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8 April, 20198 April, 2019 Marek 39th MA, Civil War, Civil War Diary of Freeman Colby, Henniker

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

January, 1863: Writing home while on picket duty.

10 January, 201710 January, 2017 Marek 1600-1699, 1690s, corn, cows, death, fish, Massachusetts, Merrimack, NH history, SOURCE=roadside markers

Frontier Quarrels

Five reasons for the raid...

5 December, 201610 January, 2017 Marek 1600-1699, 1690s, NH history, Penacook, SOURCE=roadside markers

Hannah Dustin in the Snow

A wandering cartoonist visits the site of a massacre...

4 December, 201610 January, 2017 Marek 1600-1699, 1690s, death, Massachusetts, Merrimack, NH history, Penacook, SOURCE=roadside markers

Hannah Dustin (1697)

"Famous example of frontier heroism." (sic)

15 October, 20165 May, 2020 Marek 1810s, Ethan Allen Crawford, hiking, NH history, White Mountains

The First Bridle Path

Ethan Allen Crawford ramps up his tourism business...

13 October, 20161 May, 2020 Marek 1800-1899, 1820s, death, poetry, White Mountains

A COMICS POEM; Extrapolated from Frank Leavitt's original 3-verse poem (1885): SOURCE LINKS: I drew this comic using Frank Leavitt's poem as my starting point. I added some details from other sources (see below) & then made up a couple of my own lines to fill out the story. I have found that the poem actually fits … Continue reading Willey Family Disaster

5 October, 20166 October, 2016 Marek 1700-1799, 1790s, Ethan Allen Crawford, NH history, NH people, White Mountains

Ethan Allen Crawford

Spaulding's "Giant Mountaineer"...

4 October, 20166 November, 2025 Marek 1800-1899, 1820s, Henry Cheever Pratt, White Mountains

Ravages of the Wind-Fiend

Two painters summit Mt. Chocorua in 1828...

22 September, 20166 November, 2025 Marek 1800-1899, 1820s, Henry Cheever Pratt, White Mountains

The Legend of Chocorua

One version of a local legend.

20 September, 20166 November, 2025 Marek 1800-1899, 1820s, Art, cows, forestry, Henry Cheever Pratt, hiking, weather, White Mountains

Tom & Hen Hike Chocorua

Drawn from Thomas Cole's diary.

7 September, 2016 Marek 1800-1899, 1860s, 9th NH, Civil War, Civil War Diary of Charles Wilcox, guest artist, Keene, series, SOURCE=HSCC

Wilcox Timeline (by Jess & Molly)

An overview of major events from Wilcox's diary & letters...

6 September, 20167 December, 2021 Marek Keene, projects

Civil War Comics Camp

Middle school students research & draw original comics based on local Civil War era primary sources...

24 August, 2016 Marek Civil War Diary of Charles Wilcox, guest artist, Keene

August 5, 1862: Wilcox Enlists (by Abby)

Charles Wilcox makes his fateful decision ...

4 July, 20166 July, 2016 Marek 1860s, Adventures of a Deaf-Mute in the White Mountains, NH history, SOURCE=HHS, tourism, White Mountains, William B. Swett

“Almost an Accident”

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

24 March, 2016 Marek 1800-1899, 1820s, farms, forestry, Hutchinson Family, Hutchinson Family Singers, Milford, NH history

Pitch Pine

Brother John digs deep in search of light, and Brother Asa gets the axe ... << BEFORE: Candles from hogs ... NEXT >> SOURCE: As told in The Story of the Hutchinsons Vol. I (John Hutchinson, 1896): But at times even this luxury of candle light was denied us... [p.18-19] Especially this line on Asa's reaction to sudden amputation: Oh, … Continue reading Pitch Pine