New
Market Historical Society
2010
Program of Events
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Date,
Time,
Location
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Speaker
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Program
and Description
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Monday
March 22
7:00 PM
Stone
School Museum
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Kathy Spellacy
Kathy
Spellacy has many years of experience with rug hooking, quilting
and needlework.
For
additional info visit her shop at Wool & Goods, Rollinsford,
NH www.WoolandGoods.com
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Evolution of Rug Hooking
A
history of rug hooking in the New England area
Kathy
Spellacy, will speak about “primitive hooking” which
came before the traditional hooking. Men and women used worn out
clothing (denim, cotton, wool, twine, and burlap) to make rugs.
Color planning was never an issue as you would use what you had.
She will also bring a couple of lap frames so several people will
be able to give it a try.
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Monday
April 26
7:00 PM
Stone
School Museum
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Kathleen Shea
Director of The
New Hampshire Farm
Museum
http://www.farmmuseum.org/
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Farm Women, Farm Work
Farm women are the
heart of the farm. They cook, clean, raise and sell their crops,
help with the chores, do the bookkeeping, and somehow manage to
raise the family too. That is a small sampling of a special
exhibit at the NH Farm Museum, which will be kindly presented to
the New Market Historical Society by Farm Museum Director,
Kathleen Shea
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Monday
May 24
7:00 PM
Stone
School Museum
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J.
Dennis Robinson
Courtesy of The New Hampshire
Humanities Council
Mr.
Robinson is a noted seacoast historian, and we’re honored to
have him return again for this lecture.
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The Making of Strawbery
Banke
Local
legend says Strawbery Banke Museum began when a Portsmouth
librarian gave a rousing speech in 1957. The backstory is a
complex tale of progress and urban renewal versus colonial
architecture in New Hampshire's only seaport. J. Dennis Robinson,
author of Strawbery Banke, A Seaport Museum 400 Years in the
Making will share the history of ″America's oldest
neighborhood″ and the scenes of the founding years. Tapping
into private letters, unpublished records and personal interviews,
he explores the politics of preservation at what Ken Burns calls
″one of the best history museums in the country.″ The
author looks candidly at mistakes made and lessons learned in this
grassroots success story.
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Thursday June
3
Stone
School Museum
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Start
of summertime open house hours at the Stone
School Museum.
Thursday afternoons, 2:00 to
4:00 PM, through August 26th.
Or you may view the museum by appointment. Please call President
Dave LeGault well in advance at 603-247-3375.
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Monday
June 28
7:00 PM
Stone
School Museum
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Sara
Callaghan
Conservation
Easement Steward, for The
Society
for the Protection of NH Forests
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A
Century of New Hampshire Land Conservation
Presented
by The Society
for the Protection of NH Forests, Sara Callaghan will present the
history of the Society
for the Protection of NH Forests, including some nice historical
slides of the White Mountains during the big logging era at the
turn of the 20th century.
Sara
is
responsible
for landowner relations and for the monitoring and documenting
compliance with the conservation restrictions on private land
under conservation easement. She is a talented naturalist,
educator and musician. She along with her husband, Brian, are
residents of Newmarket.
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2010
Program of Events Continued
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Monday
July 26
7:00 PM
Stone
School Museum
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Ed Portyrata
Longtime
Newmarket resident, and expert on the footwear industry, continues
on in his retirement as a consultant with the Timberland Company
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Newmarket Shoe Shop
Workers Roundtable
Mr.
Portyrata, along with several other Newmarket area shoe shop
workers, will share their memories and a few photographs of their
careers in the heyday of the New England footwear Industry. If
shoe company names, such as, Rockingham Shoe, Little Yankee, Sam
Smith, Abington or Timberland rings a bell, then join in for this
trip down memory lane. Share your artifacts, photos, and more
importantly, your recollections of this important part of
Newmarket’s rich industrial history.
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Monday
August 23
7:00 PM
Stone
School Museum
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Edouard Langlois
Award-winning
costumer, production designer, playwright, director, actor and
sculptor, Mr. Langlois has worked throughout the country for over
40 years in theatre, opera and ballet, just to name a few.
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The Tell-Tale Heart
Mr. Langlois will
present a short film by Robert
Eggers,
inspired by the work of Edgar Allen Poe. This film was shot
locally at the Demerrit Hill Farm in Lee
(http://www.demeritthillfarm.com/),
which included a painting on loan from the Stone School Museum.
Robert
Eggers is the artistic director of Palehorse Productions. He
directed and designed the company's New York debut, OTHELLO,
winning an Innovative Theatre Award for his costumes.
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Thursday
August 26
2:00
to 4:00 PM
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This
is the last
Thursday of the summer afternoon Stone
School Museum
open house dates for
2010. View the museum by appointment, by calling President Dave
LeGault well in advance at 603-247-3375.
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Special Event……..The
13th
Annual Newmarket Heritage Festival
Dance,
sing, laugh, learn, eat and be merry! Join the historic,
cultural, and natural heritage of a small New England mill town.
This three-day event takes place in the heart of historic downtown
Newmarket overlooking the Lamprey River and features
multi-cultural music and dance, artisan demonstrations, historic
walking tours, narrated boat tours, kayak excursions, a model
railway, hands-on children's activities, fine arts and crafts,
vendor booths, international foods, and much more. Friday
through Sunday, September 24-26, 2010,
in downtown Newmarket.
Historical
Society activities to be announced. Watch for
the full schedule at: www.heritage-festival.org
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Monday
Sept. 27
7:00 PM
Stone
School Museum
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Professor
William Ross
Courtesy of The UNH
Speakers Bureau
William
Ross is the department head for the Milne Special Collections and
Archives at the Dimond Library.
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Angling
History and Bibliography
William
Ross is responsible for the overall management and program
development for the library's special collections, which consists
of rare books, manuscripts, and the New Hampshire collection; as
well as the University Archives. His research and teaching
interests include: New Hampshire during the U.S. Civil War; the
history, culture, and rebuilding of New Orleans; the history and
literature of angling; and the preservation of historical
documents and rare books. He has published three books and a
number of articles on these topics.
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Monday
October 25
7:00 PM
Stone
School Museum
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Professor
Jean Benoît
Courtesy of The UNH
Speakers Bureau
Professor
Benoit is
chair of the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of
New Hampshire
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Stabilizing the Leaning
Tower of Pisa
Professor
Benoît’s
talk will focus on the engineering aspects of the Tower of Pisa
(built 1173 – 1350 as a bell tower), including its
construction, its state in the last century and the various
stabilizing schemes which were used to safeguard this unique
structure.
Professor
Benoît’s research and consulting work has been
conducted throughout the world, including some significant
projects, such as the Central Artery in Boston, the Olmsted Locks
and Dam in Illinois, the Loire River in France and the Leaning
Tower of Pisa in Italy. Other activities include management of the
National Geotechnical Experimentation Sites (NGES) program since
1988, geo-environmental research of highway pavement structures
and bedrock bioremediation.
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