NH Historical Society - Event Calendar

This painting, The Courtship of Miss New Hampshire, by Michael Bierman is featured in the New Hampshire Historical Society's exhibition *New Hampshire: A Proven Primary Tradition* on view at the Society's library through May 24, 2008. Oil on Masonite, 1999, collection of the New Hampshire Political Library.

Sunday, May 11, 2008
Free Museum Admission for all Moms

The New Hampshire Historical Society will celebrate Mother’s Day, May 11, with free museum admission for all moms, from noon to 5 p.m.

Mother’s Day is also the last day to see the exhibition Women of the Moffatt-Ladd House.

Location: Museum of New Hampshire History, 6 Eagle Square, Concord, NH
Time: 12 noon - 5 p.m.
Admission: $5.50 adults, $4.50 seniors, $3 children 6-18, $17 family maximum. Free for New Hampshire Historical Society members. Free for all moms on May 11.
Contact: Call 603/228-6688

Upcoming Exhibitions

Mill Town Memories: The Drawings and Watercolors of Marian Cannon Schlesinger June 14, 2008 –February 15, 2009: Through Mill Town Memories, the New Hampshire Historical Society presents artist Marian Cannon Schlesinger’s view of twenty-eight mill towns that grew up on the inland rivers and streams across New Hampshire and northern Massachusetts, as they appeared during the 1970s and 1980s. Fifty-six atmospheric drawings and watercolors arranged alphabetically by community name capture New England mill communities during a period of change, as the textile industry was declining and mills were beginning to disappear from the landscape.

The drawings and watercolors in Mill Town Memories are selected from a recent promised gift made to the New Hampshire Historical Society of a collection of 83 works by the artist.

Location: Museum of New Hampshire History, 6 Eagle Square, Concord, NH

Exhibitions

New Hampshire Favorites (through October 13, 2008): The Society has been saving, preserving, and sharing New Hampshire’s history for nearly two hundred years. You might ask why are these objects and materials here? Why are they important? Join us as we look at some favorite objects from the collections and their stories. You’ll find some familiar, while others are new and surprising.

Location: Museum of New Hampshire History, 6 Eagle Square, Concord, NH
Hours: Tuesday-Saturday, 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., Sunday, 12 to 5 p.m. Also open Monday 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. July 1 - October 15 and in December
Admission: $5.50 adults, $4.50 seniors, $3 children 6-18, $17 family maximum, free for New Hampshire Historical Society members
Contact: Call 603/228-6688

Women of the Moffatt-Ladd House (through May 10, 2008): Treasures from a trunk locked away until 1986 are at the center of a new exhibition on view at the Society’s museum beginning November 10, 2007. Women of the Moffatt-Ladd House recounts the lives of the women who have made Portsmouth’s Moffatt-Ladd House their home and the women who have made the house a museum.

New Hampshire: A Proven Primary Tradition (through May 24, 2008): The history and importance of New Hampshire’s first-in-the-nation Presidential primary is the focus of a new exhibition of the New Hampshire Historical Society and the New Hampshire Political Library. New Hampshire: A Proven Primary Tradition looks at the impact New Hampshire’s primary has on the national Presidential nominating process and examines how the state’s political culture and traditions have shaped its first-in-the-nation role. The colorful retrospective adds to our appreciation for the New Hampshire primary and reinforces the importance of our own participation in the political process.

New Hampshire: A Proven Primary Tradition is sponsored by Rath, Young and Pignatelli, Boston Private Value Investors, the Mount Washington Resort, and BaileyDonovan, with the New Hampshire Union Leader and WMUR-TV as media sponsors.

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

New Hampshire Through Many Eyes (ongoing)

A panorama of Granite State history from Native American days to modern times. Includes one of the finest remaining examples of the Concord coach, the stagecoach that opened the American west.

The Mystery Stone (ongoing)

One of the New Hampshire Historical Society’s most mysterious and requested artifacts – the “Mystery Stone” – is on long-term display at the Society’s Museum of New Hampshire History.

The White Mountains of New Hampshire (at the Mount Washington Resort at Bretton Woods)

The exhibition explores the White Mountain region with a rich array of objects and images and is open to the public.

For more information, please contact the
New Hampshire Historical Society (jdesmarais@nhhistory.org)

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