Beacon Comics

I've been submitting comics to The Beacon, the SMCC paper, and unlike The Free Press at USM, they were not rejected by a one sentence email which basically said, "Go Fuck yourself." Oddly, no one at the paper told me that they liked them or had received them, so it wasn't until I actually saw them in the paper that I was certain I'd sent them to the right email. Not only that, but my name was listed on the staff for "Comics". So I guess I'm the comics guy for The Beacon. I've been submitted one or two new comics every Friday since then. The only one they haven't printed is the Jesus one. Understandable.
I'm a little worried about next weeks'. It depicts a man in a car, from a bird's eye view, driving down a highway. On the side of the road is a tall sign or billboard that reads "Historic Site of Donner Party" and there's a little symbol of a picnic table. This comic may be a stretch for two reasons.
1. Does everyone know that the little picnic table icon means that their are picnic tables/areas?
2. Does anyone know what the Donner Party was? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donner_Party
I'm worried it's something that people don't learn about it anymore, in school or elsewhere, though it had a profound affect on my imagination when I learned about it as a boy. Two out of three people I asked, all smart fellas, had never heard of it.

Here are the other comics I've finished