Category: 1820s
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Willey Family Disaster
A COMICS POEM; Extrapolated from Frank Leavitt’s original 3-verse poem (1885):
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Pitch Pine
Brother John digs deep in search of light, and Brother Asa gets the axe … << BEFORE: Candles from hogs …
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Buying Burnham’s Farm
With ten children (and counting), Jesse and Polly Hutchinson hatch a plan to buy Colonel Burnham’s old inn …
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Liberty-Pole (Henniker)
1829: Never mind all the war heroes and noisy demonstrations, HERE’s the big story of the day…
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Young Chase at Keene
Tragedies, travels, & teenage failures of one of New Hampshire’s most powerful exports…
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Trunks Like Black Bones (Marlow, 1825)
Grandpa remembers “what happened to all the forests” in the Keene area…