Category: Keene
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Civil War Comics Camp
Middle school students research & draw original comics based on local Civil War era primary sources…
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Safe House
After a harrowing experience in backwoods Georgia, Jonathan Daniels arrives at Atlanta in the middle of the night ..
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The Road South
1965: Jonathan Daniels encounters roadside resistance on his way to help integrate Southern churches …
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“The Stream of Love” (GUEST POST)
Guest artist Rissa (age 6) brings us this romantic parasites’-eye-view of late Summer in NH …
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Diary of a Keene Pumpkin (GUEST POST)
Guest artist Rudy takes a whimsical pumpkin’s-eye-view of the early days of the Keene Pumpkin Festival…
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“More Than One Million Bricks” (GUEST POST)
Guest artist Bea Reel uses her latest strip to detail the construction of the new high school in 1876…
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Keene, 2013-??? (GUEST POST)
An imaginative glimpse of Keene’s present and distant future (and past?!), drawn by guest artist Peter Fedrizzi …
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Mr. Wheelock Mistakes a Cat for a Rabbit (Keene)
Here’s a double-header GUEST POST of a favorite hunting anecdote from Thomas C. Rand’s “Sketch of Keene, Gem of the Ashuelot Valley”…
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Upper Crust of Keene
Guest cartoonist Bea Reel drew this page from Griffin’s History of Keene, NH during our recent FAMILY COMICS WORKSHOP at Keene Public Library:
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John Colony (Keene)
John Colony leaves his native Ireland to fight Indians (& French) in the New England…
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Live Free and Draw Wood (Keene, c.1812)
An example of how NH town governments kept costs low 200 years ago: the annual minister’s firewood bee!
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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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Famous Professional Dare-Devil (Keene, 1923)
Tonight in downtown Keene: Stunts by a professional daredevil!
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To Work in the Mills? (Keene, 1845)
A farm family debates sending their youngest daughter to work in the mills…