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2008 Program of Events
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Date,
Time,
Location
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Speaker
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Program
and Description
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Monday
March
24
7:00
PM
Stone School Museum
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David
Palance
David has
over thirteen clients for cemetery mapping including the
Newmarket Historical Society
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Cemetery
Virtual Tour
The 2008 season will commence with a program
featuring a virtual tour of area cemeteries, with a focus on the
gravestones and projects in the Seacoast Region. The photo
presentation will represent graves from before the Revolutionary
War and some slave burials. This is intended to be an interactive
talk with the audience, with the goal to encourage people to roam
our cemeteries as they hold valuable history of our culture.
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Monday
April
28
7:00
PM
Stone School Museum
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Dick
Gale
Noted historian on
Tennis Rackets
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I've Got a Racket For You!
Mr. Gale, a longtime north country New
Hampshire, resident fondly remembers the former Volvo Tennis
Classic, and has a fascinating collection of historic tennis
rackets. He will display his collection and will also speak about
how they were manufactured.
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Monday
May
26
7:00
PM
Stone School Museum
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Laura
Gund
Laura
Gund, Lee resident and proprietor of the of the Cartland Road
Walnut Grove Farm
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The
Underground Railroad in Lee
Ms
Gund will discuss on-going research into the Underground Railroad
that historians believe at one time included the Cartland House on
Cartland Road. Authentication of the Cartland House is an exciting
and meaningful project and an important part of local history.
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Thursday
June 5
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Start of
summertime Stone School Museum open
house, every Thursday afternoon, 2:00 to 4:00 PM, through August
28th.
Or you may view the
museum by appointment. Please call President Rich Alperin in
advance at 603-659-7372
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Monday
June
23
7:00
PM
Stone
School Museum
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JerriAnne
Boggis
Ms
Boggis, coordinator of diversity initiatives, has received the New
Hampshire Commission on the Status of Women's Eleventh Annual
Women's Recognition Award, which is given each year to a woman who
has brought honor and valor to herself and to the state through
her accomplishments and contributions. Ms. Boggis received her
M.A. in Writing from Rivier College.
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Harriet
Wilson's New England (Book Title)
In 1859, Harriet Wilson, a mulatto woman from
New Hampshire, published a novel, with the stated hope of earning
sufficient money simply to survive. Instead, her novel, Our
Nig; or Sketches From the Life of A Free Black, became a
powerful and controversial narrative, that continues to touch and
unsettle readers around the world. In the mid-nineteenth century,
Harriet E. Wilson, an enterprising woman of mixed racial heritage,
wrote an autobiographical novel describing the abuse and servitude
endured by a young black girl in the supposedly free North.
Originally published in Boston in 1859 and "lost" until
its 1983 republication by noted scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr.,
Our Nig; or Sketches from the Life of a Free Black, is generally
considered the first work of fiction written by an African
American woman published in the United States. In this new book,
the first devoted entirely to Wilson and her novel, the editors
have compiled essays that seek to understand Wilson within New
England and New England as it might have appeared to Wilson and
her contemporaries. The contributors include prominent historians,
literary critics, psychologists, librarians, and diversity
activists. Harriet Wilson's New England joins other critical works
in the emerging field known as the New Regionalism in resurrecting
historically hidden ethnic communities in rural New England and
exploring their erasure from public memory.
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Monday
August
25
7:00
PM
Stone School Museum
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Glenn Knoblock
Sponsored
by The NH Humanities Council
www.nhhc.org
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Covered Bridges of New
Hampshire
Covered bridges have long been a
part of the transportation network in New Hampshire, dating as far
back as the early 1800's. In addition to the state's major rivers,
the Connecticut and the Merrimack, New Hampshire has a great many
mountain-borne rivers that slice through its landscape, and some
400 covered bridges have been documented in the state. These
bridges, made of easily available and affordable material, wood,
were a vital link in the state's transportation network for over
100 years. While covered bridges today are often viewed as quaint
relics of a simpler past, they were in fact the technological
marvels of the day in many New Hampshire communities. Indeed, it
may have been native ingenuity and New Hampshire's local craftsman
traditions that account for the fact that a number of nationally
noted covered bridge truss designers, including Peter Paddleford
and Stephen Howe, were New Hampshire natives. This lecture,
detailing covered bridge design and technology, their designers
and builders, folklore, and their ultimate transition from
commonly used structures to historic icons, is highlighted by
views of New Hampshire bridges, both past and present, including
some that are rarely seen.
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Thursday
August
28
2:00 to 4:00 PM
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This is the last Thursday of the summer
afternoon Stone School Museum open house
dates for 2008. (You may view the museum by
appointment, by calling well in advance at 603-659-7372)
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11th
Annual Newmarket Heritage Festival
Dance and sing!
Laugh and learn! Eat and be merry! Join the historic,
cultural, and natural heritage of a small New England mill town.
This three-day event takes place in the heart of historic downtown
Newmarket overlooking the Lamprey River and features
multi-cultural music and dance, artisan demonstrations, historic
walking tours, narrated boat tours, kayak excursions, a model
railway, hands-on children's activities, fine arts and crafts,
vendor booths, international foods, and much more.
Friday,
Saturday, & Sunday, September 19-21, 2008 Downtown
Newmarket.
Historical Society activities
to be announced. Watch for the full schedule at:
www.heritage-festival.org
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Monday
Sept.
22
7:00
PM
Stone School Museum
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Sharon Wood
Sponsored by The
NH Humanities Council http://www.nhhc.org,
and The Boston Educational Network
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A Tribute to Sarah Josepha
Hale
As
America's first female editor, Sarah Josepha Hale made Godey's
Lady's Book the most influential women's magazine of its time. She
is also known as the author of Mary's Lamb and for her efforts
over three decades to have Thanksgiving decreed a national
holiday. In this living history presentation, Sharon Wood portrays
Ann Wyman Blake, a 19th century Boston resident who speaks of her
admiration for this distinguished New Hampshire native.
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Monday
October
27
7:00
PM
Stone School Museum
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Janice
Griffith
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Originally from Ohio,
Ms. Griffith discovered stone wall building after watching a
presentation from a garden club she belonged to.
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History of Stone Walls
Janice Griffith will present a history of stone
walls in New England, information on building stone walls, and a
portfolio of her own work
She built her first wall on her own property.
Griffith went on to own a landscape business in Amherst, and build
70 stone walls in and around that area
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