Tag: rain

• Willey Family Disaster

  

  A COMICS POEM; Extrapolated from Frank Leavitt’s original 3-verse poem (1885):

  Marek

  13 October, 2016

  1800-1899, 1820s, death, poetry, White Mountains

  avalanche, disaster, Frank Leavitt, poetry, rain, White Mountains, Willey

• May 13, 1864: ‘We lay down on the grass to rest’ (by Sammy)

  

  Wilcox & Co. do their best to survive as prisoners backstage at one of the war’s major battles… Drawn by guest artist Sammy during COMICS CAMP at the Historical Society of Cheshire County: from the Civil War Diary of Charles W. Wilcox |< << 13-14 May 1864 >> SOURCES: Sammy draws from Wilcox’s diary entries for 13-14 May: … & from the […]

  Marek

  22 August, 2016

  1860s, 9th NH, Civil War, Civil War Diary of Charles Wilcox, guest artist

  9th NH, Charles W. Wilcox, Civil War, mud, prisoners, rain, Spottsylvania Courthouse, virginia

• Colby 87: Awaiting Sunshine

  

  The 39th MA’s casualty cases are going nowhere fast …

  Marek

  6 November, 2014

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

  Freeman Colby, hospital, newton colby, rain

• Colby 67: Water

  

  1862: Water problems in camp …

  Marek

  8 March, 2014

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

  civil war, diarrhea, jaundice, malaria, mud, Muddy Branch, rain, water, weather, wind

• Colby 66: Rain

  

  1862: The weather turns muddy …

  Marek

  6 March, 2014

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

  civil war, mud, Muddy Branch, rain, water, weather, wind

• Hurricane Letter from Henniker (1938) (Part 2)

  

  More bloodcurdling details from the ’38 Hurricane:

  Marek

  30 October, 2012

  1930s, Contoocook, Henniker, weather

  1938, bridge, contoocook, damage, flood, Henniker, hurricane, rain, storm