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Contents:
AHSNH undertakes cable search
Remick Farm offers turkey
workshop
NHHS offers paid position
Excerpts from Arts Alliance calendar
Orford seeks help/Barn Cmte offers
presentation
Preservation Alliance invites you to 11/08/05
event
AAM offers curators 2 fellowships
Jim Kiepper offers free book
Jackson to present Judith Moyer
from the
Association H/S NH:
2. At the suggestion of one of our readers
we are researching whether free cable access to the internet
can be arranged for historical societies. Although Google has a newly
organized charitable arm, cable is not one of their resources.
The next step is to approach
the company that provides cable access for public libraries. You can help
(!) If you are willing to help, please make an inquiry at your town's
library and then let me know:
a. Who provides
cable access to the library, including a contact if your library is
willing/able to share such a gem; and,
b. How far, in
miles, your Society bldg is from the library.
You may assure the library
that I promise not to badger nor to do anything that would jeopardize their
resource. I will merely make inquiries on behalf of the historical
community here in NH. (And, for those of you who see my frequent
admonitions not to share anything with me that you don't want the whole
community to know, this data will not be published.)
Thank-you.
from the
Remick Farm, Tamworth:
Workshop: Turkey
Processing
Fee:
$15
Date: Saturday,
November 19, 2005, 10AM –
12PM
Location:
Remick Country Doctor Museum and Farm
58
Cleveland Hill Road
Tamworth, NH
03886
Tel:
(603) 323-7591 or (800) 686-6117
The Remick Country Doctor Museum and Farm
in Tamworth Village presents a workshop designed for those who are
currently, or simply considering, growing and maintaining their own food source,
but need technical guidance. We'll instruct participants
through the entire process of how to correctly "dress” a turkey--from
slaughtering the bird, to plucking feathers, to cleaning
and storing poultry. Recommended age for participants: 16 (with
adult supervision) and older. Work clothes and gloves recommended.
Pre-registration is required.
from NH H/S,
Concord:
The New Hampshire
Historical Society seeks an experienced, full time Director of
Finance who will be responsible for hands-on management of all
financial functions as well as human resource benefits administration and
compliance. The position reports to the Executive Director, and supervises
one part time Accounting Specialist. The ideal candidate will have a
bachelor’s degree in accounting; a clear understanding of nonprofit
accounting/financial principles and practices; the ability to quickly learn
and master a fully-integrated accounting system based on Blackbaud’s
Financial Edge, Raiser’s Edge, and point-of-sale retail management
system; mastery of Excel; analytical and forecasting skills;
excellent written and oral skills; and the ability to work
collaboratively and build close working relationships with fellow staff,
trustees, and vendors.
Founded in 1823, the Society is an
independent non-profit organization that receives no financial support from the
state government and has a strong balance sheet and a large statewide
membership. See full job description at www.nhhistory.org/employment.html. Please e-mail resume to bveillette@nhhistory.org. ~William P. Veillette, Executive Director; New Hampshire Historical Society;
6 Eagle Square; Concord, NH
03301
Arts Alliance of Northern
New Hampshire:
* * * For the complete
ArtsNorth Calendar, log-on to www.aannh.org
Fairbanks Museum,
1302 Main Street, St. Johnsbury VT (802) 748-2372
Through January 31, 2006 Exhibit: Evolution in American Indian
Material Culture. Stunning pieces of American Indian artistry from early and
mid-1800s that reveal evolutionary changes in Native technologies that resulted
form the earliest contact with Europeans. www.fairbanksmuseum.org
Sugar Hill Artisans Guild Meeting.
Carolina Crapo Memorial Building, Main Street, Sugar Hill (603)
823-8431 Saturday, November 5 (1st and 3rd Saturdays--except
Dec), 10am-2pm. Traditional Rug Hooking and other fabric
arts. Annual Membership $25.00 Classes held January -
March.
St. Johnsbury
Athenaeum, Main Street, St. Johnsbury VT. (802) 748-8291
November 2, 2005, 7 pm First Wednesday Series. “Why Benedict
Arnold Did It--and He really Did It.” Historian Willard Sterne Randall
www.stjathenaeum.org
Salyards Museum, 110 Main Street, Conway. Contact Dexter
(603) 383-4589
Friday, November 4, (First
and Third Fridays of each month), 7:30-10:30 - Conway Contra Dance - $6
($3 kids) Beginners welcome! Live music of course!
Saturday, November 5, 7pm. "Harvesting Hope: a Fundraiser for Katrina
Relief" Featuring Mt. Storytellers Guild Members Marion Posner,
Andy Davis & Olga Morrill followed by a slide show
presentation by Dr. Rich Laracy on his experiences in Louisiana this past
September just after the hurricane.
Jackson
Historical Society at the Christmas Farm Inn, Jackson (603) 383-4060.
Thursday, November
10, 7:30pm--Meeting and program: "Number Please: New Hampshire
Telephone Operators in the Pre-Dial Era" presented by Judith
Moyer, an educator and historian with the University of New Hampshire.
www.jacksonnhhistory.org
Remick Country Doctor Museum &
Farm, 58 Cleveland Hill Road, Tamworth (603) 323-7591 (800)
686-6117 Open Year-round. Monday – Friday, 10AM – 4PM, except
major holidays. General admission is free. November 12, 1-4pm.
Historic Thanksgiving at the Remick Farm. Where did our modern
Thanksgiving traditions come from? Tour an exhibit on the history of this
important holiday. Learn how to pluck a turkey. Sample the flavors
of the season while watching interpreters prepare traditional foods on the
hearth using historic recipes. Get in the holiday spirit and join us for
an afternoon of good food, a warm fire, and a little bit of history. Suggested
donation $3 www.remickmuseum.org
Pease Public Library, 1 Russell
Street, Plymouth (603)536-2616 Thursdays, October 6-November 10,
4-6pm Past Imperfect: History in the Movies A close
look at how filmmakers reinterpret past events. Led by Dr. Manuel
Marquez-Sterling. Program is free; registration is requested due to
limited space.
from
Orford:
(1) The Collections Committee chairman of
our local historical society is trying to match up a photo
historian with the Littleton and Haverhill historical societies.
[Can someone] provide me with current names and phone numbers that I could pass
on to him?
(2) At the last meeting of the Barn
Committee, we decided to explore the possibility of reaching out to New
Hampshire historical societies and other relevant organizations (e.g., heritage
and historic district commissions) to offer to make public
presentations on the history of New Hampshire barns, advice on preservation of
historic agricultural structures, and the various "tools" and sources of
information which are now available for barn owners and others.
This would include information about the
new state tax incentive mechanism which
is intended to encourage the
preservation of old barns and related buildings.
~Contact Carl Schmidt, POB
C, Orford, 03777; CarlandRika@valley.net
from NH Preservation
Alliance:
What do two fiddlers, a
former governor and a restored theater have in common? They will all be at
the New Hampshire Preservation Alliance's 20th Anniversary Celebration on
Tuesday, November 8 at 5:00pm at the Capital Center for the
Arts, Concord. Join acclaimed Granite State
performers, musicians, storytellers and notables as they celebrate two
decades of success in preserving the traditions and special places that
shape New Hampshire's character.
Performances...will feature writer
and public radio producer Kevin Gardner, M. Marguerite Mathews and
Gregory Gathers of Pontine Theater, singer Paula Cabot, pianist
Colin Cabot, storyteller Rebecca Rule, and fiddlers Jacqueline
and Dudley Laufman. Lewis M. Feldstein, President of the New Hampshire Charitable
Foundation, Judson D. Hale, Editor in Chief of Yankee Magazine
and Governor Walter Peterson will discuss the character of NH communities
and their future in a conversation moderated by Shay Zeller, Host of N.H.
Public Radio’s The Front Porch. The winners of 2005 Preservation
Achievement Awards will also be recognized.
Tickets are available by contacting the Alliance at
www.nhpreservation.org or at
603-224-2281. ... While we recommend advance reservations,
tickets may be purchased the day of the event; plan to arrive at the Capital
Center by 5pm for registration. Directions and parking information is
available at www.ccanh.com.
from the
AAM:
The Curators’ Committee
is pleased to announce two fellowships to curators who have never attended an AAM annual
Meeting before and whose major job responsibilities are the care and
interpretation of their museums’ collections. The two
$1000 awards are intended to help defray the cost of attending
the Annual Meeting in Boston, MA in
2006.
Application
Eligibility: Never attended AAM
before; major job responsibilities are care and interpretation of
collections. To apply, please send a cover letter expressing how
collections are significant to your work and career thus far and the museum’s
financial need for you to receive this award; a letter of recommendation
from your immediate supervisor, which should emphasize your contribution to the
profession supervisor; and your resume.
Send originals, plus two sets of photocopies to: James Burns, Director of
Curatorial Services, Booth Western Art Museum, P. O. Box 3070, Cartersville, GA
30120. Due Date: postmarked on or before Jan. 28, 2006. For further information contact James Burns at (770)
607-6372 or via email at jburns@boothmuseum.org .
Results will be announced before March 1, 2006.
Jim Kiepper:
(Ed. Note:
I have misplaced the contact information for Mr. Kiepper. I will
include it next week. In the meanwhile,...) Mr. Kiepper has written a
book about Styles Bridges, a Senator from NH, and has procured
a grant for the distribution of the book, free-of-charge, to NH
historical societies. They pay the postage. He is trying to contact
every h/s to be sure you would like a copy; if you hear from him, please respond
either way.
In
addition, he is coming to NH next spring and would like to arrange as many
presentations as possible. He has a 10-min film, some
photos, and a few artifacts. I understand Franklin & Madison have
already signed up.
More immediately, he will be interviewed by Tony Shinella (?) on WKXL on
11/17 between 3-4 pm. That same evening he will appear at
the Concord H/S, at the Franklin Pierce Law Center in Concord
at 7 pm.
from
Jackson:
Thursday,
November 10, 2005 at 7:30PM at the Christmas Farm Inn Barn.
The program for the evening is "Number Please:
New Hampshire Telephone Operators in the Pre-Dial Era" presented by
Judith Moyer, an educator and historian with the University of New Hampshire.
Using informative and humorous material from interviews
with NH operators, this lecture with slides examines telephone operating in
large and small communities. It looks at how technology affected
operator's roles, how roles were defined in relation to prevailing beliefs about
women's work, and what the job meant to individual operators (most of whom were
women).
Audience members are encouraged to share their own memories and stories. I
am sure that many of our Members can recall the days of the party lines,
sometimes as many as twenty subscribers on the same line, when you could listen
in and get all the gossip, and also the operator knew everything going on in
town. This meeting will be lots of fun.
Having owned the small telephone company in Melvin Village...during the 1950's I
can personally confirm the wildest and funniest things happening. I
purchased the company in 1955 and changed over to dial in 1957. In many
ways, it was sad to see a piece of small-town America go by the
wayside. But, economics and technology marches on.
~Warren Schomaker
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