NH Humanities Council Humanities to Go Catalog by NH Humanities Council

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The Humanities . . . and You The “ideal” humanities presentation, in my view? It asks an essential question, then serves it. . . . We are entertained everywhere, anywhere, with the flip of a switch, click of a mouse. But where can adults go who are hungry for the provocative beauty of an incarnated idea? For the energy of intellectual inquiry? For the community of other hungry minds? To me, this is what distinguishes Humanities Council programs from the rest of the fare. In a program where the humanities connections are given priority, our questions are larger, and enlarging. Independent Scholar and HTG Program Evaluator As with many organizations, it seemed for many years a struggle to get people to meetings. [F]inding out about the NH Humanities Council and their list of speakers was a Godsend. Your speakers are so varied, knowledgeable, entertaining and personable. Our membership has grown to over 100, our treasury as a result has increased. . . This would not have been accomplished if it weren’t for the programs, help and great speakers NH Humanities has to offer. Local Historical Society President Thank you for funding our HTG program! It will be a significant part of our adult summer reading program. I am always grateful that HTG is available to libraries. You allow us to bring high quality programs to our patrons, and to demonstrate the value of libraries as centers of learning for the whole community. Public Library Director

New Hampshire Humanities Council 117 Pleasant Street Concord, NH 03301 603-224-4071 603-224-4072 fax www.nhhc.org

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Welcome to Humanities to Go! Proudly presented by the New Hampshire Humanities Council For more than three decades, the New Hampshire Humanities Council (NHHC) has been bringing the thrill of intellectual discovery and the power of ideas to people of all walks of life, in all corners of our state. We support local cultural and educationalinstitutionsbyawardinggrantsforinnovativehumanitiesprogrammingintheir communities. We provide opportunities for citizens to reason together, to learn from and listen to one another. We offer teachers cost-effective, content-rich professional development that strengthens the teaching of the humanities in our schools. And we develop communities of readers, especially among those struggling with literacy and those new citizens just learning about their new culture and government. Our mission is to connect people to culture, history, places, ideas and one another. One of NHHC’s most successful and widely-used programs is our speakers bureau, Humanities to Go (HTG). It enables host organizations to offer free, high-quality cultural programs to the public at minimal cost to the host. Humanities to Go presenters are performers of living history and faculty members at our state’s colleges and universities. They are teachers, facilitators, and community-based scholars who have translated their passion for their topics into compelling humanities programs. They are an important part of the intellectual capital of our state. HTG programs come in many formats, from first-person living history presentations to lectures followed by Q & A, illustrated talks, musical history tours, and documentary films followed by facilitated discussions. Host organizations may apply for up to three HTG programs per calendar year. Some choose two or three programs on related topics and build a series. For example, you might include the following: • Paul Wainwright’s talk and photographs of Colonial Meetinghouses • Ron Jager’s facilitated showing of the documentary “Meetinghouse: The Heart of Washington, NH” and • Becky Rule’s “Moved and Seconded: Town Meeting in New Hampshire.” Other hosts choose a variety of unrelated programs in order to appeal to different audiences. Consider the diverse visitors who might come and learn about your organization if you schedule these three programs: • Robert Goodby’s “12,000 Years Ago in the Granite State” • Herman Tavani’s “Personal Privacy in Cyberspace” or • Karolyn Kinane’s “Evolving English: From Beowulf & Chaucer to Texts & Tweets.” Explore the catalog! You will certainly come up with ideas of your own. 4

Welcome Humanities to Go is just one of the ways in which the New Hampshire Humanities Council connects people with ideas. Using a Community Project Grant, non-profit organizations can design and present their own public humanities events and programs. Funded projects have included oral history workshops, public lectures, documentary production, community reads, teacher training institutes and professional development workshops, and other local initiatives. Often the organizers of a grant project will schedule a related HTG program as part of their programming or consult with a humanities expert from the HTG roster to help shape the project’s intellectual content. The New Hampshire Humanities Council’s mission is specific to New Hampshire, but we are not part of the state government. An independent, non-profit organization, NHHC receives approximately half of its annual budget from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), with the balance coming from individuals, businesses, and foundations. Please visit our website, www.nhhc.org, for more information about the New Hampshire Humanities Council and the many ways in which you can participate and support the educational and cultural enrichment of our state.

Thanks For their generous underwriting and sponsorship of Humanities to Go, we extend our sincere thanks to TransCanada Corporation, The Neil and Louise Tillotson Fund, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. We also thank the HTG presenters who make time in their academic and personal lives to bring the humanities to the New Hampshire public. Not only do they accept engagements, often at night and sometimes where GPS does not go, but many presenters invest in HTG by donating back the equivalent of one presentation honorarium. And finally, thanks to the audience members and program hosts who, as individual donors to NHHC, help to keep Humanities to Go free and open to all.

Photo Credits Front cover: Top, Washington Meetinghouse. Photo by Tom Talpey, Washington Historical Society. Bottom right, Steve Taylor. Photo by Perry Smith, UNH. Center bottom, a scene from the UNH Center for the Humanities documentary, “Uprooted.” Photo by Mary Jo Alibrio. Center top, Joan Gatturna as Rachel Revere. Photo by Cheryl Senter. Bottom left, Becky Rule. Photo by Deb Cram. Center left, Jeff Warner. Photo by Ralph Morang. Back cover: Lower left, Gwendolyn Quezaire-Presutti. Photo by Cheryl Senter. Page 6, Steve Taylor in Hopkinton. Photo by Heather Mitchell. Page 17, George Morrison at the HTG Fair. Photo by Cheryl Senter. Page 24. Thousands exercise at the 1928 Bild Turnfest in Cologne. Photo provided by Paul Christensen. Page 27, Archaeological dig in Keene. Photo by Robert Goodby. Page 33, WWII vehicles in Concord. Photo provided by John Gfroerer. Page 56, A Chinook dog with child. Photo provided by Bob Cottrell. Page 71, Berlin paper mill workers. Photo provided by John Rule.

How to Host a Humanities to Go Program Hosting a Humanities to Go program is easy, but it requires careful planning and attention to detail. These programs are made available at low-cost to the host organization and must be presented free and open to the public, except in limited circumstances. Below is a step-by-step checklist. For a copy of the checklist that you can download and print go to www.nhhc.org.

Programs in Alternative Settings In addition to offering free programs open to all, NHHC seeks to reach underserved populations in alternative settings. Adjudicated youth, people in prison, or residents with special needs can also benefit from exposure to the humanities. If your organization would like to offer HTG in an alternative setting, day program, or closed educational facility please call NHHC to explore a way for us to work together.

Humanities to Go Program Host Checklist rev. September 2012

Completed application must arrive in our office at least ten (10) weeks before the date of your program. Application Fee: $50 per program; limit of 3 programs per host organization per calendar year. Program host must be non-profit or community group and event must be free and open to the public. Humanities to Go (HTG) Awards: NHHC gives program host $200 to cover presenter’s fee plus roundtrip mileage at $0.50/mile for up to 100 miles. Program host is responsible for paying presenter $200 plus total mileage, by check, at the program. • Living history presenters may charge up to $125 more per program. NHHC covers only $200. Program host is responsible for the balance. Include in check to presenter. • Two-person programs receive two stipends and mileage for both (unless they travel together). Therefore, they are limited to six HTG presentations/year. Ask at time of booking.

Photography and Recording • No photography or video- or audio-taping of programs is allowed without permission of presenter, which must be obtained in advance.

For-Profit Hosts or Private Events Humanities to Go funding is for non-profit organizations and community groups. For-profit organizations or groups holding private events do not qualify as HTG program hosts but may contact presenters and inquire about booking and paying them without HTG assistance. In recognition of our work identifying, auditioning and marketing the programs, we appreciate a donation to the New Hampshire Humanities Council from those who learn about speakers through HTG but book them directly. Donations help pay for the hundreds of free public programs we provide each year.

• Host is responsible for ensuring that audience members do not take photos or record without permission and do not distract or interrupt the presenter or audience. • If the presenter does allow recording, credit must be given to the New Hampshire Humanities Council. Include in any recording the NHHC logo from our website and/or the words “This program is made possible by a grant from the NH Humanities Council. Learn more at www.nhhc.org.” • Email digital photos and/or recordings to our marketing director at acoughlin@nhhc.org

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Download this checklist and a current HTG application from Forms Library on Humanities to Go page of NHHC website, www.nhhc.org. Check NHHC website calendar for programs already scheduled in nearby towns. Choose program: Use our 2012 HTG Catalog of Programs and Presenters or frequently updated on-line catalog to select program and find presenter’s contact information. Contact presenter: Contact presenter to check availability for your desired date, time, and location. Tell presenter about your organization and audience. Inquire about room set-up and technology that presenter requires and calculate presenter’s round-trip mileage. Fill out application. Sign form and keep a copy. It is a binding contract. If program will be presented in conjunction with another event (festival, potluck, or meeting) include details on application. Humanities to Go programs must be free and open to the public. HTG does not pay for programs at private events and may not be offered in a venue where a purchase would be expected (such as at a restaurant following an organization’s business meeting). Mail completed application and check, payable to New Hampshire Humanities Council, to NHHC, 117 Pleasant Street, Concord, NH 03301. The form must arrive at our office at least 10 weeks before the event. If payment will be delayed (such as when check must be issued by municipal government), mail or fax application form without check & include note explaining delay. Reconfirm with Presenter: When you receive email acceptance from NHHC, contact presenter to reconfirm date, time, place, directions, parking, and technology needs.

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Check your program listing on the NHHC online calendar on our website, www.nhhc.org, and inform us immediately of any changes. Use the “Tell a Friend” feature to tell others about the program!

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Six weeks before your program, NHHC sends a packet containing a publicity tip sheet and evaluation forms for host and audience members. Send press releases and calendar announcements to local media, invite high school teachers & their students, contact other local organizations -- get the word out! Include a copy of the NHHC logo downloaded from NHHC website in your press releases. NHHC Credit: In exchange for our sponsorship and promotional assistance, we expect you to credit NHHC in promotional materials, display NHHC banner brought by presenter, and tell your audience the New Hampshire Humanities Council sponsored the program. Contact NHHC immediately if there is ANY change in your program. If you must change the place, date or time, call us at 224-4071 and email acoughlin@nhhc.org. We will post cancellation and rescheduling information on our website and Facebook page. Alert your presenter, community and media outlets as far in advance as possible with changes. Post notice of any change at the venue. Arrange for use of microphone if your venue or audience needs sound amplification. Download the audience evaluation form from www.nhhc.org and photocopy plenty of forms so you don’t run out. Prepare a short introduction of presenter using bio from HTG Catalog or website. Look for check from NHHC made out to your organization to arrive two weeks before program. Deposit that check. Cut a check from your organization, payable to the presenter, and bring to event. Check should be for $200 (more in certain situations) plus full round trip mileage at $0.50/mile.

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Greet your speaker. Make sure space and technology are set up. Display the presenter’s banner. q Distribute evaluation forms before program. Have pencils/pens handy. q Welcome audience. Explain that feedback is critical to ensure quality and help get funding. Filling out an evaluation is the “price of admission.” Remind people to turn off cell phones and tell them no recording or photography is allowed without presenter’s prior permission. q Introduce presenter. q During program, count attendees to include in your host evaluation. After program, remind audience to fill out evaluation forms. Collect completed forms. q Thank and pay presenter. Give NHHC banner back to presenter after program.

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Send Host & Audience Evaluations to NHHC within two weeks. Report total ATTENDANCE and any extra amount paid to living history presenter. Comments & suggestions welcome! Become a “Fan” of New Hampshire Humanities Council on Facebook. Go to the “New Hampshire Humanities Council” page and tell others about your Humanities to Go experience.

NHHC, 117 Pleasant Street, Concord, NH 03301 Phone: 224-4071 Fax: 224-4072 Need help? Call NHHC or email Sue Butman at sbutman@nhhc.org 8

American History Runaway Wives: When Colonial Marriages Failed. . . . Marcia Schmidt Blaine. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Winning the War, Shaping the Peace: Industry, Civil War, and the Birth of Consumerism . . . . . . . . . Carrie Brown. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 The Capital Crime of Witchcraft: What the Primary Sources Tell Us. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Margo Burns. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 The New England Town. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jere Daniell. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Witches, Pop Culture, and the Past. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Robin DeRosa. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Down and Out in America: the Great Depression . . . Lawrence H. Douglas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Firefighters in the Civil War. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Lew Gage. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 The Founding Fathers: What Were They Thinking?. . Richard Hesse. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Lafayette and the Farewell Tour: An American Idol. . Alan Hoffman. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Lafayette: Symbol of Franco-American Friendship. . . Alan Hoffman. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Lizzie Borden Took an Axe, Or Did She? . . . . . . . . . . . . . Annette Holba. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 African American Soldiers and Sailors of NH During the American Revolution. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Glenn A. Knoblock. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 African American Submariners of World War II and Beyond . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Glenn A. Knoblock. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 African American Warriors: Medal of Honor Recipients from the Civil War through the Vietnam War. . . . . Glenn A. Knoblock. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 A Walk Back in Time: The Secrets of Cellar Holes. . . . . Adair Mulligan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 The Connecticut: New England’s Great River . . . . . . . . Adair Mulligan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Braving the Middle Ground: Stories of Pre-Revolutionary Northern New England . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jo Radner. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Wit and Wisdom: Humor in 19th Century New England . . . . . . . . . . . . Jo Radner. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Collecting John Paul Jones: America’s First Action Hero. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . J. Dennis Robinson. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Indian Wars of New England . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Michael J. Tougias. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 All Aboard the Titanic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ted Zalewski. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Ancient History Sports, Meritocracy, and Democracy in the Ancient and Modern Worlds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Paul Christesen. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Caesar: The Man from Venus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sebastian Lockwood. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Homer’s Odysseus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sebastian Lockwood. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 The Epic of Gilgamesh . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sebastian Lockwood. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Rome and Pompeii: Discovering and Preserving the Past . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . R. Scott Smith. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Table of Contents Anthropology and Archaeology Northern Exposure: Native Cultures of the Pacific Northwest. . . . . . . . . . . Patrick D. Anderson. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Spirit of Place: Native Lands and Cultures of the American Southwest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Patrick D. Anderson. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Digging Into Native History in New Hampshire . . . . . . . Robert Goodby. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 12,000 Years Ago in the Granite State . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Robert Goodby. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Table of Contents Wild and Colorful: Victorian Architecture in New Hampshire . . . . . . . . . Richard G. Wilson. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Documentaries and Discussions Powerful As Truth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . John Gfroerer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Rights & Reds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . John Gfroerer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 World War Two New Hampshire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . John Gfroerer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Treasure from the Isles of Shoals: How New Archaeology is Changing Old History. . . . J. Dennis Robinson. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Uprooted: Heartache and Hope in New Hampshire. . . Whitney Howarth, John Krueckeberg, Linda Upham-Bornstein, or Sara Withers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Art, Architecture and Film

Meetinghouse: The Heart of Washington, New Hampshire . . . . . . . . Ronald Jager. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Native Modernism: Contemporary American Indian Literature, Sculpture, Painting and Glass. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Patrick D. Anderson. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Movie Mavericks: Filmmakers who Challenge the Hollywood System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Patrick D. Anderson. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Understanding the Movies: The Art of Film. . . . . . . . . . Patrick D. Anderson. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Sennett, Chaplin, Keaton and the Art of Silent Film Comedy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Patrick D. Anderson. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Exemplary Country Estates of New Hampshire. . . . . . Cristina Ashjian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Ethics, Philosophy and Law The Capital Crime of Witchcraft: What the Primary Sources Tell Us. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Margo Burns. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Honor in a Time of Moral Uncertainty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Aine Donovan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 A Conversation with John Marshall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Richard Hesse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Free Speech in a Free Society . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Richard Hesse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Italian Gardens: Then and Now. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . James B. Atkinson. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Religious Freedom-Then and Now . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Richard Hesse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

New Hampshire, the Cornish Colony and the American Experience. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . James B. Atkinson. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

The U.S. Supreme Court: How Does It Operate? . . . . . . Richard Hesse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Civil Liberties vs. National Security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Richard Hesse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Made of Thunder, Made of Glass: American Indian Beadwork of the Northeast . . . . . Gerry Biron. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Daniel Webster and the Dartmouth College Case . . . . Richard Hesse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Imperial Russian Fabergé Eggs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Marina Forbes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

The Founding Fathers: What Were They Thinking? . . . . Richard Hesse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Russian Iconography: 1,000 Years of Tradition. . . . . . . Marina Forbes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Russian Lacquer Boxes: From Craft to Fine Art. . . . . . . Marina Forbes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Daniel Webster: New Hampshire’s First Favorite Son . . . Richard Hesse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Gandhi: The Man and his Teaching . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Donald J. Johnson. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 Spies in Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Douglas Wheeler. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Traditional Matryoshka Nested Doll Making: from Russia to New Hampshire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Marina Forbes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Language and Literature

Introducing America to Americans: Documentary Photographs of the 1930s. . . . . . . . . Martin L. Fox. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Native Modernism: Contemporary American Indian Literature, Sculpture, Painting and Glass. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Patrick D. Anderson. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Fixing a Shadow: The Origins of Photography. . . . . . . Martin L. Fox. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Comics in World History and Cultures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Marek Bennett. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Alfred Stieglitz, the Stieglitz Circle and the Rise of Modernism. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Katherine Hoffman. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Baked Beans and Fried Clams: How Food Defines A Region. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Edie Clark. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Islamic Art and Architecture: Bridging East and West . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Katherine Hoffman. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Monadnock Tales . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Edie Clark. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Big House, Little House, Back House, Barn: The Connected Farm Buildings of New England. . Thomas C. Hubka . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Writing from Home . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Edie Clark. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Chartres Cathedral: Philosophy & Theology as Art. . . William “Ty” Perry. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 New England’s Colonial Meetinghouses and their Impact on American Society. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Paul Wainwright . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

New England: Myth or Reality? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Edie Clark. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Grail Mania: 21st Century Retelling of 12th Century Heresy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Diana Durham. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Why Poetry is Important: The Poet as Shaman . . . . . . . Diana Durham. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 Antoine de Saint-Exupéry: the Man Who Wrote The Little Prince. . . . . . . . . . . . . . Scott Eaton. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

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Strange Terrain: How Not To “Get” Poetry & Let It Get You Instead. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Alice Fogel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Homer’s Odysseus. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sebastian Lockwood. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Familiar Fields: The Power of Community in the Work of Sarah Orne Jewett . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Greg Gathers & Marguerite Mathews. . 40

Margaret Bourke-White, America’s Eyes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sally Matson. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

Pretty Halcyon Days, on the Beach with Ogden Nash. . . Greg Gathers & Marguerite Mathews. 40 Silver Lake Summers: An E.E. Cummings Revue . . . . . Greg Gathers & Marguerite Mathews. . 41 A Woman’s Take on Courtly Love: The Lais of Marie de France. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Clia Goodwin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 J.R.R. Tolkien and the Uses of Fantasy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Clia Goodwin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

The Epic of Gilgamesh. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sebastian Lockwood. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 Susan B. Anthony, the Invincible! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sally Matson. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 A Visit with Queen Victoria. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sally Mummey. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 Mary Todd Lincoln: An Unconventional Woman. . . . . . Sally Mummey. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Mary Todd Lincoln: Wife and Widow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sally Mummey. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Dissent Among the Puritans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Linda Palmer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

The Arthurian Revival in New England: The Clash of the Ideal and the Real. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Clia Goodwin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

I Can’t Die But Once - Harriet Tubman’s Civil War . . . . . . Gwendolyn Quezaire-Presutti. . . . . . . . 48

Not In Front of the Children: The Art and Importance of Fairy Tales . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ingrid Graff. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

“If I am Not For Myself, Who Will Be for Me?” George Washington’s Runaway Slave. . . . . . . . . . . . . Gwendolyn Quezaire-Presutti. . . . . . . . 49

The Case of the Detective Who Refused to Die: Arthur Conan Doyle and Sherlock Holmes. . . . . . . . . Ingrid Graff. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

A Soldier’s Mother Tells Her Story . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sharon Wood. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Evolving English: From Beowulf & Chaucer to Texts & Tweets. . . . . . . . Karolyn Kinane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Abraham & Mary Lincoln: The Long & the Short of It. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sharon and Steve Wood. . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Motivating the WWII Home Front via Magazine and Radio Advertising. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Calvin Knickerbocker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 (Not So) Elementary, My Dear Watson: The Popularity of Sherlock Holmes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ann McClellan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 Lively Boys! Lively Boys!: The Origin of Bad Boy Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . J. Dennis Robinson. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Sarah Harris--No Small Courage. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gwendolyn Quezaire-Presutti. . . . . . . . 49

A Tribute to Sarah Josepha Hale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sharon Wood. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Our National Thanksgiving: With Thanks to President Lincoln and Mrs. Hale. . . . Sharon and Steve Wood. . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 A Visit with Abraham Lincoln . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Steve Wood . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Music History and Appreciation

Faith and Fantastic Fiction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Maren Tirabassi. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Rally ‘Round the Flag: The American Civil War Through Folksong. . . . . . . . . Marek Bennett and Woody Pringle. . . 51

Sitting Under a Fig Tree: Spiritual Autobiography, Augustine to Lamott. . . . . Maren Tirabassi. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Old Time Rules Will Prevail: The Fiddle Contest in New Hampshire and New England. . . . . . . . . . . . . . Adam Boyce. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

By a Lady of New Hampshire: Women as Innovators in American Writing . . . . . . . . Barbara White. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

A Sound Track for The Great Gatsby:

Living History

Listening for Form in Jazz. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Paul Combs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Liberty Is Our Motto! Songs and Stories of the Hutchinson Family Singers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Steve Blunt. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Music of the Jazz Age. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Paul Combs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 A Night of Music with Two Old Friends. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Emery Hutchins and Mac McHale . . . . 52

Ralph Page, Dean of American Folk Dancing . . . . . . . . . Adam Boyce. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

“Your Hit Parade:” Twenty-five Years Presenting America’s Top Popular Songs . . . . . . . . . . Calvin Knickerbocker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

The Old Country Fiddler: Charles Ross Taggart, Traveling Entertainer. . . . . . . . Adam Boyce. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Wacky Songs that Made Us Laugh. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Calvin Knickerbocker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 Contra Dancing in New Hampshire Then and Now. . . . . Dudley Laufman. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

Meet Eleanor Roosevelt. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Elena Dodd. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

The Guitar in Latin America: Continuities, Changes and Bicultural Strumming . . Jose Lezcano . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

A Conversation with John Marshall. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Richard Hesse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 Civilians of Gettysburg, 1863. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ginny and Lew Gage. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 Petticoat Patriot: A Woman in the Continental Army. . . . Joan Gatturna . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 The Other Side of the Midnight Ride: A Visit with Rachel Revere. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Joan Gatturna . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Spring Poets: Barbara Allen to Blackbird . . . . . . . . . . . . . John Perrault. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 Crime and Punishment on the Isles of Shoals: The Ballad of Louis Wagner. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . John Perrault. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 The Ballad Lives!. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . John Perrault. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Caesar: The Man from Venus. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sebastian Lockwood. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Table of Contents Kaddish: Music and Text as a Window into the Issue of Genocide through the Testimonies of Survivors Before, During, and After the Holocaust. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Lawrence Siegel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 The Music History of French-Canadians, Franco-Americans, Acadians and Cajuns. . . . . . . . . . . Lucie Therrien. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 Banjos, Bones, and Ballads. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jeff Warner. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 Music in my Pockets: Family Fun in Folk Music . . . . . . . Jeff Warner. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 Songs of Old New Hampshire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jeff Warner. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

Nature and Adventure New Hampshire on Skis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . E. John B. Allen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 Saving Buffalo and Cardinal: NH’s Early Environmentalist Earnest Baynes. . . . . . . James B. Atkinson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 Saving the Mountains: NH & the Creation of the National Forests . . . . . . . . . Marcia Schmidt Blaine. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 Harnessing History: On the Trail of New Hampshire’s State Dog, the Chinook . . . . . . . . . Bob Cottrell. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 Darby Field and the “First” Ascent of Mount Washington. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Allen Koop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 The White Mountain Huts: Past & Future . . . . . . . . . . . . . Allen Koop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 Angling in the Smile of the Great Spirit. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Hal C. Lyon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 Fatal Forecast: An Incredible True Tale of Disaster and Survival at Sea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Michael Tougias. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 Overboard! A True Bluewater Odyssey of Disaster, Survival and Inspiration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Michael Tougias. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 The Finest Hours: The True Story Behind the U.S. Coast Guard’s Most Daring Sea Rescue. . . . Michael Tougias. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

New Hampshire History The Abolitionists of Noyes Academy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dan Billin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 Hill Country Abandonment: 19th-Century Sandwich, NH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Marcia Schmidt Blaine. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 A Woman That Keeps Good Orders: Women, Tavern Keeping, and Public Approval . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Marcia Schmidt Blaine. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 An Armchair Tour of New Hampshire’s Black History Sites. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Valerie Cunningham. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 Dinah Whipple: Freed Slave, Wife of Prince and “Teacher of the African Children”. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Valerie Cunningham. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 Pomp Spring: President of the African Society in New Hampshire, 1807. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Valerie Cunningham. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 The Story of New Hampshire’s Historic African Burying Ground . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Valerie Cunningham. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

Table of Contents Colonial New Hampshire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jere Daniell. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 New Hampshire Towns and the Civil War . . . . . . . . . . . . Jere Daniell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 Ratification of the Constitution in New Hampshire. . . . Jere Daniell. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 Revolutionary New Hampshire. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jere Daniell. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 The New England Town. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jere Daniell. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 A House on the Bay: Life on 17th-Century New Hampshire’s Coastal Frontier. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Neill DePaoli. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 Astride Two Worlds: The Odd Adventures of John Gyles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Neill DePaoli. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 Teddy Roosevelt’s Nobel Prize: New Hampshire and the Portsmouth Peace Treaty. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Charles Doleac. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 Laconia State School, Understanding Our Past to Create a Better Future for People with Disabilities. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gordon Dubois. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 African American Soldiers and Sailors of New Hampshire during the American Revolution. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Glenn A. Knoblock. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 Brewing in NH: An Informal History of Beer in the Granite State from Colonial Times to the Present . . Glenn A. Knoblock. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 Covered Bridges of New Hampshire. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Glenn A. Knoblock. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 Historic Iron and Steel Bridges of New Hampshire. . . . Glenn A. Knoblock. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 New Hampshire and the American Clipper Ship Era. . . Glenn A. Knoblock. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 New Hampshire Cemeteries and Gravestones. . . . . . . . Glenn A. Knoblock. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 Stark Decency: New Hampshire’s World War II German Prisoner of War Camp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Allen Koop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 Town by Town, Watershed by Watershed: Native Americans in NH. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . John and Donna Roberts Moody. . . . . 63 A History of Native Burial Looting, Destruction & Protection in NH. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . John and Donna Roberts Moody. . . . . 64 Vanished Veterans NH’s Civil War Monuments and Memorials. . . . . . . . . George Morrison . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 Cannon Shenanigans and New Hampshire’s Muster Day Tradition . . . . . . . . . . . Jack Noon. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 Four Centuries of Fishing in NH: Yankee Character, Yankee Priorities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jack Noon. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 Having a Fine Time in Manchester: Vintage Post Cards and Local History. . . . . . . . . . . . . . Robert B. Perreault. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 Putting Human Faces on the Textile Industry: The Workers of the Amoskeag Manufacturing Company. . . . . . . . Robert B. Perreault. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 A Taste of the Old Country in the New: Franco-Americans of Manchester. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Robert B. Perreault. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 Before Peyton Place: In Search of the Real Grace Metalious. . . . . . . . . . . . . . Robert B. Perreault. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 The Making of Strawbery Banke . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . J. Dennis Robinson. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

Table of Contents Who Won the War of 1812? New Hampshire’s Forgotten Patriot Pirates. . . . . . . . J. Dennis Robinson. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 The Old Man of the Mountain: Substance and Symbol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Maggie Stier. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 Native American History of New Hampshire: Alliance and Survival, circa 1400-1700 . . . . . . . . . . . . . David Stewart-Smith. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 Native American History of New Hampshire Beyond Boundaries, circa 1700-1850 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . David Stewart-Smith. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 Mapping the Merrimack: A Frontier Adventure into Uncharted Territory 1630-1725. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . David Stewart-Smith. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 Native New Hampshire Before Contact: Archaeological and Tribal Perspectives. . . . . . . . . . . . David Stewart-Smith. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 Cows and Communities: How the Lowly Bovine Has Nurtured New Hampshire through Four Centuries. . . . . . . . . . . Steve Taylor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

Table of Contents World History, Cultures and Religions Comics in World History and Cultures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Marek Bennett. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 An Introduction to Sufism, the Spiritual Path in Islam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mohamed Defaa. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 The Middle East. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mohamed Defaa. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 Big and Small Players in the New Great Game: Afghanistan and its Region . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jennifer Fluri and/or Rachel Lehr (available as a one- or two-person program). . . . . . . . 73 Inside Russia Today. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Marina Forbes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74 Portsmouth Peace Treaty: The Russian Perspective. . . Marina Forbes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74 Introduction to Islam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mahboubul Hassan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74 Islamic Art & Architecture: Bridging East & West . . . . . . Katherine Hoffman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

New Hampshire’s Grange Movement: Its Rise, Triumphs and Decline. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Steve Taylor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

Winged Hussars of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, 1576-1696. . . . . Eric S. Jadaszewski. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

New Hampshire’s One-Room Rural Schools: The Romance and the Reality. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Steve Taylor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

Hindu Worldview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Donald J. Johnson. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

The Great Sheep Boom and Its Enduring Legacy on the New Hampshire Landscape. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Steve Taylor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

The Guitar and the Devil: Music, Magic, and Ritual Among Ecuadorian Indians . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jose Lezcano . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

The Shaker Legacy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Darryl Thompson. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 Harriet Wilson Project: Harriet Wilson’s Our Nig. . . . . . . Barbara White. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

Perspectives on Arab Culture and the Influence of Islam. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Nabil Migalli. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

Oral History, Storytelling and Writing

First Encounter: Americans and Muslims in North Africa in World War II, 1942-1944. . . . . . . . . . . . Mark Willis. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

Family, Memory, Place: Writing Family Stories . . . . . . . . Martha Andrews Donovan and Maura MacNeil . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

A Short Course on Islam for Non-Muslims . . . . . . . . . . . . Charles A. Kennedy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

The “Arab Springs”: Diverse Societies in Revolt. . . . . . . Mark Willis. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

Family Stories: How and Why to Remember and Tell Them. . . . . . . . Jo Radner. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70 That Reminds Me of a Story. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Rebecca Rule. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70 Crosscut: The Mills, Logging and Life on the Androscoggin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Rebecca Rule. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70 Moved and Seconded: Town Meeting in New Hampshire. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Rebecca Rule. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 Kaddish: Music and Text as a Window into the Issue of Genocide through the Testimonies of Survivors Before, During, and After the Holocaust . . . . . . . . . . . Lawrence Siegel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

Technology and Society Personal Privacy in Cyberspace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Herman T. Tavani. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 Ethical Aspects of Converging Technologies . . . . . . . . . Herman T. Tavani. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 Intellectual Property Disputes in Cyberspace. . . . . . . . . Herman T. Tavani. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

American History

American History See additional programs in New Hampshire History Marcia Schmidt Blaine Runaway Wives: When Colonial Marriages Failed When 18th century wives tired of the marriage contract, they could run, but they could not hide. Husbands chased them down via newspaper ads, effectively removing their sources of credit and income. In the vocabulary of the war between the sexes, one reads of surprisingly enduring economic and social barriers to runaway wives. Marcia Schmidt Blaine explores this Colonial era challenge in this illustrated program. Carrie Brown Winning the War, Shaping the Peace: Industry, Civil War, and the Birth of Consumerism Carrie Brown explores the technological triumph that helped save the Union and then transformed the nation. During the Civil War, northern industry produced a million and a half rifles, along with tens of thousands of pistols and carbines. How did the North produce all of those weapons? The answer lies in new machinery and methods for producing guns with interchangeable parts. Once the system of mass production had been tested and perfected, what happened after the war? In the period from 1870 to 1910 new factory technology and new print media fueled the development of mass consumerism. While this program tells a broad, national story, it focuses on the critical and somewhat surprising role of Vermont and New Hampshire in producing industrial technology that won the war and changed American life. Margo Burns The Capital Crime of Witchcraft: What the Primary Sources Tell Us On first impression, the witchcraft trials of the Colonial era may seem to have been nothing but a free-for-all, fraught with hysterics. Margo Burns explores an array of prosecutions in seventeenth century New England, using facsimiles of primary source manuscripts, from first formal complaints to arrest warrants, indictments of formal charges to death warrants, and the reversals of attainder and rescinding of excommunications years after the fact; demonstrating how methodically and logically the Salem Court worked. This program focuses on the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692 and 1693, when nineteen people were hanged and one crushed to death, but also examines a variety of other cases against women in New Hampshire, Massachusetts, and Connecticut.

American History Jere Daniell The New England Town This talk by Jere Daniell comes in several forms. Among the most requested are “Popular Images of Small Town New England,” “Novels Set in New England Towns,” (Daniell distributes a list of his favorites), and simply “The New Hampshire Town.” The last of these ends with a comparison of Granite State towns to other towns in New England. Robin DeRosa Witches, Pop Culture, and the Past “Hang her!” cries the raucous spectator. In 1692, nineteen people were executed in Salem and hundreds imprisoned during a witch hunt we still discuss today. Robin DeRosa explains that when Salem tells its witch stories, history, tourism, and performance collide, and “truth,” both moral and macabre, vies with spooky thrills for its authentic place in history. Lawrence H. Douglas Down and Out in America: the Great Depression America would not recover from the economic disaster of 1929 until World War II. What events triggered the coming of the Depression and how did we attempt to combat them? The clash of old and new social and political philosophies engendered by this turning point in American history changed the nation irrevocably. In this presentation, Lawrence Douglas attempts to answer the question “What did we learn?” Lew Gage Firefighters in the Civil War Lew Gage explores the forming of the 1st Fire Zouaves by Colonel Elmer Ellsworth, Ellsworth’s ties to New Hampshire, and his relationship with President and Mrs. Lincoln. Gage details the exploits of the 1st Fire Zouaves (11th New York), 2nd Fire Zouaves (73rd New York), Birney’s Fire Zouaves (23rd PA), and Baxter’s Fire Zouaves (72nd PA). Gage also examines the Philadelphia Fire Department’s involvement in developing the first fire department-based ambulances during the Civil War. Richard Hesse The Founding Fathers: What Were They Thinking? In 1787 delegates gathered in Philadelphia to address a wide variety of crises facing the young United States of America and produced a charter for a new government. In modern times, competing political and legal claims are frequently based on what those delegates intended. Mythology about the founders and their work at the 1787 Convention has obscured both fact and legitimate analysis of the events leading to the agreement called the Constitution. Richard Hesse explores the cast of characters called “founders,” the problems they faced, and the solutions they fashioned. 19

American History Alan Hoffman Lafayette and the Farewell Tour: An American Idol General Lafayette, born the Marquis de Lafayette in Auvergne, France, was truly an American Idol in the 19th century. One proof is that more than 80 American counties, cities, towns, and countless roads were named in his honor, from Lafayette Road in Portsmouth to Mount Lafayette in Franconia. Lafayette’s extraordinary reputation was based on his military record in the Revolution, his friendship with George Washington, his continued support of American interests, his story-book life, and perhaps most importantly, his Farewell Tour of America when he visited all 24 states and Washington D.C. as the last surviving major general of the Continental Army. Alan Hoffman uses Lafayette’s visits to New Hampshire, to Portsmouth in 1824 and to Concord in 1825, to illustrate the adulation with which the American people greeted Lafayette on his Farewell Tour. Alan Hoffman Lafayette: Symbol of Franco-American Friendship Alan Hoffman explores the role Lafayette played as a symbol of Franco-American friendship both during his lifetime, principally from 1777 to 1792, and after his death. To the extent the American people remember Lafayette, they recall his role in our Revolution and his activities on behalf of American interests in the 1780’s. Hoffman explores this initial period of Franco-American friendship but focuses on Lafayette’s posthumous symbolic role: as the inspiration for the Statue of Liberty, as a facilitator of America’s entry into and participation in the Great War in 1917, and as the emblem of the current thaw in Franco-American relations. Annette Holba Lizzie Borden Took an Axe, Or Did She? In 1892 Lizzie Borden, a 32-year-old single woman, was officially charged with the murder of her father and stepmother in Fall River, Massachusetts. The events that followed the murder would stir the curiosity of people across the nation. After four official criminal proceedings, Lizzie Borden was acquitted of the murder but the case was not officially reinvestigated by the authorities. To this day the case of Lizzie Borden is a mystery that has inspired television movies, documentaries, cinematic offerings, plays, musicals, poems, websites, blogs, a scholarly journal, college courses, and law school case studies. Annette Holba reviews the facts of the case and explores the evidence that some experts suggest points to Lizzie’s guilt and others believe points to Lizzie’s innocence. Lizzie’s connections to New Hampshire are also discussed.

American History Glenn A. Knoblock African American Soldiers and Sailors of New Hampshire During the American Revolution One of the most interesting aspects of the American Revolution is the role played by African Americans in the fight for independence. Both free Blacks and those that were enslaved were key in manning state militias and Continental Army units, as well as serving on the high seas in the Navy and on privately armed ships. Indeed, their service to the colonies was crucial in a conflict that lasted nearly seven years. Prohibited from serving in military units and largely considered “undesirable elements,” how is it that these Black soldiers came to fight for the cause of liberty, even when their own personal liberty was not guaranteed? Glenn Knoblock examines the history of Black soldiers’ service during the war, including how and why they enlisted, their interaction with white soldiers, service on the battlefields, how they were perceived by the enemy and the officers under whom they served, and their treatment after the war. Glenn A. Knoblock African American Submariners of World War II and Beyond African American soldiers and sailors saw extensive action during World War II in nearly every theatre of operations. Though few in number, Black submariners played an important role in manning the navy submarines, many built at Portsmouth, which wrought havoc against Japanese naval and merchant vessels. Limited by the U.S. Navy’s segregation policies to service as officers’ stewards, many Black sailors in fact performed combat duty with great bravery and distinction, including such men as Walter Wilson, the battle-station helmsman aboard the legendary submarine Trigger; Bronze Star medalist George Lytle aboard Drum; and Arthur Brown, who participated in the rescue and care of many refugees liberated from Japanese-held islands while serving aboard Narwhal. Glenn Knoblock’s talk, based on hundreds of interviews with World War II veterans and years of research, leaves the audience with a better understanding of the Submarine Force during World War II and appreciation for America’s undersea warriors. Glenn A. Knoblock African American Warriors: Medal of Honor Recipients from the Civil War through the Vietnam War This program considers not only the men of color that were recipients of this award, such as the Buffalo Soldiers that served from the 1860s to the 1890s on America’s western frontier and the forgotten heroes of Vietnam, but also the widely-varied award practices that were in place over the years which governed their issuance by the American military command. Many Black soldiers earned and received the Medal of Honor in earlier conflicts, but no Black servicemen were recipients during World War I and World War II. Glenn Knoblock explains the reasons why and shares the compelling stories of some of these men so honored during the long and hallowed history of our most important military award. 21

American History Adair Mulligan A Walk Back in Time: The Secrets of Cellar Holes Northern New England is full of reminders of past lives: stone walls, old foundations, a century-old lilac struggling to survive as the forest reclaims a once-sunny dooryard. What forces shaped settlement, and later abandonment, of these places? Adair Mulligan explores the rich story to be discovered in what remains behind. See how one town has set out to create an inventory of its cellar holes, piecing together the clues in the landscape. Such a project can help landowners know what to do if they have archaeological sites on their land and help stimulate interest in a town’s future through its past. Adair Mulligan The Connecticut: New England’s Great River The largest river in New England rises in a small beaver pond near the Canadian border and flows over 400 miles through four states, falling 2,670 feet to the sea through America’s only watershed-based national fish and wildlife refuge. Adair Mulligan leads an armchair tour of this great river in New Hampshire and Vermont, exploring its history and natural beauty through the seasons and among the communities that have sprung up along its banks. Next, the discussion will shift to how the river has influenced the lives of those who live there, and how they, in turn, have affected the river. Much more than a travelogue, this presentation explores the many issues involved in managing the health of this major river, and how citizens from all walks of life have created a vision for its future. Jo Radner Braving the Middle Ground: Stories of Pre-Revolutionary Northern New England The stories we hear from our families tell us who we are and how we should view the world. What tales shaped New England identities in the 17th and 18th centuries? In this performance, storyteller/historian Jo Radner juxtaposes Native American oral traditions and stories told by her own New England ancestors to reveal a complex colonial “middle ground” in which English settlers and Native peoples saw one another as defenders and trespassers, pursuers and refugees, relatives and aliens, kind neighbors and ruthless destroyers.

American History ingly daring behavior of our forebears. Jo Radner shares excerpts from her forthcoming book about hundreds of these “newspapers” and provides examples from villages in your region. J. Dennis Robinson Collecting John Paul Jones: America’s First Action Hero Everyone knows his name but few know his story. The real John Paul Jones was born in Scotland and spent more than a year in New Hampshire during the American Revolution. A jealous genius, Jones (not his real name) was a complex self-made naval hero on a quest for glory. J. Dennis Robinson tells Jones’s story, illustrated with images from his own extensive collection of “Jonesiana.” Robinson shows how America rejected Jones, then used his name and image to sell everything from whiskey to cigarettes, to women’s clothing...even to recruit for the US Navy. Michael J. Tougias Indian Wars of New England Michael Tougias takes the audience on a historic journey as the Colonists and Native Americans fought for control of New England from the Pilgrims’ first arrival to the closing days of the French and Indian Wars. Using slides of maps, battle sites, roadside history, and period drawings, Tougias covers the Pequot War, King Philip’s War, and the French and Indian Wars. Strategies of the Natives and Colonial raids are all featured. These include Rogers Rangers’ raid on the St. Francis Indian village, Lovewell’s Fight in NH and ME, and the Fort at #4, and Metacom’s uprising in the Connecticut River Valley. Ted Zalewski All Aboard the Titanic “All Aboard the Titanic” responds to people’s enduring fascination with this historic, and very human, event. Including and moving beyond the physical facts of the story, Ted Zalewski explores the personal experiences of selected passengers and crew, including those with New Hampshire affiliations, emphasizing examples of individual courage and triumph.

Jo Radner Wit and Wisdom: Humor in 19th Century New England Whatever did New Englanders do on long winter evenings before cable, satellite and the internet? In the decades before and after the Civil War, our rural ancestors used to create neighborhood events to improve their minds. Community members male and female would compose and read aloud homegrown, handwritten literary “newspapers” full of keen verbal wit. Sometimes serious, sometimes sentimental but mostly very funny, these “newspapers” were common in villages across Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont and revealed the hopes, fears, humor and surpris22

Ancient History

Ancient History Paul Christesen Sports, Meritocracy, and Democracy in the Ancient and Modern Worlds Paul Christesen’s program explores the connections among sports, meritocracy, and democracy. Although the idea that sports promote democracy is widely held, social scientists have for the most part argued that sports do exactly the opposite, making it easier for the rich and powerful members of society to hold onto their privileges. Christesen makes the case that sports do indeed promote democracy by using some basic sociological concepts to show how sports affect athletes and spectators and by looking at historical examples of societies in which sports were regularly and seriously played by large numbers of people. Sports are not a miracle cure-all, and they can have negative effects, but, he argues, overall they seem to help make stable democratic societies possible. Sebastian Lockwood Caesar: The Man from Venus Meet Caesar, descended from the Goddess Venus. This program introduces Caesar as a young boy living with his Mother, Aurelia, and his Aunt Julia — two women who shape the boy who will be the most powerful man on earth. Using a rich variety of texts, Sebastian Lockwood shows Caesar as a man who clearly saw his destiny and fulfilled that destiny with the help of remarkable women Cleopatra amongst them. A poet, historian, linguist, architect, general, politician, and engineer, was Caesar truly of the Populi party for the People of Roma? Or a despot and tyrant? This performance shows Caesar as a remarkable genius who transformed his world in ways that still resonate today.

Ancient History Sebastian Lockwood Homer’s Odysseus Using the well known scenes of Homer’s Odyssey, Sebastian Lockwood delivers the passion and intensity of the great epic that deserves to be heard told as it was by Bards in the days of old. Lockwood says, “The best compliment is when a ten-year-old comes up and says, ‘I felt like I was there.’” That is the magic of the performance that takes students and adults alike back into the text. Sebastian Lockwood The Epic of Gilgamesh This is our earliest epic. It is at least 4,000 years old, but in performance we discover a dynamic and thrilling tale of heroes, friendship, battles with a monster, and death, followed by a journey to the other world to meet Utnapishtin, whom we know as Noah. Gilgamesh will ask him about life and death and he will come home with a great story. In the Q&A after the performance, Sebastian Lockwood can tell the tale of how the tablets were found in Iraq and how scholars broke the code to reveal the story and its Biblical parallels. R. Scott Smith Rome and Pompeii: Discovering and Preserving the Past Rome and Pompeii were part of the “Grand Tour” for upper-class elite from the 17th through the 19th centuries, and remain today the primary sites through which we reach back into the Roman empire’s past. R. Scott Smith explores the archaeological remains of Rome, the “Eternal City,” and Pompeii, the town that was buried by the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD, and discusses the problems of preserving these ancient ruins. The latter issue is especially important as the great monuments that symbolize the past have recently been threatened (the Coliseum by frigid temperatures in 2011-12) or completely destroyed (The House of the Gladiator by torrential rains in 2010).

Anthropology and Archaeology

Anthropology and Archaeology Patrick D. Anderson Northern Exposure: Native Cultures of the Pacific Northwest Many native tribes call the Pacific Northwest home: the Yakima, Spokane, Lummi, Tulalip, Nez Perce, Coeur d’Alene, Makah, and Inuit. Patrick Anderson traveled among them, collecting their stories and experiences, photographing their art, and shedding preconceptions as he confronted the complex issues and tensions between traditional tribal values and contemporary daily life. Patrick D. Anderson Spirit of Place: Native Lands and Cultures of the American Southwest According to legend, a flute-playing locust led Pueblo ancestors (the prehistoric Anasazi) from the “Third World” into the current one. Patrick Anderson discusses ancient sites such as Mesa Verde, Chaco Canyon, Hovenweep, and Canyon de Chelley, which provide a wealth of material history that reveals a complex culture pieced together by archaeologists and cultural anthropologists.

Anthropology and Archaeology J. Dennis Robinson Treasure from the Isles of Shoals: How New Archaeology is Changing Old History There is treasure here but not the pirate kind. Scientific “digs” on Smuttynose Island are changing New England history. Archaeologist Nathan Hamilton has unearthed 300,000 artifacts to date on this largely uninhabited rock at the Isles of Shoals. Evidence proves prehistoric Native Americans hunted New Hampshire’s only offshore islands 6,000 years ago. Hundreds of European fishermen split, salted, and dried valuable Atlantic cod here from the 1620s. “King Haley” ruled a survivalist kingdom here before Thomas Laighton struck tourist gold when his family took over the region’s first hotel on Smuttynose. Laighton’s daughter Celia Thaxter spun poetic tales of ghosts and pirates. J. Dennis Robinson, a longtime Smuttynose steward, explores the truth behind the romantic legends of Gosport Harbor in this colorful show-and-tell presentation.

Robert Goodby Digging Into Native History in New Hampshire Abenaki history has been reduced to near-invisibility as a result of conquest, a conquering culture that placed little value on the Indian experience, and a strategy of self-preservation that required many Abenaki to go “underground,” concealing their true identities for generations to avoid discrimination and persecution. Robert Goodby reveals archaeological evidence that shows their deep presence here, inches below the earth’s surface. Robert Goodby 12,000 Years Ago in the Granite State The native Abenaki people played a central role in the history of the Monadnock region, defending it against English settlement and forcing the abandonment of Keene and other Monadnock area towns during the French and Indian Wars. Despite this, little is known about the Abenaki, and conventional histories often depict the first Europeans entering an untamed, uninhabited wilderness, rather than the homeland of people who had been there for hundreds of generations. Robert Goodby discusses how the real depth of Native history was revealed when an archaeological study prior to construction of the new Keene Middle School discovered traces of four structures dating to the end of the Ice Age. Undisturbed for 12,000 years, the site revealed information about the economy, gender roles, and household organization of the Granite State’s very first inhabitants, as well as evidence of social networks that extended for hundreds of miles across northern New England.

Art, Architecture and Film

Art, Architecture and Film Patrick D. Anderson Native Modernism: Contemporary American Indian Literature, Sculpture, Painting and Glass Showing slides and inviting discussion, Patrick Anderson explores the works of three contemporary Native American artists--Navajo sculptor Allen Houser, Tlingit glass artist Preston Singletary, and Chippewa painter George Morrison-along with Spokane/Couer d’Alene writer Sherman Alexie. Among the questions “Native Modernism” hopes to answer are the following: In what ways does the art and literature of these artists challenge, confirm and/or expand one’s expectations and understanding of the works of Native Americans? How do these artists both reflect and transcend their native traditions? And, in what ways do their works contribute to our understanding of American culture in general? Patrick D. Anderson Movie Mavericks: Filmmakers who Challenge the Hollywood System Patrick Anderson focuses on contemporary film directors and screenwriters in the United States whose originality, independence and unconventional approaches to the medium have contributed to the evolution of the industry. The program provides a greater understanding of and appreciation for both the content and form of movies made outside the mainstream Hollywood system, and to consider some of the key differences in theme, style and narrative format between these works and the more conventional fare of so-called “classic cinema.” Among the filmmakers to be examined are Steven Soderbergh, David Lynch, John Sayles, Spike Lee, Quentin Tarantino, the Coen brothers, Wes Anderson, Sofia Coppola, P.T. Anderson, Jim Jarmusch and Charlie Kaufman. Patrick Anderson urges participants to view and analyze a variety of film clips carefully so that, by the end of the session, they will be more visually articulate and critically aware of how one “reads” a film. Patrick D. Anderson Understanding the Movies: The Art of Film Film is a powerful medium, generating billions of dollars and untold hours of entertainment around the world. Understanding how film creates and delivers ideas and how it shapes and reflects popular attitudes adds to our appreciation of the cinematic experience. Increase your film vocabulary and have fun discussing movies together with film buff and scholar Patrick Anderson.

Art, Architecture and Film Patrick D. Anderson Sennett, Chaplin, Keaton and the Art of Silent Film Comedy Film was birthed in silence during the first three decades of the 20th century. Patrick Anderson shows how the social and cultural history of the United States is reflected in the celluloid strips that captured it, especially as the art was developed by these three filmmakers. Cristina Ashjian Exemplary Country Estates of New Hampshire In the early 20th Century, the New Hampshire Board of Agriculture launched a program to boost the rural economy and promote tourism through the sale of abandoned farms to summer residents. After introducing the country house movement, Cristina Ashjian focuses attention on some of the great country estates featured in the NH program between 1902 and 1913. Which private estates were recognized as exemplary, and who were their owners? Using historic images and texts, Ashjian discusses well-known estates now open to the public such as The Fells on Lake Sunapee, The Rocks in Bethlehem, and Saint-Gaudens National Historic Site in Cornish. James B. Atkinson Italian Gardens: Then and Now “The garden is a home’s most important room.” The Cornish Colony’s Charles A. Platt (1861-1933), architect, artist, and landscape designer, practiced what he preached. A jump ahead of Edith Wharton and Maxfield Parrish in admiring Italian gardens and villas, Platt photographed and described their design principles so that American readers could readily apply them. James Atkinson illustrates this program with slides of images produced by Platt, and then presents the strikingly similar results of re-photographing these gardens from the same vantage point during a pilgrimage he made to them a century later. Atkinson examines this comparison and discusses the history of designed spaces to explore lessons relevant today. James B. Atkinson New Hampshire, the Cornish Colony and the American Experience In 1885, artist and sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens sought “Lincoln-shaped men” as models for his works. Later, Maxfield Parrish wanted an inspiring place in which to live and paint. Modern Art and World War I ended Cornish’s halcyon days, but not before the Cornish Colony’s artists, poets, musicians, and philosophers, left their mark on the American cultural landscape. James B. Atkinson explains that these artists were so influential because they rooted their study of the human condition in New Hampshire’s natural landscape.

Art, Architecture and Film Gerry Biron Made of Thunder, Made of Glass: American Indian Beadwork of the Northeast A long neglected and misunderstood area of American Indian art has been the “souvenir” beadwork produced by the Northeast woodland tribes. Not everyone is aware of the historical context and currents that contributed to the emergence of this type of American Indian artistry. Gerry Biron examines 19th century work produced by the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) from upstate New York and eastern Canada, to the Wabanaki in northern New England and the Canadian Maritime Provinces. Additionally, Biron surveys the close relationship beadworking had with two other cultural phenomena: the rise of tourism in the Northeast and the fashion industry. Marina Forbes Imperial Russian Fabergé Eggs This illustrated presentation by Marina Forbes focuses on the life and remarkable work of Russian master jeweler and artist, Peter Carl Fabergé. The program features a photo-tour of Fabergé collections at the Constantine Palace in St. Petersburg and from major museums and private collectors around the world. Explore the important role of egg painting in Russian culture and the development of this major Russian art form from a traditional craft to the level of exquisite fine art under the patronage of the tsars. Forbes also discusses the fascinating history of these eggs, their role in the dramatic events of the last decades of Romanov rule in Russia, and in the years following the Bolshevik Revolution. Marina Forbes Russian Iconography: 1,000 Years of Tradition Traditional Russian icon painting has been a living and evolving art form for more than 1,000 years. This illustrated presentation by Marina Forbes deals with the spiritual and secular significance of Russian religious art from the 10th century to the present day. Icon-making involves the painting of stylized religious images on wood using traditional natural materials and techniques which are determined by longstanding conventions. Using a slide show and numerous exhibits, including examples of her own work, Forbes examines the history of icon painting in Russia and the unique nature of the icon as a sacred object and a product of an artistic tradition. Participants may bring personal icons for examination and comments. Marina Forbes Russian Lacquer Boxes: From Craft to Fine Art One of the great artistic achievements of Russian culture is the development of exquisite miniature painting styles on lacquer boxes, an expressive medium deeply rooted in the icon painting traditions of the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries. This illustrated and interactive presentation is the result of years of research by Marina Forbes in her native Russia. Forbes has personally visited the four towns where the great tradition of Russian lacquer box making has flourished for almost 300 years. The presentation focuses on the construction of the lacquer boxes out of papiermaché as well as the process of miniature painting. 30

Art, Architecture and Film Marina Forbes Traditional Matryoshka Nested Doll Making: from Russia to New Hampshire Marina Forbes shares many examples of Matroyshka nested dolls, including examples of her own work and from her extensive collection, as she examines the rich folk tradition and symbolism of the dolls’ appearance. She explores the link between doll making and other traditional Russian art forms. There will be a quick stop at the 1900 World’s Fair in Paris that made Russian nested dolls and Fabergé eggs famous, followed by an illustrated tour of a working doll-making factory in rural Russia. Martin L. Fox Introducing America to Americans: Documentary Photographs of the 1930s Among the most iconic images in American history are the documentary photographs taken during the Great Depression by Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, Russell Lee, and others for the Farm Security Administration, a New Deal program. Roy Stryker, the organizer of this effort, expressed its goal as “introducing America to Americans.” Martin Fox examines these documentary photographs and how they served to define the era. Martin L. Fox Fixing a Shadow: The Origins of Photography Invented in the 1830s, photography was an unprecedented technological, cultural, and artistic breakthrough. Developed independently by Louis Daguerre and William Henry Fox Talbot, photography revolutionized how images were made and used. Martin Fox’s talk introduces the origins of photography and explores the first two decades of this art form, highlighting early methods, subjects, and critical reactions. Katherine Hoffman Alfred Stieglitz, the Stieglitz Circle and the Rise of Modernism Early 20th Century photographer Alfred Stieglitz fought tirelessly for the role of photography as fine art and for the work of various Early American Modernists. Katherine Hoffman focuses on those in the Stieglitz Circle, including Georgia O’Keeffe (his wife), John Marin, Arthur Dove, Marsden Hartley, and Charles Sheeler. The works of the Stieglitz Circle, a number of which were created in the northeast, had a profound influence on American art and culture, which continues to this day. Katherine Hoffman Islamic Art and Architecture: Bridging East and West Take a virtual trip with Katherine Hoffman through Turkey, Egypt, southern Spain, Morocco, and other lands by viewing significant works of art and architecture with a historian who has traveled and lived in a number of Islamic cultures. Discover a new vocabulary and important cultural links between East and West. 31

Art, Architecture and Film

Documentaries and Discussions

Thomas C. Hubka Big House, Little House, Back House, Barn: The Connected Farm Buildings of New England Through architecture unique to northern New England, this illustrated talk focuses on several case studies that show how farmers converted their typical separate house and barns into connected farmsteads. Thomas Hubka’s research in his awardwinning book, Big House, Little House, Back House, Barn: The Connected Farm BuildingsofNewEngland,demonstratesthataveragefarmerswere,infact,motivated by competition with farmers in other regions of America, who had better soils and growing seasons and fewer rocks to clear. The connected farmstead organization, housing equal parts mixed-farming and home-industry, was one of the collective responses to the competitive threat.

Documentaries and Discussions

William “Ty” Perry Chartres Cathedral: Philosophy and Theology as Art Using Chartres cathedral as a guide, Ty Perry leads a discovery tour of several examples of the philosophical and theological thought behind cathedral art, in particular, stained glass windows and sculpture. Avoiding the normal art historical approach (the development of styles over time) and avoiding critical evaluations of artistic style or merit, this is an inquiry into the “why” of windows and sculpture of medieval cathedrals, a search for the meaning, sometimes on the surface, sometimes hidden.

John Gfroerer Rights & Reds Rights & Reds tells the story of New Hampshire’s investigation of “subversive activities” during the 1950s. John Gfroerer facilitates this documentary and discussion, which explores the story of a confrontation between people who thought they were protecting the Bill of Rights and people who thought the Bill of Rights should protect them. Most importantly, it is the story of people who had the courage to stand up for what they believed.

Paul Wainwright New England’s Colonial Meetinghouses and their Impact on American Society New England’s colonial meetinghouses embody an important yet little-known chapter in American history. Built mostly with tax money, they served as both places of worship and places for town meetings, and were the centers of life in colonial New England communities. Using photographs of the few surviving “mint condition” meetinghouses as illustrations, Paul Wainwright tells the story of the society that built and used them, and the lasting impact they have had on American culture.

John Gfroerer Powerful As Truth This documentary and discussion, facilitated by John Gfroerer, tells the story of William Loeb, publisher of the Manchester Union Leader. It traces Loeb’s rise to be one of the most influential voices in New Hampshire. Through interviews, archival material, and news footage, it documents his influence on the state. The documentary also chronicles the history of New Hampshire from 1950 to 1985, bringing to life such figures as Governors Walter Peterson, Wesley Powell, and Meldrim Thomson.

John Gfroerer World War Two New Hampshire This documentary tells the story of life in New Hampshire during the Second World War. Through interviews, historic news film, photos, and radio reports from the battlefields, this documentary and discussion facilitated by John Gfroerer chronicles how a nation, a state, and the citizens of New Hampshire mobilized for war.

Richard G. Wilson Wild and Colorful: Victorian Architecture in New Hampshire Visually explore the tremendous legacy of New Hampshire’s architecture from the Victorian period (1820 - 1914). This program looks at exuberant Victorianera architecture across the state in houses, hotels, mills, city halls, courthouses, and churches, with references to gardens, furniture, and other elements of the built environment. Richard Guy Wilson explores elements of visual literacy and points out how architecture can reflect the cultural and civic values of its time and place.

Documentaries and Discussions Whitney Howarth, John Krueckeberg, Linda Upham-Bornstein, or Sara Withers Uprooted: Heartache and Hope in New Hampshire Uprooted is a 30-minute documentary based on interviews collected during the Humanities Council’s Fences & Neighbors initiative on immigration. It tells the story of five refugees who escaped from war-torn countries to resettle in New Hampshire. The film explores what it means to be a refugee and how it feels to make a new life in a strange place, often without English language skills, family, a job, or community contacts. The film leaves us pondering questions of belonging and citizenship. What does it mean to be an American? Once a refugee, are you destined always to be a refugee? What are our responsibilities toward one another? A NH Humanities Council presenter introduces the film and leads a post-film discussion. See bios and contact information in Presenter Directory for Whitney Howarth, John Krueckeberg, Linda Upham-Bornstein and Sara Withers. Ronald Jager Meetinghouse: The Heart of Washington, New Hampshire This 55-minute documentary features the classic meetinghouse in Washington, NH, a small rural town in the Monadnock region. The film explores the concept of a town “meetinghouse” as a uniquely New England historical and architectural phenomenon, common to nearly every New England town in the 18th and early 19th-century. This particular building, the frame of which was erected on July 4, 1787, has been integral to the civic and religious life of its community for well over two centuries. Ron Jager presents the film and leads a post-film discussion.

Ethics, Philosophy and Law

Ethics, Philosophy and Law Margo Burns The Capital Crime of Witchcraft: What the Primary Sources Tell Us On first impression, the witchcraft trials of the Colonial era may seem to have been nothing but a free-for-all, fraught with hysterics. Margo Burns explores an array of prosecutions in seventeenth century New England, using facsimiles of primary source manuscripts, from first formal complaints to arrest warrants, indictments of formal charges to death warrants, and the reversals of attainder and rescinding of excommunications years after the fact; demonstrating how methodically and logically the Salem Court worked. This program focuses on the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692 and 1693, when nineteen people were hanged and one crushed to death but also examines a variety of other cases against women in New Hampshire, Massachusetts, and Connecticut. Aine Donovan Honor in a Time of Moral Uncertainty Honor is a concept that has deep historical roots in western civilization. It has been both a catalyst for good and for evil. Aine Donovan explores the notion historically and places it in context of the evolving ethical norms of the 21st century, considering whether the idea can or should survive. Richard Hesse A Conversation with John Marshall The year is 1835 and John Marshall has been Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court since 1801. He had fought, literally and figuratively, to establish a strong national government, opposed in that effort by powerful politicians including Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, and Andrew Jackson. Although his opponents controlled Congress and the White House for all but four years of Marshall’s tenure on the Court, Marshall prevailed in advancing his views on the law and the Constitution. Richard Hesse portrays Marshall as he reflects on his life and explains his views and his fears for the future of our country in this living history program. Richard Hesse Free Speech in a Free Society The clashes between individual expression and social concerns in modern society can be harsh. They can range from the attempt to prohibit the “adult” bookstore in the local mall to efforts to control program content on television or information on the Internet. Richard Hesse discusses how we resolve these conflicts while still preserving individual freedom.

Ethics, Philosophy and Law Richard Hesse Religious Freedom-Then and Now A common myth is that this country was founded on religious freedom. A parallel myth is that the government of this country was religiously based. Richard Hesse discusses how attitudes toward religion and government developed in the colonies prior to the framing of the Bill of Rights and then tracks those developments to the modern era. Richard Hesse The U.S. Supreme Court: How Does It Operate? In the 20th century the U.S. Supreme Court came to be a powerful force in modern society. Richard Hesse discusses how its members are chosen and how it operates. Explore familiar examples of historical and contemporary debates over social policy and take a more careful look at this peculiarly “anti-democratic” institution. Richard Hesse Civil Liberties vs. National Security As the federal government continues to address new national security issues in the wake of September 11, 2001, the uneasy balance between security and civil liberties is receiving renewed attention. Richard Hesse considers the trade-offs and considerations facing citizens and non-citizens alike. Richard Hesse Daniel Webster and the Dartmouth College Case New Hampshire featured prominently in a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision when the state attempted to take over Dartmouth College. The battle against the state involved religion and politics at both the state and national level. Daniel Webster, an up-and-coming NH lawyer and Congressman, represented Dartmouth College and established himself as one of the foremost legal advocates in the country. The Dartmouth College case launched his career as a premier advocate, politician and orator. Richard Hesse chronicles how Webster developed his early career and made the first of many significant contributions to American constitutional law.

Ethics, Philosophy and Law Richard Hesse The Founding Fathers: What Were They Thinking? In 1787 delegates gathered in Philadelphia to address a wide variety of crises facing the young United States of America and produced a charter for a new government. In modern times, competing political and legal claims are frequently based on what those delegates intended. Mythology about the founders and their work at the 1787 Convention has obscured both fact and legitimate analysis of the events leading to the agreement called the Constitution. Richard Hesse explores the cast of characters called “founders,” the problems they faced, and the solutions they fashioned. Donald J. Johnson Gandhi: The Man and his Teaching Mohandas Gandhi, one of the most influential and unusual world leaders of the 20th century, argued that there was no difference between personal and political morality. His method of non-violent resistance attracted millions of followers in India and around the world. Through fasting, organizing marches, and disobeying British laws he thought were unjust, he led India to freedom from colonial rule and inspired other leaders such as Nelson Mandela and Martin Luther King. Donald Johnson examines the life and ideas of the man who believed that we cannot destroy ideas by killing the people who hold them. Douglas Wheeler Spies in Time How have spying and intelligence activities influenced the course of history? Investigate case studies of how great powers have used spies in war and peace. This program traces the history of spying from the Dreyfus case in France (1894-1906) to the Aldrich Ames case in the U.S. (1980s and 1990s). Douglas Wheeler focuses the discussion on how human motives, traits, and ideas shape the search for secret information and how that information is used and misused in international affairs.

Richard Hesse Daniel Webster: New Hampshire’s First Favorite Son New Hampshire’s Daniel Webster was instrumental in the development of national political and legal policy in the formative years of the American Republic. His national and international diplomacy and his oratorical skills cast him as a leader and a world-class statesman. Richard Hesse reviews Webster’s life and career with attention to his NH ties.

Language and Literature

Language and Literature Patrick D. Anderson Native Modernism: Contemporary American Indian Literature, Sculpture, Painting and Glass Through slides and discussion this program by Patrick Anderson explores the works of three contemporary Native American artists--Navajo sculptor Allen Houser, Tlingit glass artist Preston Singletary, and Chippewa painter George Morrison--along with Spokane/Couer d’Alene writer Sherman Alexie. Among the questions “Native Modernism” hopes to answer are the following: In what ways does the art and literature of these artists challenge, confirm and/or expand one’s expectations and understanding of the works of Native Americans? How do these artists both reflect and transcend their native traditions? And, in what ways do their works contribute to our understanding of American culture in general? Marek Bennett Comics in World History and Cultures Marek Bennett presents a whirlwind survey of comics from around the world and throughout history, with special attention to what these vibrant narratives tell (and show) us about the people and periods that created them. Bennett engages and involves the audience in an interactive discussion of several sample comics representing cultures such as Ancient Rome, Medieval Europe, the Ancient Maya, Feudal and modern Japan, the United States in the early 20th century, and Nazi Germany during World War II. The program explores the various ways of creating and reading comics from around the world, and what these techniques tell us about the cultures in which they occur. Edie Clark Baked Beans and Fried Clams: How Food Defines A Region Baked Beans, fried clams, fish chowder, Indian pudding - so many foods are distinctive to New England. This talk offers a celebration of these regional favorites along with an examination of how contemporary life has distanced us from these classics. What makes them special and how do these foods define our region? Edie Clark draws from such diverse resources as Fannie Farmer, Julia Child, and Haydn S. Pearson for enlightenment and amusement as well as on her own experiences, writing and traveling for Yankee magazine over the past thirty years to places where baked beans are still featured prominently on the menu.

Language and Literature Edie Clark Monadnock Tales Two years in the making, Monadnock Tales, a fusion of music and poetry, had its world premiere in May 2002 at the Colonial Theater in Keene and has been performed several times since. The orchestral work, which has been described as a “prayer to the mountain,” was a collaboration between composer Larry Siegel and writer Edie Clark. The text of the work, a long narrative poem written by Clark, weaves the history, lore, and legend of the mountain into verse. Clark talks about the process of creating Monadnock Tales and reads from the poem. Edie Clark New England: Myth or Reality? The six states known as New England have been romanticized in art and literature for more than 200 years, creating a reality that is touched by myth. How has this myth-making affected the region? Edie Clark, a longtime writer for Yankee magazine, focuses on the work of Robert Frost, Norman Rockwell, Wallace Nutting, and more recently, Yankee magazine. These and others have created such a distinct picture of New England that even the current inhabitants of the region have a hard time knowing whether what they see all around them is real or imagined. Edie Clark Writing from Home Edie Clark has written a monthly column about her life, her home, and her garden for Yankee magazine for more than twenty years. Writing personal essays and maintaining one’s privacy are sometimes mutually exclusive. Readers are essentially invited into her home, her garden, and her life by virtue of the column’s appearance in the magazine. Of Clark’s work, novelist Howard Frank Mosher writes, “Ms. Clark shows us how the small and large satisfactions of living close to nature can inform a life with grace, meaning, and beauty.” In this presentation Clark talks about the process of writing from home and reads from her work. Diana Durham Grail Mania: 21st Century Retelling of 12th Century Heresy The Troubadours sang of it; courtly knights quested for it; Monty Python laughed at it. The Chalice beckons through the mists of pre-history to bind us in its intrigue still. Our fascination with this symbol is alive and well in New Hampshire. In this talk and retelling by Diana Durham we get to understand why the young knight Perceval’s quest for the grail has as much meaning today as when the story was first told centuries ago. Humour and the rich symbolism of the Middle Ages combine as willing audience members act out a scene from a new dramatic retelling, becoming King Arthur, Merlin, the Grieving Maiden, and other characters as we mix storytelling, acting and discussion.

Language and Literature Diana Durham Why Poetry is Important: The Poet as Shaman “It is difficult to get the news from poems yet men die miserably every day for lack of what is found there.” Poet and physician William Carlos Williams implies (and in verse) that poetry is not only life-affirming but necessary to our survival. Explore the multifaceted importance of poetry with Diana Durham and discover how the poet’s role as a literary shaman leads to new openings in human consciousness. Scott Eaton Antoine de Saint-Exupéry: the Man Who Wrote The Little Prince Scott Eaton examines the life of French aviator and writer Antoine de SaintExupéry (1900-1944) through his books and the ideas which underlie them. Along with The Little Prince, a children’s story for adults, Eaton reviews SaintExupéry’s other fiction and nonfiction, which was inspired in large part by his experiences in the early French air mail service in the 1920’s and 1930’s and in WWII. Alice Fogel Strange Terrain: How Not To “Get” Poetry & Let It Get You Instead Alice Fogel takes you through seven simple steps, and one hard one, toward understanding and appreciating more elements of poetry than you ever thought you could. In the end you’ll see that you already knew them all along. This workshop is your quick, self-help program for “getting” poems. Fogel helps you develop your own confident relationship with poetry’s shapes, words, images, sounds, emotions, mysteries, and more. Greg Gathers & Marguerite Mathews, Pontine Theatre Familiar Fields: The Power of Community in the Work of Sarah Orne Jewett Based on the life and work of the 19th century New England author Sarah Orne Jewett, this presentation explores issues of community as reflected in Jewett’s stories. Pontine Theatre examines the ways in which her regional portraits speak about the essential New England character and universal experiences of geographic isolation, cultural insulation, and how community shapes individual identity. Greg Gathers & Marguerite Mathews, Pontine Theatre Pretty Halcyon Days, on the Beach with Ogden Nash Ogden Nash and his family spent their summers on Little Boar’s Head, in North Hampton, NH. Using examples from their original stage work, “Home is Heaven,” Pontine Theatre explores the ways in which Nash’s life on the New Hampshire seashore influenced his poems, giving the reader insight into the man, his character, and his ideas about family, society, and nature. These themes form a rich portrait of the poet and underscore how the intersection of literature and local history can deepen our understanding and appreciation of everyday events in our own backyard. 40

Language and Literature Greg Gathers & Marguerite Mathews, Pontine Theatre Silver Lake Summers: An E.E. Cummings Revue Pontine Theatre’s presentation explores the life and work of American poet and painter Edward Estlin Cummings, a lifelong summer resident of Silver Lake in New Hampshire. The largest collection of Cummings’ papers is housed at Harvard University. These materials, along with his published works, form the basis for Silver Lake Summers. Visual motifs are taken from Cummings’ paintings and the environment at Silver Lake. The structure and tone of the presentation reflect the same inventive and experimental atmosphere of early 20th century literature and art which influenced Cummings. Clia Goodwin A Woman’s Take on Courtly Love: The Lais of Marie de France The conventions of courtly love have colored the discourse of romance ever since the Middle Ages. In the Lais of Marie de France, we find her adaptations of tales she heard from minstrels or “the folk,” charming love stories with a touch of the supernatural. In Marie’s hands they became sophisticated explorations of problems in love relationships; for instance, what to do if one’s lover has a habit of turning into a werewolf. Clia Goodwin J.R.R. Tolkien and the Uses of Fantasy Fantasy literature is enjoying a new surge of interest sparked by the popularity of the Harry Potter series and the film version of The Lord of the Rings. While fantasy has always made for popular reading or listening, what accounts for its special appeal? Clia Goodwin explains how Tolkien’s world has a mythic structure that reveals much about the human condition. Clia Goodwin The Arthurian Revival in New England: The Clash of the Ideal and the Real How did the legend of King Arthur find purchase in America, and how did we make the myth our own? Clia Goodwin explores two New England interpretations: Mark Twain’s A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court and the series of murals by painter Edwin Austin Abbey depicting the quest for the Grail. Ingrid Graff Not In Front of the Children: The Art and Importance of Fairy Tales “Once upon a time. . .” is a magical phrase that promises the beginning of a memorable story. Where do our fairy tales come from, what do they tell us about ourselves and our history? Why have they been censored and changed and how have they retained their currency and popularity today? Ingrid Graff discusses these fascinating tales and why we should keep telling them to our children. Participants are encouraged to bring their favorite fairy tale to the presentation.

Language and Literature Ingrid Graff The Case of the Detective Who Refused to Die: Arthur Conan Doyle and Sherlock Holmes In one of the most famous reincarnations of all time, Arthur Conan Doyle killed off his world-renowned detective Sherlock Holmes, only to bring him back to life several years later. What caused Doyle’s disenchantment with his creation and what led to his resurrection? Ingrid Graff discusses Doyle’s life and writings and above all his relationship with Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson. She looks at several of the Sherlock Holmes stories to investigate the intense attraction of the prose, the plots, the places, and especially the undying fascination of the public with the man who became the world’s most famous detective. Karolyn Kinane Evolving English: From Beowulf & Chaucer to Texts & Tweets Karolyn Kinane presents a lively, interactive crash course in the medieval English language, specifically the poetry of Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales. Participants will have the opportunity to read and recite medieval poetry aloud in a fun, relaxed environment. The program includes a brief, illustrated historical overview of the events that sparked linguistic transitions from the Anglo-Saxon and Anglo-Norman eras to the Middle English era, including the Norman Invasion, the Black Death, and the invention of the printing press. Kinane closes by exploring how these medieval events are still embedded in the English we speak today and how modern inventions and events continue to shape language. Calvin Knickerbocker Motivating the WWII Home Front via Magazine and Radio Advertising Magazine ads and radio commercials aimed at the home front were used extensively during WWII to explain shortages, encourage support of wartime restrictions, increase bond sales, request recycling of strategic materials, boost morale, and suggest ways to support our troops. Calvin Knickerbocker uses over 50 period magazine ads and radio commercials to illustrate the concerted effort by which the U.S. government fostered these aims. Never before or since has the US used the media so effectively to support a wartime effort. Ann McClellan (Not So) Elementary, My Dear Watson: The Popularity of Sherlock Holmes The recent spate of Sherlock Holmes movies, television shows, and literary adaptations indicate the Great Detective is alive and well in the 21st century. Holmes is the most portrayed literary character of all time, with over 230 film versions alone in several different languages. Over the past century, Sherlockians created societies like the Baker Street Irregulars, wrote articles sussing out the “sources” of Doyle’s works, and, most recently, developed an entire online world of Holmesian fan fiction. Sherlock Holmes is now a multi-million dollar industry. Why is Sherlock Holmes so popular? Ann McClellan’s presentation explores the origins of Arthur 42

Language and Literature Conan Doyle’s famous detective and tracks his incarnations in literature, film, advertising, and modern media in order to crack the case of the most popular detective. J. Dennis Robinson Lively Boys! Lively Boys!: The Origin of Bad Boy Books Mark Twain’s two novels The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884) represent the best of the “bad boy” genre in American literature. But it all started in Portsmouth, NH in the mid-1800s. The wild theory of “The Universal Human Boy” was the brainchild of writer B.P. Shillaber. Thomas Bailey Aldrich then perfected the new literary form with his autobiographical bestseller The Story of a Bad Boy. Boys were born to be bad, you see, and must fight and fail their way toward manhood. “Helicopter parents” who direct and overprotect their sons, the theory suggests, risk disaster. J. Dennis Robinson tracks the New Hampshire origins of the genre that gave us Dennis the Menace and Bart Simpson. Maren Tirabassi Faith and Fantastic Fiction Hobbits? The Hunger Games? Travelers to Narnia, Neverland, Wonderland, the LongEarth?CuriousaboutthereligiousdimensionsofTwilight,TheGoldenCompass or The Graveyard Book? This discussion with Maren Tirabassi on the connection between fiction and the spiritual imagination touches on classics and bestsellers as participants of all ages are invited to share their reflections and favorite books. Maren Tirabassi Sitting Under a Fig Tree: Spiritual Autobiography, Augustine to Lamott Why do we tell our life stories from a faith perspective? Why is faith most vivid when stories of real people illuminate it? Maren Tirabassi presents anecdotes from the memoirs of poets, athletes, educators, and dissidents as well as the classic reflections of C.S. Lewis, Maya Angelou, Anne LaMott and Thomas Merton, which provide an overview of spiritual autobiography. What happened at our own kitchen tables will provide insight in a discussion of Passover, Eucharist and Ramadan. Barbara White By a Lady of New Hampshire: Women as Innovators in American Writing New Hampshire women have been innovators in American literature from the nation’s beginning. Tabitha Tenney of Exeter wrote one of the first satirical fictions to be published in America (1801). Newport’s Sarah Josepha Hale pioneered writing in several genres and edited Godey’s Lady’s Book for fifty years. Harriet Wilson, who grew up in Milford, became the first African American to publish a novel in the U.S., Celia Thaxter, a poet from the Isles of Shoals, was also a forerunner of today’s nature writers and ecologists. Barbara White discusses these New Hampshire women authors and their contributions to American literature. 43

Living History

Living History Steve Blunt Liberty Is Our Motto! Songs and Stories of the Hutchinson Family Singers The year is 1876, and New Hampshire’s own John Hutchinson sings and tells about his famous musical family “straight from the horse’s mouth.” Originally from Milford, NH, the Hutchinson Family Singers were among America’s most notable musical entertainers for much of the mid-19th century. They achieved international recognition with songs advancing social reform and political causes such as abolition, temperance, women’s suffrage, and the Lincoln presidential campaign of 1860. In this living history program, Steve Blunt portrays John Hutchinson. He tells the Hutchinsons’ story and shares their music with lyrics provided. Audience members are invited to sing along on “The Old Granite State,” “Get Off the Track,” “Tenting on the Old Campground,” and more. Adam Boyce Ralph Page, Dean of American Folk Dancing Born in the Munsonville section of Nelson, New Hampshire in 1903, Ralph Page called his first dance as a last minute substitute with no previous training. This experience would launch him into a 54-year career as a professional caller and dance teacher. He became an internationally-recognized authority on New England folk dancing and its traditions. A musician, composer and folklorist, Page authored several books on dance and music history, in addition to publishing his own monthly magazine Northern Junket for 34 years. Along with some live and recorded music, Adam Boyce portrays Ralph Page near the end of his life, c. 1984, sharing Page’s recollections and sometimes blunt but colorful commentaries on the “progress” of folk dancing. Adam Boyce The Old Country Fiddler: Charles Ross Taggart, Traveling Entertainer Musical humorist Charles Ross Taggart grew up in Topsham, Vermont, going on to perform in various lyceum and Chautauqua circuits all across the country for over 40 years starting in 1895. A fiddler, piano player, comedian, singer, and ventriloquist, he made at least 40 recordings on various labels, as well as appearing in an early talking movie four years before Al Jolson starred in The Jazz Singer. Adam Boyce portrays Mr. Taggart near the end of Taggart’s career, c. 1936, sharing recollections on his life, with some live fiddling and humorous sketches interspersed in this living history program.

Living History Elena Dodd Meet Eleanor Roosevelt First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt was a leader and a revolutionary - a champion to the powerless - and her story is not over. Elena Dodd’s living history of Mrs. Roosevelt is an intimate and informative depiction of the extraordinary life of an extraordinary woman. This program offers a frank and often humorous look at the struggles and personal fulfillment of a shy young woman who metamorphosed into a strong voice for social justice and universal human rights and was witness to the tumultuous events of her day. Richard Hesse A Conversation with John Marshall The year is 1835 and John Marshall has been Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court since 1801. He had fought, literally and figuratively, to establish a strong national government, opposed in that effort by powerful politicians including Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, and Andrew Jackson. Although his opponents controlled Congress and the White House for all but four years of Marshall’s tenure on the Court, Marshall prevailed in advancing his views on the law and the Constitution. Richard Hesse portrays Marshall as he reflects on his life and explains his views and his fears for the future of our country in this living history program. Ginny and Lew Gage Civilians of Gettysburg, 1863 Most students of the Battle of Gettysburg, and most of the books (past and present) about the battle, address the military events leading up to and taking place on July 1-3, 1863. This living history program presents another point of view. Ginny Gage portrays Sarah Broadhead, a wife and mother at the time of the battle living with her husband and young daughter. Lew Gage portrays Charlie McCurdy and presents a young boy’s perspective. Both roles are based on original diaries and reminiscences of civilians living in the town of Gettysburg in the summer and fall of 1863. The Gages talk briefly about the demographics of the town in 1863 and what it was like before, during, and after the famous battle. The presentation ends with Ginny Gage highlighting the involvement of Harriet Patience Dame, a resident of Concord, NH, and the nurse and nurturer of “her boys” in the 2nd New Hampshire Regiment.

Living History

Joan Gatturna Petticoat Patriot: A Woman in the Continental Army Joan Gatturna presents this living history program on Deborah Sampson, a patriot who left her petticoats behind. Disguised as a young man, she enlisted in the Continental Army during the American Revolution and served undetected for 17 months. She broke ground in her middle years when, as a wife and mother, she embarked on a lecture tour relating her war experiences. She became the first woman to be awarded an honorable discharge from an American Army and the first woman to be awarded a military pension for enlisted service.

Sebastian Lockwood The Epic of Gilgamesh This is our earliest epic. It is at least four thousand years old, but in performance we discover a dynamic and thrilling tale of heroes, friendship, battles with a monster, and death, followed by a journey to the other world to meet Utnapishtin, whom we know as Noah. Gilgamesh will ask him about life and death and he will come home with a great story. In the Q&A after the performance, Sebastian Lockwood can tell the tale of how the tablets were found in Iraq and how scholars broke the code to reveal the story and its Biblical parallels.

Joan Gatturna The Other Side of the Midnight Ride: A Visit with Rachel Revere This living history program by Joan Gatturna tells a remarkable story of tea, trouble and revolution related by the woman who rode through life with Paul Revere. Rachel Revere tells of the Boston Tea Party, the Midnight Ride and the Siege of Boston. See these events through the eyes of a woman who engineered the escape of her family from occupied Boston and smuggled money to the Sons of Liberty. Meet the woman who kept the home fires burning while her husband fanned the flames of Revolution!

Sally Matson Margaret Bourke-White, America’s Eyes Did you know that photographer Margaret Bourke-White had to make Stalin laugh to get his picture, and she was told by Patton to hide his jowls? Letters and tender WWII-era V-mails found at Syracuse University form the basis for this living history program. Sally Matson’s lifetime in theatre began with acting and directing at Northwestern University, and her fascination with history provides the audience with an entertaining lesson.

Sebastian Lockwood Caesar: The Man from Venus Meet Caesar, who is descended from the Goddess Venus. This program introduces Caesar as a young boy living with his Mother, Aurelia, and his Aunt Julia; two women who will shape the boy who will be the most powerful man on earth. Using a rich variety of texts, Sebastian Lockwood shows Caesar as a man who clearly saw his destiny and fulfilled that destiny with the help of remarkable women - Cleopatra amongst them. A poet, historian, linguist, architect, general, politician, and engineer, was he truly of the Populi party for the People of Roma? Or a despot and tyrant? This performance shows Caesar as a remarkable genius who transformed his world in ways that still resonate today. Sebastian Lockwood Homer’s Odysseus Using the well known scenes of Homer’s Odyssey, Sebastian Lockwood delivers the passion and intensity of the great epic that deserves to be heard told as it was by Bards in the days of old. Lockwood says, “The best compliment is when a ten-year-old comes up and says, ‘I felt like I was there.’” That is the magic of the performance that takes students and adults alike back into the text. The following Q&A can focus on translations and the storytelling techniques used by Homer.

Sally Matson Susan B. Anthony, the Invincible! Arrested, tried and convicted for voting in the 1872 presidential election, Miss Anthony became the symbol of the struggle for women’s suffrage. Her self-deprecating humor and keen intellect allowed her to spar with legislators and newsmen as well as fellow abolitionists and suffragists. Witness her involvement in the AntiSlavery Society, the Civil War, the 14th and 15th amendments, and hazardous trips to WY, CA, OR, and the White House. Caricatured, criticized, and threatened, Miss Anthony never wavered. She spent 50 years working for equal rights and continued to insist, “Failure is Impossible.” Sally Matson portrays Anthony in this living history program. Sally Mummey A Visit with Queen Victoria In 1837, teenaged Victoria ascended to the British throne, untrained and innocent. Those who would try to usurp her power underestimated this self-willed intelligent young woman whose mettle sustained her through her 63-year reign. Using Queen Victoria’s diary and letters, this program reveals the personal details of a powerful yet humane woman, who took seriously her role as monarch in a time of great expansion. She and her husband, Albert, set an example of high moral character and dedication, a novelty in the royal house after generations of scandal. Through her children she left a royal legacy; an era bears her name. Sally Mummey performs this living history in proper 19th Century clothing resplendent with Royal Orders.

Living History Sally Mummey Mary Todd Lincoln: An Unconventional Woman Raised in a slaveholding family, Mary Todd Lincoln evolved into an advocate for abolition. The intellectual equal of well-educated men, she spoke her mind openly in an era when a woman’s success in life was measured by marriage and motherhood. Against her family’s wishes, she married the man she loved and partnered with him to achieve their goal of becoming President and First Lady. Sparkling with humor and insight, Sally Mummey as Mary Lincoln shares stories of their life and love; triumphs and challenges; and life in the White House during the tumultuous years of the Civil War. Sally Mummey Mary Todd Lincoln: Wife and Widow Living historian Sally Mummey portrays Mary Todd Lincoln as she muses on her life from her dreams as a girl to her years as First Lady during the Civil War. Mrs. Lincoln shares stories of her life with President Lincoln and the events of that evening in Ford’s Theatre when the assassin’s bullet not only changed the course of the nation but destroyed her life as well. From the opulence of the White House to the dregs of obscurity, Mrs. Lincoln lived out her life struggling with affliction and tragedy. With wit and heartbreak, seasoned with abiding love for her husband and her children, Mrs. Lincoln reveals the passionate humanity of a misunderstood woman. Linda Palmer Dissent among the Puritans The year is 1637. Ann Vassall, wife of William Vassall of Essex, England, one of the founders of the Massachusetts Bay Company, welcomes you to your new home in the Bay. Her words of advice and narration of events going on in town might make you wish you had stayed in England or looked toward New Hampshire or Connecticut as a place of settlement. Living historian Linda Palmer follows up her portrayal of Ann Vassall with a colorful slide presentations which shatters some of our commonly-held stereotypes about the Puritans and chronicles the dissent of her husband, who was despised by minister and magistrate alike for his liberal ideas about civil liberty and religion. Gwendolyn Quezaire-Presutti I Can’t Die But Once - Harriet Tubman’s Civil War Gwendolyn Quezaire-Presutti’s characterization of Harriet Tubman is a lucid, well-researched biography about the remarkable life of an enduring warrior. As Harriet Tubman, she weaves a tale of truth, pain, courage and determination in the quagmire of racial exploitation. The United States Government enlisted Tubman as a scout and spy for the Union cause and she battled courageously behind enemy lines during the Civil War, but Tubman is best known for her role as a conductor on the Underground Railroad. Though she is one of the most famous women in 48

Living History our nation’s history, we have come to know her life through fictionalized biographies written for school children. Quezaire-Presutti separates reality from myth to reconstruct a richer and far more accurate historical account of Tubman’s life. Gwendolyn Quezaire-Presutti Sarah Harris--No Small Courage Sarah Harris “a young woman of color, respectable, a teacher of religion and daughter of honorable parents,” was born in 1812 in Norwich, Connecticut. Sarah dreamed of opening her own school for African American children but to fulfill her ambition Sarah required additional education. Connecticut in the early 1830’s offered three options for higher education: Yale University, Washington College (now Trinity), and Wesleyan University. None admitted women nor did any university in the US except Oberlin College. Exercising immense courage, Sarah approached Prudence Crandall about accepting her as a day student alongside the daughters of wealthy white citizens at the Canterbury Female Boarding School. Hear Gwendolyn Quezaire-Presutti portray Sarah Harris as she expresses her hopes and aspirations. Gwendolyn Quezaire-Presutti “If I am Not For Myself, Who Will Be for Me?” George Washington’s Runaway Slave Oney Judge Staines, according to the Constitution, was only three-fifths of a person. To her masters, George and Martha Washington, she was merely “the girl.” All she wanted was the freedom to control her own actions, but her account of escaping the Executive Mansion in Philadelphia, fleeing north and establishing a life in New Hampshire is not a typical runaway story. Portrayed by Gwendolyn Quezaire-Presutti, Oney’s tale provides an alternative perspective on the new nation’s social, political and economic development, from one whose personal experience so contradicted the promise of the principles embodied in the nation’s founding documents. Sharon Wood A Soldier’s Mother Tells Her Story Speaking as Betsey Phelps, the mother of a Union soldier from Amherst, New Hampshire who died heroically at the Battle of Gettysburg, Sharon Wood offers an informative and sensitive reflection on that sacrifice from a mother’s perspective. Wood blends the Phelps boy’s story with those of other men who left their New Hampshire homes to fight for the Union cause and of the families who supported them on the home front.

Living History Sharon Wood A Tribute to Sarah Josepha Hale A native of Newport, New Hampshire, America’s first female editor, Sarah Josepha Hale, made Godey’s Lady’s Book the most influential women’s magazine of its time. She is also known as the author of the poem “Mary’s Lamb” and for her efforts over three decades to have Thanksgiving decreed a national holiday. In this living history set in 1866, Sharon Wood portrays Ann Wyman Blake, a resident of West Cambridge, Massachusetts, speaking of her admiration for Hale. As Blake, Wood shares stories of Hale’s many accomplishments while living in Boston, including an editorial career that spanned five decades. Sharon and Steve Wood Abraham and Mary Lincoln: The Long and the Short of It Distinctly different paths led Abraham Lincoln and Mary Todd to Springfield, Illinois, where they met, married and began a family. The years that followed their move to the White House were filled with personal and national crises. Steve and Sharon Wood portray President and Mrs. Lincoln in this living history program, telling stories of their early lives and the challenges they faced during this turbulent time in our country’s history. Sharon and Steve Wood Our National Thanksgiving: With Thanks to President Lincoln and Mrs. Hale Sarah Josepha Hale, a Newport, NH native, tells the story of her 30 year effort to have Thanksgiving declared a national holiday. President Abraham Lincoln enters at the end of her tale to read his 1863 Thanksgiving proclamation. Sharon Wood portrays Hale and Steve Wood portrays Lincoln in a living history presentation following background about their characters and the times. Steve Wood A Visit with Abraham Lincoln Abraham Lincoln, portrayed by Steve Wood, begins this program by recounting his early life and ends with a reading of the “Gettysburg Address.” Along the way he comments on the debates with Stephen Douglas, his run for the presidency, and the Civil War.

Music History and Appreciation

Music History and Appreciation Marek Bennett and Woody Pringle Rally ‘Round the Flag: The American Civil War Through Folksong Woody Pringle and Marek Bennett present an overview of the American Civil War through the lens of period music. Audience members participate and sing along as the presenters explore lyrics, documents, and visual images from sources such as the Library of Congress. Through camp songs, parlor music, hymns, battlefield rallying cries, and fiddle tunes, Pringle and Bennett examine the folksong as a means to enact living history, share perspectives, influence public perceptions of events, and simultaneously fuse and conserve cultures in times of change. Showcasing numerous instruments, the presenters challenge participants to find new connections between song, art, and politics in American history. (Note: Please contact Woody Pringle to book this program.) Adam Boyce Old Time Rules Will Prevail: The Fiddle Contest in New Hampshire and New England Fiddle contests evolved from endurance marathons to playing a set number of tunes judged by certain specific criteria. Whether large or small, fiddle contests tried to show who was the “best,” as well as preserve old-time fiddling and raise money for local organizations. In recent years, the fiddle contest has declined significantly in New England due to cultural changes and financial viability. The greatest legacies of these contests were recordings made during live competition. A sampling of these tunes is played during the presentation, as well as some live fiddling by the presenter, Adam Boyce. Paul Combs A Sound Track for The Great Gatsby: Music of the Jazz Age The Great Gatsby, set in 1922 and soon a major motion picture, coincided with the very early days of jazz recording, a seminal time in American music. Paul Combs will examine the lives and music of artists recorded through the summer of 1922, including James Reese Europe, Fletcher Henderson, and Paul Whiteman, as well as some of those who, while active prior to the time of the novel, did not record until 1923-25, such as Jelly Roll Morton, Joe “King” Oliver, and Ma Rainey. Paul Combs Listening for Form in Jazz Form is essential in the creative process of both jazz performers and composers. Just as sport has rules that give order to the competition and meaning to the players’ actions, so jazz is guided by rhythmic, harmonic, and formal considerations. Of these, form is probably the easiest for the non-musician to understand quickly. Learn more about the most common song-forms in jazz through performance and graphic examples presented by Paul Combs.

Music History and Appreciation Emery Hutchins and Mac McHale A Night of Music with Two Old Friends Over the centuries immigrants from the British Isles have come to the Americas bringing with them their musical styles and tastes as well as their instruments. With the concertina, bodhran, mandolin, octave mandolin, guitar, and banjo, Mac McHale and Emery Hutchings sing and play this traditional Celtic music, but they also perform American country music in the way it was conceived in the early twentieth century. Through stories, songs and instrumental melodies, they demonstrate how old time American mountain tunes are often derived directly from the songs of the Irish, yet are influenced by other cultural groups to create a new American sound. Calvin Knickerbocker “Your Hit Parade:” Twenty-five Years Presenting America’s Top Popular Songs “Your Hit Parade” aired on radio and then on television from 1935 to 1959. It set the standard for American popular music. Calvin Knickerbocker outlines a quarter century of the show’s history as a “tastemaker” featuring songs inspired by the Great Depression and on through the advent of rock and roll. He explores the show’s relationship with sponsor American Tobacco and Lucky Strike cigarettes and shares stories about the artists the show helped launch and promote, from Frank Sinatra to Elvis. Calvin Knickerbocker Wacky Songs that Made Us Laugh Popular songs with humorous lyrics have kept us laughing since Colonial times. We need comic relief, and songs provide some of the best (sometimes unintentionally). Excerpts from hilarious songs help chart the evolution of musical humor from the 1920s to the 1980s. Selections poke fun at WW II enemies, diets, television, sex, Christmas, summer camp, religion, and many other aspects of life. Laugh as you recall wacky moments from the past and discover new ones with Calvin Knickerbocker. Dudley Laufman Contra Dancing in New Hampshire Then and Now Since the late 1600s, the lively tradition of contra dancing has kept people of all ages swinging and sashaying in barns, town halls and schools around the state. Contra dancing came to New Hampshire by way of the English colonists and remains popular in many communities, particularly in the Monadnock Region. Presenter Dudley Laufman brings this tradition to life with stories, poems and recordings of callers, musicians, and dancers, past and present. Live music, always integral to this dance form, will be played on the fiddle and melodeon. Willing audience members may be invited to dance the Virginia Reel!

Music History and Appreciation Jose Lezcano The Guitar in Latin America: Continuities, Changes and Bicultural Strumming Jose Lezcano presents a multi-media musical program that showcases the guitar in Latin America as an instrument that speaks many languages. Lezcano presents a variety of musical styles: indigenous strummers in ritual festivals from Ecuador, Gaucho music from Argentina, European parlor waltzes from Venezuela, and AfroBrazilian samba-pagode. He also plays pieces by Villa-Lobos, Brouwer, Lauro, Barrios, Pereira, and examples from his Fulbright-funded research in Ecuador. John Perrault Crime and Punishment on the Isles of Shoals: The Ballad of Louis Wagner Louis Wagner was accused of murdering Anethe and Karen Christenson on Smuttynose Island, Isles of Shoals, in March of 1873. He was convicted on the first charge and executed in 1875. Although sentiment against Wagner was at a fever pitch immediately following the murders, time and reflection have generated an ongoing debate as to the fairness of the trial and the validity of the verdict. John Perrault invites you to examine the judgment of Louis Wagner. Perrault weaves his “Ballad of Louis Wagner” through the course of the program with guitar and vocal. John Perrault Spring Poets: Barbara Allen to Blackbird Once upon a time, poetry and song were inseparable. The break up came during the Renaissance. In England, two great Romantic poets, Wordsworth and Coleridge, engineered a reconciliation with the publication of Lyrical Ballads in 1798. This radical work merged the ballad form with the plain spoken lyric of the heart. English language poets were freed to feel once again, to sing once again, of common themes in the common tongue. John Perrault brings his guitar to sing and recite a few of the early ballads, plus a line of lyrics from Burns to Wordsworth, Keats to Frost, Dickinson to Dylan, and Mary Oliver to Lennon & McCartney, in a salute to the romantic tradition. John Perrault The Ballad Lives! Murder and mayhem, robbery and rapine, love that cuts to the bone: American ballads re-tell the wrenching themes of their English and Scottish cousins. Transplanted in the new world by old world immigrants, the traditional story-song of the Anglos and Scots wound up reinvigorated in the mountains of Appalachia and along the Canadian border. John Perrault talks, sings, and picks the strings that bind the old ballads to the new. Lawrence Siegel Kaddish: Music and Text as a Window into the Issue of Genocide through the Testimonies of Survivors Before, During, and After the Holocaust Genocide is an ongoing global crisis in places such as Rwanda, Darfur, Congo, Kenya and the former Yugoslavia. How can one consider such an immensely difficult subject 53

Music History and Appreciation without becoming completely overwhelmed? Using selections from the recording of his concert work “Kaddish,” Lawrence Siegel shares his interviews with survivors of the Holocaust and the process used to create art out of these stories by using their words as the libretto for “Kaddish.” Questions explored include the distinction between history and memory, art as a way of understanding the past, empathy as a way of bridging differences, the possibility of hope, and how ordinary citizens can have an impact on the profound and ongoing issue of genocide in the world. Lucie Therrien The Music History of French-Canadians, Franco-Americans, Acadians and Cajuns Lucie Therrien follows the migration of French-Canadians and the evolution of their traditional music: its arrival in North America from France; the music’s crossing with Indian culture during the evangelization of Acadia and Quebec; its growth alongside English culture after British colonization; and its expansion from Quebec to New England, as well as from Acadia to Louisiana. Jeff Warner Banjos, Bones, and Ballads Traditional songs, rich in local history and a sense of place, present the latest news from the distant past. They help us to interpret present-day life with an understanding of the working people who built our country. Tavern songs, banjo tunes, 18th century New England hymns, sailor songs, and humorous stories about traditional singers and their songs highlight this informative program by Jeff Warner. Jeff Warner Music in my Pockets: Family Fun in Folk Music Singing games, accessible “pocket instruments” like spoons and dancing puppets, tall tales, funny songs, old songs and songs kids teach each other in the playground are all traditional in that they have been passed down the generations by word of mouth. They will all be seen, heard and learned as Jeff Warner visits 1850 or 1910 in a New England town, with families gathered around the figurative hearth, participating in timeless, hearty entertainment and, almost without the audience knowing it, teaches how America amused itself before electricity.

Nature and Adventure

Nature and Adventure E. John B. Allen New Hampshire on Skis Take Scandinavian and Austrian immigrants, the Dartmouth Outing Club, the Cannon Mountain Tramway, the muscular Christian, amateur tinkers, and Professor E. John B. Allen. Cover it with snow and shake, and you have all the makings of a unique New Hampshire history. James B. Atkinson Saving Buffalo and Cardinal: NH’s Early Environmentalist Earnest Baynes James B. Atkinson introduces Ernest Harold Baynes (1868-1925), a man who fought to prevent the mindless slaughter of buffalo, even raising herds of them in New Hampshire. Images from his fragile glass slides show a team of buffalo pulling him to the Claremont Agricultural Fair. Rare colored images from these slides also show the varied wild animals he domesticated locally. Brightly plumaged birds, like the cardinal, suffered at the hands of the fashion industry. He struggled to combat its efforts because, as an early environmentalist, he sought not to subdue nature but to preserve it. Marcia Schmidt Blaine Saving the Mountains: NH & the Creation of the National Forests New Hampshire’s White Mountains played a leading role in events leading to the Weeks Act, the law that created the eastern national forests. Focusing on Concord’s Joseph B. Walker and the Forest Society’s Philip Ayres, Marcia Schmidt Blaine explores the relationship between our mountains and the economic, environmental and aesthetic questions posed by the individuals involved in the creation of the National Forest.

Jeff Warner Songs of Old New Hampshire Drawing heavily on the repertoire of traditional singer Lena Bourne Fish (1873-1945) of Jaffrey and Temple, New Hampshire, Jeff Warner offers the songs and stories that, in the words of Carl Sandburg, tell us “where we came from and what brought us along.” These ballads, love songs and comic pieces, reveal the experiences and emotions of daily life in the days before movies, sound recordings and, for some, books. Songs from the lumber camps, the decks of sailing ships, the textile mills and the war between the sexes offer views of pre-industrial New England and a chance to hear living artifacts from the 18th and 19th centuries. 54

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Bob Cottrell Harnessing History: On the Trail of New Hampshire’s State Dog, the Chinook This program looks at how dog sledding developed in New Hampshire and how the Chinook played a major role in this story. Explaining how man and his relationship with dogs won out over machines on several famous polar expeditions, Bob Cottrell covers the history of Arthur Walden and his Chinooks, the State Dog of New Hampshire. Inquire whether the speaker’s dog will accompany him.

Hal C. Lyon Angling in the Smile of the Great Spirit Anyone who ever posted a Gone Fishin’ sign on the door during business hours will appreciate this native fisherman’s glimpse in to the habits, rituals, and lore of some of the more colorful members of the not-so-exclusive “Liars’ Club.” Hal Lyon shares tales, secrets, folklore, and history of fishing in New Hampshire’s big lakes -especially Lake Winnipesaukee which translates into “Smile of the Great Spirit.”

Allen Koop Darby Field and the “First” Ascent of Mount Washington For more than 200 years historians believed that Darby Field made the first climb up Mount Washington in 1642. However, in the last several decades, questions have emerged about his use of Native American guides, about the likelihood of prior ascents by Native Americans, about the route Field may have followed on the mountain, and about whether Field actually made the ascent as claimed. Allen Koop examines how historians reconstruct the “truth” when given scant, vague, and even contradictory evidence.

Michael Tougias Fatal Forecast: An Incredible True Tale of Disaster and Survival at Sea What happens when a monster wave hits two 50-foot boats 200 miles out to sea in November? Using slides, Michael Tougias tells the story based on his book, Fatal Forecast:AnIncredibleTrueTaleofDisasterandSurvivalatSea.Ambushedbythestorm at Georges Bank off the New England coast, the crews of the Sea Fever and Fair Wind battled 90-foot waves and hurricane force winds. Captain Peter Brown on the Sea Fever (his father owned the Andrea Gail chronicled in The Perfect Storm) did his best to ride out the storm. Tougias details the harrowing hours as the crew of one boat attempts to rescue a man overboard and keep the boat from capsizing, and one crewman fought to stay alive in the rampaging ocean for the next two days.

Allen Koop The White Mountain Huts: Past & Future The Appalachian Mountain Club’s Hut System is a unique institution in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. Allen Koop explores how the huts and the people who built, maintain and use them have formed a world apart, a mountain society with its own history, traditions, and legends.

Michael Tougias Overboard! A True Bluewater Odyssey of Disaster, Survival and Inspiration In early May of 2005 experienced Captain Tom Tighe and first mate Loch Reidy of the sailboat Almeisan welcome three new crewmembers for a five-day trip from Connecticut to Bermuda. Four days into their voyage, a massive storm strikes and captain and first mate are swept from the boat and carried away by huge seas. The three guest sailors somehow remain on the vessel as it is torn apart by the seas. OVERBOARD! follows the simultaneous desperate struggles of both the crew on the boat and the captain and first mate in the sea. Michael Tougias uses slides to bring this story to life. Michael Tougias The Finest Hours: The True Story Behind the U.S. Coast Guard’s Most Daring Sea Rescue On February 18, 1952, an astonishing maritime event began when a ferocious nor’easter split in half a 500-foot long oil tanker, the Pendleton, approximately one mile off the coast of Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Incredibly, just twenty miles away, a second oil tanker, the Fort Mercer, also split in half. On both tankers men were trapped on the severed bows and sterns, and all four sections were sinking in 60-foot seas. Thus began a life and death drama of survival, heroism, and a series of tragic mistakes. Of the 84 seamen aboard the tankers, 70 would be rescued and 14 would lose their lives. Michael Tougias, co-author of the book and soon-tobe Disney movie The Finest Hours, uses slides to illustrate the harrowing tale of the rescue efforts amidst towering waves and blinding snow in one of the most dangerous shoals in the world.

New Hampshire History

New Hampshire History See additional NH programs in Documentaries and Discussions, Living History, Music History and Appreciation, and Nature and Adventure Dan Billin The Abolitionists of Noyes Academy In 1835, abolitionists opened one of the nation’s first integrated schools in Canaan, NH, attracting eager African American students from as far away as Boston, Providence, and New York City. Outraged community leaders responded by raising a mob that dragged the academy building off its foundation and ran the African American students out of town. New Hampshire’s first experiment in educational equality was brief, but it helped launch the public careers of a trio of extraordinary African American leaders: Henry Highland Garnet, Alexander Crummell, and Thomas Sipkins Sidney. Dan Billin plumbs the depths of anti-abolitionist sentiment in early-nineteenth-century New England, and the courage of three young friends destined for greatness. Marcia Schmidt Blaine Hill Country Abandonment: 19th-Century Sandwich, NH The population of early 19th century Sandwich was prosperous and growing. Farmers, the vast majority of the population, produced a sizeable surplus. However, just before the Civil War, the population of Sandwich (and much of New England) declined precipitously. What happened to the inhabitants of Sandwich? Marcia Schmidt Blaine reveals how this community reflected a region-wide “abandonment” of hearth and home. Marcia Schmidt Blaine A Woman That Keeps Good Orders: Women, Tavern Keeping, and Public Approval Government regulations, licensing, handling drunks, controlling the flow of information --why would the Colonial-era government allow women to run a tavern? When her husband died in 1736, Ann Jose Harvey became the owner of a prominent Portsmouth tavern and sole guardian of seven small children. For at least twenty years, Harvey ran the increasingly prosperous establishment. Using documents related to Harvey’s venue, Marcia Schmidt Blaine explores the world of female tavern keepers. A tavern was potentially the most disruptive spot in town. Why would a woman want to keep one? Valerie Cunningham An Armchair Tour of New Hampshire’s Black History Sites Valerie Cunningham’s “tour” covers more than a dozen cities and towns from the Seacoast to the North Country, with stories about Africans and African Americans who have lived and worked in the state since the 17th century. Additional infor58

New Hampshire History mation will be available for attendees who would like to learn more about specific places and people. Valerie Cunningham Dinah Whipple: Freed Slave, Wife of Prince and “Teacher of the African Children” The name of Dinah’s husband, Prince Whipple, is well known as the African man who was emancipated after accompanying his owner, General William Whipple, to fight in the Revolutionary War. He was one of 20 enslaved men who petitioned the NH Legislature for their freedom in 1779. Dinah Chase also had been enslaved up until the day she married Prince in 1781. After Prince’s death in 1797, Dinah began a school for African children in her home. This program, presented by Valerie Cunningham, describes Dinah’s world, first in New Castle as a slave, then as a freed married woman in Portsmouth, who became a teacher and community leader. Valerie Cunningham Pomp Spring: President of the African Society in New Hampshire, 1807 Pomp Spring grew up as the property of a minister in the Seacoast area. After gaining his freedom he married the formerly-enslaved Candace Wentworth, who would also become his business partner. Valerie Cunningham looks at a variety of documentary evidence to interpret this story of a former slave who became prosperous and highly regarded by both Blacks and Whites in one of New Hampshire’s oldest African American communities. Valerie Cunningham The Story of New Hampshire’s Historic African Burying Ground There were headlines expressing surprise and even shock when the Colonial-era gravesite known as the “Negro Burying Ground” was unintentionally opened during a public works project in 2003. Although the Portsmouth Black Heritage Trail had previously marked the area and included it on its official map of historic sites, there still was limited public awareness of its history or even that such a place existed in the region. Valerie Cunningham tells the story of northern New England’s oldest known African burying ground. Jere Daniell Colonial New Hampshire One hundred and seventy-six pins on Jere Daniell’s map of New Hampshire mark the towns, cities, and villages he’s visited so far to talk about early New England history. His featured topics on Colonial New Hampshire have pleased many listeners in talks like “Algonkian New Hampshire,” “New Hampshire’s First English Settlers,” “Why New Hampshire Exists,” “The Boundaries of New Hampshire,” or “The Wentworth Oligarchy.” Daniell also can customize a talk on the history of your community. 59

New Hampshire History Jere Daniell New Hampshire Towns and the Civil War This lecture focuses on the home front, not the fighting. Jere Daniell discusses both the formal town actions and non-governmental community responses to the Civil War. Specific topics include rewarding men who enlisted; helping citizens avoid military service; ostracizing war opponents; organizing aid societies; celebrating military victories; and post-war memorialization. Whenever possible Daniell illustrates his general observations with examples drawn from the history of the town in which he’s speaking. Jere Daniell Ratification of the Constitution in New Hampshire The Granite State came very close to voting against ratification of the proposed Federal Constitution. Had it done so, the nation we know today might not exist. What tactics did supporters of ratification use to snatch victory from defeat? Your town may have played a definitive role and Jere Daniell knows all about it. Jere Daniell Revolutionary New Hampshire In 1760, New Hampshire had a stable government. That government collapsed by 1776 and it took until the early 1790s to restore the stability of the pre-Revolutionary era. Jere Daniell shares a history of these changes that is both fascinating and complex. Choose from three topics: “The Coming of Revolution,” “The New Hampshire Town That Joined Vermont,” or “The Origins of the New Hampshire State Constitution.” Jere Daniell The New England Town This talk by Jere Daniell comes in several forms. Among the most requested are “Popular Images of Small Town New England,” “Novels Set in New England Towns,” (Daniell distributes a list of his favorites), and simply “The New Hampshire Town.” The last of these ends with a comparison of Granite State towns to other towns in New England. Neill DePaoli A House on the Bay: Life on 17th-Century New Hampshire’s Coastal Frontier One of the Great Bay’s most prominent families during the latter part of the 17th century was the Wiggin family. Recently, a team of archaeologists discovered the home of Thomas Wiggin, Jr. Neill DePaoli demonstrates how bay residents on the periphery of Anglo-American settlement were far less isolated and bereft of the comforts of the more “civilized” world than traditionally portrayed.

New Hampshire History Neill DePaoli Astride Two Worlds: The Odd Adventures of John Gyles Neill DePaoli tells the story of former Indian captive John Gyles who became one of provincial Massachusetts’ leading interpreters and a player in negotiations between the English and Indians of Maine and New Hampshire. Gyles was a “culture broker,” parlaying his knowledge of his own and other cultures as Europeans and Native Americans struggled to bridge the cultural divide that separated them from one another. Charles Doleac Teddy Roosevelt’s Nobel Prize: New Hampshire and the Portsmouth Peace Treaty Teddy Roosevelt chose Portsmouth to be the site of the 1905 peace treaty negotiations between Russian and Japanese delegations to end the Russo-Japanese war. Charles Doleac’s program first focuses on Roosevelt’s multi-track diplomacy that included other world powers, the Russian and Japanese delegations, the US Navy, and New Hampshire hosts in 30 days of negotiations that resulted in the Portsmouth Peace Treaty and earned Roosevelt the 1906 Nobel Peace Prize. The program then focuses on how ordinary people from throughout New Hampshire positively affected the Portsmouth negotiations. The program customizes each presentation to the program site’s local history at the time of the treaty to encourage audiences to join the annual statewide commemoration of “Portsmouth Peace Treaty Day” on September 5. Gordon Dubois Laconia State School, Understanding Our Past to Create a Better Future for People with Disabilities Opened in 1903 and closed in 1991, the Laconia State School was the state’s only residential institution for children and adults labeled “feebleminded.” Using an extensive collection of slides, artifacts and videotaped oral histories, Gordon Dubois traces the evolution and growth of this institution. The presentation provides insight into the principle features of society’s values and changes in those values during the twentieth century. It also connects Laconia State School’s institutional history with larger social ideals and principles, which led to national trends and social policy. Particular attention is paid to the eugenics period and the social inclusion movement, which led to the eventual closing of the institution. Glenn A. Knoblock African American Soldiers and Sailors of New Hampshire during the American Revolution One of the most interesting aspects of the American Revolution is the role played by African Americans in the fight for independence. Both free Blacks and those that were enslaved were key elements in manning state militias and Continental Army units, as well as serving on the high seas in the Navy and on privately armed 61

New Hampshire History ships. Indeed, their service to New Hampshire, as well as the other New England colonies, was crucial in a conflict that lasted nearly seven years. Prohibited by existing laws from serving in military units and largely considered “undesirable elements” by southern patriots and even many in New England, how is it that these Black soldiers came to fight for the cause of liberty, even when their own personal liberty was not guaranteed? Glenn Knoblock examines the history of Black soldiers’ service during the war, including how and why they enlisted, their interaction with white soldiers, service on the battlefields, how they were perceived by the enemy and the officers under whom they served, and their treatment after the war. Glenn A. Knoblock Brewing in New Hampshire: An Informal History of Beer in the Granite State from Colonial Times to the Present Glenn Knoblock explores the fascinating history of New Hampshire’s beer and ale brewing industry from Colonial days, when it was home- and tavern-based, to today’s modern breweries and brew pubs. Unusual and rare photos and advertisements document this changing industry and the state’s earliest brewers, including the renowned Frank Jones. A number of lesser-known brewers and breweries that operated in the state are also discussed, including the only brewery owned and operated by a woman before the modern era. Illustrations present evidence of society’s changing attitudes towards beer and alcohol consumption over the years. Whether you’re a beer connoisseur or a “tea-totaler”, this lecture will be enjoyed by adults of all ages. Glenn A. Knoblock Covered Bridges of New Hampshire Covered wooden bridges have been a vital part of the NH transportation network, dating back to the early 1800s. Given NH’s myriad streams, brooks, and rivers, it’s unsurprising that 400 covered bridges have been documented. Often viewed as quaint relics of a simpler past, they were technological marvels of their day. It may be native ingenuity and NH’s woodworking tradition that account for the fact that a number of nationally-noted covered bridge truss designers were NH natives. Glenn Knoblock discusses covered bridge design and technology, and their designers, builders, and associated folklore. Glenn A. Knoblock Historic Iron and Steel Bridges of New Hampshire Glenn Knoblock documents the oft-forgotten metal bridges, made of iron first, then steel, that began to replace New Hampshire’s covered bridges beginning in the 1860’s. The metal bridges built from the 1860’s through the 1930’s were some of the largest and most impressive crossings ever built in the state, corresponding with nationwide trends and a shift of bridge building design and technology. Today, these structures have dwindled greatly in number and many are in danger 62

New Hampshire History of being lost, while others, like the Portsmouth-Kittery Memorial Bridge, will soon be replaced. Though those that remain today are often seen as rusted and unsightly relics of the past, this program makes a case for their preservation and continued presence in our landscape. Glenn A. Knoblock New Hampshire and the American Clipper Ship Era Glenn Knoblock explores our nation’s maritime past with this exciting look at the fastest sailing ships ever built in America. Learn how the clippers evolved, who built them and why, as well as New Hampshire’s important role in supplying these unique ships. Though New Hampshire’s coastline is only seventeen miles long, the state produced more clippers, all built at Portsmouth, than many other cities, bested only by New York and Boston. Learn also about the exciting voyages these ships made, the cargos they carried, the men and, in a few cases, the women, who sailed them, and why the ships’ reign, lasting from 1844-1860, was so short. Whether you’re a boating or nautical enthusiast, or simply have an interest in salt-water history, this lecture will fill your sails. Glenn A. Knoblock New Hampshire Cemeteries and Gravestones Rubbings, photographs, and slides illustrate the rich variety of gravestones to be found in our own neighborhoods, but they also tell long-forgotten stories of such historical events as the Great Awakening, the Throat Distemper epidemic, and the American Revolution. Find out more about these deeply personal works of art and the craftsmen who carved them with Glenn Knoblock, and learn how to read the stone “pages” that give insight into the vast genealogical book of New Hampshire. Allen Koop Stark Decency: New Hampshire’s World War II German Prisoner of War Camp During World War II, 300 German prisoners of war were held at Camp Stark near the village of Stark in New Hampshire’s North Country. Allen Koop reveals the history of this camp, which tells us much about our country’s war experience and about our state. John and Donna Roberts Moody Town by Town, Watershed by Watershed: Native Americans in NH Every town and watershed in New Hampshire has ancient and continuing Native American history. From the recent, late 20th century explosion of local Native population in New Hampshire back to the era of early settlement and the colonial wars, John and Donna Moody explore the history of New Hampshire’s Abenaki and Penacook peoples with a focus on your local community.

New Hampshire History John and Donna Roberts Moody A History of Native Burial Looting, Destruction & Protection in NH The history of Native American site desecration and looting in the Americas is well known. New Hampshire has its share of similar stories, but the valuing and protection of these historic sites in NH did not just begin with the passage of a Native burial protection law in the early 1990s. In the 1820s the “giant by the lake,” the remains of an Abenaki man found in Melvin Village on Lake Winnipesaukee, was carefully reburied near his original burial location. John and Donna Moody explore the history of burial and site destruction, repatriation, and site protection in the Granite State. George Morrison Vanished Veterans - NH’s Civil War Monuments and Memorials New Hampshire towns did not erect monuments to prior wars, but the emotional and family toll, unprecedented in American history, drove the decision to honor our local soldiers and sailors of the War of Rebellion. From Seabrook to Colebrook, Berlin to Hinsdale, along Main Streets and 19th century dirt roads, in city parks and on town greens, in libraries and town halls, and in cemeteries prominent and obscure, George Morrison located, inventoried and photographed the fascinating variety of NH’s Civil War memorials. He shares his discoveries, from the earliest obelisks, to statuary and artillery, to murals, cast iron, stained glass and buildings from the 1860s through the 1920s. Jack Noon Cannon Shenanigans and New Hampshire’s Muster Day Tradition New Hampshire’s Muster Day tradition ended in 1850, as did some of the related localized rivalries that involved the stealing of cannons. Muster Day was a day of drills, marching, and sham battles for local militias in NH. This spectator event was accompanied by entertainers, vendors, gamblers, and a great deal of alcohol. Throughout 19th century NH, demand for cannons for Fourth of July, election celebrations, demonstrations of civic pride, and for the sheer cussedness of making noise, often exceeded supply. Various town and regional rivalries sprang up over the possession of particular cannons and were constant headaches for local authorities. Jack Noon will explore the vestiges of this tradition that survived well into the 20th century. Jack Noon Four Centuries of Fishing in NH: Yankee Character, Yankee Priorities Fishing history in New Hampshire runs the gamut of nets, spears, guns, clubs, weirs, seines, fish pots, and hooks. Overfishing, inadequate, or unenforced fishing regulations, and dams ended the once enormous spawning runs of salmon, shad, and other sea-run fish up from the ocean. The Yankee tinkering and tampering instinct, coupled with confidence in new technologies and the rise of sport fishing brought many new fish species to NH after the Civil War, often with unforeseen 64

New Hampshire History results. Short-term economic self-interest and environmental/economic compromises seem to have taken priority over long term natural resource health, resulting inatailspinofenvironmentaldegradation.JackNoon’spresentationillustratesthese complex changes. Robert B. Perreault Having a Fine Time in Manchester: Vintage Post Cards and Local History Post cards have many stories to tell about the built landscape, disastrous events such as fires or floods, daily folk customs, and the identity of a place. During the golden age of the post card, before telephones, personal messages could contain anything from the mundane -- “Having a fine time, wish you were here...” -- to more profound reflections on family life or colorful portraits of towns and cities from the perspective of newly-landed immigrants. Robert Perreault presents vintage post cards of Manchester, which offer a lively, nostalgic adventure through a major industrial center, home to people from around the world. Robert B. Perreault Putting Human Faces on the Textile Industry: The Workers of the Amoskeag Manufacturing Company Daily life for the Amoskeag Manufacturing Company’s textile worker was not easy. Robert Perreault sheds light on how people from a variety of European countries as well as from French Canada made the transition from an agrarian to an industrial society and how that change affected families, cultures, the nature of work, and relationships among workers themselves. Robert B. Perreault A Taste of the Old Country in the New: Franco-Americans of Manchester Manchester is one example of the many industrial cities that attracted immigrants from Quebec in numbers large enough to warrant the creation and maintenance of an infrastructure of religious, educational, social, cultural, and commercial institutions that helped preserve this community’s language and traditions. Robert Perreault shares stories about life in one of America’s major Franco-American centers. Robert B. Perreault Before Peyton Place: In Search of the Real Grace Metalious Grace DeRepentigny Metalious believed that in rejecting her own ethnic and religious heritage, she would come closer to inheriting the “American Dream.” Her Quebecois ancestry and her formative years in Manchester reveal aspects of the author that the public rarely knew. Robert Perreault focuses on Metalious’s most autobiographical and ethnically-oriented but little-known novel, No Adam in Eden.

New Hampshire History J. Dennis Robinson The Making of Strawbery Banke Local legend says Strawbery Banke Museum began when a Portsmouth librarian gave a rousing speech in 1957. The backstory, however, is richly complex. This is a dramatic tale of economics, urban renewal, immigration, and historic architecture in New Hampshire’s only seaport. J. Dennis Robinson, author of an awardwinning “biography” of the 10-acre Strawbery Banke campus, shares the history of “America’s oldest neighborhood.” Tapping into private letters, unpublished records, and personal interviews, Robinson explores the politics of preservation. Using colorful and historic illustrations, the author looks candidly at mistakes made and lessons learned in this grassroots success story. J. Dennis Robinson Who Won the War of 1812? New Hampshire’s Forgotten Patriot Pirates When was the War of 1812? That’s a trick question, but if you don’t recall America’s “Forgotten War” with England , you are not alone. Two hundred years ago, with only 17 armed ships, a youthful United States declared war on the world’s largest navy (over, 1,000 warships). Then we invaded Canada. That didn’t go well. In retaliation the British burned Washington, DC to the ground. So how come we think we won? J. Dennis Robinson offers an upbeat, often irreverent, slideshow on New Hampshire’s reluctant role in “Mr. Madison’s War” with special emphasis on the bold privateers who swarmed out of the state’s only seaport. Maggie Stier The Old Man of the Mountain: Substance and Symbol The story of the Old Man of the Mountain in Franconia Notch is a story of New Hampshire itself, reflecting history, the arts, literature, geography, philosophy and public policy. Maggie Stier’s illustrated talk reveals the ways that this iconic placehassparkedobservers’imaginations,attractedintensepersonalcommitment, and symbolized changing public sentiment. Stier details the threats to the Old Man and Franconia Notch that led to protection as a State Park and, later, to the construction of the Franconia Notch Parkway. She concludes with an analysis of what caused the fall of the Old Man in 2003, a summary of private efforts to create a memorial, and a discussion of how this unique natural phenomenon may be remembered by future generations. The audience is invited to bring souvenirs, memorabilia or other artifacts of the Old Man of the Mountain for a shared display before and after the program, and to share their own experiences and memories on this topic.

New Hampshire History David Stewart-Smith Native American History of New Hampshire: Alliance and Survival, circa 1400-1700 David Stewart-Smith begins this program with the last part of the Woodland Period, when Indians in northern New England were faced with several challenges. By the time of French and English exploration in the region, strong tribal alliances had begun to center along southeastern Maine, coastal and central New Hampshire, and the north shore of Massachusetts. These relationships became known as 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. Here we see Passaconaway, the chief of the Pennacook, rise to power and place his family in the mainstream of colonial interaction. The program concludes with King Philip’s War and subsequent events just prior to the turn of the 18th century. David Stewart-Smith Native American History of New Hampshire: Beyond Boundaries, circa 1700-1850 The northern frontier of New England was a risky place during the Colonial Period. Maine was nearly lost due to a series of Indian wars. New Hampshire only succeeded in settling the coast and as the frontier moved inland, both settlers and Indians found that their cultures had changed. Another set of wars to wrest Canada away from the French gave rise to several attempts by the Indians to assert their autonomy and stewardship over the land. By the time of Ethan Allen Crawford, the New Hampshire frontier had become a place for reflection on a new relationship with the environment, and tourism into the mountains was born. David Stewart-Smith muses that as the “last” Indians died off in the 1830s, perhaps a legacy was born that would insure a place for the landscape and the spirit of the Indians in New Hampshire’s future. David Stewart-Smith Mapping the Merrimack: A Frontier Adventure into Uncharted Territory 1630-1725 David Stewart-Smith recounts the expeditions of 1638 and 1652 up the Merrimack to establish the northern boundary of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. There is just one problem: New Hampshire proprietors already held claim to all the land east of the river. In fact, maps of the time did not reflect the true course of the river. Stewart-Smith examines the maps of the 17th century along with the plan from the 1638 survey to show that the Merrimack River was not accurately represented in maps of the region until the end of that century. The boundary for Massachusetts became an embarrassment -- so much so that they had to revise their state line survey. The program describes some of the early survey techniques and cartography and is illustrated with the maps of the period.

New Hampshire History David Stewart-Smith Native New Hampshire Before Contact: Archaeological and Tribal Perspectives Northern New England was home to the native peoples for almost 10,000 years before European contact. Natives were faced with the after-effects of an ice age, the emerging changes in ecosystem and climate, and new choices regarding materials for the making of tools, clothes, and shelter. This “prehistoric” time was anything but stagnant or sedentary; instead, it was a time of tremendous movement, energy, innovation, and survival. David Stewart-Smith reviews the three major archaeological eras and their relevance to native life. Steve Taylor Cows and Communities: How the Lowly Bovine Has Nurtured New Hampshire through Four Centuries Cattle were essential to the survival of the earliest New Hampshire settlements, and their contributions have been central to the life and culture of the state ever since. From providing human dietary sustenance to basic motive power for agriculture, forestry and transport, bovines have had a deep and enduring bond with their keepers, one that lingers today and is a vital part of the iconography of rural New Hampshire, even as dairy farming becomes ever more reliant on intensive modern science and technology. Where are New Hampshire’s cows today and what are are they doing? Steve Taylor provides answers -- some will prove surprising. Steve Taylor New Hampshire’s Grange Movement: Its Rise, Triumphs and Decline Much of rural New Hampshire in the late 19th century was locked in a downward spiral of population decline, abandonment of farms, reversion of cleared land to forest and widespread feelings of melancholy and loss. The development of the Grange movement in the 1880s and 1890s was aided greatly by hunger for social interaction, entertainment and mutual support. As membership surged it became a major force in policymaking in Concord, and its agenda aligned closely with the Progressive politics that swept the state in early 20th century. Many Grange initiatives became law, placing the state at the leading edge in several areas of reform. Steve Taylor analyzes the rapid social and economic changes that would eventually force the steep decline of the once-powerful movement.

New Hampshire History student achievement and community involvement in the educational process. Steve Taylor explores the lasting legacies of the one-room school and how they echo today. Steve Taylor The Great Sheep Boom and Its Enduring Legacy on the New Hampshire Landscape In a brief 30-year period in the early 19th century the New Hampshire countryside became home to hundreds of thousands of sheep. Production of wool became a lucrative business, generating fortunes and providing the only time of true agricultural prosperity in the state’s history. It left behind a legacy of fine architecture and thousands of miles of rugged stonewalls. Steve Taylor discusses how farmers overcame enormous challenges to make sheep husbandry succeed, but forces from beyond New Hampshire were to doom the industry, with social consequences that would last a century. Darryl Thompson The Shaker Legacy In their more than two and a half centuries of existence, members of the United Society of Believers in Christ’s Second Appearing, commonly known as Shakers, made ingenious contributions to diverse fields: agriculture, industry, medicine, music, furniture design, women’s rights, racial equality, craftsmanship, social and religious thought, and mechanical invention and improvement. Darryl Thompson explores some of these contributions in his lecture and shares some of his personal memories of the Canterbury Shakers. Barbara White Harriet Wilson Project: Harriet Wilson’s Our Nig Harriet Wilson, the first African American to publish a novel in the U.S., grew up in Milford, N.H. before the Civil War. The recent rediscovery of her autobiographical novel, Our Nig (1859), has helped restore an important element of New Hampshire’s history. Accompanied by a collaborator from the Harriet Wilson Project, scholar Barbara White introduces the book and facilitates discussion. Copies of Our Nig are available for loan through the NH State Library Book Bag.

Steve Taylor New Hampshire’s One-Room Rural Schools: The Romance and the Reality Hundreds of one-room schools dotted the landscape of New Hampshire a century ago and were the backbone of primary education for generations of children. Revered in literature and lore, they actually were beset with problems, some of which are little changed today. The greatest issue was financing the local school and the vast differences between taxing districts in ability to support education. Other concerns included teacher preparation and quality, curriculum, discipline,

Oral History, Storytelling and Writing

Oral History, Storytelling and Writing Martha Andrews Donovan and Maura MacNeil Family, Memory, Place: Writing Family Stories What family stories do you carry with you? What story do you tell over and over? What landscape do you cherish the most? One of the deepest human instincts is to tell our life stories, to figure out who we are and what it means to be human. This interactive workshop led by Martha Andrews Donovan and Maura MacNeil explores how the landscapes of our lives shape the stories that we tell. Participants explore the themes of family, memory, and place through sample narratives and a series of short writing exercises, gaining a deeper awareness of how their stories can preserve personal, generational, and communal history. Jo Radner Family Stories: How and Why to Remember and Tell Them Telling personal and family stories is fun - and much more. Storytelling connects strangers, strengthens links between generations, and gives children the selfknowledge to carry them through hard times. Knowledge of family history has even been linked to better teen behavior and mental health. In this active and interactive program, storyteller Jo Radner shares foolproof ways to mine memories and interview relatives for meaningful stories. Participants practices finding, developing, and telling their own tales.

Oral History, Storytelling and Writing Rebecca Rule Moved and Seconded: Town Meeting in New Hampshire Drawing on research from her book, Moved and Seconded: Town Meeting in New Hampshire, the Present, the Past, and the Future, Rebecca Rule regales audiences with stories of the rituals, traditions and history of town meeting, including the perennial characters, the literature, the humor, and the wisdom of this uniquely New England institution. Lawrence Siegel Kaddish: Music and Text as a Window into the Issue of Genocide through the Testimonies of Survivors Before, During, and After the Holocaust Genocide is an ongoing global crisis in places such as Rwanda, Darfur, Congo, Kenya and the former Yugoslavia. How can one consider such an immensely difficult subject without becoming completely overwhelmed? Using selections from the recording of his concert work “Kaddish,” Lawrence Siegel shares his interviews with survivors of the Holocaust and the process used to create art out of these stories by using their words as the libretto for “Kaddish.” Questions explored include the distinction between history and memory, art as a way of understanding the past, empathy as a way of bridging differences, the possibility of hope, and how ordinary citizens can have an impact on the profound and ongoing issue of genocide in the world.

Rebecca Rule That Reminds Me of a Story Stories speak to us of community. They hold our history and reflect our identity. Rebecca Rule has made it her mission over the last 20 years to collect stories of New Hampshire, especially those that reflect what’s special about this rocky old place. She’ll tell some of those stories - her favorites are the funny ones - and invite audience members to contribute a few stories of their own. Rebecca Rule Crosscut: The Mills, Logging and Life on the Androscoggin Using oral histories, Rebecca Rule recreates the voices of North Country people and uses new and vintage photos to tell the story of logging, the Berlin Mills, and life in the Androscoggin Valley, from the beginnings of the logging industry in the 1800s, through the boom years of the Brown Company and subsequent mill owners, and on to the demolition of the stacks in 2007. Audience members will be invited to share their own stories and discuss the logging and paper industries and the special place north of the notches. John Rule assists with a PowerPoint presentation of photos and information from his own research into the history of the Brown Company as an archivist at the New Hampshire Historical Society.

Technology and Society

World History, Cultures and Religions

Technology and Society

World History, Cultures and Religions

Herman T. Tavani Personal Privacy in Cyberspace Many Americans feel their privacy is threatened by information technology and favor stronger privacy legislation. At the same time, people support the use of information technology to serve them quickly and efficiently in various ways. In this program, Herman Tavani explores whether we can have it both ways and the serious ethical dilemma that arises if not.

Marek Bennett Comics in World History and Cultures Marek Bennett presents a whirlwind survey of comics from around the world and throughout history, with special attention to what these vibrant narratives tell (and show) us about the people and periods that created them. Bennett engages and involves the audience in an interactive discussion of several sample comics representing cultures such as Ancient Rome, Medieval Europe, the Ancient Maya, Feudal and modern Japan, the United States in the early 20th century, and Nazi Germany during World War II. The program explores the various ways of creating and reading comics from around the world, and what these techniques tell us about the cultures in which they occur.

Herman T. Tavani Ethical Aspects of Converging Technologies Information technology, biotechnology, and nanotechnology are converging in ways that were not easily anticipated. We now have distinct new fields such as bioinformatics, computational genomics, nanocomputing and ubiquitous computing. These converging and emerging technologies also introduce a cluster of ethical problems that were not easy to predict or anticipate. Herman Tavani examines a range of issues -- from privacy and informed consent to autonomy and freedom to property rights involving the ownership of genetic information that resides in databases. Herman T. Tavani Intellectual Property Disputes in Cyberspace Can we frame a policy that will preserve the “information commons” while protecting intellectual property rights at the same time? Although the digitization process has made information sharing much easier, controversial intellectual property regimes and recent legislation also make much of that information less accessible than it was in the pre-digital era. In this program Herman Tavani discusses this paradox with respect to our ability to share information in the digital age.

Mohamed Defaa An Introduction to Sufism, the Spiritual Path in Islam Sufism is the inner dimension of Sunni Islam. Taking its source in the Quran and the Prophetic tradition, it has often been defined as “the science of spiritual states.” Proficiency in this practice should enable the initiated to overcome his ego to achieve the knowledge and contemplation of God. Basically, the Sufi aspires to draw from the spiritual influx (baraka) of the Prophet Muhammad, handed down for centuries from master to disciple, to fight against the passions and delusions that beset him. This talk by Mohamed Defaa will highlight the universality of Sufism, and explain how, over the centuries, the great teachers have adapted the doctrines and practices of initiation to the transformations of the Muslim world. It will also show why Sufism plays an increasing role as an antidote against fundamentalism and radicalism. Mohamed Defaa The Middle East The term “Middle East” is a changing geopolitical concept. Throughout recent history, this term referred to a political, a cultural, and a geographical region with no clear boundaries. Moreover, this concept serves to generate stereotypes and misunderstanding. This multimedia presentation by Mohamed Defaa provides an analytical framework to understand the histories, social identities, and cultures behind this complex concept of “Middle East.” Jennifer Fluri and/or Rachel Lehr (available as a one- or two-person program) Big and Small Players in the New Great Game: Afghanistan and its Region This lecture provides a view of Afghanistan and the surrounding region through visual images and the stories of individuals who live there. Throughout the presentation Jennifer Fluri and Rachel Lehr illustrate how ordinary lives and people are impacted by international politics and economics. Their personal experiences and research expertise afford a rare view of this misunderstood and complex region.

World History, Cultures and Religions

Marina Forbes Inside Russia Today The fall of Soviet Communism in the early 1990s catapulted Russia into a new social order. Marina Forbes establishes a link between Russia’s rich cultural heritage and the lives of Russians today. The “new rich,” the evolving role of women, the revival of the Orthodox Church, humor, family life, entertainment, and the emphasis on consumerism are all examined as she brings personal experience and research to bear in this fascinating look at contemporary Russian life.

Donald J. Johnson Hindu Worldview What do 1.8 million American Hindu believers believe? What rules of behavior govern their lives? According to their traditions, how should Hindus deal with money, sex, and power? What paths should they take to achieve salvation? How has the faith changed over time and how do Hindus in America continue to practice their faith? What elements of the Hindu worldview might be helpful in one’s own quest for understanding the universe? Donald J. Johnson addresses these questions.

Marina Forbes Portsmouth Peace Treaty: The Russian Perspective How would Russia’s catastrophic failure in the 1905 Russo-Japanese War foreshadow and determine the dramatic trajectory of events that would unfold in 20th century Russia? Marina Forbes’ presentation, powerfully illustrated with historical photos drawn from Russian archives, is an engrossing tale of faulty leadership, deep psychological tensions, determined revolutionary zeal, court intrigues, unspeakable horror, loss of life, the personal family tragedy of Nicholas and Alexandra, and ultimately a resolution engineered during the dramatic peace negotiations in Portsmouth by the Tsar’s charismatic mentor, Serge Witte. It is said that Russia lost the war but Witte won the peace.

Charles A. Kennedy A Short Course on Islam for Non-Muslims The foundation of Western civilization rests on three monotheistic faiths - Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. The interaction between and among these systems of belief continues to impact events in daily life and politics on the world stage. Following an outline of Islamic beliefs and practices by Charles Kennedy, discussion turns to how Islam is practiced in the United States.

Mahboubul Hassan Introduction to Islam Islam is the fastest growing religion in the world, yet most Americans know little about Muslim beliefs. Listen to a brief overview from Mahboubul Hassan and discuss the beliefs and concepts that form the basis of one of the three major monotheistic religions of the modern world. Katherine Hoffman Islamic Art and Architecture: Bridging East and West Take a virtual trip with Katherine Hoffman through Turkey, Egypt, southern Spain, Morocco, and other lands by viewing significant works of art and architecture with a historian who has traveled and lived in a number of Islamic cultures. Discover a new vocabulary and important cultural links between East and West. Eric S. Jadaszewski Winged Hussars of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, 1576-1696 Independent researcher and armor smith Eric Jadaszewski explores how these colorful knights navigated Europe throughout the 16th and 17th centuries. Topics include life in a democratically elected kingdom in Europe, freedom of religion in an era of religious wars, and an exploration of Polish history and culture in NH. Handcrafted replicas of colorful winged hussar armor will be on display. The speaker can present himself in full 17th century nobleman’s attire.

Jose Lezcano The Guitar and the Devil: Music, Magic, and Ritual Among Ecuadorian Indians Music and ritual belief in supernatural forces play key roles in the eight-day festivities associated with the summer solstice and annual corn harvest in Ecuador. For example, the guitarist makes a pact with the “diablito” in order to gain strength to play and dance without tiring. This program, illustrated with slides, recordings, and live performance by Jose Lezcano, explores the connections among ritual, music, and the supernatural, especially among indigenous Andean peoples. Nabil Migalli Perspectives on Arab Culture and the Influence of Islam It is an understatement to say that current events have sparked curiosity about Arab culture and renewed interest in Arab-American relations. Migalli, originally from Egypt, discusses the cultures of the Middle East, especially the influence of Islam on various nations and people, with an emphasis on the developments in Egypt. Learn more about the status of Arab-American relations both at home and abroad, and explore the impact of the Arab Spring. Mark Willis First Encounter: Americans and Muslims in North Africa in World War II, 1942-1944 When General Eisenhower led U.S. Army troops ashore in North Africa in November 1942, it led to the first battles with the German army in the war. It was also the first time large numbers of Americans and Arab Muslims met and worked with each other as wary allies. Mark Willis explains the misunderstandings that arose from the cultural differences between the two peoples and the ways the terrible impact of war and the political reality of the French colonial presence increased the difficulties of the encounter. 75

World History, Cultures and Religions Mark Willis The “Arab Springs”: Diverse Societies in Revolt The Arab Spring has been widely hailed as a broad democratic movement rebelling against long-standing authoritarian regimes. It is not a single movement, however, but a diverse collection of important political and social protests and revolts with significant impacts on American interests. Mark Willis inspects the movement against the political and social backgrounds of the different countries involved, revealing a kaleidoscope of motivations, results and challenges.

Presenter Directory E. John B. Allen Professor Emeritus of History at Plymouth State University, John Allen was awarded the International Skiing History Association’s Lifetime Achievement Award in 2009. He serves as historian for the New England Ski Museum in Franconia, and is the author of several books, including From Skisport to Skiing: One Hundred Years of an American Sport, The Culture and Sport of Skiing from Antiquity to World War II and, in 2012, a Historical Dictionary of Skiing. A consultant to several ski history documentary films, he recently concluded an eight-lecture tour of Slovenia. Contact: PO Box 23, Rumney, NH 03266 Home: 603-744-8076 (June-Sept) Work: 603-786-9207 (Oct-May) • jallen@mail.plymouth.edu Program: New Hampshire on Skis (p. 55) Patrick D. Anderson Patrick D. Anderson, Gibney Distinguished Professor at ColbySawyer College, is a cultural historian who teaches American studies, film, and Native American studies courses. His research on indigenous peoples has taken him to the Pacific Northwest and Alaska, the American Southwest, and Central and South America. In Peru, he lived in the jungle with a Mayan family. Anderson has also written about Hollywood filmmaking and the Academy Awards and hosted a televised film review program, “Reel Talk.” He has degrees from the University of Notre Dame and the University of Michigan. Contact: PO Box 493, South Sutton, NH 03273 Home: 603-927-4708 Work: 603-526-3639 • panderso@colby-sawyer.edu Programs: • Movie Mavericks: Filmmakers who Challenge the Hollywood System (p. 28) • Native Modernism: Contemporary American Indian Literature, Sculpture, Painting and Glass (p. 28 & 38) • Northern Exposure: Native Cultures of the Pacific Northwest (p. 26) • Sennett, Chaplin, Keaton and the Art of Silent Film Comedy (p. 29) • Spirit of Place: Native Lands and Cultures of the American Southwest (p. 26) • Understanding the Movies: The Art of Film (p. 28) Cristina Ashjian Cristina Ashjian is an art historian and an independent scholar based in Moultonborough, where she is presently the chair of the Moultonborough Heritage Commission. Her current research focuses on late 19th and early 20th century country estates. Ashjian holds an MA in the History of Art from the

Presenter Directory Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London and a PhD in Modern Art and Architecture from Northwestern University. Contact: 361 Old Mountain Road, Moultonborough, NH 03254 Home: 603-476-8446 • cristina.ashjian@gmail.com Programs: Exemplary Country Estates of New Hampshire (p. 29) James B. Atkinson James Atkinson earned a PhD from Columbia University. He is co-author of two books describing the impact of the Cornish Colony on American culture and he is currently compiling a complete catalog of Charles A. Platt’s graphic art. Atkinson traveled to Italy to photograph Platt’s gardens a century after Platt’s 1894 book on the subject. His interest in the European Renaissance directed Atkinson’s attention to the effects of the American Renaissance in late 19th and early 20th century Cornish, New Hampshire. Contact: 3 Mourlyn Road, Hanover, NH 03755 Cell: 603-443-2899 • atholm@valley.net Programs: • Italian Gardens: Then and Now (p. 29) • New Hampshire, the Cornish Colony and the American Experience (p. 29) • Saving Buffalo and Cardinal: NH’s Early Environmentalist Earnest Baynes (p. 55) Marek Bennett Award-winning New Hampshire cartoonist Marek Bennett teaches music and comics around New England and the world beyond. He holds an M.Ed in Curriculum and Instruction from Keene State College, and is a rostered teaching artist with the NH State Council on the Arts. His publications include Nicaragua Comics Travel Journal and the travel webcomic Coffee+Dumpling+Komiks. Contact: 93 Bennett Road, Henniker, NH 03242 Home: 603-428-7049 • marek@marekbennett.com Programs: • Comics in World History and Cultures (p. 38 & 73) • Rally ‘Round the Flag: The American Civil War Through Folksong co-presented with Woody Pringle – contact Pringle to book (p. 51) Dan Billin Raised in the Lakes Region, Dan Billin earned a BA in Communications from Brigham Young University. He worked as a newspaper reporter for the Valley News in Lebanon, New 78

Hampshire for seventeen years. Billin’s passion for history and nose for a story led him to uncover a wealth of detail about the shocking and largely forgotten tale of the birth and death of Noyes Academy. He is working on a book about the legacy of three of the students. Contact: 91 Mascoma Street, Lebanon, NH 03766 Home: 603-448-1769 • danbillin@hotmail.com Programs: The Abolitionists of Noyes Academy (p. 58) Gerry Biron Gerry Biron’s career as a fine artist spans almost five decades. His interest in the Indians of the Northeast stems in part from his ancestry. His matrilineal grandmother, Clarissa Basque, was a Mi’kmaq from Nova Scotia. Though Basque died before he was born, her influence on his life has been profound and continues to shape and to direct the nature of his work. Since the early 1980s Biron has devoted himself to his artwork and to researching the exquisite beadwork created by Northeast tribes. He authored the publication Made of Thunder, Made of Glass: American Indian Beadwork of the Northeast, a definitive book on the topic. A bead worker since childhood, Biron has been professionally restoring American Indian beadwork for more than 20 years. Contact: PO Box 250, Saxton’s River, VT 05154-0250 Home: 802-869-2077 • suki@vermontel.net Programs: • Made of Thunder, Made of Glass: American Indian Beadwork of the Northeast (p. 30) Marcia Schmidt Blaine Marcia Schmidt Blaine is a historian of New Hampshire and New England history and Chair of the Department of History and Philosophy at Plymouth State University. While her academic work focuses on the development of American identity, eighteenth-century New Hampshire women, and Anglo captives of the Abenaki, Blaine also explores various aspects of White Mountains history through her work with the Museum of the White Mountains in Plymouth. Contact: Department of History and Philosophy, Memorial 204, MSC 30, Plymouth State University, Plymouth, NH 03264 Work: 603-535-2347 • mblaine@plymouth.edu Programs: • A Woman That Keeps Good Orders: Women, Tavern Keeping, and Public Approval (p. 58) • Hill Country Abandonment: 19th-Century Sandwich, NH (p. 58) 79

Presenter Directory • Runaway Wives: When Colonial Marriages Failed (p. 18) • Saving the Mountains: NH & the Creation of the National Forests (p. 55) Steve Blunt Steve Blunt is a singer/storyteller with more than 25 years’ experience in the arts and education. He became interested in the Hutchinson Family Singers on a visit to the NH Historical Society Museum in 2003, and joined the Humanities to Go roster in 2009. When not appearing in period costume, Blunt specializes in funny songs for kids and families and has two award-winning CDs to his credit. He holds a BA in English Literature from DePauw University and an MA in the Teaching of English from Teachers College-Columbia. Contact: 12 Burnett Street, Nashua, NH 03060 Home: 603-888-3866 • steveblunt@comcast.net Program: • Liberty Is Our Motto! Songs and Stories of the Hutchinson Family Singers (p. 44) Adam Boyce Adam Boyce, a 10th generation Vermonter and lifelong student of history, has been a popular Humanities to Go presenter since 2005. Beginning in 1991, when Boyce started dancing, fiddling, calling and playing the piano, he has made a study of nearly every aspect of traditional New England dancing and music history. Boyce has also been a regular on fiddle contest circuits as a judge, piano accompanist, and as a competitor. Contact: 1076 Rush Meadow Road, Reading, VT 05062 Home: 802-484-7719 • adamrboyce@juno.com Programs: • Old Time Rules Will Prevail: The Fiddle Contest in New Hampshire and New England (p. 51) • Ralph Page, Dean of American Folk Dancing (p. 44) • The Old Country Fiddler: Charles Ross Taggart, Traveling Entertainer (p. 44) Carrie Brown Carrie Brown holds a PhD in American Literature and Folklore from the University of Virginia. She is an independent scholar who also works as a freelance history curator for museums in New England. She has curated two exhibitions on the Civil War for the American Precision Museum, as well as exhibitions on

the history of aviation, the early years of the automobile, and the bicycle. The author of two books and many articles and exhibit catalogs, Brown delights in finding connections between changing technology and the evolution of popular culture. Contact: 96 King Road, Etna, NH 03750 Home: 603-643-4950 • csb@carrie-brown.com Programs: • Winning the War, Shaping the Peace: Industry, Civil War, and the Birth of Consumerism (p. 18) Margo Burns Margo Burns is the 10th generation great-granddaughter of Rebecca Nurse, who was hanged in Salem in 1692 on the charge of witchcraft. She is the project manager and an associate editor of Records of the Salem Witch-Hunt, published in 2009 by Cambridge University Press. This work is the definitive collection of transcriptions of the legal records of the episode. Burns currently works at St. Paul’s School, where she is the director of The Language Center. Contact: 42 Candia Road, Manchester, NH 03109 Cell; 603-860-4942 • margoburns@gmail.com Programs: • The Capital Crime of Witchcraft: What the Primary Sources Tell Us (p. 18 & 35) Paul Christesen Paul Christesen holds a BA in History and Classics from Dartmouth College and an MA and PhD in Ancient History from Columbia University. He is an associate professor in the Department of Classics at Dartmouth College, where his teaching and scholarship center around social history, with a particular focus on athletics and economics. Christesen has written two books, Ancient Greek History and Olympic Victor Lists, and twenty articles. He is currently co-editing (with Donald Kyle) the Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Sport and Spectacle in Greece and Rome. Contact: 201 Reed Hall, Department of Classics, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH 03755 Work: 603-646-2073 • paul.christesen@dartmouth.edu Home: pchristesen@hotmail.com Programs: Sports, Meritocracy, and Democracy in the Ancient and Modern Worlds (p. 24)

Presenter Directory Edie Clark Writer, editor, journalist, essayist and lecturer, Edie Clark has written extensively about New England in award-winning feature stories for more than thirty years. She is a Fellow at The MacDowell Colony, Hedgebrook Writer’s Colony, and a Visiting Writer at Northern Michigan University. Clark also teaches writing and journalism at the graduate and undergraduate level. Her essay, “Mary’s Farm,” is a regular and beloved feature in Yankee magazine. Clark also writes a regular feature for Yankee on home cooks. Clark’s books include Monadnock Tales; The View from Mary’s Farm; Saturday Beans and Sunday Suppers: Kitchen Stories from Mary’s Farm; The Place He Made; States of Grace: Encounters with Real Yankees; and Night Sky, an audiobook. Contact: PO Box 112, Dublin, NH 03444 Home: 603-563-8197 • ediec@gis.net Programs: • Baked Beans and Fried Clams: How Food Defines A Region (p. 38) • Monadnock Tales (p. 39) • New England: Myth or Reality? (p. 39) • Writing from Home (p. 39) Paul Combs Paul Combs earned an MA in Performance from the University of Massachusetts and a BA in Music from the Philadelphia Musical Academy. He has performed as a professional musician for more than 30 years and has appeared with a number of renowned musicians. Combs is a saxophonist, composer and arranger and the author of a forthcoming book on the major jazz composer Tadd Dameron, to be published by the University of Michigan Press. Contact: 14 Berkshire Place, Cambridge, MA 02141 Work: 617-576-1004 • pcomb@comcast.net • bcottrell@conwaypubliclibrary.org Programs: • A Sound Track for The Great Gatsby: Music of the Jazz Age (p. 51) • Listening for Form in Jazz (p. 51) Bob Cottrell Bob Cottrell holds an MA from the Winterthur Program in Early American Culture in Delaware. The founding director of the Remick Country Doctor Museum in Tamworth, he is now the Curator of the Henney History Room at the Conway Public Library, a Board member at the Conway Historical Society, and President ex-officio of the Tamworth Historical Society. He serves as an independent history and museum consultant. 82

Contact: 124 Tewksbury Drive, PO Box 58, Chocorua, NH 03817 Cell: 603-323-3359 • Work: 603-447-5552 • chinook1618@gmail.com Programs: • Harnessing History: On the Trail of New Hampshire’s State Dog, the Chinook (p. 56) Valerie Cunningham An award-winning independent scholar and founder of the Portsmouth Black Heritage Trail, Valerie Cunningham lectures locally and nationally on the often-overlooked and usually surprising history of African Americans in New Hampshire. She has co-authored a book and has written many articles on the subject, in addition to creating custom group tours of black history sites in northern New England and beyond. Contact: 52D Manor Drive, Portsmouth, NH 03801 Cell: 603-380-1231 • nhblackhistory@aol.com Programs: • An Armchair Tour of New Hampshire’s Black History Sites (p. 58) • Dinah Whipple: Freed Slave, Wife of Prince and “Teacher of the African Children” (p. 59) • Pomp Spring: President of the African Society in New Hampshire, 1807 (p. 59) • The Story of New Hampshire’s Historic African Burying Ground (p. 59) Jere Daniell A retired Dartmouth College history professor, Jere Daniell taught courses on Colonial America, the American Revolution, the History of New England, and the New England Town. Daniell’s scholarship - he’s published four books - and HumanitiesTo Go programs focus on New Hampshire. He’s lectured in about three quarters of the state’s 235 towns and cities, frequently on the history of the community where he’s speaking. Daniell’s formal education reflects his regionalism. He graduated from public high school in Millinocket, Maine; from Phillips Exeter Academy; and from Dartmouth. He trained at Harvard to become a historian and in 1964 received a PhD. Contact: 11 Barrymore Road, Hanover, NH 03755-2401 Home: 603-643-2747 • jere.r.daniell@dartmouth.edu Programs: • Colonial New Hampshire (p. 59) • New Hampshire Towns and the Civil War (p. 60) • Ratification of the Constitution in New Hampshire (p. 60) • Revolutionary New Hampshire (p. 60) • The New England Town (p.19 & 60) 83

Presenter Directory Mohammed Defaa Mohammed Defaa earned an MA in Communication and Expression at the University Mohamed V in Rabat, Morocco, and a BA in French Language and Literature from the University Ibn Tofail in Kénitra, Morocco. Defaa has served as an assistant professor of Communication and Cultural Expression at the University Hassan the Second in Casablanca Morocco; a college instructor in New Hampshire and Massachusetts; and a high school French and Arabic teacher in Merrimack, NH and in the St Paul’s School Advanced Studies Program. Contact: 30 Lamson Drive, Merrimack, NH 03054 Cell: 603-930-9765 • Work: 603-424-6204 • mdefaa@gmail.com Programs: • An Introduction to Sufism, the Spiritual Path in Islam (p. 73) • The Middle East (p. 73)

Elena Dodd Elena Dodd earned an MA in English from Boston University and an MFA in Writing from Vermont College. She has performed throughout the United States and in France, Germany, China, India, Micronesia and Vietnam for audiences of all ages. Contact: c/o Ellen Weiner, Agent, 2411 Bay Road, Sharon, MA 02067 Work: 781-784-6394 • elweiner@comcast.net Programs: Meet Eleanor Roosevelt (p. 45)

Neill DePaoli Neill DePaoli earned a PhD from the University of New Hampshire and has more than 30 years experience in the study of the history and historical archaeology of New England. Contact: 76 Northwest Street, Portsmouth, NH 03801 Home: 603-766-0561 • ndppquid@yahoo.com Programs: • A House on the Bay: Life on 17th-Century New Hampshire’s Coastal Frontier (p. 60) • Astride Two Worlds: The Odd Adventures of John Gyles (p. 61)

Charles Doleac Charles Doleac is an attorney with Boynton, Waldron, Doleac, Woodman and Scott in Portsmouth. He creates seminars on East/West comparative cultures and professional ethics, and is president and co-founder of the Japan America Society of NH. The author of An Uncommon Commitment to Peace: Portsmouth Peace Treaty 1905, he created the treaty’s authoritative website and its 100th anniversary museum exhibit. In 2011 Doleac received Japan’s imperial decoration, the Order of the Rising Sun Gold Rays with Rosette, for his efforts in promoting the treaty as a model for citizen involvement in multilateral diplomacy’s conflict resolution. Contact: 82 Court Street, Portsmouth, NH 03801 Work: 603-436-4010 • cdoleac@nhlawfirm.com Program: • Teddy Roosevelt’s Nobel Prize: New Hampshire and the Portsmouth Peace Treaty (p. 61)

Robin DeRosa Robin DeRosa is Professor of English at Plymouth State University. Her recent books include: The Making of Salem: The Witch Trials in History, Fiction and Tourism and Simulation in Media and Culture: Believing the Hype. DeRosa researches how we remember and represent our early American history in narrative and at tourist sites. She lives in Campton with her husband, sculptor Phil Lonergan, and their daughter. Contact: MSC 40, Department of English, Plymouth State University, Plymouth, NH 03264 Work: 603-535-3147 • rderosa@plymouth.edu Program: Witches, Pop Culture, and the Past (p. 19)

Aine Donovan Aine Donovan, Director of the Ethics Institute at Dartmouth College, is a professor at both the Business School and the Medical School at Dartmouth. Her primary areas of research and publication are in applied ethics, business, medicine, the military and education. Prior to her tenure at Dartmouth, she was a professor of military ethics at the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland. Contact: Dartmouth College, Ethics Institute, 27 North Main Street, Hanover, NH 03755 Work: 603-646-1299 • aine.donovan@dartmouth.edu Program: Honor in a Time of Moral Uncertainty (p. 35)

Presenter Directory Martha Andrews Donovan Martha Andrews Donovan’s writing has appeared in numerous publications. The author of the chapbook Dress Her in Silk, she is working on a memoir, Dangerous Archaeology: A Daughter’s Search for Her Mother (and Others). Donovan’s research and writing are driven by her discovery of letters, diaries, photographs, and other artifacts and ephemera from her mother’s childhood in rural South India where she was the daughter of missionaries. Professor of Writing at New England College, Donovan and her co-presenter Maura MacNeil have long taught students to tell their stories and look forward to working with public audiences. Two-person. Contact: 6 Old Mill Pond Road, Henniker, NH 03242 Home: 603-428-8304 • mdonovan@nec.edu Programs: Family, Memory, Place: Writing Family Stories (p. 70) Lawrence Douglas Lawrence Douglas is an independent scholar. He has taught classes and courses at all levels from elementary through graduate school throughout 33 years of teaching experience. His primary areas of interest have been Twentieth Century America, U.S. Diplomatic History, U.S. Military History, and Leadership and Management. Other programs and presentations have been inspired by his 39-year naval career, which included active duty aboard submarines in the 1950s and an assignment as General Schwarzkopf’s Command Historian during the first Gulf War (Desert Storm). Note: Douglas is available to present programs from June through October. Email is the best way to contact him but he can also be reached by phone. Contact: 74 School Street, Bristol, NH 03222 Home: 603-744-2872 (June – Oct) • lhdmariner@yahoo.com Home: 305-294-1012 (Nov – May) Programs: Down and Out in America: the Great Depression (p. 19) Gordon DuBois Gordon DuBois worked at the Laconia State School from 1979 to 1991. He wrote and co-directed the documentary film, “Lost in Laconia.” DuBois served as adjunct faculty at the University of Southern Maine, the University of New Hampshire, Durham, and the New Hampshire Community Colleges. DuBois has lectured extensively on the history of the Laconia State School throughout New Hampshire and in several other states. Before retirement Dubois was the Training Coordinator for the N.H. Bureau of Developmental Services. Contact: 27 Forest Pond Road, New Hampton, NH 03256 86

Home: 603-279-0379 • Cell: 603-707-2340 • forestpd@metrocast.net Programs: • Laconia State School, Understanding Our Past to Create a Better Future for People with Disabilities (p. 61) Diana Durham Diana Durham tells the story of our times through the grail myth and poetry. She is the author of The Return of King Arthur: Completing the Quest for Wholeness; two poetry collections, Sea of Glass and To the End of the Night; and an audio-play retelling of the grail legend entitled “Perceval & the Grail.” She earned an MA in English Literature from University College, London and was Visiting Research Scholar at the Women’s Studies Research Center at Brandeis University in 2010 and 2011. Contact: 15 Thornton Street, Portsmouth, NH 03801 Home: 603-433-0150 • Cell: 603-380-8658 • Diana-Durham@earthlink.net Programs: • Grail Mania: 21st Century Retelling of 12th Century Heresy (p. 39) • Why Poetry is Important: The Poet as Shaman (p. 40) Scott Eaton A staff attorney for the New Hampshire legislature for more than 25 years, Scott Eaton earned his BSE in aerospace engineering from the University of Michigan and his JD from the Franklin Pierce Law Center. Eaton’s abiding interest in history, including the history of World War II and of flight, led to his fascination with the life and work of aviator and author Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. Contact: 118 Hollis Street, Manchester, NH 03101 Home: 603-625-4827 • sfeavocat@aol.com Program: • Antoine de Saint-Exupéry: The Man Who Wrote The Little Prince (p. 40) Jennifer Fluri Jennifer L. Fluri is an associate professor in the Geography Department and Women’s and Gender Studies Program at Dartmouth College. Her research is regionally focused in South Asia, with an emphasis on Afghanistan. Fluri examines geopolitics, gender politics, and the geo-economics of international military, aid, and development interventions in the region. She has published articles in academic journals including Political Geography; Gender, Place and Culture, the Journal of Geography in Higher Education, and ACME: International Journal of Critical 87

Presenter Directory Geographies. Fluri also provides consultation and programs for education, government, and non-government organizations. Contact: c/o Frumie Selchen, Arts Alliance of Northern NH, PO Box 892, Littleton, NH 03561 Work: 603-323-7302 • frumie@aannh.org Programs: • Big and Small Players in the New Great Game: Afghanistan and its Region (p. 73) Alice Fogel Alice Fogel’s third book, Be That Empty, was a national poetry bestseller in 2008. In 2009, Strange Terrain, a book based on her HTG program on how not to “get” poetry, came out. Alice’s poems have appeared in many journals and anthologies, including Best American Poetry, and she has received a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and other awards. A teacher of writing and other arts, Fogel has long presented and led workshops for a variety of audiences and venues. Contact: PO Box 25, Acworth, NH 03601 Home: 603-835-6783 • alicebfogel@hotmail.com Programs: • Strange Terrain: How Not To “Get” Poetry & Let It Get You Instead (p. 40) Marina Forbes Marina Forbes earned an MA in Philology from the University of St. Petersburg, Russia. She is a lecturer, historian and awardwinning artist who has written extensively on Russian traditional arts, history and the rich tapestry of Russian culture. She is licensed with the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, and is featured on the NH Council on the Arts Rosters for Arts in Education and Traditional Arts. Each year, Forbes leads cultural tours to Russia where she regularly updates her scholarship, gathering photos and documents, visiting craft factories, Gulag sites and monasteries, and interviewing journalists, political figures, and scholars on the current state of affairs in Russia. Forbes’ talks are sometimes a little bit funny, sometimes a little bit sad, but always unmistakably Russian. Contact: 16 Hillside Drive, Rochester, NH 03867 Work: 603-332-2255 • marina@marinaforbes.com Programs: • Imperial Russian Fabergé Eggs (p. 30) • Inside Russia Today (p. 74) • Portsmouth Peace Treaty: The Russian Perspective (p. 74) • Russian Iconography: 1,000 Years of Tradition (p. 30) 88

• Russian Lacquer Boxes: From Craft to Fine Art (p. 30) • Traditional Matryoshka Nested Doll Making: from Russia to New Hampshire (p. 31) Martin Fox Martin Fox is fascinated by what the visual arts can tell us about the past and present. Professor of Art History at the New Hampshire Institute of Art, Martin specializes in modern, contemporary, and American art, and the history of prints and photography. He has contributed as an editor to the creation of catalogs for museums including New Hampshire’s Currier Museum of Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, the International Center of Photography, and the Huntington Library. Fox holds a Master’s from Stanford University. Contact: 237 Varney Street, Manchester, NH 03102 Home: 603-622-5792 • martinlfox@msn.com Programs: • Fixing a Shadow: The Origins of Photography (p. 31) • Introducing America to Americans: Documentary Photographs of the 1930s (p. 31) Ginny Gage Chautauquans Lew and Ginny Gage have been studying and visiting the Gettysburg battlefield and other Civil War sites for more than 30 years. They have presented their “Civilians of Gettysburg” program to historical societies in New Hampshire and Vermont and at Civil War Round Tables throughout New England. A retired career fire chief with more than 26 years in service, Lew’s interest in the Civil War and Civil War firefighters began almost simultaneously with his own fire department service. Contact: 365 East Road, Cornish, NH 03745 Home: 603-542-4664 • lewandginny1863@comcast.net Program: Civilians of Gettysburg, 1863 (with Lew Gage) (p. 45) Lew Gage Chautauquans Lew and Ginny Gage have been studying and visiting the Gettysburg battlefield and other Civil War sites for more than 30 years. They have presented their “Civilians of Gettysburg” program to historical societies in New Hampshire and Vermont and at Civil War Round Tables throughout New England. A retired career fire chief with more than 26 years in service, Lew’s interest in the Civil War and Civil War firefighters began almost simultaneously with his own fire department service. Contact: 365 East Road, Cornish, NH 03745 Home: 603-542-4664 • lewandginny1863@comcast.net Programs:

Presenter Directory • Civilians of Gettysburg, 1863 (with Ginny Gage) (p. 45) • Firefighters in the Civil War (p. 19) Greg Gathers Greg Gathers, Co-Artistic Director of Pontine Theatre, holds a BFA from the Cleveland Institute of Art. He has been designing and constructing Pontine’s sets, costumes and props since 1982. Gathers has collaborated with Marguerite Mathews on the research, development and performance of Pontine’s work since 1984. Pontine Theatre specializes in original works based on the history and literature of New England. The company has presented performances, workshops and residencies at Keene State, Bates and Dartmouth Colleges, Plymouth State University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, the Decordova Museum, and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, among others Contact: Pontine Theatre, 959 Islington Street, Portsmouth, NH 03802-1437 Work: 603-436-6660 • info@pontine.org Programs co-presented with Marguerite Mathews: • Familiar Fields: The Power of Community in the Work of Sarah Orne Jewett (p. 40) • Pretty Halcyon Days, on the beach with Ogden Nash (p. 40) • Silver Lake Summers: An E.E. Cummings Revue (p. 41) Joan Gatturna Joan Gatturna is an actor, storyteller, and writer. She is a graduate of the University of Connecticut and Simmons College, and she studied vocal performance at the Longy School of Music in Cambridge, MA. She is a former teacher, librarian and museum educator who combines her skills as a researcher and performer to create lively and unforgettable stories. Gatturna has been named a Creative Teaching Partner of the Massachusetts Cultural Council and is on the touring roster of the New England Foundation for the Arts. Contact: c/o Ellen Weiner, Agent, 2411 Bay Road, Sharon, MA 02067 Work: 781-784-6394 • elweiner@comcast.net Programs: • Petticoat Patriot: A Woman in the Continental Army (p. 46) • The Other Side of the Midnight Ride: A Visit with Rachel Revere (p. 46) John Gfroerer John Gfroerer is a documentary producer and owner of Accompany, a video production company based at the Capitol Center for the Arts in Concord. He has produced over 40 documentaries, 90

ranging from profiles of towns along the Maine Coast to a history of the New Hampshire Presidential Primary. Gfroerer’s work has been aired on public television stations, The History Channel, and many other venues. Contact: Accompany, 44 South Main Street, Concord, NH 03301 Cell: 603-545-2676 • accompanyu@aol.com Programs: • Powerful As Truth (p. 33) • Rights & Reds (p. 33) • World War Two New Hampshire (p. 33) Robert Goodby Robert Goodby is an associate professor of Anthropology at Franklin Pierce University in Rindge. He holds a PhD in anthropology from Brown University, and has devoted his career to the study of Native American archaeological sites in New England. He is an executive board member of the Monadnock Institute of Nature, Place and Culture at Franklin Pierce, where he founded and directs the Monadnock Archaeological Project, is a past president of the New Hampshire Archeological Society, is a Trustee of the Mount Kearsarge Indian Museum in Warner, and was recently appointed by New Hampshire Governor John Lynch to the newly-created New Hampshire Commission on Native American Affairs. In 2010 he directed the excavations of four 12,000 year old Paleoindian dwelling sites at the Tenant Swamp site in Keene. Contact: Franklin Pierce University, 40 University Drive, Rindge, NH 03461 Home: 603-446-2366 • Work: 603-899-4362 • goodbyr@franklinpierce.edu Programs: • Digging Into Native History in New Hampshire (p. 26) • 12,000 Years Ago in the Granite State (p. 26) Clia Goodwin Clia Goodwin became interested in humanities as an undergrad and took her MA in interdisciplinary study in the medieval and modern periods. After earning her PhD in Comparative Medieval Literature from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, she taught English literature and humanities courses for more than 20 years, most of those at UNH Durham. Goodwin is a member of the Medieval Academy of America. Outside of work, she enjoys solo and choral singing. Highlights were Christmas and July 4th performances with the Boston Pops. Goodwin also spends time gardening at her home in Dover, NH. Contact: 43 Hough Street, Dover, NH 03820-3035 Home: 603-742-7438 • cmdg@comcast.net Programs: • A Woman’s Take on Courtly Love: The Lais of Marie de France (p. 41)

Presenter Directory • J.R.R. Tolkien and the Uses of Fantasy (p. 41) • The Arthurian Revival in New England: The Clash of the Ideal and the Real (p. 41) Ingrid Graff Ingrid Graff has been a long-time speaker for the Humanities Council and is a recipient of the Council’s William L. Dunfey Award. She has lectured for many different organizations, including The Jane Austen Society of North America and Road Scholar, and has taught classes for Granite State College. Graff was the school librarian for Gorham, NH for 10 years and won the NHEMA Award for Excellence in Library Services in 2007. She is an avid reader and gardener. Contact: 272 Randolph Hill Road, Randolph, NH 03593 Home: 603-466-5736 • igraff@ne.rr.com Programs: • Not In Front of the Children: The Art and Importance of Fairy Tales (p. 41) • The Case of the Detective Who Refused to Die: Arthur Conan Doyle and Sherlock Holmes (p. 42) Mahboubul Hassan Mahboubul Hassan is Professor of Finance and Economics at Southern New Hampshire University. Prior to joining the SNHU faculty, Hassan was an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Business Administration, Dhaka University, Bangladesh. He worked as a Consultant for UNICEF and as a Program Officer for the United Nations Development Program. Recognized in 2000 with SNHU’s Excellence in Teaching Award, Hassan also received the State of NH Dr. Martin Luther King Peace Award in 2007. Contact: Southern New Hampshire University, Economics & Finance Department, 2500 N River Road, Manchester NH 03106 Work: 603-644-3187 • m.hassan@snhu.edu Program: Introduction to Islam (p. 74) Richard Hesse Professor Emeritus at the UNH School of Law, Richard Hesse has published on a variety of legal and ethical topics. He served as a community lawyer in Philadelphia, heading a police community relations project before moving to Boston to head a national project focused on the rights of consumers. His academic concentration is on state and federal constitutional law and international human rights. Hesse has been an advocate for civil and human rights for more than 45 years and was twice awarded the Bill of Rights Award by the New Hampshire Civil Liberties Union. 92

Contact: 438 Putney Hill Road, Hopkinton, NH 03229 Home: 603-746-4708 • r.hesse@comcast.net Programs: • A Conversation with John Marshall (p. 35 & 45) • Civil Liberties vs. National Security (p. 36) • Daniel Webster and the Dartmouth College Case (p. 36) • Daniel Webster: New Hampshire’s First Favorite Son (p. 36) • Free Speech in a Free Society (p. 35) • Religious Freedom Then and Now (p. 36) • The Founding Fathers: What Were They Thinking? (p. 19 & 37) • The U.S. Supreme Court: How Does It Operate? (p. 36) Alan R. Hoffman Alan R. Hoffman obtained his BA in History from Yale College and JD from Harvard Law School. He “discovered” Lafayette in 2002 and spent two years translating Auguste Levasseur’s Lafayette in America in 1824 and 1825, the first-hand account of Lafayette’s Farewell Tour of America, which was published in 2007. President of the American Friends of Lafayette and the Massachusetts Lafayette Society, Hoffman has lectured in 15 of the 24 states that Lafayette visited on the Farewell Tour. Contact: 45 Hardy Road, Londonderry, NH 03053 Home: 603-432-3440 • arhoffman@lynchbrewer.com Programs: • Lafayette and the Farewell Tour: An American Idol (p. 20) • Lafayette: Symbol of Franco-American Friendship (p. 20) Katherine Hoffman Katherine Hoffman is Chairperson and Professor of Fine Arts at St. Anselm College, where she has worked since 1990. She received her BA from Smith College and PhD from New York University. Hoffman has also served as Fulbright Distinguished Chair at the Karl Franzens University in Graz, Austria, and as the Dorothy K. Hohenberg Chair of Excellence at the University of Memphis. Further, she has been a Hamad Bin Khalifa Fellow in Qatar, and fellow at the American Center for Oriental Research in Amman, Jordan. Hoffman has written seven books and numerous articles, along with giving lectures and conference papers nationally and internationally. Her most recent books concern the work of the photographer, Alfred Stieglitz: Stieglitz: A Beginning Light, and Alfred Stieglitz: A Legacy of Light. Hoffman teaches courses in 19th, 20th and 21st century European and American art, including the history of photography and film.

Presenter Directory Contact: 50 Wilder Farm Road, Peterborough, NH 03458 Home: 603-924-9535 • kathy.hoffman@gmail.com Programs: • Alfred Stieglitz, The Stieglitz Circle and the Rise of Modernism (p. 31) • Islamic Art and Architecture: Bridging East and West (p. 31 & 74) Annette M. Holba Annette M. Holba earned a PhD from Duquesne University. She is an associate professor in the Department of Communication and Media Studies at Plymouth State University. Her scholarly interests include philosophy of communication, communication ethics, and rhetorical criticism. Holba has published several books including Philosophical Leisure: Recuperative Praxis for Human Communication and Lizzie Borden Took an Axe or Did She? She has also published numerous scholarly articles in the area of philosophy of communication and rhetorical studies, using the case of Lizzie Borden as an exemplar. Holba’s research interests include human communication, philosophy of communication, and Lizzie Borden studies. Contact: 10 Champagne Circle, Campton, NH 03223 Home: 603-536-3450 • Work: 603-535-2856 • aholba@plymouth. edu Programs: Lizzie Borden Took an Axe, Or Did She? (p. 20) Whitney Howarth Plymouth State University Associate Professor Whitney Howarth holds a PhD in World History from Northeastern University. Whitney will focus on the language, place/home, identity, and “cultural encounter” aspects of the “Uprooted” story. As a world historian who teaches about genocide, global conflict, cultural assimilation, and international exchange, Howarth can guide discussion beyond local issues to related national and international topics of interest to the audience. Contact: Plymouth State University, 17 High Street, MSC #30, Plymouth, NH 03264 Work: 603-535-3204 • wbhowarth@plymouth.edu Programs: Uprooted: Heartache and Hope in New Hampshire (p. 34) Thomas Hubka Thomas Hubka earned his Bachelor’s in Architecture from Carnegie-Mellon University and Master’s from the University of Oregon. His publications include Big House, Little House, Back House Barn: The Connected Farm Buildings of New England; Resplendent Synagogue: Architecture and Worship in an 18th 94

Century Polish Community; and the forthcoming Houses without Names: Architecture Nomenclature and the Classification of America’s Common Houses. Hubka’s research primarily interprets the historic development and relationships between architecture/buildings and culture/people. Contact: 7339 SE 31st Avenue, Portland, OR 97202 Home: 971-279-2097 • Cell: 414-336-5478 while in NH traveling thubka@uwm.edu Programs: • Big House, Little House, Back House, Barn: The Connected Farm Buildings of New England (p. 32) Note: Only available in summer. Emery Hutchins Mac McHale and Emery Hutchins are musicians who play and sing a unique combination of Celtic and American country music. In their performances they seek to show the connection between the two genres. McHale has been well known in Bluegrass music for decades and has been inducted into the International Bluegrass Music Museum as a Pioneer of Bluegrass music. Hutchins is a renowned performer of a variety of different styles of acoustic music ranging from traditional Irish tunes to vintage American country music songs. Music preservationists and performers, their program demonstrates that to understand the music of a culture is to understand the heart of a culture. Contact: PO Box 663, York, ME 03909 Home: 207-363-7391 • ehutchins@maine.rr.com Programs: A Night of Music with Two Old Friends (with Mac MacHale) (p. 52) Note: Not available in December, January or February. Eric Stephan Jadaszewski Eric Stephan Jadaszewski was born in rural Florida. He learned to speak, read, and write Polish as a child. As a teenager, Jadaszewski visited family in Poland and as an adult has toured the country extensively. Jadaszewski is an independent scholar and armor smith, reproducing primarily historical armor. Contact: 42 Brush Brook Road, Dublin, NH 03444 Home: 603-563-8054 • jrjada@myfairpoint.net Programs: • Winged Hussars of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, 1576-1696 (p. 74) Ronald Jager 95

Presenter Directory Ronald Jager is a former professor of philosophy at Yale University. In recent years he has been an independent scholar and writer living in Washington, NH. Besides publications in philosophy, Jager has written books on NH history and on farming and rural life. Among the latter is Last House on the Road, The Fate of Family Farming, and his memoir Eighty Acres. Contact: 1412 Half Moon Pond Road, Washington, NH 03280 Home: 603-495-3618 • rjager@gsinet.net Programs: Meetinghouse: The Heart of Washington, New Hampshire (p. 34) Donald J. Johnson Professor Emeritus, New York University, Donald Johnson earned a PhD at NYU and went on to teach Hinduism and Asian and World History there. He led on-site graduate programs in India and China. Johnson has worked in many school systems around the country, introducing Asian and World history into curriculums, while serving on the National Commission for Asia in the Schools. Johnson is the author and co-author of numerous books, including Universal Religions in World History, Gods and God in Hinduism, Multi-Culturalism: In the Curriculum, in the Disciplines, and in Society, and Teaching About India. Contact: 695 Clement Hill Road, Deering, NH 03244 Home: 603-529-7764 • djj1@gsinet.net Programs: • Gandhi: The Man and his Teaching (p. 37) • Hindu Worldview (p. 75) Note: Availability limited to May through November. Charles A. Kennedy Charles Kennedy earned a PhD from Yale University’s Department of Near Eastern Languages and Literatures. He is Professor Emeritus at Virginia Polytechnic Institute. Kennedy has published widely on the subject of the Bible and early Christian life and teaches adult-education classes at Colby-Sawyer College on such varied topics as Islam, religions in America and vaudeville. Kennedy is an ordained minister in the United Church of Christ. Contact: 229 Old Province Road, PO Box 112, Newbury, NH 03255 Home: 603-763-9806 • chask@myfairpoint.net Programs: A Short Course on Islam for Non-Muslims (p. 75) Karolyn Kinane Karolyn Kinane, PhD, has been teaching, lecturing and 96

publishing on medieval English literature and culture for fourteen years. She has won awards for her work on female saints and she is the author of End of Days: Essays on the Apocalypse from Antiquity to Modernity. Kinane is a Professor of English at Plymouth State University and specializes in Arthurian legends, Chaucer, and how the “medieval” is recycled and repackaged into our contemporary culture. Contact: Dept. of English, MSC 40, 17 High Street, Plymouth, NH 03264 Work: 603-525-2402 kkinane@plymouth.edu Programs: Evolving English: From Beowulf & Chaucer to Texts & Tweets (p. 42) Calvin Knickerbocker Calvin Knickerbocker is an independent scholar with a degree in electrical engineering from Union College and thirty years experience in marketing and education at IBM. He developed and delivered a dozen courses on American musical history for Rivier Institute for Education (RISE) at Rivier University and has presented in retirement communities, senior centers and other venues in New Hampshire and New York. Contact: 12 Crestview Terrace, Nashua, NH 03060 Home: 603-579-0603 • calknick2@juno.com Programs: • Motivating The WWII Home Front via Magazine and Radio Advertising (p. 42) • Wacky Songs that Made Us Laugh (p. 52) • “Your Hit Parade:” Twenty-five Years Presenting America’s Top Popular Songs (p. 52) Glenn Knoblock Glenn Knoblock has a BA in History from Bowling Green State University in Ohio. Since his move to NH nearly 30 years ago, he has specialized in researching and writing about a variety of aspects of Granite State history. Among the thirteen books Knoblock has written are New Hampshire Covered Bridges, Brewing in New Hampshire (with James Gunter), and Historic Burial Grounds of the New Hampshire Seacoast. He has a forthcoming book on the history of American clipper ships. Knoblock is also an expert in African American military history and not only offers several lectures in this area, but has worked extensively as the primary military contributor to Harvard and Oxford University Press’s African American National Biography Project. Contact: 26 Elm Street, PO Box 2, Wolfeboro Falls, NH 03896 Home: 603-569-9209 • glennknob1@juno.com

Presenter Directory Programs: • African American Soldiers and Sailors of New Hampshire during the American Revolution (p. 21 & 61) • African American Submariners of World War II and Beyond (p. 21) • African American Warriors: Medal of Honor Recipients from the Civil War through the Vietnam War (p. 21) • Brewing in New Hampshire: An Informal History of Beer in the Granite State from Colonial Times to the Present (p. 62) • Covered Bridges of New Hampshire (p. 62) • Historic Iron and Steel Bridges of New Hampshire (p. 62) • New Hampshire and the American Clipper Ship Era (p. 63) • New Hampshire Cemeteries and Gravestones (p. 63)

Dudley Laufman received the highest honor for traditional artists, the National Heritage Fellowship, in 2009. He received the 2001 NH Governor’s Arts Award for Lifetime Achievement. In 1999, Laufman and Jacqueline Laufman presented at the Smithsonian FolkLife Festival in Washington, DC. Laufman has been playing fiddle and calling for contra and square dances for 64 years. With Jacqueline Laufman he authored Traditional Barn Dances and recorded several CDs. Under Laufman’s leadership the Canterbury Orchestra produced five recordings. Contact: PO Box 61, Canterbury, NH 03224 Home: 603-783-4719 • jdlaufman@comcast.net Program: Contra Dancing In New Hampshire Then and Now (p. 52)

Allen Koop Allen Koop earned a PhD from the University of Pennsylvania. Koop currently teaches European and American history at Dartmouth College and has published books and articles on New Hampshire and American history including Stark Decency: German Prisoners of War in a New England Village. Contact: PO Box 1014, New London, NH 03257-1014 Home: 603-526-4523 • allen.koop@dartmouth.edu Programs: • Darby Field and the “First” Ascent of Mount Washington (p. 56) • Stark Decency: New Hampshire’s World War II German Prisoner of War Camp (p. 63) • The White Mountain Huts: Past & Future (p. 56)

Rachel Lehr A visiting scholar at Dartmouth College, Rachel Lehr founded Rubia, Inc., a non-profit that supports rural women in Afghanistan through education and the promotion of economic independence. Lehr’s scholarship has focused on dialects of Persian spoken in Iran, Tajikistan and Afghanistan. She has served as a cultural consultant for the State Department and the military while completing her doctorate in linguistics at University of Chicago. Her dissertation focuses on Pashai, an endangered language spoken in Darrai Nur, a rural mountain community in eastern Afghanistan. Contact: c/o Frumie Selchen, Arts Alliance of Northern NH, PO Box 892, Littleton, NH 03561 Work: 603-323-7302 • frumie@aannh.org Program: • Big and Small Players in the New Great Game: Afghanistan and its Region (p. 73)

John Krueckeberg Plymouth State University Professor of History John Krueckeberg teaches U.S. history and other courses. His research into the life and times of Raymond Swing served as his introduction to the history of immigration and refugee flights to the US in the World War II era, specifically the Emergency Rescue Committee that saved thousands from Nazi-occupied France. Krueckeberg uses this to contextualize current immigration and refugee issues related to the documentary “Uprooted.” Krueckeberg and a colleague coordinate the National History Day competition for NH high school students. Contact: 48 Vista Lane, Plymouth, NH 03264 Work: 603-535-2332 • jkrueckeberg@plymouth.edu Programs: Uprooted: Heartache and Hope in New Hampshire (p. 34) Dudley Laufman 98

Jose Lezcano Jose Lezcano earned a PhD from Florida State University. He is Professor of Music at Keene State College. Lezcano is a Cuban-American guitarist, composer, folklorist, and music educator and has published articles on South American, Caribbean, and Afro-Cuban music and musicians. Lezcano has captivated audiences on four continents. His programs of Latin American music, his own original compositions, and his traditional repertory have taken him from Carnegie Recital Hall to important venues in Germany, China, Peru, the Czech Republic, Ecuador, and Colombia. Contact: 47 Taylor Street, Keene, NH 03431 Work: 603-358-2180 • jlezcano@keene.edu Programs: 99

Presenter Directory • The Guitar and the Devil: Music, Magic, and Ritual Among Ecuadorian Indians (p. 75) • The Guitar in Latin America: Continuities, Changes and Bicultural Strumming (p. 53) Sebastian Lockwood Storyteller and teacher, Sebastian Lockwood tells the great epics: Gilgamesh, Odysseus, Caesar, Beowulf and Monkey. His studies in Classics and Anthropology at Boston University and Cambridge University in the UK laid the foundation for bringing these great tales into performance. Lockwood’s performances are designed to take complex texts and make them accessible and exciting for audiences from 5 to 95. Lockwood has tutored and taught classes in higher education for 25 years. He now concentrates on performance, workshops and studio recording. Lockwood lives under Crotched Mountain with his wife, jazz singer and storyteller Nanette Perrotte. Contact: 415 East Road, Greenfield, NH 03047 Work: 603-547-3373 • sebastianlockwood88@gmail.com Programs: • Caesar: The Man from Venus (p. 24 & 46) • Homer’s Odysseus (p. 25 & 46) • The Epic of Gilgamesh (p. 25 & 47) Hal C. Lyon Hal Lyon is a graduate of West Point, a former Rangerparatrooper officer, former US Director of Education for the Gifted, and a project officer for the development of Sesame Street. He has served on the faculties of several universities including the Universities of Massachusetts and Munich, where he currently teaches physicians to be more effective teachers. An award winner in film and television festivals, Lyon is also the author of seven books and more than 150 articles. His book, Angling in the Smile of the Great Spirit, won the New England Outdoor Writers Association “Best Book of the Year Award.” He is also a New Hampshire Wild Turkey Calling Champion. Contact: PO Box 452, Meredith, NH 03253 • Halclyon@yahoo.com Programs: Angling in the Smile of the Great Spirit (p. 57) Note: Not available in December, January, April or July. Maura MacNeil Maura MacNeil, writer and editor, is the author of the poetry collection A History of Water (Finishing Line Press, 2007). Her writing has been published in numerous journals over three decades and anthologized in The Breath of Parted Lips: Voices from the Frost Place, Volume 100

II and Shadow and Light: A Literary Anthology on Memory. Committed to community-based creative collaboration, MacNeil facilitates the Professional Writing Series hosted through the New England College Danforth Library. Her current memoir project titled Sugar explores family illness. Professor of Writing at New England College, MacNeil and her co-presenter Martha Andrews Donovan have long taught students to tell their stories and look forward to working with public audiences. Two-person. Contact: c/o Martha MacNeil, 6 Old Mill Pond Road, Henniker, NH 03242 Home: 603-495-0499 • mmacneil@nec.edu Program: Family, Memory, Place: Writing Family Stories (p. 70) Marguerite Mathews Marguerite Mathews, Co-Artistic Director and Founder of Pontine Theatre, earned a theater degree in Communications from Michigan State University. She studied with Etienne Decroux at L’Ecole du Mime Corporeal in Paris, France, and with Thomas Leabhart at the University of Arkansas and Valley Studio. Matthews served a four-year term as president of the National Movement Theatre Association and a five-year term as editor of the Movement Theatre Quarterly. Pontine Theatre, which specializes in original works based on the history and literature of New England, has presented performances, workshops and residencies at Keene State, Bates and Dartmouth Colleges, Plymouth State University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, the Decordova Museum, and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, among others. Contact: Pontine Theatre, 959 Islington Street, Portsmouth, NH 03802-1437 Work: 603-436-6660 info@pontine.org Programs co-presented with Greg Gathers: • Familiar Fields: The Power of Community in the Work of Sarah Orne Jewett (p. 40) • “Pretty Halcyon Days,” on the Beach with Ogden Nash (p. 40) • Silver Lake Summers: An E.E. Cumming Revue (p. 41) Sally Matson Sally Matson earned a BS from the Northwestern University School of Communication, after which she performed for a Department of Defense show in the Pacific. In addition to acting and directing for 40 years, Matson took writing courses at the University of Virginia Extension and Manhattanville College, served as writer and interviewer on cable television in Connecticut, and worked at the Powerhouse Performing Arts Center in Connecticut as an actor, director and publicist. Matson’s years working at the American Textile History Museum in Lowell sparked an interest in 19th century history and challenged her to write Susan B. Anthony-the Invincible! Since 2002, 101

Presenter Directory Matson has presented that program in thirteen states. Contact: 23 William Street, Andover, MA 01810 Home: 978-749-9908 • ssmatson@gmail.com Programs: • Margaret Bourke-White, America’s Eyes (p. 47) • Susan B. Anthony, the Invincible! (p. 47) Ann McClellan A dedicated Anglophile, Ann McClellan has a PhD in English Literature and has more than fifteen years experience of college-level teaching. Her classes at Plymouth State University explore questions of literary value and canonicity and the interconnectedness of history and text with an emphasis on literary theory. As a specialist in nineteenth- and twentieth-century British literature, McClellan’s work explores the complex relationships between literature and culture, with published research ranging from fictional representations of British women intellectuals to her current project on fan culture and the popularity of Sherlock Holmes. Contact: 17 High St. MSC 40, Plymouth, NH 03264 Work: 603-535-2683 • akmcclellan@plymouth.edu Program: • (Not So) Elementary, My Dear Watson: The Popularity of Sherlock Holmes (p. 42) Mac McHale Mac McHale and Emery Hutchins are musicians who play and sing a unique combination of Celtic and American country music. In their performances they seek to show the connection between the two genres. McHale has been well known in Bluegrass music for decades and has been inducted into the International Bluegrass Music Museum as a pioneer of Bluegrass music. Hutchins is a renowned performer of a variety of different styles of acoustic music ranging from traditional Irish tunes to vintage American country music songs. Music preservationists and performers, their program demonstrates that to understand the music of a culture is to understand the heart of a culture. Contact: PO Box 663, York, ME 03909 Home: 207-363-7391 • ehutchins@maine.rr.com Programs: A Night of Music with Two Old Friends (with Emery Hutchins) (p. 52) Note: Not available in December, January or February.

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Nabil Migalli Nabil Migalli is a graduate of Cairo University, National Center for Social and Criminological Research and the Institute of National Planning. He serves as president of the Arab-American Forum in NH and is a recipient of the Martin Luther King Award for NH. Migalli’s scholarly interests include diversity, immigration, and Arab and Islamic cultures. Contact: 87 Rochelle Avenue, Manchester, NH 03102-4737 Home: 603-669-6253 • Cell:603-361-0251 • migalli@comcast.net Programs: Perspectives on Arab Culture and the Influence of Islam (p. 75) Donna Moody Donna Roberts Moody is a Tribal Elder in the Abenaki Nation and Director of the Winter Center for Indigenous Traditions. She is the Repatriation and Site Protection Coordinator for the Abenaki Nation and spokesperson for the Abenaki Nation to the State of NH and the Federal Government. Contact: PO Box 147, Sharon, VT 05065 Work: 802-649-8870 • winter.center.for.indigenous.traditions@valley.net Programs co-presented with John Moody: • A History of Native Burial Looting, Destruction & Protection in NH History (p. 64) • Town by Town, Watershed by Watershed: Native Americans in NH (p. 63) John Moody John Moody is the Ethnohistorian and Project Coordinator for the Winter Center for Indigenous Traditions. He earned a BA in Native American Studies and Anthropology at Dartmouth College. Contact: PO Box 147, Sharon, VT 05065 Work: 802-649-8870 • winter.center.for.indigenous.traditions@ valley.net Programs co-presented with Donna Roberts Moody: • A History of Native Burial Looting, Destruction & Protection in NH History (p. 64) • Town by Town, Watershed by Watershed: Native Americans in NH (p. 63) George Morrison George Morrison earned a BA in History at UNH. He served for twenty-seven years as a high school teacher. A long-time researcher of unpublished primary sources, Morrison has contributed to the work of numerous aviation historians and artists in several countries. He is a life-long photographer, historian and 103

Presenter Directory motorcyclist. Morrison has already traveled over 18,000 miles in the course of researching monuments and memorials, an interest sparked by a puzzling 1918 monument inscription. Contact: 37 Dunbarton Center Road, Bow, NH 03304 Home: 603-774-3834 • Morrison_GR@live.com Programs: Vanished Veterans - NH’s Civil War Monuments and Memorials (p. 64) Adair Mulligan Adair Mulligan has a runaway curiosity about the natural and cultural history of northern New England. Author of The Gunstock Parish, A History of Gilford, New Hampshire, she has also contributed to Proud to Live Here in the Connecticut River Valley; Where the Great River Rises, An Atlas of the Upper Connecticut River and Beyond the Notches: Stories of Place in New Hampshire’s North Country. Executive director of the Hanover Conservancy, she served for 20 years as Conservation Director of the Connecticut River Joint Commissions. Mulligan holds a master’s degree from Smith College. Contact: 175 Dorchester Road, PO Box 117, Lyme Center, NH 03769 Home: 603-795-3155 • Adair.mulligan@nhvt.net Programs: • A Walk Back in Time: The Secrets of Cellar Holes (p. 22) • The Connecticut: New England’s Great River (p. 22) Sally Mummey For more than twenty years Sally Mummey has brought First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln to life for hundreds of audiences throughout the eastern US. Using storytelling and a good dash of humor, she engages audiences of all ages in dynamic, interactive, first-person portrayals. Mummey’s passion for the history of the 19th Century has led to extensive research into powerful and prominent women in a male-dominated society. Her interest in Queen Victoria was sparked when she read letters between the Queen and the Mrs. Lincoln, which revealed striking parallels in their lives. Mummey is an award-winning lifetime member of the Association of Lincoln Presenters. She is also a member of the Auxiliary to the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War, the Society of Europe, the Victorian Society, and the Surratt Society, as well as Solo Together, a New England-based organization of re-enactors who portray political figures from 19th and 20th century America.

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Contact: PO Box 669, Seabrook, NH 03874 Home: 603-474-5620 • SPRAff@comcast.net Programs: • A Visit With Queen Victoria (p. 47) • Mary Todd Lincoln: An Unconventional Woman (p. 48) • Mary Todd Lincoln: Wife and Widow (p. 48) Jack Noon Jack Noon earned a BA from Dartmouth College. He has published both fiction and non-fiction, focusing on New Hampshire history. His books include Fishing in New Hampshire -- A History and The Bassing of New Hampshire: How Black Bass Came to the Granite State as well as several volumes of Sutton, NH history. He is reachable by telephone “early in the morning” or by mail. Contact: 1224 North Road, Warner, NH 03278 Home: 603-456-3426 Programs: • Cannon Shenanigans and New Hampshire’s Muster Day Tradition (p. 64) • Four Centuries of Fishing in NH: Yankee Character, Yankee Priorities (p. 64) Linda Palmer Linda Palmer earned her MA in Teaching at Indiana University and had a career in teaching and interpreting Russian and Spanish for the government and at universities from Tennessee to Hawaii. Her move to Massachusetts thirteen years ago awakened her fascination with the early settlers of New England. Her portrayal of Ann Vassall grew out of a walking tour of 17th century Boston she leads called “Where Did the Puritans Go?” Palmer is a frequent guest lecturer at universities and libraries throughout New England. Her article “A Busy and Factious Spirit” appeared in The Congregationalist in January 2011. Contact: Hudson, MA 01749 Cell: 617-407-2805 • info@puritan-tour.com Programs: Dissent among the Puritans (p. 48) John Perrault John Perrault began studying guitar in high school, playing folk songs and ballads. He sang through college and taught high school English for ten years. Throughout this time Perrault kept singing and started writing songs and poems. He also attended graduate school where he began recording and publishing before heading to law school and 30 years of trial practice. Perrault continues to sing while teaching college classes. Eight albums and three books later, he is still singing and writing, believing left brain work must never be allowed to swamp

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Presenter Directory right brain work. Contact: 133 Mill Road, PO Box 329, North Hampton, NH 03862 Home: 603-964-8358 • rockweed@comcast.net Programs: • Crime and Punishment on the Isles of Shoals: The Ballad of Louis Wagner (p. 53) • Spring Poets: Barbara Allen to Blackbird (p. 53) • The Ballad Lives! (p. 53) Robert Perreault Robert B. Perreault has worked as a research assistant/oral history interviewer, librarian/archivist, freelance writer, historical tour guide, public speaker, photographer, and conversational French teacher to promote Manchester’s history and New England’s Franco-American culture since 1973. His works of nonfiction and fiction, written in French, in English or in both languages, include six books and more than 150 articles, essays, and short stories published in the US, Canada and France. Perreault holds an MA in French with specialization in New England Franco-American studies from Rhode Island College and an MFA in Creative Writing/Fiction from SNHU. In June 2012, Manchester’s Centre Franco-Américain named him “Franco-American of the Year.” Contact: 187 Warner Street, Manchester, NH 03102-4163 Home: 603-668-5207 • rperreau@anselm.edu Programs: • A Taste of the Old Country in the New: Franco-Americans of Manchester (p. 65) • Before Peyton Place: In Search of the Real Grace Metalious (p. 65) • Having a Fine Time in Manchester: Vintage Post Cards and Local History (p. 65) • Putting Human Faces on the Textile Industry: The Workers of the Amoskeag Manufacturing Company (p. 65) William “Ty” Perry William “Ty” Perry has been infatuated with Romanesque and Gothic art for more than 30 years, applying the discipline of degrees in engineering and history to his studies. He has comprehensively researched the inter-relationships between that art and its intellectual origins, Greek philosophy and medieval theology. Perry has photographed thousands of cathedral sculptures and windows throughout France, England and Italy in order to bring his research to others. Contact: 46 The Flume, Amherst, NH 03031 106

Home: 603-249-9707 • perry8777@comcast.net Programs: Chartres Cathedral: Philosophy and Theology as Art (p. 32) Woody Pringle Woody Pringle is both a musician and educator teaching at many NH colleges and organizations. His credentials include a BA in Social Science from Johnson State College and an MBA from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. His music is often aired on NH Public Radio’s Folk Show and many radio stations throughout the country. Contact: 1 Massasecum Avenue, PO Box 21, Bradford, NH 03221 Home: 603-938-5742 • bewp@mcttelecom.com Programs co-presented with Marek Bennett – contact Pringle to book: • Rally ‘Round the Flag: The American Civil War Through Folksong (p. 51) Gwendolyn Quezaire-Presutti Gwendolyn Quezaire-Presutti has combined her expertise in public speaking and interest in conducting historical research with her passion for storytelling and dramatic performance. Quezaire-Presutti studied under Professor Lloyd Barbee at the University of Wisconsin and has been a committed scholar of African American Studies, in particular women of color. She is listed on the Performing Artist roster at the Connecticut Historical Society Museum, the Connecticut Commission on Culture and Tourism, and the Social Theatre with Young Audiences of Connecticut Arts for Learning. She received the Institute of Texan Cultures’ Director’s Award for Excellence, the Greater Hartford Arts Council/ Boston Fund Individual Artist Fellowship, and first place in the International Toastmaster Award competition for Interpretive Reading. Contact: PO Box 380496, Hartford, CT 06138-0496 Home: 860-528-0733 • Cell: 860-212-6129 • woventales6@ sbcglobal.net Programs: • I Can’t Die But Once - Harriet Tubman’s Civil War (p. 48) • Sarah Harris--No Small Courage (p. 49) • “If I am Not for Myself, Who Will Be for Me?” George Washington’s Runaway Slave (p. 49) Jo Radner Jo Radner received her PhD from Harvard University. Before returning to her family home in western Maine as a freelance storyteller and oral historian, Radner spent 31 years as a professor at American University in Washington, DC. There she taught literature, folklore, women’s studies, American studies, Celtic studies, and storytelling. She has published books and articles in all those fields, 107

Presenter Directory and is now writing a book titled Performing the Paper: Rural Self-Improvement in Northern New England, about a 19th-century village tradition of creating and performing handwritten literary newspapers. Radner is a past president of the American Folklore Society and the National Storytelling Network. Contact: PO Box 145, Lovell, ME 04051 Home: 207-925-6244 • Cell: 617-512-7545 • jo@joradner.com Programs: • Braving the Middle Ground: Stories of Pre-Revolutionary Northern New England (p. 22) • Family Stories: How and Why to Remember and Tell Them (p. 70) • Wit and Wisdom: Humor in 19th Century New England (p. 22) J. Dennis Robinson J. Dennis Robinson writes books about American history from his office in historic Portsmouth, NH, near the swirling Piscataqua River. A popular (and sometimes irreverent) columnist and lecturer, he operates the award-winning web site SeacoastNH.com with fresh local content posted daily. A graduate of UNH and a former English teacher, Robinson has published more than 1,000 articles and twelve books. His goal is to make history lively, meaningful, and fun for modern readers. Contact: 101 Crescent Way, Portsmouth, NH 03801 Work: 603-427-2020 • dennis@seacoastnh.com Programs: • Collecting John Paul Jones: America’s First Action Hero (p. 23) • Lively Boys! Lively Boys!: The Origin of Bad Boy Books (p. 43) • The Making of Strawbery Banke (p. 66) • Treasure from the Isles of Shoals: How New Archaeology is Changing Old History (p. 27) • Who Won the War of 1812? New Hampshire’s Forgotten Patriot Pirates (p. 66) Rebecca Rule Rebecca Rule gathers and tells stories in New England. Her books include The Best Revenge, Could Have Been Worse, Live Free and Eat Pie, and Headin’ for the Rhubarb: A New Hampshire Dictionary (well, kinda). Her latest book is Moved and Seconded: NH Town Meeting. Her blog, Travels with Becky, is online at livefreeandeatpie.com. She also hosts the NH Authors Series on NHPTV. Contact: 178 Mountain Avenue, Northwood, NH 03261 Home: 603-942-8174 • rebeccarule@metrocast.net

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Programs: • Crosscut: The Mills, Logging and Life on the Androscoggin (p. 70) • Moved and Seconded: Town Meeting in New Hampshire (p. 71) • That Reminds Me of a Story (p. 70) Lawrence Siegel Lawrence Siegel received a PhD from Brandeis University in Music Theory and Composition. He has produced more than 25 “verbatim projects” in which a community, organization, or school creates and performs an original work of musical theater about its own history and experience. Siegel has co-edited a book on disciplinarity in music, and presented lectures and workshops on such topics as the arts and society and art and place. Contact: 128 Paine Road, Westmoreland, NH 03467 Cell: 603-355-8353 • larry@tricinium.com Program: • Kaddish: Music and Text as a Window into the Issue of Genocide through the Testimonies of Survivors Before, During, and After the Holocaust (p. 53 & 71) R. Scott Smith R. Scott Smith holds a BA from Mary Washington College and an MA and PhD in Classical Philology from the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign. He is an associate professor at UNH. His fields of interest are mythology, Roman drama, and Roman geography and topography. In 2011 Smith published Seneca: Phaedra and Other Plays and is currently at work on a book on ancient mythography and a sourcebook on texts concerning Roman Civilization. Eager to help keep the classics alive, Scott shares recent developments in Roman archaeology and topography at teacher workshops organized by Ascanius: The Youth Classics Institute. Contact: 301 Murkland Hall, University of New Hampshire, 15 Library Way, Durham, NH 03824 Home: 603-778-6199 • Work: 603-862-2388 • rss3@unh.edu Program: Rome and Pompeii: Discovering and Preserving the Past (p. 25) David Stewart-Smith David Stewart-Smith is a past professor of history and cultural studies at Vermont College of Norwich University and now serves as the historian for the NH Intertribal Native American Council. His research into NH’s Indian history and archaeology spans more than 30 years, during which time he studied with several native elders, distinguished scholars and archaeologists. “My grandmother’s family history comes out of NH’s frontier and Indian heritage. I frequently meet people during the programs who are on the same path of 109

Presenter Directory discovering their heritage and love of history and enjoy sharing stories with them.” Contact: 877 Battle Street, Webster, NH 03303 Work: 603-648-2118 • davidss@tds.net Programs: • Native American History of New Hampshire: Alliance and Survival, circa 1400-1700 (p. 67) • Native American History of New Hampshire: Beyond Boundaries, circa 1700-1850 (p. 67) • Mapping the Merrimack : A Frontier Adventure into Uncharted Territory 1630 – 1725 (p. 67) • Native New Hampshire Before Contact: Archaeological and Tribal Perspectives (p. 68) Note: Not available late June to early August. Maggie Stier Maggie Stier believes that a combination of personal experience and an understanding of the history and culture of the past can lead us to deeper connections with special places in the Granite State. She assists people in that process every day as the statewide field service representative for the NH Preservation Alliance. Since 2005, Stier has also been affiliated with the Old Man of the Mountain Legacy Fund, playing a key role in the development of the new Profile monument and plaza in Franconia Notch, and creating educational programs and events to build greater awareness of the resources of this unique area. She is co-author of Into the Mountains: Stories of New England’s Most Celebrated Peaks, published by the Appalachian Mountain Club, and has written and lectured on a wide variety of topics related to cultural history and historic preservation. Stier is adjunct faculty at Plymouth State University, former director of The Fells historic estate and gardens on Lake Sunapee, and serves on the NH State Parks Advisory Council. Contact: 314 Center Street, PO Box 425, Wolfeboro Falls, NH 03896 Cell: 603-344-1726 • maggiestier@gmail.com Program: The Old Man of the Mountain: Substance and Symbol (p. 66) Herman Tavani Herman T. Tavani, PhD, is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Rivier University and a visiting scholar at the Harvard School of Public Health. The author or editor of more than 100 publications, he has written or edited five books on ethical aspects of information technology, including his textbook Ethics and Technology which will soon be available in a fourth edition. 110

Tavani has presented keynote addresses and scholarly papers at institutions throughout Europe and in Japan, as well as at colleges and universities throughout the US. Contact: 3 Erion Drive, Nashua, NH 03062 Home: 603-888-1173 • Work: 603-897-8469 • htavani@rivier.edu Programs: • Ethical Aspects of Converging Technologies (p. 72) • Intellectual Property Disputes in Cyberspace (p. 72) • Personal Privacy in Cyberspace (p. 72) Steve Taylor Steve Taylor is an independent scholar, farmer, journalist and longtime public official. With his sons, Taylor operates a dairy, maple syrup and cheese making enterprise in Meriden Village. He has been a newspaper reporter and editor, and served for 25 years as NH’s commissioner of agriculture. Taylor was the founding executive director of the NH Humanities Council and is a lifelong student of the state’s rural culture. Contact: 166 Main Street, PO Box 271, Meriden, NH 03770 Home: 603-469-3375 • stephen.taylor@valley.net Programs: • Cows and Communities: How the Lowly Bovine Has Nurtured New Hampshire Through Four Centuries (p. 68) • New Hampshire’s Grange Movement: Its Rise, Triumphs and Decline (p. 68) • New Hampshire’s One-Room Rural Schools: The Romance and the Reality (p. 68) • The Great Sheep Boom and Its Enduring Legacy on the New Hampshire Landscape (p. 69) Lucie Therrien Lucie Therrien is a songwriter, author, poet, historian, recording artist, visual artist, linguist, film maker and certified teacher. She received a MA in Music History and a BA in Piano from UNH after her fine art studies in Montreal at l’Ecole des Beaux Arts. Therrien has performed on five continents. Among numerous awards she has received, the NH State Council on the Arts has honored her with four Traditional Master/ Apprentice awards, as well as awards in songwriting, film, video, composing and arranging. Contact: 5 Junkins Avenue, #106, Portsmouth, NH 03801 Home: 603-430-9524 • lt@star.net Program:

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Contact: 21 Cranberry Road, Plymouth, MA 02360 Home: 774-302-4202 • mtougias@comcast.net • Michaeltougias@yahoo.com Programs: • Fatal Forecast: An Incredible True Tale of Disaster and Survival at Sea (p. 57) • Indian Wars of New England (p. 23) • Overboard! A True Bluewater Odyssey of Disaster, Survival and Inspiration (p. 57) • The Finest Hours: The True Story Behind the U.S. Coast Guard’s Most Daring Sea Rescue (p. 57) Linda Upham-Bornstein Linda Upham-Bornstein, PhD, teaches a graduate class in the Heritage Studies Program at Plymouth State University on the immigration and ethnic heritage of NH. The course explores how the immigrant population, past and present, was shaped by the state and, in turn, how the state continues to be shaped by immigrants. She has also conducted research on the diverse immigrant groups in Berlin, NH and French Canadian immigration across New England. She is available to facilitate discussions of “Uprooted” in the North Country. Contact: Plymouth State University, 17 High Street, MSC 30, Memorial Hall, Plymouth, NH 03264 Work: 603-535-3274 • luphambornstein@plymouth.edu Program: Uprooted: Heartache and Hope in New Hampshire (p. 34) Paul Wainwright Artistic photography and a love of history have been longstanding interests of Paul Wainwright, but he was captured by physics in high school and eventually wound up getting a PhD in the field from Yale. Wainwright worked for many years at Bell Labs, with photography being a continuing avocation. Since 2001 he has pursued his love of photography full-time, and is especially drawn to photographing historic structures in very personal and introspective ways. Contact: 134 Maple Avenue, Atkinson, NH 03811 Home: 603-362-6589 • paul@paulwainwrightphotography.com Programs: • New England’s Colonial Meetinghouses and their Impact on American Society (p. 32) Jeff Warner

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Presenter Directory Jeff Warner connects 21st century audiences with the music and everyday lives of 19th century people. He presents musical traditions from the lumber camps of the Adirondack Mountains and the whaling ports of New England to the Outer Banks fishing villages of North Carolina. Warner accompanies his songs on concertina, banjo, guitar, and several pocket instruments, such as bones and spoons. He is a Folklorist and Community Scholar for the New Hampshire Council on the Arts and was a 2007 State Arts Council Fellow. He has toured nationally for the Smithsonian Institution and has recorded for Flying Fish, Rounder Records and other labels. Contact: 25 Franklin Street, Portsmouth, NH 03801 Home: 603-431-3383 • jeff@jeffwarner.com Programs: • Banjos, Bones, and Ballads (p. 54) • Music in my Pockets: Family Fun in Folk Music (p. 54) • Songs of Old New Hampshire (p. 54)

Mark Willis Mark W. Willis has been a consultant in international affairs since retiring in 2002 from the U.S. State Department after a 26-year career as a Foreign Service officer. Since then, he resided and worked in Indonesia, Tunisia and Libya. He attended the US Army War College in 1994. He received his BA in History from Wesleyan University and an MA in History from American University. Born and raised in the Connecticut River Valley, Willis has called NH home since 1978. Contact: 16 Caswell Drive, Greenland, NH 03840 Home: 603-501-0720 • willismw@hotmail.com Programs: • First Encounter: Americans and Muslims in North Africa in World War II, 1942-1944 (p. 75) • The “Arab Springs”: Diverse Societies in Revolt (p. 76)

Douglas Wheeler Douglas Wheeler earned an AB at Dartmouth College and an MA and PhD in History from Boston University. He is Professor of History Emeritus, UNH, and an instructor at Granite State College. Wheeler’s research interests include the far-reaching impacts of 20th and 21st century intelligence activities; “cultures of espionage” and their expressions, including spy novels, films, and gadgets; government secrecy; and surveillance as a defense against terrorism. Contact: 27 Mill Road, Durham, NH 03824-3006 Home: 603-868-9633 • douglaslwheeler@gmail.com Programs: Spies in Time (p. 37)

Richard Guy Wilson Richard Guy Wilson is the Commonwealth Professor of Architectural History at the University of Virginia where he has taught since 1976. He has been a summer resident of NH since 1964. Wilson has lectured widely in the US and abroad and has authored or co-authored 16 books on architecture. Wilson has run the Victorian Society in America’s summer school since 1978 and is considered an expert on architecture from the 18th to the 21st centuries. Contact: 1860 Field Road, Charlottesville, VA 22903 Home: 603-267-8280 • Work: 434-924-6462 • rgw4h@virginia.edu Programs: Wild and Colorful: Victorian Architecture in New Hampshire (p. 32)

Barbara White Barbara White earned a PhD at the University of Wisconsin. She is Professor Emerita, UNH, and former coordinator of the Women’s Studies Program. White has written and edited several books on American women writers in the 19th century, including a biography, The Beecher Sisters, and a collection of essays entitled Harriet Wilson’s New England: Race, Writing and Region. Contact: 34 Mast Road, Lee, NH 03824 Home: 603-659-2049 • barbw1025@yahoo.com Program: • By a Lady of New Hampshire: Women as Innovators in American Writing (p. 43) • Harriet Wilson Project: Harriet Wilson’s Our Nig (p. 69)

Sara Withers Sara Withers earned a PhD in Anthropology from Brandeis University and currently lectures on anthropology at UNH. She organized and conducted nearly 40 oral history interviews that served as the basis for the documentary “Uprooted: Heartache and Hope in New Hampshire,” giving her first-hand knowledge of the experiences of refugee and immigrant newcomers to the state. Withers has also facilitated public presentations and discussions of “Uprooted.” Her additional cross-cultural experience includes ethnographic research in Mexico, the United States, and Sri Lanka. Contact: 302 Buck Street, Pembroke, NH 03275 • sara.withers@unh.edu Programs: Uprooted: Heartache and Hope in New Hampshire (p. 34) Sharon Wood

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