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Upcoming Programs & Events
Friday, May 24, through Sunday, September 1 The New Hampshire Historical Society is a member of Blue Star Museums, a partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts, Blue Star Families, and more than 1,800 museums across America to offer free admission to all active duty military personnel and their families. The New Hampshire Historical Society will extend this admission offer from Friday, May 24, through Sunday, September 1, 2013. A complete list of participating museums is available at Blue Star Museums. Location: 6 Eagle Square, Concord, NH Thursday, June 6 Author Ann Covell will talk about the family, life, and times of Jane Pierce (1806–63), wife of President Franklin Pierce and one of the most intriguing, complex, and tragic of America’s First Ladies. A British citizen, Ann Covell had a career in the U.K. health service management and research sectors. Now retired, she divides her time among the U.K., Spain, and the U.S. Her main interests include 19th-century history, fine arts, and politics. She is also the author of Remembering the Ladies, a compendium of essays on 19th-century U.S. first ladies. Location: 30 Park Street, Concord, NH Thursday, July 4 The New Hampshire Historical Society's museum and library are closed for the July 4th holiday. Happy Independence Day! Contact: 603/228-6688 Thursday, July 25 Author John Taliaferro will speak about the influential statesman and his connections to New Hampshire. Hay was both witness to and author of many significant chapters in American history—from the birth of the Republican Party, the Civil War, and the Spanish-American War, to the prelude to the First World War. Much of what we know about Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt comes from observations Hay made in the Oval Office. Hay’s friends are a who’s who of the era: Mark Twain, Horace Greeley, Henry Adams, Henry James, and virtually every president, sovereign, author, artist, power broker, and robber baron of the Gilded Age. All the Great Prizes is the first authoritative biography of Hay in 80 years. Taliaferro is the author of four books and a former senior editor at Newsweek. He lives in Austin, Texas, and Pray, Montana. Location: 30 Park Street, Concord, NH Monday, September 2 The New Hampshire Historical Society's museum and library are closed for the Labor Day holiday. Contact: 603/228-6688 Tuesday, September 24 The New Hampshire Furniture Masters Association presents its 18th annual exhibition, on view from Tuesday, September 24, through Saturday, October 26. For more information visit furnituremasters.org. Location: 30 Park Street, Concord, NH Thursday, September 26 Always a popular event, the reception for the annual exhibition of the New Hampshire Furniture Masters is an excellent opportunity to talk with the masters in front of their works and bid on silent auction pieces you'll find nowhere else. For more information visit furnituremasters.org. Location: 30 Park Street, Concord, NH Saturday, September 28 On Saturday, September 28, 2013, the New Hampshire Historical Society will offer free admission to its museum along with with thousands of other participating venues across the nation as part of the ninth annual Smithsonian Magazine Museum Day. Visitors who present a Museum Day ticket will gain free admission for two at participating venues. For more information visit Smithsonian.com/museumday. Location: 6 Eagle Square, Concord, NH Current Exhibitions Mountain Scenery (through December 31, 2013) An exhibition featuring 19th-century New Hampshire landscape paintings by 17 artists. Location: 6 Eagle Square, Concord, NH
Soldiers, Sailors, Slaves and Ships: The Civil War Photographs of Henry P. Moore (through July 6, 2013)
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. Location: 6 Eagle Square,
Concord, NH The Mystery Stone (ongoing) One of the New Hampshire Historical Society's most curious artifacts – the “Mystery Stone” – is on long-term display at the Society’s museum. Location: 6 Eagle Square,
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