Wilcox Timeline (by Jess & Molly)

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

Civil War Comics Camp

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

Charles Wilcox makes his fateful decision …

After a harrowing experience in backwoods Georgia, Jonathan Daniels arrives at Atlanta in the middle of the night ..

1965: Jonathan Daniels encounters roadside resistance on his way to help integrate Southern churches …

Here’s a 2-page church integration splash from an upcoming mini-comic:

Guest artist Rissa (age 6) brings us this romantic parasites’-eye-view of late Summer in NH …

Guest artist Rudy takes a whimsical pumpkin’s-eye-view of the early days of the Keene Pumpkin Festival…

Guest artist Bea Reel uses her latest strip to detail the construction of the new high school in 1876…

An imaginative glimpse of Keene’s present and distant future (and past?!), drawn by guest artist Peter Fedrizzi …

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”…

Guest cartoonist Bea Reel drew this page from Griffin’s History of Keene, NH during our recent FAMILY COMICS WORKSHOP at Keene Public Library:

1861: A recruiter for the new Sharpshooter Regiments arrives at Keene…

The fort’s surrounded, but the babies need milk… What’s to be done?!

John Colony leaves his native Ireland to fight Indians (& French) in the New England…

An example of how NH town governments kept costs low 200 years ago: the annual minister’s firewood bee!

Tragedies, travels, & teenage failures of one of New Hampshire’s most powerful exports…

An unusual hunting tale from the Keene area…

Tonight in downtown Keene: Stunts by a professional daredevil!

A farm family debates sending their youngest daughter to work in the mills…