  9th NH, cavalry, Charles W. Wilcox, civil war, George Root, music, virginia

• May 7, 1864: “Picket firing nearly all night” (by Aidan)

  

  Charles Wilcox means to keep up with his journal, but he keeps getting interrupted…

  Marek

  11 August, 2016

  1860s, 9th NH, Civil War, Civil War Diary of Charles Wilcox, guest artist

  9th NH, Charles W. Wilcox, civil war, pickets, virginia

• May 6, 1864: “Marched to Mine Run” (by Aidan)

  

  Charles Wilcox and the 9th NH march southwards…

  Marek

  7 August, 2016

  1860s, 9th NH, Civil War, Civil War Diary of Charles Wilcox, guest artist

  9th NH, Charles W. Wilcox, civil war, march, Mine Run, virginia

• “Almost an Accident”

  

  Unsafe cannonades almost end in tragedy for guests at the Profile House…

  Marek

  4 July, 2016

  1860s, Adventures of a Deaf-Mute in the White Mountains, NH history, SOURCE=HHS, tourism, White Mountains, William B. Swett

  cannon, Echo Lake, explosion, Franconia Notch, horse, profile house, white mountains, William B. Swett

• 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