New Hampshire Historical Society

Saturday, February 16
New Exhibition Opens

The new exhibition Home, School, and Studio: Women Artists and New Hampshire, opening Saturday, February 16, explores how women helped define the character and aesthetics of art in New Hampshire. The pieces on display showcase the distinctive work of women collected by the New Hampshire Historical Society over the past 150 years.

Location: 6 Eagle Square, Concord, NH
Hours: Tuesday-Saturday, 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., Sunday, 12 to 5 p.m. 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

Saturday, February 16
New Hampshire Preservation Alliance Public Program

Join the New Hampshire Preservation Alliance on February 16 at the Kimball Jenkins Carriage House, Concord, with Dr. James L. Garvin as he presents The Old House Speaks: Learning to Read the Physical Evidence.

Like all manmade objects, a house speaks through its style, its materials, and its technology. This lecture will explore physical clues like overall shape, door and window construction, and hardware and other finishes that can help determine the approximate date at which a house was built, and the dates of later changes.

Location: Kimball Jenkins Carriage House, Concord, NH, presented by the New Hampshire Preservation Alliance (NHPA)
Date/Time: Saturday, February 16, 2013, 10–11:30 am
Advance reservations required. Admission: $10 for members of the New Hampshire Preservation Alliance, $15 for non-members of the NHPA. To register, please call Beverly at 603-224-2281. For further details visit nhpreservation.org.

Six-Part History Course
Woodland Paths and River Highways:
The History of New Hampshire's Abenaki People
March 7 through April 11, 2013
6:30–8:00 p.m.

March 7: Native History in New Hampshire: The First 12,000 Years
Robert Goodby, Professor of Anthropology at Franklin Pierce University, reveals archaeological evidence that shows the deep presence of the Native Americans in New Hampshire, including archaeological evidence for the continuous occupation of important places in Ndakinna, the Abenaki homeland, for more than 10,000 years.

March 14: Native American History of NH: Alliance and Survival, c. 1400-1700
David Stewart-Smith, historian for the NH Intertribal Native American Council, will discuss the effect that the appearance of Europeans had on New Hampshire’s native people with a particular focus on the Pennacook alliance, a confederacy of about 16 tribal and family groups that held together through severe climate change, European colonization, devastating epidemic disease, and intertribal warfare.

March 21: What’s in a Source?
The Society’s Library Collections and Abenaki History
Sarah Hays, Library Director, and Stephanie Skenyon, Director of Education, will introduce some of the Society’s library collection, highlighting documents, maps, books, and letters that shed light on New Hampshire’s Native Americans.

March 28: Robert Rogers: The Frontier Warrior We Love to Hate
David Starbuck, Professor of Anthropology in the Department of Social Science at Plymouth State University, will discuss the controversial Robert Rogers: hated, honored as an originator of the tactics used by Special Forces today, despised for his attack upon the Abenaki settlement at St. Francis, praised as one of the boldest backwoods heroes of colonial America, and reviled as the officer who caused Nathan Hale to be arrested as a spy.

April 4: Native American Archaeology in NH: Retrospect and Prospect
Richard Boisvert, Deputy State Historic Preservation Officer and NH State Archaeologist, will discuss the history of excavations in New Hampshire as they relate to the Abenaki people: where are they, who has performed the investigations, and what we have learned from them.

April 11: Abenaki Women: Basket Making and Cultural Survival
Sherry Gould, member of the Nulhegan Abenaki tribe and renowned brown ash and sweet grass basket maker, will discuss the cultural tradition of women’s basket making in the Abenaki community.

Location: New Hampshire Historical Society, 30 Park Street, Concord, NH
Dates: Thursday evenings, March 7 through April 11, 2013
Time: 6:30 to 8 p.m.
Admission: The registration fee for this six-part history course is $80 for New Hampshire Historical Society members and $120 for nonmembers. Not a current member? Join or renew when you register and qualify for the reduced history course fee, and enjoy the many other benefits of membership for an entire year.
Registration: To register by mail, download this registration form and return with payment to: History Course, New Hampshire Historical Society, 30 Park Street, Concord, NH 03301. Send e-mail inquiries to: education@nhhistory.org. To register by telephone with a credit card, call Education Services Coordinator Stephanie Fortin at 603/856-0604.
Contact: Call 603/228-6688 or e-mail sskenyon@nhhistory.org.

May 25 through June 4, 2013
10-night Cruise Commemorates Civil War

The New Hampshire Historical Society is offering its members the opportunity to tour some of the most significant sites of the American South and the Civil War on a distinctive educational voyage from Richmond to Savannah. Sailing aboard the 138-guest, American-flagged Yorktown during May 25 through June 4, 2013, we will visit such significant sites as Petersburg National Battlefield, Fort Monroe, New Bern, Fort Fisher, Wilmington, and Charleston. For those who prefer to visit historic homes and gardens, we will offer alternatives to Civil War sites.

We are pleased to announce special savings of $1,500 per person when you register by March 22, 2013. Rates now start from only $3,495 per person for this distinctive, all-inclusive voyage.

We are pleased to join forces with other distinguished historical societies in making this trip available to our members. Leading our voyage as lecturers are the esteemed Civil War and Lincoln historians, Professor James "Bud" Robertson, and Harold Holzer.

Dates: May 25 through June 4, 2013
Tickets: Early deadline of March 22 for $1,500 discount. Pricing starts at $3,495 per person for this distinctive, all-inclusive voyage. After March 22, full pricing applies.
For more information, read the brochure here.
Contact: 800-257-5767

Current Exhibitions

Mountain Scenery (through December 29, 2013)

An exhibition featuring 19th-century New Hampshire landscape paintings by 17 artists.

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

Soldiers, Sailors, Slaves and Ships: The Civil War Photographs of Henry P. Moore (through July 6, 2013)

This exhibition of Civil War photographs vividly depict soldiers from New Hampshire and the world they encountered in the South.

Location: 30 Park Street, Concord, NH
Hours: Tuesday through Saturday, 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Admission: Free
Contact: 603/228-6688

New Hampshire Through Many Eyes (ongoing)

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.

The Mystery Stone (ongoing)

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.