Tag: education

• Historical New Hampshire Vol. 71 No. 1

  

  Featuring “Drawing Freeman Colby,” an 18-page full-color article about the “Live Free & Draw” comics creation process.

  Marek

  6 July, 2018

  books, Civil War Diary of Freeman Colby, news

  arts education, education, Freeman Colby, NH Historical Society, primary sources

• “NH is a strange state” by Adam Whittier (GUEST POST)

  

  Guest artist Adam Whittier (Sunapee) asks some tough questions about his old NH home…

  Marek

  5 November, 2013

  2000-2099, economics, education, food, guest artist, NH culture, NH history, Sunapee, tourism

  Adam Whittier, education, food-temp, parasites, property, sunapee, taxes, tourism

• Larkin’s Classes (New Hampton, NH) (GUEST POST)

  

  1835: Larkin describes his classes and hints at adventures to come …

  Marek

  26 July, 2013

  1830s, education, guest artist, New Hampton, NH history, Sandwich, SOURCE=Sandwich Historical, Weed Family Letters

  Academy, education, Larkin Weed, New Hampton, Phebe Weed, sandwich

• Educators’ Symposium @ CCS (White River Junction, VT)

  

  12-13 July (Fri + Sat) ~ EDUCATORS’ SYMPOSIUM @ CCS

  Marek

  3 July, 2013

  events

  education, professional development, teachers

• Henniker 1861 School Committee Report (Part 3)

  

  1861: Parents! Lay not the flattering unction! …

  Marek

  21 February, 2013

  1860s, education, Henniker, SOURCE=HHS, town reports

  education, Henniker, parents, schools, teachers, town report

• Henniker 1861 School Committee Report (Part 2)

  

  1861: In its official report, the Henniker School Committee proceeds to excoriate parents & dispense vocational advice:

  Marek

  18 February, 2013

  1760s, 1860s, colonial, education, Henniker, SOURCE=HHS, town reports

  education, Henniker, parents, schools, teachers, town report

• 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!

  Marek

  15 February, 2013

  1860s, education, Henniker, SOURCE=HHS, town reports

  education, Henniker, schools, town report

• Civic Ignorance (w/ Justice David Souter)

  

  A comics discussion with former Supreme Court Justice David Souter…

  Marek

  29 September, 2012

  2000-2099, Concord, constitution, David Souter, education, NH people, politics

  civic, constitution, david souter, democracy, education, government, ignorance, supreme court

• 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.

  Marek

  21 August, 2012

  education, Henniker, NH people

  education, library, portrait, Sarah Wilder Patterson

• 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]

  Marek

  21 August, 2012

  Civil War, education, Freedmen, Henniker, NH people, NH places, politics

  civil war, congress, education, freedmen’s schools, Henniker, James WIllis Patterson, library