ABIGAIL TO JOHN: “About that revolutionary gov’t you boys are cooking up…”
Category Archives: sketchbook
1776 TO-DO LIST 📋 John Adams (9 June)
“A few matters must be dispatched…”
“Monarchs will often make war” 👑💣 John Jay / Federalist #4 (1787)
Dire warnings, from a time of discord & disunion…
WRITING THE DECLARATION #2: Editing &c. 📜 J. Adams (1776)
The Declaration Committee gets down to work…
Conway Sketchbook ⛰️ (July 2026)
Teaching, drawing, & meeting new friends in the White Mountains…
COMMON SENSE: Asylum (1776)📜 Thomas Paine
Issues of debate from 250 years ago…
REVOLUTION @ Portsmouth 🌳 1776 Chestnut Tree
Living in this space since 1776…
REVOLUTION @ Portsmouth 💬 “They didn’t know what would happen next…”
BIG WATCH in the old barn @ Portsmouth… / 3 July 2026
WRITING THE DECLARATION #1 📜 John Adams (1776)
Taking us into the room where it happened…
COMMON CAUSE (1774+)🔥 More Acts before the Revolution
More PRE-WAR LAWS & reactions to ’em…
Kensington Sketchbook
Talking greenspace, neighbors, challenges of local government, & more…
Bradford Sketchbook
Talking community in an old 18th-century town center…
