CONNECTING PEOPLE WITH IDEAS • FALL 2019 Engage!

NEW Humanities to Go programs announced! BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Wilbur A. Glahn, III, Chair McLane Middleton

Ellen Scarponi Immediate Past Chair Consolidated Communications

Marcia J. Kelly, Vice Chair Hanover

Rusty Mosca, Treasurer Nathan Wechsler & Co.

Stephen D. Genest, Secretary Nashua Announcing the 2019-2020 Series!

Dennis Britton, Ph.D. University of “Tell Us Your Story” Thursday, October 10, 2019 • 5:00 pm Ideas on Tap, our series of pint-sized conversations Stephen F. Christy about big ideas, is back for a second season! Join us for Lebanon DoubleTree by Hilton Manchester Downtown www.nhhumanities.org/AnnualDinner drinks, appetizers, and a lively community conversation Evan Czyzowski Exeter in a casual pub setting. All events will be held 5:30- LEAD SPONSOR Katharine Eneguess 7:30pm. Tickets are $15 per person and include Magalloway Consultants appetizers and one beverage (, wine, or a non- Jada Keye Hebra alcoholic beverage). Southern NH University DINNER SPONSORS Jamison Hoff, Ph.D. Hollis • Stoned in the Granite State: The Debate Over Marijuana Legalization Jaqueline M. Hudkins Hudkins Law Monday, September 16, 2019 Erika Janik CIVIC CHAMPION SPONSORS Event Sponsor: NH Public Radio Area 23, Concord

Cory Leclair Claremont • Artificial Intelligence: Daniel Thomas Moran Webster Is There a Ghost in the Machine? Tuesday, November 19, 2019 Dr. Graziella Parati Dartmouth College LIFELONG LEARNING SPONSORS Martha’s Exchange Restaurant, Nashua Linda Patchett New Castle

Nick Perencevich, MD • Higher Education: The Great Equalizer? Concord Monday, January 13, 2020

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Valerie Sununu HOSPITALITY, LLC First Lady of NH The Heat Is On: New Hampshire & Newfields •

Ken Burns Climate Change Director Emeritus Monday, March 16, 2020 Area 23, Concord STAFF Bruce & Kathy Briggs Anthony Poore Executive Director • Mind the Gap: The Impact of Income

Donna M. Bailey FRIEND SPONSORS Inequality on Our Democracy Chief Operating Officer Bar Harbor Bank & Trust Magalloway Consultants LLC Tuesday, April 14, 2020 Sue Butman Bellwether Community Credit Union Manchester Community College Six Burner Bistro, Plymouth Operations Manager Brady Sullivan Properties Merrimack County Savings Bank

Lynn Douillette Community Dev. Finance Authority NH Business Committee for the Arts Director of Annual Giving Fidelity Investments NHTI-Concord’s Community College Real or Fake? Making Our Way Fiduciary Trust of New England Speedy Printing NH • Susan Hatem Director of Programs & Kilpatrick IT Solutions in Post-Fact America Grant Making Tuesday, June 16, 2020 www.nhhumanities.org/AnnualDinner Rebecca Kinhan Stark Brewing Company, Manchester Communications Director

Rachel Morin Office Assistant Thank you, Grappone Automotive! For details and tickets, visit Mary Nolin In celebration of its 95th anniversary this year, Connections Coordinator www.nhhumanities.org/ideas Grappone Automotive has chosen several of their Dr. Tricia Peone favorite nonprofits–including New Hampshire Program Manager Humanities–to highlight each month in their stores. Morgan Wilson The 2019-2020 season is generously sponsored by: Marketing & Featured nonprofits will receive radio spots and a video Communications Specialist as well as displays in the Grappone Auto dealerships. Thank you to Grappone Auto, and head over in 2 October to say hello! Our newest Humanities to Go programs!

We’re excited to announce these brand new programs in our Humanities to Go speakers bureau! The programs discuss important themes in the history of New Hampshire and the United States: race, immigration, voting rights, and religious pluralism. Hear the stories of the New Hampshire primary, Mary Baker Eddy, the Irish diaspora, and school desegregation. We’ve also added new programs focusing on our current moment—join us for compelling discussions about storytelling in the digital age, sustainability, and the opioid crisis. You can read full descriptions of these programs on our website. As always, be sure to check our online calendar regularly for events near you!

“A Practical Experiment”: School Desegregation on Hooked: Narratives of Addiction, Recovery, Trial in Antebellum Boston and Redemption Presenter: Kabria Baumgartner Presenter: Kate Gaudet Racial school segregation was not just a 20th century In the midst of New Hampshire’s opioid crisis, we are far from southern phenomenon; it has been an ongoing national issue, the time when addiction was an unfamiliar and even taboo dating back to the 19th century and stretching into the present. subject. This talk explores some of the most common stories In this presentation, Professor Kabria Baumgartner narrates about addiction and recovery, providing tools for understanding the 15-year struggle to desegregate Boston public schools, on a narrative and structural level. beginning in 1840. A History of the New Hampshire Presidential Primary Jennie Powers: The Woman Who Dares Presenter: John Gfroerer Presenter: Jenna Carroll This program presents a brief history of the New Hampshire Jennie Powers took a stand against social vices in New Presidential Primary, from its origins during the Progressive Hampshire and in the early 20th century. This era of the early 20th century, through its evolution as the illustrated presentation introduces us to Jennie’s life story, the most important step toward being elected President of the work of humane societies at the turn of the 20th century, and United States. the politics of the Progressive era from a local perspective.

‘That the People May Live:’ The Life and Legacy of Nicholas Black Elk, Holy Man of the Lakota Presenter: Damian Costello Explore the life and legacy of Nicholas Black Elk, the Lakota holy man made famous by the book Black Elk Speaks. We’ll discuss the relevance of Black Elk’s legacy for broader questions of Abenaki survival in Northern New England, hope in the face of global environmental problems, and reconciliation in the midst of growing political and religious sectarianism.

Russian Daily Life and Culture Presenter: Marina Forbes Sustainability: An American Literary History In this illustrated and interactive program, Marina establishes Presenter: Abby Goode a link between Russia's rich cultural heritage and the lives of What is sustainability? And how has American literature Russians today. The emergence of the “new rich,” the evolving shaped our understanding of this concept, in ways both role of women, the revival surprising and disturbing? This interactive program includes a of the Orthodox Church, discussion of current and historical ideas about sustainability. and the new emphasis on consumerism are all Lafayette and Human Rights revealed as she brings Presenter: Alan Hoffman personal experience General Lafayette’s first foray into human rights work was and research to bear in during the American Revolution which he saw as a cause this fascinating look at important to all people. Lafayette later became an advocate for contemporary Russian life. abolition and said: “I would never have drawn my sword in the cause of America, if I could have conceived that thereby I was founding a land of slavery.” (continued) 3 Ireland’s Great Famine in major women artists from the Church Irish-American History: Renaissance to the 20th century. of Christ, Fateful Memory, Indelible Legacy Scientist, Presenter: Mary Kelly Granite State Gallery: New Hampshire profoundly Dr. Kelly discusses the role of the Art and Artists Through the Years affected Famine in shaping Irish-American ethnic Presenter: Jane Oneail both identity. Focusing on the long-term New Hampshire has attracted and American impact of the episode between the 1840s inspired artists since the colonial era. ideologies and 1990s, she explores the shadowed What is distinctive about the art made of religion landscape of Famine legacy and its status here? This program considers works by as well in Irish-American culture today. itinerant and folk painters, landscape as public artists drawn to the state's scenic vistas, opinion of Confounding Crusaders: and modern artists who adopted bold the role of The Protestant Friends of Ireland in styles to depict everyday life in the women in society. Granite State. Irish-American Diaspora Nationalism Votes for Women: Presenter: Mary Kelly Heroes and Homecomings: One of the most striking aspects of the A History of the Suffrage Movement Norman Rockwell and World War II Irish-American historical landscape is Presenter: Liz Tentarelli Presenter: Jane Oneail the enduring bond between immigrant The campaign for women’s right to America's most beloved illustrator community and ancestral home. This vote was a long one, from the 1848 created dozens of images related to the talk focuses on Protestant involvement Women’s Rights Convention in Seneca second World War. What happens when in 1916-era nationalist activism. Falls, New York to ratification of the an artist known for his use of humor 19th amendment in 1920. This program tackles the serious subject of war? explores the key players in New This program explores how Norman Hampshire and the nation, the issues and Rockwell's work departs from earlier obstacles they faced, the impact of World artistic interpretations of American War I, and who was left out when women conflicts and considers how and why he got the right to vote. chose specific wartime themes to present to the millions of readers of The Saturday Civil War Soldiers' Quilts Evening Post. Presenter: Pam Weeks Quilts made The History of Agriculture as for soldiers Told by Barns during the Storytelling in the Digital Age Presenter: John C. Porter Civil War are Presenter: Ann McClellan Barns can tell us a great deal about the very rare— More and more, the contemporary history of agriculture in New Hampshire. only 20 are reading public is turning to digital This presentation follows the progression known to technology as a means to experience of barn styles that evolved to handle the exist, and Pam literature. In an interactive discussion, increased productivity required to meet Weeks has participants explore how technology the needs of a growing population and studied most is affecting how we read, write, and respond to changes in society caused by of them in experience stories. the railroad and the Industrial Revolution. person. Fierce Females: Women in Art Case Closed on the 1873 Smuttynose This illustrated lecture outlines the origins of the U.S. Sanitary Commission Presenter: Jane Oneail Ax Murders at the beginning of the Civil War and Women have long been the subject Presenter: J. Dennis Robinson examines the roles women played on of art, often depicted as nothing more For almost 150 years the moonlight than objects of desire. How do images ax murders of two Norwegian women the home front, and as nurses. of women change when women become on the rocky Isles of Shoals has haunted the creators? This program examines New England. Popular historian and the history lecturer J. Dennis Robinson cuts of women through the hoaxes, lies, rumors, and in art fiction surrounding the arrest, trial, and in brief execution of 28-year old Louis Wagner, Every year, 500 and then who claimed his innocence to the end. Humanities to Go programs explores are offered free and are open to the public. the lives, Mary Baker Eddy: New Hampshire's Nonprofit organizations and community careers, Most Important Religious Thinker groups can present these and dozens of other Humanities to Go programs at minimal and works Presenter: Nicole Ruane cost to the host. To learn more, visit www. of several Mary Baker Eddy was New Hampshire's nhhumanities.org/humanitiestogo. most important and innovative religious 4 thinker. The church she founded, The All the events listed in this calendar are funded in whole or part by New Hampshire Humanities. Humanities to Go programs are made possible in Calendar part by the generous support of: EVENTS FUNDED BY NEW HAMPSHIRE HUMANITIES • SEPTEMBER - NOVEMBER The dates and towns on 9/7 SPRINGFIELD ǀ 7:00 PM 9/11 EPSOM ǀ 7:00 PM this list are color coded New England’s Colonial Meetinghouses and Their The Finest Hours :The True Story Behind the by region. For complete Impact on American Society U.S. Coast Guard’s Most Daring Sea Rescue program descriptions, we Epsom Public Library, 1606 Dover Road Town Meeting House, 23 Four Corners Road invite you to view our Presenter: Paul Wainwright Presenter: Michael J. Tougias online calendar at www. Contact: Jim Bednar, 763-5352 Contact: Epsom Public Library, 736-9920 nhhumanities.org/ calendar-events. 9/9 WASHINGTON ǀ 7:00 PM 9/11 HOLDERNESS ǀ 7:30 PM Treasure from the Isles of Shoals: How New (Not So) Elementary, My Dear Watson: Archaeology is Changing Old History The Popularity of Sherlock Holmes Camp Morgan Lodge, 339 Millen Pond Road Holderness Free Library, 866 U.S. Route 3 Presenter: J. Dennis Robinson Presenter: Ann McClellan 9/17 NORTH HAMPTON ǀ 6:30 PM Contact: Gwen Gaskell, 495-3231 Contact: Adam Di Filippe, 968-7066 Stark Decency: New Hampshire’s World War II German Prisoner of War Camp 9/10 FARMINGTON ǀ 6:00 PM 9/12 STRATHAM ǀ 6:00 PM North Hampton Public Library, 237A Atlantic Ave. : An Informal History Treasure from the Isles of Shoals: How New Presenter: Allen V. Koop of Beer in the Granite State from Colonial Archaeology is Changing Old History Contact: Susan Grant, 964-6326 Times to the Present Wiggin Memorial Library, 10 Bunker Hill Avenue Goodwin Public Library, 422 Main Street Presenter: J. Dennis Robinson 9/17 DUNBARTON ǀ 6:30 PM Presenter: Glenn A. Knoblock Contact: Tricia Ryden, 772-4346 New Hampshire on High: Historic and Unusual Contact: Kayla Morin, 755-2944 Weathervanes of the Granite State 9/12 GILFORD ǀ 6:30 PM Dunbarton Public Library, 1004 School Street 9/10 PORTSMOUTH | 6:00 PM Poor Houses & Town Farms: The Hard Row for Paupers Presenter: Glenn A. Knoblock Finding Refuge: Crossroads Film Series Gilford Public Library, 31 Potter Hill Road Contact: Dunbarton Public Library, 774-3546 The Human Flow Presenter: Stephen H. Taylor Portsmouth Public Library, 175 Parrot Avenue Contact: Kayleigh Thomas, 524-6042 9/17 BELMONT ǀ 7:00 PM Register at www.wacnh.org Ten Hours Until Dawn 9/14 SUGAR HILL ǀ 2:00 PM Belmont Corner Meeting House, 14 Sargent Street 9/10 PORTSMOUTH ǀ 7:00 PM New England Quilts and the Stories They Tell Presenter: Michael J. Tougias Plains Speaking: Portsmouth’s 1696 Massacre Crapo Building (Town Hall), 1411 Route 117 Contact: Christine Fogg, 524-8268 in Fact and Fiction Presenter: Pamela Weeks Plains School, 1 Plains Avenue Contact: Richardson Memorial Library, 823-7001 9/17 MERRIMACK ǀ 7:00 PM Presenter: Emerson Baker Poor Houses and Town Farms: Contact: Marguerite Mathews, 436-6660 9/15 DEERING ǀ 11:30 AM The Hard Row for Paupers Abby Hutchinson’s Sweet Freedom Songs: John O’Leary Adult Community Center, 4 Church St. 9/10 CANTERBURY ǀ 7:00 PM Songs and Stories of the Struggle for Abolition Presenter: Stephen H. Taylor “If I Am Not For Myself, Who Will Be for Me?” and Woman Suffrage Contact: Lynda Tomasian, 424-5207 George Washington’s Runaway Slave Deering Community Church, 763 Deering Center Rd. Elkins Public Library, 9 Center Road Presenter: Deborah A. Goss 9/18 CONWAY ǀ 6:30 PM Presenter: Gwendolyn Quezaire-Presutti Contact: Donald Johnson, 529-7764 Poor Houses and Town Farms: Contact: Jan R. Cote, 783-4090 The Hard Row for Paupers 9/15 NEWBURY ǀ 3:00 PM Conway Public Library, 15 Main Street 9/10 GRANTHAM ǀ 7:00 PM Family Stories: How and Why to Remember Presenter: Stephen H. Taylor Votes for Women: A History of the and Tell Them Contact: Conway Public Library, 447-5552 Suffrage Movement Veterans Hall, 927 Route 103 Grantham Town Hall, 301 Route 10 South Presenter: Joan Radner 9/18 JEFFERSON ǀ 6:30 PM Presenter: Liz Tentarelli Contact: John Lyons, 938-5398 Brewing in New Hampshire: Contact: Sandy Stephan-Strombom, 863-2172 An Informal History of Beer in the Granite State 9/15 NEWBURY | 4:00 PM from Colonial Times to the Present 9/11 MOULTONBOROUGH ǀ 5:30 PM Diplomacy Then and Now: John Hay: Jefferson Town Hall, 698 Presidential Highway The Music History of French-Canadians, Diplomacy in the Era of American Imperialism Presenter: Glenn A. Knoblock Franco-Americans, Acadians, and Cajuns Pavillion at The Fells, 456 Route 103A Contact: Jefferson Public Library, 586-7791 Castle in the Clouds Carriage House Contact: Brick Moltz, 763-4789 586 Ossipee Park Road 9/18 PLAISTOW ǀ 6:30 PM Presenter: Lucie Therrien 9/16 MEREDITH ǀ 3:00 PM Discovering New England Stone Walls Contact: Castle in the Clouds, 476-5900 Movie Mavericks: Filmmakers Who Challenge Plaistow Public Library, 85 Main Street the Hollywood System Presenter: Kevin Gardner 9/11 BRISTOL ǀ 6:30 PM Meredith Bay Colony Club, 21 Upper Mile Point Dr. Contact: Scott Campbell, 382-6011 New Hampshire on High: Historic and Unusual Presenter: Patrick D. Anderson Weathervanes of the Granite State Contact: Meredith Bay Colony Club, 279-1500 9/18 LISBON ǀ 7:00 PM Minot-Sleeper Library, 35 Pleasant Street Rosie’s Mom: Forgotten Women of the First World War Presenter: Glenn A. Knoblock 9/16 CONCORD | 5:30 PM Shared Ministry White Church, 49 South Main St. Contact: Brittany Overton, 744-3352 Ideas on Tap: “Stoned in the Granite State: Presenter: Carrie Brown The Debate Over Marijuana Legalization” Contact: Patricia Barry, 838-2451 9/11 WILTON ǀ 7:00 PM Area 23, 254 North State Street, Unit H New England Lighthouses and the People Register at www.nhhumanities.org/ideas 9/18 GRANTHAM ǀ 7:30 PM Who Kept Them Abraham and Mary Lincoln: Wilton Public & Gregg Free Library, 7 Forest Road 9/17 OSSIPEE ǀ 5:30 PM The Long and the Short of It Presenter: Jeremy D’Entremont Discovering New England Stone Walls The Center at Eastman, Draper Room Contact: Rebecca Brown, 654-2581 Historical Courthouse, 20 Courthouse Square 6 Club House Lane Presenter: Kevin Gardner Presenter: Steve A. Wood and Sharon Wood Contact: Lois Sweeney, 539-1984 Contact: Mary Niles, 617-680-9867 5 (Shaded boxes indicate events funded by a New Hampshire Humanities Community Project Grant) 9/19 CONCORD ǀ 6:00 PM 9/25 NEWTON ǀ 7:00 PM 9/29 PLAINFIELD ǀ 3:00 PM Unlaunch’d Voices: An Evening with Walt Whitman Thirteen Days in October: The Untold Cuban Family, Memory, Place: Writing Family Stories Concord Public Library Auditorium, 45 Green St. Missile Crisis Story Plainfield Town Hall, 1079 Route 12A Presenter: Stephen J. Collins Newton Town Hall, 2 Town Hall Road Presenter: Maura MacNeil Contact: Ashley Miller, 230-3721 Presenter: Michael J. Tougias Contact: Jane Stephenson, 298-8834 Contact: Sally Woodman, 382-7574 9/19 NEW BOSTON ǀ 7:00 PM 9/29 NEWBURY ǀ 7:00 PM Thirteen Days in October: The Untold Cuban 9/25 FITZWILLIAM ǀ 7:00 PM The Shaker Legacy Missile Crisis Story A Walk Back in Time: The Secrets of Cellar Holes South Newbury Union Church, 162 Village Road Whipple Free Library, 67 Mont Vernon Road Fitzwilliam Town Library, 11 Templeton Turnpike Presenter: Darryl Thompson Presenter: Michael J. Tougias Presenter: Adair D. Mulligan Contact: Maralyn Doyle, 938-5582 Contact: Whipple Free Library, 487-3391 Contact: Fitzwilliam Town Library, 585-6503 10/1 PORTSMOUTH | 6:00 PM 9/19 BRISTOL ǀ 7:00 PM 9/26 PORTSMOUTH ǀ 7:00 PM Finding Refuge: Crossroads Film Series, Anote’s Ark New England Quilts and the Stories They Tell Plains Speaking: Portsmouth’s 1696 Massacre Portsmouth Public Library, 175 Parrot Avenue Minot-Sleeper Library, 35 Pleasant Street in Fact and Fiction Register: www.wacnh.org Presenter: Pamela Weeks Plains School, 1 Plains Avenue Contact: Gail Wolff, 744-5961 Presenter: Dr. Lisa Brooks 10/2 TILTON ǀ 2:30 PM Contact: Marguerite Mathews, 436-6660 The Capital Crime of Witchcraft:

9/19 NEWPORT ǀ 7:00 PM What the Primary Sources Tell Us Courage to Create: Mending Broken Things 9/26 EASTON ǀ 7:00 PM New Hampshire Veterans Home, 139 Winter Street Library Arts Center, Richards Library, 58 N. Main St. Stark Decency: New Hampshire’s World War II Presenter: Margo Burns Contact: NH Veterans Home, 527-4400 Contact: Nancy Marashio, 763-4163 German Prisoner of War Camp Easton Town Hall, 1060 Easton Valley Road 10/3 CONCORD ǀ 6:00 PM 9/20 PORTSMOUTH ǀ 2:00 PM Presenter: Allen V. Koop Contact: Maria Hynes, 823-5008 Democracy is Not a Spectator Sport That Reminds Me of a Story Concord City Auditorium, 2 Prince Street Wentworth Senior Living, 346 Pleasant Street 9/26 COLEBROOK ǀ 7:00 PM Presenter: Kenneth C. Davis Presenter: Rebecca Rule Contact: Elizabeth Dubrulle, [email protected] Contact: Lindsey Joy, 570-7795 A Walk Back in Time: The Secrets of Cellar Holes Tillotson Center, 14 Carriage Lane 10/3 NEW BOSTON ǀ 7:00 PM 9/21 BRADFORD ǀ 1:00 PM Presenter: Adair D. Mulligan Contact: Tillotson Center, 237-8576 New England Quilts and the Stories They Tell Songs of Emigration: Storytelling Through Whipple Free Library, 67 Mont Vernon Road Traditional Irish Music Presenter: Pamela Weeks Brown Memorial Library, 78 West Main Street 9/26 HANOVER ǀ 7:00 PM Contact: Whipple Free Library, 487-3391 Presenter: Jordan Tirrell-Wysocki Unlaunch’d Voices: An Evening with Walt Whitman Contact: Connie Brookes, 938-5112 Howe Library, 13 South Street Presenter: Stephen J. Collins 10/6 NASHUA ǀ 10:00 AM Contact: Howe Library, 643-4120 Meet Lucy Stone: Enter the Antebellum World of 9/22 DANVILLE ǀ 1:00 PM the Abolition and Women’s Rights Movements 12,000 Years Ago in the Granite State Radisson Hotel Nashua, 11 Tara Boulevard Danville’s 1755 Old Meeting House, 470 Main St. 9/26 HUDSON ǀ 7:00 PM Presenter: Judith Black Presenter: Robert Goodby New Hampshire’s Long Love-Hate Relationship Contact: Carol Waters, 867-2132 Contact: Brenda Whitehouse, 892-7055 With Its Agricultural Fairs Alvirne Hills House, 211 Derry Road 10/6 NEWBURY | 1:00 PM 9/22 HANCOCK ǀ 2:00 PM Presenter: Stephen H. Taylor Diplomacy Then and Now: New England Quilts and the Stories They Tell Contact: Hudson Historical Society, 880-2020 Intergenerational Model UN Conference Hancock Historical Society, 7 Main Street Pavilion at the Fells, 456 Route 103A Presenter: Pamela Weeks 9/26 CENTER HARBOR ǀ 7:00 PM Contact: Brick Moltz, 763-4789 Contact: Carol Domingue, 664-8877 Rally Round the Flag: The American Civil War Through Folksong 10/8 EXETER ǀ 12:00 PM 9/22 RAYMOND ǀ 2:00 PM School House Museum, 94 Dane Road, Route 25B New England’s Colonial Meetinghouses and Familiar Fields: The Power of Community Presenters: Marek Bennett and Woody Pringle Their Impact on American Society in the Work of Sarah Orne Jewett Contact: Roland Garland, 968-3902 Folsom Tavern, 164 Water Street Ray-Fre Senior Center, 64 Main Street Presenter: Paul Wainwright Presenter: M. Marguerite Mathews 9/28 PORTSMOUTH ǀ 1:00 PM Contact: Victoria Su, 772-2622 Contact: Kathy McDonald, 895-6706 Plains Speaking: Portsmouth’s 1696 Massacre in Fact and Fiction: Walking Tour 10/8 WARREN ǀ 6:00 PM 9/24 DUNBARTON ǀ 7:00 PM Plains School, 1 Plains Avenue Brewing in New Hampshire: Songs of Emigration: Storytelling Through Presenters: Denise and Paul Pouliot An Informal History of Beer in the Granite State Traditional Irish Music Contact: Marguerite Mathews, 436-6660 from Colonial Times to the Present St. John’s Parish Hall, 270 Stark Highway North Joseph Patch Library, 320 NH Route 25 Presenter: Jordan Tirrell-Wysocki 9/28 ANTRIM ǀ 1:00 PM Presenter: Glenn A. Knoblock Contact: Alison Vallieres, 774-3681 The Guitar in Latin America: Continuities, Contact: Joseph Patch Library, 764-9072 Changes and Bicultural Strumming 9/25 BRADFORD ǀ 6:00 PM James A. Tuttle Library, 45 Main Street 10/8 CANTERBURY ǀ 7:00 PM John Winant: New Hampshire Man of The World Presenter: José M. Lezcano Treasure from the Isles of Shoals: How New Old Post Office, 162 East Main Street Contact: James A. Tuttle Library, 588-6786 Archaeology is Changing Old History Presenter: Richard A. Hesse Elkins Public Library, 9 Center Road Contact: Marge Cilley, 938-2253 9/28 NEWBURY | 1:00 PM Presenter: J. Dennis Robinson Diplomacy Then and Now: Panama Treaty Contact: Susan LeClair, 783-4386 9/25 GOFFSTOWN ǀ 6:30 PM Negotiation Simulations The Music History of French-Canadians, Pavilion at The Fells, 456 Route 103A 10/8 SALEM ǀ 7:00 PM Franco-Americans, Acadians, and Cajuns Contact: Brick Moltz, 763-4789 Rosie’s Mom: Forgotten Women of the First World War Goffstown Public Library, 2 High Street Salem Meeting House, 310 Main Street Presenter: Lucie Therrien Presenter: Carrie Brown Contact: Goffstown Public Library, 497-2102 9/28 BATH ǀ 2:00 PM Robert Rogers of the Rangers Contact: Beverly Glynn, 893-4133 9/25 KEENE 7:00 PM Bath Public Library, 4 West Bath Road ǀ 10/8 PORTSMOUTH 7:00 PM The History of Gym Class Presenter: George R. Morrison ǀ YMCA Keene, 200 Summit Road Contact: Bath Public Library, 747-3372 Plains Speaking: Portsmouth’s 1696 Massacre Presenter: Rebecca R. Noel in Fact and Fiction Panel Discussion Contact: Jennifer Carroll, 352-1895 Plains School, 1 Plains Avenue Panelists: Nina Maurer, Sandra Rux, Stephanie Seacord 6 Contact: Marguerite Mathews, 436-6660 (Shaded boxes indicate events funded by a New Hampshire Humanities Community Project Grant) 10/8 ASHLAND ǀ 7:00 PM 10/11 PIERMONT ǀ 7:00 PM 10/19 JACKSON ǀ 3:00 PM New Hampshire’s Long Love-Hate Relationship Music in My Pockets: Family Fun in Folk Music New England Quilts and the Stories They Tell with Its Agricultural Fairs Old Church Building, 130 Route 10 Whitney Community Center, 16 Black Mountain Rd. Ashland School Cafeteria, 16 Education Drive Presenter: Jeff Warner Presenter: Pamela Weeks Presenter: Stephen H. Taylor Contact: Margaret Ladd, 272-4967 Contact: Alison Verran, 383-6861 Contact: David Ruell, 968-7716 10/12 CONCORD ǀ 2:00 PM 10/21 CAMPTON ǀ 7:00 PM 10/8 HAMPSTEAD ǀ 7:00 PM A History of the NH Presidential Primary That Reminds Me of a Story New England Quilts and the Stories They Tell New Hampshire Historical Society, 30 Park Street Campton Historical Museum, 529 NH Route 175 Hampstead Public Library, 9 Mary E. Clark Drive Presenter: John Gfroerer Presenter: Rebecca Rule Presenter: Pamela Weeks Contact: NH Historical Society, 228-6688 Contact: Nancy Mardin, 536-3982 Contact: Janet Arden, 329-6411 10/13 NEWBURY ǀ 3:00 PM 10/22 DURHAM ǀ 6:00 PM 10/9 BOW ǀ 12:30 PM Family, Memory, Place: Writing Family Stories The Capital Crime of Witchcraft: Banjos, Bones, and Ballads Newbury Veterans Hall, 944 NH Route 103 What the Primary Sources Tell Us Bow Community Building, 3 Bow Center Road Presenter: Maura MacNeil Durham Public Library, 49 Madbury Road Presenter: Jeff Warner Contact: Nancy Marashio, 763-4163 Presenter: Margo Burns Contact: Faye Johson, 228-8149 Contact: Durham Public Library, 868-6699 10/15 MARLBOROUGH ǀ 7:00 PM 10/9 BOW ǀ 6:00 PM Jennie Powers: The Woman Who Dares 10/23 FRANCESTOWN ǀ 6:30 PM The Capital Crime of Witchcraft: Marlborough Community House, 160 Main Street New England Lighthouses and the People What the Primary Sources Tell Us Presenter: Jennifer Carroll Who Kept Them Baker Free Library, 509 South Street Contact: Richard Butler, 876-3980 George Holmes Bixby Memorial Library, 52 Main St. Presenter: Margo Burns Presenter: Jeremy D’Entremont Contact: Kay Sternenberg, 724-7705 10/15 HAVERHILL ǀ 7:00 PM Contact: Carol Brock, 547-2730 New Hampshire Roads Taken or Not 10/9 BERLIN 6:00 PM ǀ Court Street Arts at Alumni Hall, 75 Court Street 10/24 ATKINSON 6:30 PM That Reminds Me of a Story ǀ White Mountains Community College Presenter: Stephen H. Taylor The Capital Crime of Witchcraft: Fortier Library, 2020 Riverside Drive Contact: Roger Warren, 878-2446 What the Primary Sources Tell Us Presenter: Rebecca Rule Kimball Public Library, 5 Academy Avenue Contact: Melissa Laplante, 342-3086 10/15 NEW HAMPTON ǀ 7:00 PM Presenter: Margo Burns NH Abolitionist Nathaniel Peabody Rogers Contact: Kimball Public Library, 362-5234 10/9 CONWAY ǀ 6:30 PM Gordon-Nash Library, 69 Main Street Civil Liberties vs. National Security Presenter: Rebecca R. Noel 10/24 NORTH CONWAY ǀ 7:00 PM Conway Public Library, 15 Main Street Contact: Francis Maineri, 630-7890 One Book One Valley: Becoming Nicole: Presenter: Richard A. Hesse The Transformation of an American Family Contact: Conway Public Library, 447-5552 10/16 NOTTINGHAM ǀ 6:30 PM Author talk by Amy Ellis Nutt New Hampshire Cemeteries and Gravestones Kennett High School, 409 Eagle’s Way 10/9 PITTSFIELD ǀ 7:00 PM Blaisdell Memorial Library, 129 Stage Road Details at www.onebookonevalley.org New Hampshire on High: Historic and Unusual Presenter: Glenn A. Knoblock Weathervanes of the Granite State Contact: Cara Marsh, 679-8484 10/24 ANDOVER ǀ 7:00 PM Pittsfield Historical Society, 13 Elm Street Our National Thanksgiving: With Thanks to Presenter: Glenn A. Knoblock 10/17 HILL ǀ 7:00 PM President Lincoln and Mrs. Hale Contact: Liz Dimmick, 435-8327 New Hampshire’s One-Room Rural Schools: Proctor Academy Stone Chapel, 194 Main Street The Romance and the Reality Presenter: Steve A. Wood and Sharon Wood 10/10 MANCHESTER | 5:00 PM Hill Public Library, 30 Crescent Street Contact: Rita Norander, 934-5397 30th New Hampshire Humanities Annual Dinner Presenter: Stephen H. Taylor DoubleTree Hotel Manchester, 700 Elm Street Contact: Lucy Natkiel, 630-3549 10/24 NASHUA ǀ 7:00 PM Register at www.nhhumanities.org/AnnualDinner Stark Decency: New Hampshire’s World War II 10/17 NEW BOSTON ǀ 7:00 PM German Prisoner of War Camp 10/10 HAMPTON ǀ 6:30 PM A Visit With Queen Victoria Nashua Public Library, 2 Court Street A Visit With Queen Victoria Whipple Free Library, 67 Mont Vernon Road Presenter: Allen V. Koop St. James Masonic Lodge, 77 Tide Mill Road Presenter: Sally A. Mummey Contact: Carol Eyman, 589-4610 Presenter: Sally A. Mummey Contact: Whipple Free Library, 487-3391 Contact: Pat O’Keefe, 929-0781 10/29 EXETER ǀ 3:00 PM 10/18 PLAINFIELD ǀ 6:30 PM The Music History of French-Canadians, 10/10 FREMONT ǀ 6:30 PM Music in My Pockets: Family Fun in Folk Music Franco-Americans, Acadians, and Cajuns Banjos, Bones, and Ballads Plainfield Town Hall, 1079 NH Route 12A Exeter Public Library, 4 Chestnut Street Fremont Public Library, 7 Jackie Bernier Drive Presenter: Jeff Warner Presenter: Lucie Therrien Presenter: Jeff Warner Contact: Philip Read Memorial Library, 675-6866 Contact: Beth Kendall, 772-3101 Contact: Friends of Fremont Public LIbrary, 895-9543 10/19 DERRY ǀ 10:30 AM 10/29 HOOKSETT ǀ 6:30 PM 10/10 BRISTOL ǀ 6:30 PM To Kill a Mockingbird Film & Discussion Our National Thanksgiving: With Thanks Our National Thanksgiving: With Thanks Pinkerton Academy, 5 Pinkerton Street to President Lincoln and Mrs. Hale to President Lincoln and Mrs. Hale Contact: Dina Chaitowitz, [email protected] Hooksett Public Library, 31 Mount Saint Mary’s Way Minot-Sleeper Library, 35 Pleasant Street Presenters: Steve A. Wood and Sharon Wood Presenters: Steve A. Wood and Sharon Wood 10/19 NELSON ǀ 11:00 AM Contact: Kathie Northrup, 669-8926 Contact: Lucille Keegan, 744-2751 The Guitar in Latin America: Continuities, Changes and Bicultural Strumming 10/29 ENFIELD ǀ 7:00 PM 10/10 NORTH WOODSTOCK ǀ 7:00 PM Olivia Rodham Memorial Library New Hampshire Cemeteries and Gravestones Moved and Seconded: Town Meeting in NH 1 Nelson Common Road Enfield Shaker Great Stone Dwelling Woodstock Town Office, 165 Lost River Road Presenter: José M. Lezcano 447 NH Route 4A Presenter: Rebecca Rule Contact: Kris Finnegan, 847-3214 Presenter: Glenn A. Knoblock Contact: Wendy Pelletier, 745-9971 Contact: Kyle Sandler, 632-4346 10/19 KENSINGTON 1:00 PM 10/10 SPRINGFIELD 7:00 PM ǀ ǀ New Hampshire Cemeteries and Gravestones 11/1 HANCOCK ǀ 7:00 PM The Capital Crime of Witchcraft: Kensington Public Library, 126 Amesbury Road Unlaunch’d Voices: An Evening with Walt Whitman What the Primary Sources Tell Us Harris Center for Conservation Education Town Meeting House, 23 Four Corners Road Presenter: Glenn A. Knoblock 83 Kings Highway Presenter: Margo Burns Contact: Susan Gilbert, Contact: Jim Bednar, 763-5352 772-5022 Presenter: Stephen J. Collins Contact: Harris Center, 525-3394 7 (Shaded boxes indicate events funded by a New Hampshire Humanities Community Project Grant) 11/2 MANCHESTER ǀ 1:00 PM 11/9 NASHUA ǀ 2:00 PM 11/14 ATKINSON ǀ 6:30 PM A House on the Bay: Life on 17th-Century New Vanished Veterans: New Hampshire’s Civil War Rudyard Kipling Revisited Hampshire’s Coastal Frontier Monuments and Memorials Kimball Public Library, 5 Academy Avenue Puritan Restaurant, 245 Hooksett Road The Nashua Historical Society, 5 Abbott Street Presenter: Jackson Gillman Presenter: Neill DePaoli Presenter: George R. Morrison Contact: Kimball Public Library, 362-5234 Contact: Heather Rojo, 518-5050 Contact: The Nashua Historical Society, 883-0015 11/14 WINCHESTER ǀ 7:00 PM 11/5 PORTSMOUTH | 6:00 PM 11/10 EXETER ǀ 1:30 PM A Soldier’s Mother Tells Her Story Finding Refuge: Crossroads Film Series, Fire at Sea Russian Lacquer Boxes: From Craft to Fine Art United Church of Winchester, 97 Main Street Portsmouth Public Library, 175 Parrot Ave. Seacoast Artist Association, 130 Water Street Presenter: Sharon V. Wood Register: www.wacnh.org Presenter: Marina Forbes Contact: Elena Heiden, 239-4594 Contact: Seacoast Artist Association, 778-8856 11/5 MERRIMACK ǀ 6:30 PM 11/14 CENTER BARNSTEAD ǀ 7:00 PM From Mickey to Magoo: The Golden Age 11/10 SOUTH NEWBURY ǀ 2:00 PM Rosie’s Mom: Forgotten Women of the of American Animation Vanished Veterans: New Hampshire’s Civil War First World War Merrimack Public Library, 470 Daniel Webster Hwy. Monuments and Memorials Barnstead Town Hall, 108 South Barnstead Road Presenter: Margo Burns South Newbury Union Church, 162 Village Road Presenter: Carrie Brown Contact: Brendan Chella, 424-5021 Presenter: George R. Morrison Contact: Oscar Foss Memorial Library, 269-3900 Contact: Maralyn Doyle, 938-5582 11/5 EXETER ǀ 7:00 PM 11/15 DURHAM ǀ 10:15 AM Putting Human Faces on the Textile Industry: 11/12 GREENLAND ǀ 1:00 PM New England Lighthouses and the People The Workers of the Amoskeag Manufacturing Co. That Reminds Me of a Story Who Kept Them Exeter Historical Society, 47 Front Street Community Congregational Church Parish Hall Community Church of Durham, 17 Main Street Presenter: Robert B. Perreault 44 Post Road Presenter: Jeremy D’Entremont Contact: Exeter Historical Society, 778-2335 Presenter: Rebecca Rule Contact: Alison Sweatt, 868-7364 Contact: Lee Miller, 436-9469 11/6 DERRY ǀ 10:00 AM 11/15 CAMPTON ǀ 6:00 PM Poor Houses and Town Farms: 11/12 STRAFFORD ǀ 6:00 PM Traditional Matryoshka Nested Doll Making: The Hard Row for Paupers Vanished Veterans: New Hampshire’s Civil War From Russia to New Hampshire Marion Gerrish Community Center, 39 W. Broadway Monuments and Memorials Campton Public Library, 1110 NH Route 175, Suite B Presenter: Stephen H. Taylor Hill Library, 1151 Parker Mountain Road Presenter: Marina Forbes Contact: Meredith Hatch, 434-8673 Presenter: George R. Morrison Contact: Susanna Buonopane, 726-4877 Contact: Paige Holman, 664-2800 11/6 WINDHAM ǀ 12:00 PM 11/15 PETERBOROUGH ǀ 6:30 PM Songs of Emigration: Storytelling Through 11/12 EXETER ǀ 6:30 PM The Shaker Legacy Traditional Irish Music Open Questions: What Does It Mean Divine Mercy Church, 171 Wilton Road Windham Town Hall, 4 North Lowell Road To Be An American? Presenter: Darryl Thompson Presenter: Jordan Tirrell-Wysocki Folsom Tavern, 164 Water Street Contact: Janet Hicks, 547-3365 Contact: Nancy Greenberg, 537-1756 Presenters: Max Latona and Joshua Tepley Contact: American Independence Museum, 772-2622 11/19 NASHUA | 5:30 PM 11/6 NASHUA ǀ 6:30 PM Ideas on Tap: “Artificial Intelligence: Discovering New England Stone Walls 11/12 SALEM ǀ 7:00 PM Is There a Ghost in the Machine?” First Baptist Church, 121 Manchester Street Abby Hutchinson’s Sweet Freedom Songs: Martha’s Exchange Restaurant & Brewing Co. Presenter: Kevin Gardner Songs and Stories of the Struggle for Abolition 185 Main Street Contact: Christina Rufo, 305-5997 and Woman Suffrage Register: www.nhhumanities.org/ideas Salem Meeting House, 310 Main Street 11/7 BARRINGTON ǀ 5:30 PM Presenter: Deborah A. Goss 11/21 MADBURY ǀ 7:00 PM Civil War Soldiers’ Quilts Contact: Beverly Glynn, 893-4133 Meet Lucy Stone: Enter the Antebellum World of Barrington Public Library, 105 Ramsdell Lane the Abolition and Women’s Rights Movements Presenter: Pamela Weeks 11/13 CONTOOCOOK ǀ 1:00 PM Madbury Town Halll, 9 Town Hall Road Contact: Melissa Huette, 664-9715 Oil, Ice, and Bone: Arctic Whaler Nathaniel Ransom Presenter: Judith Black Odd Fellow Hall, Park Avenue Contact: Madbury Public Library, 743-1400 11/7 MANCHESTER ǀ 6:00 PM Presenter: Helen H. Frink Freedom from Fear: Immigration in the Contact: Alison Vallieres, 774-3681 11/23 NELSON ǀ 11:00 AM Live Free or Die State Songs of Emigration: Storytelling Through Currier Museum, 150 Ash Street 11/13 CANDIA ǀ 6:00 PM Traditional Irish Music Contact: Lynn Thomson, 669-6144 Harnessing History: On the Trail of New Olivia Rodham Memorial Library Hampshire’s State Dog, the Chinook 1 Nelson Common Road 11/7 ATKINSON ǀ 6:30 PM Smyth Public Library, 55 High Street Presenter: Jordan Tirrell-Wysocki The Connecticut: New England’s Great River Presenter: Bob C. Cottrell Contact: Kris Finnegan, 847-3214 Kimball Public Library, 5 Academy Avenue Contact: Heidi Deacon, 483-8245 Presenter: Adair D. Mulligan 11/30 BATH ǀ 2:00 PM Contact: Kimball Public Library, 362-5234 11/13 DERRY ǀ 6:30 PM In the Evil Day: Individual Rights, Town Government, Traditional Matryoshka Nested Doll Making: and the Crime that Stunned the Nation 11/7 JAFFREY ǀ 6:30 PM From Russia to New Hampshire Bath Public Library, 4 West Bath Road Not In Front of the Children: Derry Public Library, 64 East Broadway Presenter: Richard Adams Carey The Art and Importance of Fairy Tales Presenter: Marina Forbes Contact: Bath Public Library, 747-3372 Jaffrey Public Library, 38 Main Street Contact: Liz Ryan, 432-6140 Presenter: Ingrid W. Graff Contact: Jaffrey Public Library, 532-7301 11/13 PLYMOUTH ǀ 7:00 PM African American Soldiers and Sailors of New 11/9 CONWAY ǀ 1:00 PM Hampshire During the American Revolution Choose a program and invite a friend! War, Justice, and Non-Violence: Old Webster Courthouse, 6 Court Street All programs are subject to change. For Perspectives and Paradoxes Presenter: Glenn A. Knoblock the most up-to-date listings and weather Conway Public Library, 15 Greenwood Avenue Contact: Dick Flanders, 536-1376 cancellations, check our online event Presenter: Kent A. McConnell calendar at www.nhhumanities.org/event- Contact: Tessa Narducci, 447-5552 11/14 FARMINGTON ǀ 6:00 PM calendar. Rosie’s Mom: Forgotten Women of the (Shaded boxes indicate events funded by a New Hampshire First World War Humanities Community Project Grant) Goodwin Library, 422 Main Street Presenter: Carrie Brown 8 Contact: Kayla Morin, 755-2944 New Hampshire Humanities bids farewell to Terry Farish “Sometimes ‘tell me more’ are the most generous words you can tell somebody.” - Terry Farish You could say Terry Farish is a story whisperer. For Farish, a writer, poet, and author, life is about words and storytelling. But perhaps one of her greatest gifts is the ability to gently coax and nurture words and images from those who don’t know how to tell their story– or believe that their story even matters. This fall, Terry leaves her post as our Connections book discussion coordinator to devote herself to her writing life and other projects. The ripple effects of her time here are profound. From 2008-2013 Terry led the Connections book discussion She conceived of “A Year of New Voices,” an initiative that program, working with Adult Basic Education and English encompassed new ways of working with English learners. language learner classes. Using children’s and adult books, New Gathering a team of ESL teachers, facilitators, artists, and Hampshire Humanities facilitators enhanced literacy classes writers, she created a handbook of essays called Tell Me More: using writing, drama, cooking, art, music, and more to explore Encouraging and Developing the Voices of English Learners. surprisingly sophisticated themes. Published by New Hampshire Humanities last year, the guide is a resource for teachers that includes tips for helping students discover their stories and write with clarity. A more community-oriented component, New Voices, was a program in which ELL students and local writers worked together and presented their poems and stories at public readings. “The idea I was imagining for New Voices,” she explained, “was small, casual readings in local venues where U.S. born people might also come to listen and read.” New Voices invited new Americans to write, read, and hear reactions to stories. Writing gave refugees the chance to heal from unspeakable horrors and immigrants a way to adjust to a new home and a new language. They spoke of food, art, music, dance. About grandmothers, growing up, violence and death, and saying goodbye. An immigrant from China who participated in Across the state, Terry’s leadership and vision are admired the Lebanon New Voices event marveled, “No one ever asked me by many, including Linda Graham, Connections facilitator and to tell my story before.” visual artist: New Voices brought together new writers/storytellers with “Terry helps make each session resonate, like the artist enthusiastic audiences this year at free public events in she is. She leads with deep determination and initiative but Manchester, Portsmouth, Lebanon, Keene, and Concord. Marianne thoughtful appreciation for the individual skills of a facilitator,” Philbrick, Adult Education Director at Concord’s Second Start, said Graham. “Her focus stays on the importance of literature, shared: “Students, families, staff, and volunteers were thrilled to art in our lives. I have benefited from my work with her as she attend the New Voices poetry reading at Gibson’s Bookstore this values each program she works with and is generous with her spring. Audience members had a chance to realize the immigrant support.” experience and they laughed and cried, both at the emotion and After a four-year hiatus, Terry returned to New Hampshire fun of the presentation.” Humanities in 2017 and while continuing to lead Connections, Farish believes the program’s success is because storytelling imagined a new trajectory for the program. breaks down barriers and allows us to build empathy and “When I came here originally, it was purely for the love of understanding. “When you begin to write, you’re going places in reading,” she says. “I just wanted to bring the stories to people. your imagination you’ve never gone before,” she says. “Reading Since then, I’ve learned so much from teachers, facilitators, others’ stories provides a safe space for people to meet one and the students. It has become much more about building another, to cross into unfamiliar territory.” community.” We thank you, Terry, for living the work of New Hampshire Humanities in the deepest, most joyous sense of the word. 9 New Hampshire Humanities awards $23,850 in grants Six nonprofit organizations were recently awarded Community Project Grants for fall and winter events in locations around the state. Information about these events will be publicized in our monthly e-news and online event calendar as details become available. Our grants are supported in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Plains Speaking: Massacre, For Freedoms Exhibit and Town Courage to Create: Facts and Fictions Hall Conversations at the Currier “Mending Broken Things” Pontine Theatre will host a series Inspired by American artist Norman Thursday, September 19, 2019, 7:00 pm of four events this fall exploring the Rockwell’s paintings of Franklin D. Library Arts Center at Richards Library, history and legacy of an infamous Roosevelt’s Four Freedoms—freedom 58 North Main Street, Newport native raid on colonial settlers at the of speech, freedom of worship, freedom Taking a cue Portsmouth Plain in 1696. Three talks from want, and freedom from fear— from his memoir, and a history walk around the Great Bog the For Freedoms Federation uses The Words I Chose, will investigate actual events and their art to encourage and deepen public Wes McNair will causes, the broader context of regional explorations of freedom in the 21st give a combined conflicts between European settlers and century. While hosting a For Freedoms poetry reading native peoples, and a Native American exhibit, the Currier Museum of Art will and talk titled perspective on relations with early offer four free “Town Hall” events to “Mending Broken settlers. www.pontine.org inspire civic-minded conversations and Things,” hosted prompt reflection about contemporary by the Center for 2019 One Book One Valley social issues and values. Topics include: the Arts – Lake Community Read • Freedom from Fear: Immigration in the Sunapee Region. McNair is a multiple What is gender? Why does it Live Free or Die State prize-winning poet, writer, editor, and matter? The 14th annual One Book • Freedom from Want: Destigmatizing professor, and Newport native widely One Valley community read this fall Substance Use Disorder respected and loved for his courage to will be centered around the book • Freedom of Speech: What is Speech not turn his back on the local obstacles Becoming Nicole: The Transformation Without a Voice? Hearing Those with to his success as a widely respected of an American Family. Fifteen libraries Visible and Invisible Disabilities literary figure. Contact: Nancy Marashio, and an independent bookstore will • Freedom of Worship: Sacred Spaces/ 763-4163 host a variety of lectures, films, book Sacred Lands discussions, panels, and a visit by the www.currier.org/for-freedoms Democracy is Not a Spectator Sport author, Amy Ellis Nutt, Pulitzer Prize- Thursday, October 3, 2019, 6:00 pm winning health and science writer for Raising Awareness of NH’s Concord City Auditorium, 2 Prince Street the Washington Post. (See page 11.) Black History to Build Inclusive New York Times bestselling author www.onebookonevalley.org Communities Today Kenneth C. Davis speaks about the vital The Black Heritage Trail of New role of social studies in safeguarding our Hampshire will host three of its signature rights. Author of the Don’t Know Much Below: Freedom from Want, 2018. Courtesy of Hank © Willis Thomas and Emily Shur in collaboration with Eric “Tea Talk” programs in About series, Davis will speak on the Gottesman and Wyatt Gallery of For Freedoms. new locations around importance of schools offering dynamic the state, Keene, social studies instruction and how the Plymouth, and Nashua. larger community plays an important These dialogues role in promoting democratic ideals act as a catalyst for for the next generation. Immediately deeper exploration of preceding Davis’s talk, New Hampshire Black New Hampshire Historical Society will provide a preview history, while examining the grip of of the new curriculum “Moose on the racism on our past and its contemporary Loose: Social Studies for Granite State manifestations. Kids.” Free and open to the public. For www.blackheritagetrailnh.org. pre-registration: [email protected].

To read about working with humanities scholars, designing your own event or project, and finding funding, explore our website, www.nhhumanities.org/grants. To host a New Hampshire Humanities information session for organizations in your area, contact Susan Hatem, Director of Programs and Grant Making, at [email protected]. 10 15 libraries and a bookstore get together for One Book One Valley The 14th annual One Book One discussion with mental health and Valley, a community read program medical providers in partnership with for the Mount Washington Valley Kennett High School’s GSTA (Gay/ and surrounding towns, will be Straight/Transgender Alliance), “Ask a Transgender Person Anything,” held in 2019, and will once again and “No Cinderella Story,” historian Laura Hodgman’s account of an be supported by a Community oral history project she conducted in the transgender community Project grant from New Hampshire of Tacoma, WA. Humanities. This year's book is Staff members from 15 public libraries and an independent Becoming Nicole: The Transformation bookstore, White Birch Books, worked together to plan this annual of an American Family by Amy Ellis series of events. One Book One Valley’s mission is to strengthen Nutt. Nutt is the Health, Science & Environment reporter for community ties, promote literacy through reading, and encourage The Washington Post. She wrote this book to expand and follow discussion of a common book with themes that resonate locally. up on an article about the Maines family’s story of raising and Program organizers chose Becoming Nicole for 2019 because it’s advocating for their transgender child. a good read, and to foster community conversations about gender During September and October, each library will host a book identity, raising children in the 21st century, discrimination of discussion and some will also hold programs related to the marginalized populations, and the social, ethical, and philosophical themes in the book. The culminating event will be an evening considerations of these. Recent state legislation regarding with the author on Thursday, October 24 at 7:00 pm at Kennett transgender rights makes this a timely topic for learning more High School in North Conway. Other programs will include through community discussions and programs. “Gender 101,” a film showing of Screaming Queens: The Riot at To learn more, visit www.onebookonevalley.org, or contact any Compton’s Cafeteria followed by a facilitated discussion, a panel of the participating libraries.

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