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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
Concord Arts Market
Concord Arts Market is New Hampshire's first award-winning weekly outdoor juried handcrafts and fine art market. The outdoor market is held on Saturdays in Eagle Square in downtown Concord. Hours are 9 AM to 3 PM.
Upcoming 2010 summer/fall season dates are uly 31, September 11, September 18, September 25, October 2, October 16, and October 23. A special year-end event is planned for October 30, times to be announced.
The New Hampshire Historical Society's museum, located at 6 Eagle Square, will offer 1/2 off admission in conjunction with the Concord Arts Market.
The market is a production of Granite State Arts Market LLC. For more information visit concordartsmarket.com.
The New Hampshire Historical Society is pleased to partner with the National Endowment for the Arts and more than 600 museums in all 50 states to offer free museum admission to active duty military personnel and their families through Labor Day, September 6, 2010.
If you are active duty military personnel and/or an immediate family member, all you need to do is show either a Geneva Conventions CAC ID or a DD Form 1173 ID card at the museum admissions desk. Immediate family members under the age of 10 must be accompanied by an appropriate ID holder.
Location: New Hampshire Historical Society's museum, 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.
Contact: 603/228-6688
August 10, 2010
New Exhibition Opens
Fifteenth Annual New Hampshire Furniture Masters Exhibition
The New Hampshire Furniture Masters opens its 15th annual exhibition at the New Hampshire Historical Society. The exhibition continues 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 at 603/228-6688; New Hampshire Furniture Masters at 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 at 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. They are mirrors of the times in which they were made, and personal expressions of the people who made and used them. Pieced Together: New Hampshire Quilts and Their Stories features an array of historic quilts and quilt-related items from the 18th through 20th centuries and more than 50 quilt patterns documented and preserved by Ellen E. Webster. The exhibition is organized into a colorful display by quilt types, patterns, designs, fabrics, and function. Domestic history, community history, moving West, the Civil War, frugality, memories, family tradition, textile manufacturing, and regional characteristics are among the themes and subjects explored through the stories of individual quilts and their makers.
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: 603/228-6688
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The New Hampshire Historical Society has preserved a rich collection of more than 500 portraits in various mediums over the last 150 years. The exhibition Faces of New Hampshire showcases 30 examples from this extraordinary collection. The portraits and related artifacts 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: 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: 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: 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: 603/228-6688
Satellite & Traveling Exhibitions
On the Trail: The Photographs of
Ralph C. Larrabee and the Appalachian Mountain Club (at the Appalachian 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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