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Comics History from the Granite State ~ by Marek Bennett

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    • The White Mountains
    • Journal of Martin Pring (1603)
    • Hutchinson Family Singers (1840-1860)
    • 1855-1864: Letters of the Jones Brothers (Contoocook)
    • Civil War Diary of Freeman Colby (1861-1863)
    • Civil War Diary of Esther Hill Hawks (1862)
    • 1862: Civil War Letters of Joseph Rogers (Warner)
    • 1864: Charles W. Wilcox Diary
    • Adventures of a Deaf-Mute in the White Mountains (1865)
    • 1911: Weeks Act Comics
    • “Live Free or Die” (NH’s state motto)
    • NH Historical Highway Markers
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Category: posters

Hawks: Nursing the 54th Massachusetts (poster)

1863: Dr. Esther Hill Hawks confronts many of her own racial preconceptions when she finds herself managing the camp hospital that receives over 500 wounded men of the 54th MA following their assault on Fort Wagner…

54th MA, beaufort, civil war, Esther Hill Hawks, Fort Wagner, hospital, south carolina

The Civil War Diary of Freeman Colby (INTRO)

1861: Background info & links for Freeman’s diary …

Civil War, Freeman Colby, Henniker, jonas bacon, school

Bear Ferry (Chesterfield)

A color splash page based on that old Chesterfield story, “Fishing for Bear”:

bear, chesterfield, hunting, lake, spafford, spofford

Hawks 1: Civil War Diary (cover)

1862: A color cover of Manchester native Dr. Esther Hill Hawks, all alone on the pier at New York City, on her way to occupied South Carolina…

civil war, Esther Hill Hawks, New York

Journal of Martin Pring (cover + intro)

1603: Here’s a color cover image of Pring’s young guiternist…

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ADVENTURES of a DEAF-MUTE… (Cover & Intro Links)

Let’s kick off this series with a pin-up image of Mr. Swett in the Flume…

white mountains, William B. Swett

New Graphic Novel OUT NOW!:


The comics adaptation of an actual Civil War memoir ... / 352 pages / b&w / with maps & reference images / Ordering info >>

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