Category: sources

• Republic of Indian Stream (Highway Marker #0001)

  

  “Once a sovereign nation”…

  Marek

  7 May, 2018

  1800-1899, 1830s, 1840s, constitution, SOURCE=roadside markers

  Canada, constitution, Indian Stream, markers, Pittsburg, United States

• Frontier Quarrels

  

  Five reasons for the raid…

  Marek

  10 January, 2017

  1600-1699, 1690s, corn, cows, death, fish, Massachusetts, Merrimack, NH history, SOURCE=roadside markers

  1697, abenaki, corn, cotton mather, cows, fish, Hannah Dustin, hannah duston

• Hannah Dustin in the Snow

  

  A wandering cartoonist visits the site of a massacre…

  Marek

  5 December, 2016

  1600-1699, 1690s, NH history, Penacook, SOURCE=roadside markers

  Hannah Dustin, highway, history, markers, Penacook, truth

• Hannah Dustin (1697)

  

  “Famous example of frontier heroism.” (sic)

  Marek

  4 December, 2016

  1600-1699, 1690s, death, Massachusetts, Merrimack, NH history, Penacook, SOURCE=roadside markers

  1697, abenaki, Hannah Dustin, hannah duston, haverhill, Massachusetts, massacre, raid

• Wilcox Timeline (by Jess & Molly)

  

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

  Marek

  7 September, 2016

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

  9th NH, Charles W. Wilcox, civil war

• “Almost an Accident”

  

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

  Marek

  4 July, 2016

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

  cannon, Echo Lake, explosion, Franconia Notch, horse, profile house, white mountains, William B. Swett

• NH Constitution Article 10: Right of Revolution.

  

  “The people MAY and of right OUGHT TO…”

  Marek

  22 June, 2016

  1780s, constitution, government, NH culture, NH State Comicstitution, SOURCE=NH.gov

  constitution, corruption, nh, revolution, state

• NH Constitution Article 9: No Hereditary Office or Place

  

  Free elections, not family dynasties!

  Marek

  20 June, 2016

  1780s, constitution, government, NH culture, NH State Comicstitution, SOURCE=NH.gov

  constitution, nh, state

• NH Constitution Article 8: Accountability of Magistrates & Officers; Public’s Right to Know.

  

  Open, accessible government, for the people…

  Marek

  18 June, 2016

  1780s, constitution, government, NH culture, NH State Comicstitution, SOURCE=NH.gov

  accountability, constitution, nh, public, state

• NH Constitution Article 7: State Sovereignty.

  

  State’s rights, reserved for the people of NH…

  Marek

  16 June, 2016

  1780s, constitution, government, NH culture, NH State Comicstitution, SOURCE=NH.gov

  constitution, nh, rights, state

• NH Constitution Article 6: Morality and Piety.

  

  This one explains why public schools and other state institutions don’t celebrate any one religion’s holidays

  Marek

  17 March, 2016

  1980s, constitution, government, NH culture, NH State Comicstitution, religion, SOURCE=NH.gov

  constitution, morality, nh, religion, rights

• NH Constitution Article 5: Religious Freedom Recognized.

  

  A logical extension of freedom of conscience.

  Marek

  14 March, 2016

  1980s, constitution, government, NH culture, NH State Comicstitution, religion, SOURCE=NH.gov

  constitution, god, nh, religion, rights, state government

• NH Constitution Article 4: Rights of Conscience Unalienable

  

  Some rights you just can’t give away.

  Marek

  13 March, 2016

  1980s, constitution, government, NH culture, NH State Comicstitution, SOURCE=NH.gov

  conscience, constitution, nh, rights, state government

• NH Constitution Article 3: Society, its Organization and Purposes

  

  Balancing NATURAL RIGHTS with the compromises and exchanges of SOCIETY…

  Marek

  9 March, 2016

  1980s, constitution, government, NH culture, NH State Comicstitution, SOURCE=NH.gov

  constitution, feature, nh, rights, society, state government

• Colby 116: Patient Patient

  

  Newton’s story, continued …

  Marek

  8 March, 2016

  1860s, 39th MA, Civil War, Civil War Diary of Freeman Colby, medicine, NH history, SOURCE=HHS

  Henniker, hospital, newton colby, Parker Richardson, Thompson, washington

• NH Constitution Article 2a: The Bearing of Arms

  

  This one’s short and to the point.

  Marek

  7 March, 2016

  1980s, constitution, government, NH culture, NH State Comicstitution, SOURCE=NH.gov

  arms, constitution, feature, nh, rights, state government

• NH Constitution Article 2: Natural Rights

  

  Life, liberty, property, happiness… This article has it all.

  Marek

  1 March, 2016

  1780s, constitution, government, NH culture, NH State Comicstitution, SOURCE=NH.gov

  constitution, happiness, liberty, nh, property, rights, state government

• NH Constitution Article 1: Equality of People; Origin & Object of Government

  

  “All [people] are born equally FREE and INDEPENDENT…”

  Marek

  29 February, 2016

  1780s, constitution, government, NH culture, NH State Comicstitution, SOURCE=NH.gov

  constitution, equality, feature, freedom, nh, rights, state government

• Colby at Muddy Branch

  

  Somehow, Colby has to get a pail of drinking water out of Muddy Branch Creek …

  Marek

  8 February, 2016

  1800-1899, 1860s, 39th MA, Civil War, Civil War Diary of Freeman Colby, NH history, SOURCE=HHS

  feature, Freeman Colby, Maryland, Muddy Branch, water

• Safe House

  

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

  Marek

  27 July, 2015

  1960s, civil rights, Jonathan Daniels, Keene, NH history, Reference Links, religion

  Atlanta, civil rights, coffee, Georgia, Jonathan Daniels, Judith Upham, segregation, travel

• Colby 115: Awaiting a Discharge

  

  1863: Newton writes of his road to recovery & quest for a furlough …

  Marek

  9 June, 2015

  1860s, 39th MA, Civil War, Civil War Diary of Freeman Colby, medicine, NH history, SOURCE=HHS

  baltimore, civil war, Freeman Colby, Henniker, hospital, mail, newton colby, Parker Richardson, Philadelphia, washington

• Colby 114: Weak and Sick but Happy to be Home

  

  1863: Finally, a letter arrives — brother Newton has made it back to New Hampshire!

  Marek

  24 May, 2015

  1860s, 39th MA, Civil War, Civil War Diary of Freeman Colby, Henniker, NH history, SOURCE=HHS

  civil war, Freeman Colby, Henniker, mail

• Colby 113: Lucky Soldier

  

  1863: Colby receives the best birthday mail EVER from his family at New England …

  Marek

  7 May, 2015

  1860s, 39th MA, Civil War, Civil War Diary of Freeman Colby, Henniker, NH history, SOURCE=HHS

  civil war, Freeman Colby, Henniker, leona piper, Margaret Clement, Poolsville, robert harriman

• The Road South

  

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

  Marek

  5 May, 2015

  1960s, civil rights, Jonathan Daniels, Keene, NH history, Reference Links

  civil rights, coffee, gas, Georgia, Jonathan Daniels, segregation, travel