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This c. 1860 quilt by Nancy Simes Nutter Hoit Kaime (1793-1875) of Barnstead is featured in the new exhibition Piece Together: New Hampshire Quilts & Their Stories, on view at the Society's museum. |
Upcoming Programs & Events
March 2—April 1, 2010
History Course
New Hampshire at War: From the Home Front to the Front Line
Join the New Hampshire Historical Society for a five-part history course focusing on New Hampshire’s wartime experiences from its early settlement through WWII. Examine New Hampshire as the colonial frontier in the 17th and 18th centuries, placing the colony uncomfortably between the Native Americans and European wars. Connect our history’s civil wars to New Hampshire towns, and visit Portsmouth during its unexpected rise as a World War II boomtown. New Hampshire at War will take you on a journey through four centuries as the Granite State confronts challenges and sacrifices in national and international conflicts.
Tuesday, March 2
Settlement and Conflict: The 17th-Century Experience
Instructor: Stephanie Skenyon, Director of Education, New Hampshire Historical Society
Thursday, March 11
Fighting on the Frontier in the French and Indian War
Instructor: David Starbuck, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Sociology, Department of Social Sciences, Plymouth State University
Thursday, March 18
New Hampshire Towns in Two Civil Wars
Instructor: Jere R. Daniell, Professor Emeritus, Dartmouth College
Thursday, March 25
The Neighbors’ War: Fighting the Enemy and Each Other
Instructor: William Marvel, independent scholar and author of Civil War history
Thursday, April 1
Portsmouth: World War II Boomtown
Instructor: Captain Rodney Watterson, UNH Ph.D. and US Navy retiree.
Location: 30 Park Street, Concord, NH
Time: 6:30 to 8 p.m.
Cost: $60 for New Hampshire Historical Society members; $100 for nonmembers
Contact to register: Education Services Coordinator Chris MacLeod at 603/856-0604 or cmacleod@nhhistory.org
March 12, 2010
New Exhibition Opens
Faces of New Hampshire:
Portraits from the New Hampshire Historical Society Collection
The New Hampshire Historical Society has preserved a rich collection of more than 500 portraits in various mediums over the last 150 years. The new exhibition Faces of New Hampshire will showcase 30 examples from this extraordinary collection. The portraits and related artifacts will help uncover the lives and stories of the people of New Hampshire.
Location: 30 Park Street, Concord, NH
Hours: Tuesday-Saturday, 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Closed on federal holidays.
Admission: Free
Contact: Call 603/228-6688
March 15, 16, & 17, 2010
12th Annual Advanced Placement History Conference
This popular annual conference provides students with practical advice on the Document Based Question (DBQ) of the College Board’s Advanced Placement exam. The conference will include a keynote presentation by William O. Kellogg, author of the Barron’s study guide for the AP U. S. history exam. This conference's initial session will provide students with an understanding of the criteria that readers use when ranking responses to the DBQ. During subsequent sessions, students will have an opportunity to examine specific types of primary sources. Space is limited; registration required.
Funding for the Advanced Placement History Conference is provided, in part, by the NHHEAF Network Organizations and the John L. Frisbee Education Fund of the New Hampshire Historical Society.
Location: 30 Park Street, Concord, NH
Time: 9 a.m. to 1:10 p.m.
Cost: $13 per student
Contact for more information: Director of Education Stephanie Skenyon at 603/856-0611 or sskenyon@nhhistory.org
Contact to register: Education Services Coordinator Chris MacLeod at 603/856-0604 or cmacleod@nhhistory.org
March 20 & 21, 2010
New Hampshire Preservation Alliance's
Old House & Barn Expo
The New Hampshire Historical Society is pleased to participate in the New Hampshire Preservation Alliance's 2010 Old House & Barn Expo. The expo offers something for everyone interested in old buildings and all that is involved in renovating and owning one.
Sponsored by: Antique Homes, Bedard Preservation & Restoration, Bruss Construction, EnviroVantage, Fifield Restoration, First Period Colonial, Historic & Distinctive Properties, Innerglass Windows, Louis Karno & Co., Merrimack County Savings Bank, Old House Interiors, PSNH, and Vintage Kitchens
Location: Center of NH, Radisson Hotel, Manchester
Hours: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Admission: $10 for adults; $5 for seniors and children
Contact: New Hampshire Preservation Alliance at 603/224-2281
April 3, 2010
Benefit Concert—Rise Up! Out of the Ashes
On January 18, 2010, New Hampshire Furniture Master Jon Brooks lost his New Boston studio and all of its contents in a fire. This concert will benefit the Jon Brooks New Studio Project. Jon's friends will perform and all artists fees and proceeds will benefit the Studio Project.
Benefit Concert Performers:
Celticladda: Melodic, vibrant, compelling traditional New England dance music with a Celtic twist! Featuring fiddler Randy Miller and Bill Thomas on flute and uilleann pipes, with Gordon Peery on piano.
Swing A Cat: A trio of talented women singing and playing jazz in three-part harmony. Featuring Liza Constable on guitar, Val Blachly on upright bass and Agnes Charlesworth on piano.
The Moores: A four-piece family rock band fronted by local furniture and guitar maker Terry Moore and featuring Toby on guitar, Tom on percussion, and Barson on bass.
Location: Capitol Center for the Arts, 44 South Main Street, Concord, NH
Time: 7:30 p.m.
Cost: $25
Contact: 603/225-1111 or ccanh.org
April 10, 2010
Workshop—Cataloging Collections
This workshop, part of a series of workshops for local historical societies, is a collaborative effort of the Association of Historical Societies of New Hampshire, the New Hampshire Humanities Council, the New Hampshire Archives Group, and the New Hampshire Historical Society. Space is limited; advanced registration required. Please contact Stephanie Skenyon at 603/856-0611 or sskenyon@nhhistory.org.
Sponsored by the New Hampshire Historical Society
Location: 30 Park Street, Concord, NH
Time: TBD
Cost: TBD
Contact: Stephanie Skenyon at 603/856-0611 or sskenyon@nhhistory.org
May 1, 2010
New Hampshire Historical Society Annual Meeting
The Society's 2010 annual meeting will feature keynote speaker Brenton Simons, CEO and president of the New England Historic Genealogical Society and a special presentation by New Hampshire Historical Society Director of Publications Donna-Belle Garvin. Invitations will be mailed to Society members in early April. Advanced registration required.
Location: 30 Park Street, Concord, NH
Time: 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Admission: Free for Society members; $10 for an optional buffet lunch with advanced registration.
Contact: Call 603/228-6688
August 10, 2010
New Exhibition Opens
Fifteenth Annual New Hampshire Furniture Masters Exhibition
The New Hampshire Furniture Masters opens its annual exhibition and celebrates its 15 year. The exhibition will continue through September 9, 2010.
Location: 30 Park Street, Concord, NH
Hours: Tuesday-Saturday, 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Closed on federal holidays.
Admission: Free
Contact: New Hampshire Historical Society 603/228-6688; New Hampshire Furniture Masters 603/566-6368
August 12, 2010
Opening Reception
Fifteenth Annual New Hampshire Furniture Masters Exhibition
Opening reception and 15th anniversary celebration for the New Hampshire Furniture Masters annual exhibition.
Location: 30 Park Street, Concord, NH
Hours: 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.
Admission: Free
Contact: New Hampshire Historical Society 603/228-6688; New Hampshire Furniture Masters 603/566-6368
Current Exhibitions
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With their beautiful colors and extraordinary patterns, quilts are both works of art and records of our lives. Fifty quilts, patterns, and related quilt-making objects made during the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries are gathered together in the exhibition Pieced Together: New Hampshire Quilts and Their Stories. The exhibition is organized by quilt types; domestic history, community history, moving West, the Civil War, frugality, memories, family tradition, textile manufacturing, and regional characteristics are among the themes and subjects that will be explored.
Pieced Together: New Hampshire Quilts and Their Stories is sponsored by Merrimack County Savings Bank and Northeast Delta Dental.
Location: 6 Eagle Square, Concord, NH
Hours: Tuesday-Saturday, 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., Sunday, 12 to 5 p.m. Also open Monday 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. July 1-October 15 and in December. Closed on federal holidays.
Admission: $5.50 adults, $4.50 seniors, $3 children 6-18, $17 family maximum, free for New Hampshire Historical Society members
Contact: Call 603/228-6688
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In January the Perry Greene Collection, documenting the life and adventures of Arthur T. Walden, his famous dog, Chinook, and dog sledding in New Hampshire, were donated to the New Hampshire Historical Society by Rick Skoglund and Martha Kalina, owners of the Perry Greene Kennel in Waldoboro, Maine. A rich assemblage of more than two hundred photographs, letters, newspaper clippings, and artifacts, covering the period from 1920 to 1940, it is the first collection of its kind documenting the early years of dog sledding in New Hampshire that the Society has acquired. Society staff developed an exhibition, Pulled into History, using these important materials.
Location: 6 Eagle Square,
Concord, NH
Hours: Tuesday-Saturday, 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., Sunday, 12 to 5 p.m. Also open Monday 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.
July 1-October 15 and in December. Closed on federal holidays.
Admission: $5.50 adults, $4.50 seniors, $3 children 6-18, $17 family maximum, free for New Hampshire Historical
Society members
Contact: Call 603/228-6688
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A panorama of Granite State history from Native American days
to modern times. Includes one of the finest remaining examples of the Concord coach, the
stagecoach that opened the American west.
Location: 6 Eagle Square,
Concord, NH
Hours: Tuesday-Saturday, 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., Sunday, 12 to 5 p.m. Also open Monday 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.
July 1-October 15 and in December. Closed on federal holidays.
Admission: $5.50 adults, $4.50 seniors, $3 children 6-18, $17 family maximum, free for New Hampshire Historical
Society members
Contact: Call 603/228-6688
The Mystery Stone
(ongoing)
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One of the New Hampshire Historical Society’s most mysterious and
requested artifacts – the “Mystery Stone” – is on long-term display at the Society’s Museum of New Hampshire History.
Location: 6 Eagle Square,
Concord, NH
Hours: Tuesday-Saturday, 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., Sunday, 12 to 5 p.m. Also open Monday 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.
July 1-October 15 and in December. Closed on federal holidays.
Admission: $5.50 adults, $4.50 seniors, $3 children 6-18, $17 family maximum, free for New Hampshire Historical
Society members
Contact: Call 603/228-6688
Satellite & Traveling Exhibitions
On the Trail: The Photographs of
Ralph C. Larrabee and the Appalachian Mountain Club (at the Appalacian Mountain Club's Highland Center, Crawford Notch, NH)
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Ralph C. Larrabee (1870-1935) of Boston, Massachusetts, was one of a group of grass-roots conservationists who
helped open the natural landscape to a new generation of Americans during the early 20th century. Through the cooperative efforts of the Larrabee family and the Appalachian Mountain Club, the New Hampshire Historical
Society acquired more than 5,000 of Larrabee's black & white photographic negatives and prints. An exhibition
of Larrabee’s work, On the Trail: The Photographs of Ralph C. Larrabee and the Appalachian Mountain
Club, was on view at the Society’s library through from October 4, 2008, through January 10, 2009. Fifty-three images from the exhibition are currently on display at the AMC's Highland Center.
The
White Mountains of New Hampshire (at the Mount Washington Resort at Bretton Woods)
The exhibition explores the White Mountain region with a rich array of objects and images
and is open to the public.
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