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

Frontier Quarrels

Five reasons for the raid...

Marek 1790s, corn, Hutchinson Family, Hutchinson Family Singers, Milford, music & dance

Clean Living

The musical history of NH's famous Singing Hutchinsons runs deep... and complicated:

Marek 1700-1799, 1750s, colonial, corn, forestry, Peterborough

Early Amusements (Peterborough, c.1750)

Some examples of "early amusements" from Smith's History of Peterborough (1876):

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

Colby 107: Holidays at the South

Colby observes Christmas festivities far from his native New Hampshire ...

Marek 1850s, corn, economics, metals & minerals, NH history, SOURCE=Little, Weare

Bank of John Gillet (Weare)

1855: This story of home-grown finance comes from William Little's chapter on "Peculiar People" in Weare ...

Marek 1700-1799, corn, ghosts, SOURCE=Little, Weare

Ghost in the Corn Field (Weare)

Weare historian William Little has little patience for rumors of hauntings.  Here, John Hodgdon boldly investigates a spooky shade in his corn field ... Something about this story was bothering me as I drew it, but I couldn't quite put my finger on it.  Then, around panel 11 or 12, I realized I'd been drawing a modern 20th … Continue reading Ghost in the Corn Field (Weare)