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Up
Front:
Saturday (Oct. 22) was the
Association's Annual Meeting. Beautiful weather! Beautiful
location! Beautiful people! Special thanks to Sanbornton for hosting
and for giving us an intelligent, entertaining, and historically informative
tour of the Lane Tavern. The Tavern is available, free-of-charge
to other historical societies, for events.
Jeff Warner
provided entertainment in folk song--and in a lively dancer you must be sure to
ask for when you hire him(!) Marcia Schmidt Blaine, PhD,
of Plymouth State University, delighted us with the news that the Revolution--in
the sense of flagrant disobedience of royal wishes--began in NH long
before the rest of the Colonies got into the act. It seems "live free" was
a guiding spirit from the beginning.
Contents:
AHSNH invites
participation
Goodies from Arts
Alliance
Franklin hosts discussion re Webster
Farm
Friends of Gov. Wentworth receive
bequest
Lk Winni begins free lecture series
Little Nature events move to library
Mariposa hosts Shape-Note
Sings
NHSOG links to Directory
Poore Farm shares photos
Upper Pemi seeks guidance with
PastPerfect
Warner to host sleuthing workshop
from the
Association H/S NH:
1) Based on a suggestion made
at our business meeting on Saturday, here is a reminder of our meeting
dates as set down in our By-Laws. We will make an effort to learn
when scheduled annual events occur and propose to the membership if changes are
recommended for the greater good of the historical community. In the
meanwhile, please pencil us in for the fourth Saturday of
April, June, August, and (Annual Mtg) October
(and please notify me if your Society has an annual event on one of those
Saturdays).
2) Another reminder, in case
there has been a misunderstanding, is that Association meetings are for members
of our member Societies. I suspect some believe that because we are an
umbrella organization our meetings are for officers, but the rank & file are
welcome also. Everyone gets a vote.
3) I would like to form a
committee of 3 or 4 to help organize a
colloquium for next April's meeting. We need to
select a topic, find 3-5 Societies willing to participate in a panel on the
subject, and publicize time & place (I would especially like someone to take
on the publicizing). With a group of 3 or 4, I anticipate the event
could be organized with 10-20 hours from each of us between now and
March. Let me know if you are game.
from the Arts
Alliance of Northern NH:
Win a Stay at 1 of 5
Historic North Country Resorts &
Inns
and help support heritage-based programs in the
North Country, including the creation of the new "Historic & Heritage Sites
of Northern NH: A Map & Guide." Tickets are being sold through the
Arts Alliance and participating North Country historical societies. Donations
are $5 per ticket or 5 for $20. Get your tickets by calling the Arts
Alliance at 726-8843 or emailing info@aannh.org.
Prizes include three nights
(with golf & meals) at the Mt. Washington Resort at Bretton Woods; two
nights (with a spa treatment) at the Mountain View Grand Resort & Spa in
Whitefield; an overnight with meals at the Balsams Grand Resort Hotel of
Dixville Notch; two nights with meals at the Eagle Mountain House in Jackson;
and two nights at the Eastern Slope Inn & Resort of North Conway.
Details can be found on our website at www.aannh.org
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offerings and events not only during the summer, but throughout the year.
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from
Franklin:
November 3, 2005, 7:30 pm
at the VFW Hall, 26 Peabody Place--The Franklin Historical Society is proud to
sponsor a panel of distinguished luminaries in their respective fields including
Bill Veillette, Executive Director of the NH Historical Society,
Van McLeod, Commissioner of the NH Department of Cultural
Resources, Rick Monahon, Preservation Architect, Franklin Mayor
David Palfrey, State Representative Jim Ryan,
Colin Cabot activist and owner of Sanborn Farm in Loudon, to
be moderated by Leigh A. Webb, FHS president, discussing
the future of the Webster Farm and the adaptive re-use
of its historic buildings. Public input is welcome and
encouraged. Parking and admission is free. Light refreshments will
be served.
from Friends
of Gov. Wentworth's Site,
Wolfeboro:
Late last May, the Friends
received a wonderful $50,000 bequest from Dr. Dorothy
Vaughan. Dorothy, who was behind the creation of Strawbery Banke
(and others) was one of the Friends' five charter members.
from the Lake
Winnipesaukee H/S:
The Lake
Winnipesaukee Historical Society is pleased to announce the beginning of
"Winnipesaukee Wednesdays," new lecture series at our
museum. Local sailor and charter
sailboat captain Larry Tanner is the featured speaker for the
first of the lecture series.
The free program will take place on Wednesday, November
2nd at 7:00
p.m.
at the LWHS Museum on Route 3 in the Weirs.
Includes short video clips. Free and open to the
public.
For further information, contact Ann W.
Sprague at 366-5950 or visit the web site at www.lwhs.us.
from the
Little Nature M'm,
Contoocook:
1) There is only one more
weekend this season in which you can visit The Little Nature Museum. We
are open Oct. 29, 30 from Noon - 4 PM. Admission is FREE! New things
to see and do include:
Walk the "Ferns and Forest
Trail;" it is self-guiding this year
See some of the bird
mounts recently donated to the Museum by NH Audubon
Try one of the four electric
nature games in the Museum
Try the new game "Do You
Recognize this plant?"
Wear a warm coat; it may be cold in the Museum at
this time of year!
2) Free Winter/Spring
Programs at the Community Room, Hopkinton Town Library from 1:30 - 2:30 PM
include:
February 4th
--"Geology and Collapse of the Old Man of the Mountain", presented by
Lee Wilder, Hopkinton Conservation Commission, Adjunct Professor
of Earth-Space Science at Colby-Sawyer College, Public Outreach Coordinator of
the NH Geological Survey in the NH Department of Environmental Services, Past
President of the Geological Society of NH and the NH Science Teacher's
Association.
April 1st
--"Coats for Critters," a program for children 6-12 and their families,
presented by Tim Carey, NH Fish and Game Volunteer. Come
feel animal pelts and learn to identify different furs; learn why furs are vital
to animal survival; hands-on activities!
from Mariposa
M'm, Peterborough:
1) As part of our commitment to
supporting cultural heritage in NH and with the hopes of developing cultural
heritage tourism, we host a quarterly traditional Shape Note
Sing at Mariposa. Info on our website (http://www.mariposamuseum.org).
2) We had a great
Harrisville Roundtable Tuesday night, with Chick telling
and moderating tales long and short, and primarily true, about Harrisville from
the last century on. I didn't realize Chick had been a go-fer at the mills
as a kid and knows many tales from those days.
3) Does
anyone remember attending a meeting with Willard Richardson at the Harris
Center some time ago? We are looking for a tape that was made of that
meeting to supplement our collection of W.R. items. Please contact me if
you have some clues we can follow. Thank-you. ~Linda Marsella
(mariposamu@hotmail.com)
from the NH
Society of Genealogists:
Link has been added to your organization on the
page of NH historical societies.
from
Poore Family Farm,
Stewartstown:
On October 22, the Columbia
chapter of 4-H, "The Early Risers," toured the Poore Family
Homestead Historic Farm Museum, helped put things away for winter and pressed
some fresh apple cider. Please click on the link below to view photos of
this event:
http://albums.photo.epson.com/j/AlbumIndex?u=4213640&a=31936237&pw=
To manage photos: click on the
thumbnail size photos to enlarge, then click on the enlarged photo to isolate it
for downloading. One-click access is free and easy.
from
Upper Pemigewasset H/S,
Lincoln:
The Upper Pemigewasset Historical Society
also uses PastPerfect. We received a grant to catalogue our
collection, and that was successful. We are, however, having
trouble with the membership module and would relish
help.
from
Warner:
1) Thursday October
27 at 7:00 pm--Annual Meeting of the Warner Historical
Society, in the Lower Meeting room at the Warner Town Hall. After
committee reports and board nominations there will be a slide presentation of
"Readings from the Kearsarge Independent".
2)
Saturday, November 5--The Warner Historical Society, in
conjunction with the New Hampshire Humanities Council, is sponsoring a “Sleuthing Local History: How to uncover
your town’s stories”, workshop at the Pillsbury Free
Library. The program will be led by
Plymouth
State
University historian Marcia
Schmidt Blaine and Rebecca Courser of the Warner
Historical Society. There is no fee
for the workshop but donations are gratefully accepted.
If you’ve ever wondered what it’s like to work as an
historical detective, sifting original documents for the clues that unlock a
story that’s more than a century old, this workshop will lead you through that
process. After we study some
examples of how to analyze and interpret primary source material, participants
will form small groups and plunge into the study of a set of photos, letters,
articles and other original material from the Warner Historical Society
archive. Groups will share their findings and discuss the differences in
interpretation which inevitably arise.
We
will also look at the gaps in information and discuss possible sources of
additional documents and research to fill those gaps. The workshop will be
designed to give people a hands-on understanding of the methods, value, and,
last but not least, the fun of doing placed-based history. It will also give ideas about how to use
primary resources for exhibits, publications, dramatic
readings, etc.
If you have questions or would like to
register for the workshop, please call Rebecca at 456-2437
(WHS) or 456-3997 (home).
3) (Ed. Note: Don't forget to say "confidential" or "for your
eyes only" if you don't want me to share something you say to me. Isn't
this an interesting tidbit? Can you tell who the mystery writer
is?) I am working on a movie documentary
about Warner 1870-1900 with George Packard. We have grants
from the Humanities, Charitable Fund, NH Arts Council and I have raised matching
moneys within the community. The historical society is also
publishing a book of 50 civil war letters by Joseph
S. Rogers, a harness maker. Plus we are preparing for a
large exhibit next year complementing the material in the
documentary.