Middle school students research & draw original comics based on local Civil War era primary sources…
Tag: Keene
August 5, 1862: Wilcox Enlists (by Abby)
Charles Wilcox makes his fateful decision …
“The Stream of Love” (GUEST POST)
Guest artist Rissa (age 6) brings us this romantic parasites’-eye-view of late Summer in NH …
Diary of a Keene Pumpkin (GUEST POST)
Guest artist Rudy takes a whimsical pumpkin’s-eye-view of the early days of the Keene Pumpkin Festival…
“More Than One Million Bricks” (GUEST POST)
Guest artist Bea Reel uses her latest strip to detail the construction of the new high school in 1876…
Keene, 2013-??? (GUEST POST)
An imaginative glimpse of Keene’s present and distant future (and past?!), drawn by guest artist Peter Fedrizzi …
Mr. Wheelock Mistakes a Cat for a Rabbit (Keene)
Here’s a double-header GUEST POST of a favorite hunting anecdote from Thomas C. Rand’s “Sketch of Keene, Gem of the Ashuelot Valley”…
Upper Crust of Keene
Guest cartoonist Bea Reel drew this page from Griffin’s History of Keene, NH during our recent FAMILY COMICS WORKSHOP at Keene Public Library:
White 01: To Make a String
1861: A recruiter for the new Sharpshooter Regiments arrives at Keene…
Family Comics @ Keene Public Library (July-August 2013)
DAY 1 = 6 July (Saturday) 10-1 ~ DAY 2 = 3 August (Saturday) 10-1
Milk of War (Keene)
The fort’s surrounded, but the babies need milk… What’s to be done?!
John Colony (Keene)
John Colony leaves his native Ireland to fight Indians (& French) in the New England…
Young Chase at Keene
Tragedies, travels, & teenage failures of one of New Hampshire’s most powerful exports…
Famous Professional Dare-Devil (Keene, 1923)
Tonight in downtown Keene: Stunts by a professional daredevil!
Trunks Like Black Bones (Marlow, 1825)
Grandpa remembers “what happened to all the forests” in the Keene area…
To Work in the Mills? (Keene, 1845)
A farm family debates sending their youngest daughter to work in the mills…
