Featuring "Drawing Freeman Colby," an 18-page full-color article about the "Live Free & Draw" comics creation process.
“NH is a strange state” by Adam Whittier (GUEST POST)
Guest artist Adam Whittier (Sunapee) asks some tough questions about his old NH home...
Larkin’s Classes (New Hampton, NH) (GUEST POST)
1835: Larkin describes his classes and hints at adventures to come ...
Educators’ Symposium @ CCS (White River Junction, VT)
12-13 July (Fri + Sat) ~ EDUCATORS' SYMPOSIUM @ CCS
Henniker 1861 School Committee Report (Part 3)
1861: Parents! Lay not the flattering unction! ...
Henniker 1861 School Committee Report (Part 2)
1861: In its official report, the Henniker School Committee proceeds to excoriate parents & dispense vocational advice:
Henniker 1861 School Committee Report (Part 1)
1861: As the Civil War breaks wide open & Henniker issues its annual Town Report, the School Committee sounds an incendiary call to either FIX the schools, or DO AWAY with them altogether!
Civic Ignorance (w/ Justice David Souter)
A comics discussion with former Supreme Court Justice David Souter...
Sarah Wilder Patterson
Drawn from a portrait in the reading room at Tucker Free Library (Henniker, NH): Like her husband James, Sarah was also a teacher.... The portrait is by NH painter Joseph Alexander Ames, who is of course the brother of Nathan Ames, the famous inventor of the modern escalator.
James Willis Patterson
Drawn from a portrait in the reading room at Tucker Free Library (Henniker, NH): Patterson taught school in New Hampshire, and later served as a Republican member of Congress during the Civil War, where he supported the establishment of Freedmen's Schools in the South. [Also see James W. Patterson on Wikipedia]
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