Category: Concord
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Mayflowers (B K Jones, April 25th 1858) (Guest Post)
1858: Burleigh K. Jones has some fun times planned for May Day, but life around the capital still seems unbearably dull… (Drawn by guest artist Althea Barton)
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Gen. John Adams Dix (State House)
A nine-foot-tall portrait of NH native John A. Dix, who, as President Buchanan’s Secretary of the Treasury, set “the hearts of the people everywhere ablaze”… NEXT: The famous “Shoot Him On the Spot” memo >> John Adams Dix (born in Boscawen, 1798) issued what the NY Herald called “the first command to shed blood that…
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John Stark Statue (Concord)
Sketching statues on the State House lawn today, I found myself drawn to Major General John Stark’s defiant stance beneath the falling maple leaves…
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NHTI Parking Lot (Concord)
A back parking lot at the New Hampshire Technical Institute contains at least one surprising vehicle …
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Civic Ignorance (w/ Justice David Souter)
A comics discussion with former Supreme Court Justice David Souter…
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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…
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5th NH: Deployment (1861)
The 5th NH suffers its first casualty on the train from Concord, long before the first battle…