Historical organizations are all around us in New England
Here are updates from some of our Favorites!
Would you like to become a Friend of Stark Park?
Join us tomorrow (Wednesday) at 6 p.m. for the Friends of Stark Park Annual Meeting!
Tickets are now available for Christmas at the Newport Mansions, a spectacular holiday celebration for the whole family. Beginning November 23rd, guests can tour some of the seaside city’s most iconic and historic mansions and enjoy stunning Christmas decorations and festive live performances and events. You can buy Tickets at www.newportmansions.org/events/christmas-at-the-newport-mansions.
Love the red walls!
From which of the mansions does this photo come from ?? Is it Chateau Sur Mer ??
It's more beautiful than I remember as a child! 🎄❤
Shannon Navinskey - This is worth seeing!
Theresa Knapp?
Join us for a program this week. Here is a look at what is planned: On Tuesday, 12 November, at 5:15 PM, Donald C. Jackson, Lafayette College, presents "Engineering, Politics, & Dams: John R. Freeman & San Francisco’s Hetch Hetchy Water Supply" with comment by Conevery Bolton Valencius, Boston College. On Wednesday, November 13, at 12:00 PM, Michael D’Alessandro, Duke University, presents "Staged Readings: Parlor Play & Contesting Class in 19th-Century America." On Wednesday, 13 November, at 6:00 PM, Karilyn Crockett, MIT; Tony Hernandez, Dudley Neighbors, Inc.; and Valerie Shelley, Orchard Gardens Resident Association, present "Housing as History: the Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative & Orchard Gardens." This program will be held at the Dewitt Center, 122 Dewitt Drive, Boston. On Thursday, 14 November, at 6:00 PM, Nancy Seasholes, Robert Allison, Richard Garver, and Jim Vrabel present "Atlas of Boston History." On Saturday, 16 November, at 4:00 PM, John Stauffer, Harvard University; Jeffrey O.G. Ogbar, University of Connecticut; Adrienne Lentz-Smith, Duke University; and moderator Valerie Roberson, Roxbury Community College, present "Legacies of 1619: Black Radicalism / Black Power." This program will be held at Roxbury Community College, Student Commons, 1234 Columbus Avenue. For more information and to register, please visit www.massshist.org/events.
Here is some spectacular aerial footage around the Weston Observatory from our own Daniel Peters!
Enjoy, and consider becoming a member of the Manchester Historic Association: www.manchesterhistoric.org/join-support/membership
Construction of the Bulkeley Bridge in Hartford began in 1904 and was not completed until 1907. The stone arch bridge was one of the last of its kind to be built in New England. In 1993, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places.
This view of the project looking south across Ferry Street was taken on November 12, 1906. #TodayInHistory
Walkin’ in a it’s still 39 days until it’s officially Winter Wonderland! ❄️ Museum & History Center are both open today!
"Pauline Cushman (born Harriet Wood; June 10, 1833 – December 2, 1893) was an American actress and a spy for the Union Army during the American Civil War. She is considered one of the most successful Civil War spies.
After a Northern performance, Cushman was paid by two local pro-Confederate men to toast Confederate President Jefferson Davis after a performance. The theatre forced her to quit, but she had other ideas. She had decided to ingratiate herself with the rebels by making the toast, while offering her services to the Union as a spy.
By fraternizing with rebel military commanders, she managed to conceal battle plans and drawings in her shoes, but was caught twice in 1864 and brought before Confederate General Braxton Bragg, tried by a military court, and sentenced to death by hanging. Though she was already ill, she acted worse off than she was. The Confederates had to postpone her execution. Cushman was spared hanging by the invasion of the area by Union troops. She was also wounded twice."
Read more about Pauline and other heroes in this article written by Jennifer Galpern
rihs.wordpress.com/2018/03/22/women-in-the-civil-war/
Symposium Speaker Spotlight
Wanda M. Corn, “Women Building History: Public Art at the 1893 Columbian Exposition”
Wanda M. Corn, the Robert and Ruth Halperin Professor Emerita of Art History at Stanford University, specializes in modern art and visual culture. She takes a special interest in the ways artists and art movements traveled globally in the early 20th century; her scholarship on transatlantic modernism focuses on the exchanges and interdependencies of avant-garde artists in Paris and New York. During her career at Stanford, she brought John D. Rockefeller's personal collection to the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, including 110 paintings described as the museums’ “single most important gift of art.” She also served as acting director of the Stanford Art Museum, now known as the Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts. Click below to learn more.
www.newportmansions.org/learn/newport-symposium
Elinor Righter Oakes (1912-2001), of Greenwich, CT, served in the Red Cross, in Cerignola, Italy during WWII, from March 1944-November 1945. She worked at one of the Red Cross Clubs serving squadrons and groups of Air Force aviators and ground soldiers who flew out of there to bomb German towns and positions. Her brother, Brewster Righter (1908-1962), also served during WWII. He served with the Navy in the Pacific on the USS San Jacinto.
Bill (your brother) says yes. Debbie wants to post her step dad but I cannot find his Marine photo. It is in a safe place...somewhere in this house.
On March 15, 1944, twenty-one-year-old Hartford native Elizabeth “Betty” Nolan, joined the WAVES, where she was assigned to the Naval Air Station in Alameda, CA. To prepare, she attended the US Naval Training School at Hunter College, NY, and Yeoman School at the Iowa Teachers College, Cedar Falls, IA. After the war, Betty worked in the Patent Department of the Underwood Research Laboratories until she and her husband, John P. Barnicle, started their family. #VeteransDay
Her uniforms and photographs are one of my favorite recent acquisitions.
On this Veteran's Day, a heartfelt thank you to all of our service men and women.
Was in front of the GAR Hall for years! As I walked to school along Grove St to school I used to say hello to him everyday!!!
Did you know ‘Nutmeggers’ is a nod to Connecticut’s corrupt past? Check out Adult Programs Manager, Natalie Belanger’s most recent interview with the Hartford Courant.
That is slander. There were in colonial times pedlars who sold household goods, including spices. Some were not honest and would carve inexpensive hardwoods into the shape of a nutmeg seed and sell them as the expensive spice. CT pedlars were claimed to be the worst of the typical cheats, hence Nutmeggers. I am sure there were as many from other states, but CT got stuck with the label.
This pin originally belonged to Harry E. Wilcox, a veteran of the Spanish-American War. He was enlisted in Company F, First Connecticut Volunteer Infantry. The medal (.52) was issued to members of the United Spanish War Veterans to anyone who served in the military during the Spanish-American War or the Philippine American War. #veteransday
Charlie Tyrrell
"Maine furnished 32,032 fighting men to the war, about 5% of the state’s population. Many more men & women served in administrative or support service roles, at home and abroad. Between April 1917 - December 1918, 1,032 Maine men and women gave their lives for their country. Countless more returned wounded, both physically and psychologically. The introduction of modern warfare with mechanized weaponry, submarines, trench warfare, chemical weapons, and newer technology like tanks and airplanes, took an immense and often misunderstood toll on the soldiers. Their stories are acts of bravery, patriotism, camaraderie, perseverance, humor and sadness. Each story is unique, but tied together by shared experiences and sacrifices, many paying the ultimate price." View this online exhibit to learn more. #VeteransDay
Stanley Budleski served in WWII from 1940 - 1943. He was killed when his aircraft was shot down over Germany during a bombing run in 1943. #veteransday
I will never take for granted my freedom because of what these great men accomplished. I will always honor our Veterans ❤️
Civil War army officers, Generals Nathaniel Lyon and Franz Sigel on horseback. This print was probably produced in 1861, shortly after the Battle of Wilson's Creek. #veteransday
"Women workers at the Portland Company, ca. 1917."
During World War I women were employed at the Portland Company to help manufacture 108 mm shell casings for the United States Army. Collections MHS/MMN #5762
ONLINE EXHIBIT: "Maine residents went off to war, worked in shipbuilding, munitions, and other war-related industries, served as nurses, and celebrated when the war ended. These images evoke some of those experiences of The Great War, the event that led to our present Veterans Day."
In June 1926, Congress declared November 11 Armistice Day, an annual observance to mark the end of World War I. Then in 1938, November 11 was made a legal holiday "to be dedicated to the cause of world peace." After more wars -- World War II and the Korean Conflict -- in 1954, Congress changed the name Armistice Day to Veterans Day, to honor veterans of all wars.
Image: Skowhegan Doughboys in France, 1918, WWI. Collections Skowhegan History House/MMN #7583
#Respect #Honor #Gratitude to all those for their sacrifice and service. #VeteransDay
Today, as on every other day, we at the Manchester Historic Association salute our veterans!
Manchester native Thelma (Richards) Childs joined the Women’s Auxilliary Army Corps at the age of 32 and was stationed at Keesler Field
On this #veteransday, we thank all veterans, past and present, for their service. Veterans Day originated as Armistice Day, marking the end of fighting during the first world war, November 11, 1918. This broadside announces a celebration to welcome home Hopkinton's WWI veterans.
Veteran's Day is a good time to remind you that we are a #BlueStarMuseum. In 2018, we had over 8,000 service members and their families take advantage of free admission to the #OldStateHouse, and we are proud to extend some small measure of gratitude to those who serve.
Thank you to all our veterans for their service.
#veteransday #history #SpanishAmericanWar (photo of soldiers at Camp Olympia, Colchester, ca.1898 by Wilbur C. Sawyer)
Let's not gloss over the fact that the Spanish American War was one long war crime interspersed with atrocities. Honoring veterans means acknowledging the reality of war.
Great photo.
This was right before deployment to Cuba, but they only made it to North Carolina and were sent home.
Center Bottom row. Is that Lee Van cleef
It's hard to imagine them using tents in Colchester.
Downton Abbey has made Americans think more about what we have in common with the United Kingdom. Today is Veterans Day in the United States but our friends across the pond observe it as Remembrance Day. It is tradition to pause for two minutes of silence at 11am on November 11 to remember those killed in the two world wars and the British-servicemen and servicewomen killed or injured since 1945. People literally stop where they are to observe the moment and Poppies are worn as a symbol of respect and tribute on Remembrance Sunday and/or November 11.
Don't forget the service women as well!
Thanks to The Concord Insider for highlighting our upcoming genealogy workshops! If you are interested in family history, check out our Kids Do Family History Genealogy Workshop, on Saturday, November 16, or our Genealogy Workshop: Using DNA in Family History Research, presented in conjunction with the American Ancestors and New England Historic Genealogical Society on Saturday, November 23rd. Contact us at 603-228-6688 or visit Eventbrite to register.
Join us at 10:30 today!Join local author Nancy-Ann Feren at the Millyard Museum this Saturday at 10:30 for a talk and book signing on her new book: "Not Your Average Travelers: 40 Years of Adventures in All the U.S. National Parks."
Admission is FREE for this program. To RSVP, please call 622-7531 or email [email protected]
To learn more: www.manchesterhistoric.org/events/243-book-signing-and-author-talk-not-your-average-travelers-40-...
I remember it well.....So many rumors!
Next week we begin repairs on The Elms roof. It is one of three in the next year. The Elms is open during construction. So if you see any equipment on the grounds don’t let that stop you from visiting. www.newportmansions.org
It was amazing to be on the Elms roof for the Servants tour last weekend. Learned so much!
The Servants tour was wonderful. Definitely worth it.
I’ve the Elms!
My favorite mansion!!
Elms is one of my favorite. Servant tour is a must as well.
Watch this! If you want to attend, there's only a couple of tickets left but you can call and see if there are any walk-in slots available! Thanks to WTNH News 8!!!
What made up a typical American Gilded Age menu? Helen Zoe Veit, an Associate Professor of History at Michigan State University, answered that very question during her lecture at Rosecliff Thursday night. Prior to her remarks, she spoke with us on Facebook.
BIG PROJECT REVEAL!
The Rhode Island Historical Society is proud to share the recent restoration process that went into preserving this american treasure- the oldest theater scenery in the country, and it’s of Rhode Island! Painted in 1809, it depicts a sweeping view of Providence’s East Side and Downtown areas from Smith Hill. The entire image is 15 feet wide and stands at 24 feet tall.
Critical support for the restoration came from Sylvia Brown, a descendant of the man who made the theater possible in the 18th century. Curtains Without Borders, a Vermont-based firm which specializes in the conservation of historic painted theater scenery, performed the work in July. Their team of three conservators removed 30 years of dust and applied judicious in-painting until they felt there was an overall improvement that was not intrusive to the eye.
Historical Context: In the 1750s and 60s, when the suppression of theatrical entertainments was a political and moral issue in New England (as Puritan strongholds), theater companies generally limited themselves to the mid-Atlantic and southern states. In the early 1790s, Boston was still resistant, but the people of Rhode Island were more receptive, and after many meetings, discussions, and some persuasive marketing, it was agreed to allow a permanent theater to be established in Providence. John Brown gave the lot (the corner of Westminster and Mathewson streets, where Grace Church now stands).
And that’s why the oldest theater scenery in the country of Providence, Rhode Island! You can read the in-depth history of this backdrop in our next issue of ‘The Times’, The Rhode Island Historical Society Member Magazine. We are proud to be caretakers of this magnanimous vista, and proud as Rhode Islanders to point to this work as a clear example of the state’s legacy of contributions to american performing arts.
Is this hanging where the public can see it?
Proud to be a part of the Brown Family (husband is a direct descendent of the Rev. Chaddus Brown).
It looks amazing!!!
Where can you see it?
I had always heard of it and have seen old photos of it but have never seen it in person. Where is it kept normally? Will it be a available for viewing at some point? Great job!
Claire Uziel
John Conley wow!
On 10 August 1774 John Adams departed Boston for Philadelphia. He was traveling with Robert Treat Paine, Thomas Cushing, and Samuel Adams. Together, they were Massachusetts’s delegation to the First Continental Congress. Adams kept a diary not only for his benefit, though. “I have [kept] a few Minutes by Way of Journal,” he told Abigail Adams on 28 August, in one of the few letters he wrote during this period. The diary, Adams went on, “shall be your Entertainment when I come home.” He committed 18 pages to his time in New York City, considerably more than any other place. In a 23 August diary entry, Adams wrote of New Yorkers, "They talk very loud, very fast, and altogether."
My John Adams signature
Sarah Bachan
Another great day at the @nema_conference with friends and colleagues! Victoria, VHS education manager, presented a session with Rich from @fort_ticonderoga and Bethany from @johnjayhomestead on adding more stories to history museums & sites
A great session! Thank you!
"For the first time since 1983, Maine will host the annual summer meeting of the National Governors Association, next year in Portland. The gathering, scheduled for Aug. 5-7, 2020, will coincide with Maine's bicentennial and the 100th anniversary of national women's suffrage..."
I actually volunteered at the one in 1983. I was one of the student ushers that welcomed to the governors.
We had a wonderful year this year and set attendance records.
Thank you for your support and check out our latest story in Carriage Towne News.
We love this fantastic place. See you on Memorial Day, 2020.
I'd love to see both tanks in the showroom next year.
Hope to visit next summer!
I’m coming back this forth!
Thank you
Yay team
See you in Keene for a great conversation- mailchi.mp/c22483c8b401/celebrating-black-history-month-1650085
In case you missed our walking tour of Oak Hill and the area surrounding the Weston Observatory last month, now is your chance to watch it here, courtesy of Manchester Public Television and videographer Paul Cormier!
With thanks to our tour guide extraordinaire, Ed Brouder!
vimeo.com/368130745
Awesome, TUSM for offering this presentation to us. Loved it, great info and entertaining as well.
Tom Dro
Love this. Thanks for posting!
Awesome video
Join local author Nancy-Ann Feren at the Millyard Museum this Saturday at 10:30 for a talk and book signing on her new book: "Not Your Average Travelers: 40 Years of Adventures in All the U.S. National Parks."
Admission is FREE for this program. To RSVP, please call 622-7531 or email [email protected]
To learn more: www.manchesterhistoric.org/events/243-book-signing-and-author-talk-not-your-average-travelers-40-...
We had an awesome group at the History Museum this morning for our off-site session for the @nema_conference Thanks to everyone for coming to learn & talk about community exhibits! #NEMA2019
Awesome session, Eileen and Amanda!
The charm of the #OldStateHouse and its place as a link to our past owes much to the little ornamental details, like these urns on the second stage of our tower. But they are badly damaged and in need of repair. Head to bostonhistory.org/donate to keep this building beautiful.
That looks bad
What were they eating in the Gilded Age? And why? Don't miss tonight's lecture, "Food In The American Gilded Age," by Dr. Helen Zoe Veit. We begin at 6 p.m. at Rosecliff. www.newportmansions.org/learn/adult-programs
*cc's the army of Providence mural artists*
Downtown Providence, 1951 vs. 2019. Original photograph taken by James J. Shields of the Camera Club, which was part of Providence Engineering Society. (RHi X17 554)
If a building ever gets proposed for that parking lot, I bet someone will cry that those two little billboards are historic and must be preserved.
It's primary season! Yesterday, Elizabeth Dubrulle and Jenn Walton from the Society's education department stopped by the State House to chat with Senator Amy Klobuchar about the first-in-the-nation primary and grab a campaign button featuring the Granite State. The Society plans to gather NH-themed items from all of the candidates to include in our collections.
In this letter, dated 7 November 1895, 28-year-old W. E. B. Du Bois writes to Massachusetts Senator George Frisbie Hoar seeking Hoar’s assistance in securing a teaching position, either at Howard University or in the Washington, D.C., public schools. Acknowledging that he has “no claim upon an entire stranger to ask so great a favor,” Du Bois outlines for Hoar his personal ambitions as a historian and sociologist in order to demonstrate how a teaching position in Washington, with access to the vast libraries in the nation’s capital, would help him achieve these goals.
Let's show everyone what we've got in CT! We can win this if everyone who likes (or loves) WDS votes for us! You can vote daily, too!
www.10best.com/awards/travel/best-holiday-historic-home-tour-2019/webb-deane-stevens-museum-wethe...
And stay tuned for details on our 2019 Three Centuries of Christmas Tours!
The first of our expanded #TeaTalks is coming up this Sunday, Nov 10, 2pm, at Young Student Center in Keene, NH. "New Hampshire: Beyond Black & White." Will you join us?!
Isaac Bell Jr. was born on this day in 1846. In 1883, Stanford White built a Newport house for Bell that is today considered one of the finest examples of Shingle Style architecture. Many Shingle Style houses have been lost over the years. The Isaac Bell House was rescued from decay in the mid-1990s, and is now a National Historic Landmark.
Great house. Very different from the others as there are no furnishings just wonderful architecture.
I had the pleasure of visiting Newport 6 weeks ago from 🇦🇺, and this was the most anticipated highlight of my entire trip ( and over delivered!) Whilst I didn’t get to visit this particular home I did see four amazing out of this world mansions as well as completing the fabulous cliff walk. The work your society does is amazing, ensuring for generations to come we get to dream of a life that was, a beauty that will probably never be equaled and understand the generosity of this era... Thank you 🙏
My great grandma's final home❤️
Richard and I loved this house, was one of our favorites in Newport.
Though unfurnished, I really enjoyed the tour and story
This is less “mansion” than most on Bellevue Avenue but we fell in love with the interior as well as the beauty of the outside-if you go to Newport don’t overlook this one!
I love this house.
One of those homes that places you right back in The Day.
A stunning before-and-after of recent repairs on the #OldStateHouse tower that friends and supporters like you make possible. While engaged in the scrape/sand/paint process on the wood, the Facilities team found a few other architectural elements in urgent need. More to come...
Look at all those layers of old paint!
Please note that the MHS library and exhibition galleries will be closed on Thursday, 7 November for a staff retreat. The building will open at 5:00 PM for the evening program.
Join local author Nancy-Ann Feren at the Millyard Museum this Saturday at 10:30 for a talk and book signing on her new book: "Not Your Average Travelers: 40 Years of Adventures in All the U.S. National Parks."
Admission is FREE for this program. To RSVP, please call 622-7531 or email [email protected]
To learn more: www.manchesterhistoric.org/events/243-book-signing-and-author-talk-not-your-average-travelers-40-...
Ed Perry look at this !
Shay Leblanc
Well it’s Wednesday... as we walk whimsically and weave our way through the week I ask you, What is it?
Well done everyone! This is a bullet mold for making musket balls. Found in an old shed about 1930 in Swanton by Mr. W.H. Skinner. Tune in next Wednesday for some more enigmatic item tomfoolery!
We all know this is the stone tablet that first memorialized the musical lyrics for "These Green Mountains," our Vermont state song. The dowels held it up for visibility while playing on an ancient lyre.
Can't say I've ever seen a stone loom, but this looks like something that managed string of some sort. Fed through whatever was on the pegs, the string ran over the edge in the grooves.
Card weaver? Cards that each hold a warp thread go on the pegs, and are manipulated to weave a pattern in a long narrow band.
Ledger book or a sales receipt book. Pages were placed on the two pegs, torn off as used. ???
This is what is left of a harmonica
Looks like a mold for metal foundry.
the original ten commandments? but really it's something to do with weaving given the hint.
A stone boot scraper?
Something to trip over when you get up in the dark
Looks like what the Maple syrup drips out of and by gravity it drops into the bucket.
Something to do with a loom?
Half of a mold.
For making shot balls..........pour lead in the groves.....
Cribbage Board.
Half of a musket ball mold?
Looks like granite
Half of a mold
Walking clock
harmonica
Bullet mold- or half of one.
A cell phone that has been dropped in the water
Mold for lead shot or sinkers
LOOKS LIKE THE DIRTY OLD SPONGE THING ON MY SPONGE MOP. Hahaha
Sinker mold!
Don’t miss “Food in the American Gilded Age“ a lecture this Thursday at Rosecliff 6pm by Dr. Helen Zoe Veit, Associate Professor of History, Michigan State University. www.newportmansions.org
Food was incredibly diverse in post–Civil War America. The era was one of gross income inequality, with an exploding immigrant population, rapidly changing agricultural, manufacturing, and transportation technologies, and urban growth on an unprecedented scale. Differences in diet reflected the deep disparities between upper and lower classes, as well as the expansion of a flourishing middle class. A wide range of Gilded Age sources—from period cookbooks to advice manuals to dietary studies— reveal the depth of the culinary divide between classes and regions at a time when technology and industrialization were transforming how and what people ate.
We love treating our members! That's why we have free, extra-special one time events for their enjoyment. At the same time, we're pretty cool, and of course leave the door open for anybody who's curious to join in (it's just $5 for those who are yet to finalize their membership enrollment)
Our next extra-special one time event is a tour of North Burial Ground. Lead by local expert Professor Fran Leazes, will feature highlights including notable people, cemetery stones of note, as well as legends and lore.
Friday, November 15th at 1 pm
Click here for more info! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd92-XnkCCBqhwYmXP9AI3JJMJoMZdBVoAxSmc72HcHd2pXWQ/viewform
The million dollar question ... where is the Canonicus Boulder nowadays? It was moved from the North Burial Ground in the 1980s and disappeared sometime in the 1990s/2000s timeframe. It's been in the wind ever since ... Is this a teaser for a recovery announcement? 🙂
Don't forget, one of these will get you free admission to the Millyard Museum today! We're open from 10-4...
Only good for today?
Yes
Today's the day. It's our democracy in action. Find your polling place, see what's on the ballot, and make your voice heard. Visit www.vote411.org and then get out there and #vote!
Have you stopped by the History Museum to see her yet? We love having her here! Office of Vermont State Curator
MERCH MONDAY!!! Stop by our gift shop at 222court street and pick up one or 3 beautiful Ashanti brass charms #BHTNH
Don't forget! If you're planning to vote in Tuesday's local election, be sure to get an "I voted" sticker at your polling place, bring it to the Millyard Museum and get free admission that day!
It's the perfect way to enjoy our new exhibit, "Manchester and the Path to the Presidency!" www.manchesterhistoric.org/events/241-nh-primary-exhibit-opening-3
In 1922: Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869–1935) of Head Tide, was the first Maine native to win a Pulitzer Prize, for Collected Poems. Robinson became one of America's most celebrated poets. Though he won three Pulitzer Prizes, he is remembered largely for his short, dark, psychological "Tilbury Town" poems that are based on people, places and incidents from the Gardiner of his youth. In 1888, Hallowell-born photographer George F. McIntosh took portraits of the graduating class of Gardiner High School, including Robinson, shown here. Collections MHS/MMN #1513.
Do you know what age EAR is in this photo? He was my first cousin three times removed. In the family he was known as "Cousin Win".
Handsome kid. Love the story. Is there more?
Do you hsve anything about Willard Harvey Parker? Store in livermore falls. Member of Masonic lodge Livermore falls.
Richard Cory.
Here is a look at what is planned at the MHS this week: On Tuesday, 5 November, at 5:15 PM, Emilie Connolly, New York University, and Franklin Sammons, University of California, Berkeley, present "Native Lands & American Expansion in the Early Republic" with comment by Nancy Shoemaker, University of Connecticut. On Wednesday, 6 November, at 12:00 PM, Emily Clark, Johns Hopkins University, presents "Laboring Bodies: Dispossessed Women & Sexuality in Colonial New England." And at 6:00 PM, Jessie Morgan-Owens presents "Girl in Black & White: The Story of Mary Mildred Williams & the Abolition Movement." On Thursday, 7 November, at 6:00 PM, T.H. Breen, Northwestern University, presents "The Will of the People: The Revolutionary Birth of America." On Saturday, 9 November, at 10:00 AM, joins us for "The History & Collections of the MHS," a 90-minute docent-led tour. Please note that the library and exhibition galleries will be closed on Thursday, 7 November for a staff retreat. The building will open at 5:00 PM for the evening program. Visit www.masshist.org/events for more information and to register.
Learn about the history of Thanksgiving and enjoy some tasty samples at our next Hearth Cooking Saturday! monadnockcenter.org/event/hearth-cooking-saturday-traditional-thanksgiving-2/
Ski history, NH Fiddles and Thanksgiving Traditions- November at the Monadnock Center! - mailchi.mp/eaaa9c5cd8ef/november-at-the-monadnock-center
Governor Mills and Representative Pingree are among the hundreds of people honoring The Hildreth Family tonight!
We’re ending this month’s #ArchivesHashtagParty with our last spotlight from our Carte de Visite photographs: goatees! Below are Philip Kearney, Albert Miner, Ruthorn W. Houghton, and James G. Blunt. #ArchivesFacialHair
www.nhhistory.org/Research/Collections-Catalog#/?view=gallery&as=false&pi=0&cn=Common.Photo&rpp=9...
Program 2 of our 1619 series is now available online. Watch "Afro-Native Connections" with Christine DeLucia, Williams College, Kendra Field, Tufts University, and moderator Catherine Allgor, MHS.
youtu.be/smp15CviSok Yang2020. Every adult receives $1,000 every month. ✝️💚💛🧡🇺🇸🗽
Ready to continue #ArchivesFacialHair with our Carte de Visite photographs? Beards are next! Below are Thomas J. Whipple, Edward Cross, Ulysses S. Grant, and Philip Hickborn.#ArchivesHashtagParty
www.nhhistory.org/Research/Collections-Catalog#/?view=gallery&as=false&pi=0&cn=Common.Photo&rpp=9...
Oh you thought Halloween was over? This is Rhode Island... we keep it spooky all year long!!!! Get your tickets to tomorrow's 'H.P. Lovecraft: A Literary Life' walking tour and tickets to the Vortex Sci-Fi Film Festival before they're gone!
Saturday, November 2nd, departs at noon from 52 Power Street.
Tickets HERE: www.eventbrite.com/e/2019-h-p-lovecraft-walking-tour-film-screening-tickets-953252203?ref=ebtn
We’re continuing our Carte de Visite photograph highlights for #ArchivesFacialHair with a popular style: mutton chops! Below we have Major General Ambrose Burnside, George W. Ross, Alben B. Hayward, and S. G. Johnson. #ArchivesHashtagParty
www.nhhistory.org/Research/Collections-Catalog#/?view=gallery&as=false&pi=0&cn=Common.Photo&rpp=9...
Ready for another #ArchivesHashtagParty? Today is #ArchivesFacialHair, and what better collection to highlight than our Carte de Visite photographs? We're starting today off with some impressive mustaches. Below are Frederick F. Turner, George W. Emmons, and Roscoe B. Kidder.
www.nhhistory.org/Research/Collections-Catalog#/?view=gallery&as=false&pi=0&cn=Common.Photo&rpp=9...
A CLUE-themed wedding?? Yes, at WDS! Take a look! It works beautifully in the Webb Barn! Thanks Candis Floral Creations!Here it is... my CLUE themed wedding.... note all the details... the bridal party are the characters- Mrs Peacock, Colonel mustard, Scarlet...
We used the weapons on lapels, in hair, on the seating card table...
Every guest table was a different room- the study, the ballroom, the conservatory ...
NO detail was missed....
Enjoy!
Webb-Deane-Stevens Museum Historic Wethersfield #webbbarnwedding
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Thank you for the share!
Is your brooding beau banking on booking it back to Baltimore? A dash of water from the Athenaeum's fountain might ensure their return, but there's no guarantee that they'll return... ALIVE!!!!!!! ⛲️👻🖋
www.wpri.com/rhode-show/a-tragic-courtship/
Fun, and always nice to see popular iterations of RI history, but unfortunate that there are so many historical errors here. Poe did not sign someone else's book--he autographed a journal with an anonymous poem "Ulalume," which was written by him. He was not found dead in a gutter--he was found disoriented/distressed/incoherent/take your pick, and died a few days later. And there is no evidence he died of a broken heart caused by breaking up with Sarah.
The top image has been scanned from an Ektachrome slide taken by our Dad with his trusty old Argus 35mm back in the early to mid-50's. The three most prominent structures are the Custom House (496'), the Suffolk County Courthouse (330') and the State House golden dome that appears to be directly in front of the Custom House.
The lower image was taken last Saturday afternoon, 10/26/19. The camera had to be set up a bit closer to the Mass Ave. bridge in order to clear the MIT boathouse that was erected in the early 60's. Still cannot believe we found a parking spot right where we needed to set up shop. Love that dirty water!
I hope you enjoy the views.
Hope you had a blast! - mailchi.mp/bf1a6b29b921/celebrating-black-history-month-1628765
