Dear members and other friends of the Manchester (NH) Historic Association,
The Millyard Museum is busy this week with two great programs. The first is the Open Doors Manchester Art and Cultural Tour that will take place on Thursday, April 29 from 5:00 to 8:00 p.m. Admission is free.
The Open Doors events are the best way to get to know the city’s brilliant and richly varied cultural landscape. Hop on the trolley and make the Millyard Museum one of your evening’s destinations. For this special “Trolley Night” the Museum is hosting a demonstration of flax and wool spinning by Gina Gerhard and Cathy Goodmen. These two spinning experts will be dressed in 18th Century costume while they demonstrate their technique on antique spinning wheels.
Other Open Doors venues include City Hall, SEE Science Center, Art 3 Gallery, Manchester Artists Association, Framers Market & Gallery and a new venue: SOPHA (The Studio of Photographic Arts). Free and convenient parking is available outside the Millyard Museum at 200 Bedford Street and at Langer Place, 55 South Commercial Street.
Our next event this week is a talk entitled “Native New Hampshire Before Contact: Archaeological and Tribal Perspective.” This will take place on Saturday, May 1, starting at 10:30 a.m. at the Millyard Museum. Admission is free due to the generous sponsorship of the New Hampshire Humanities Council. After the talk, attendees are welcome to tour the Millyard Museum, which includes an exhibit focusing on local archaeology.
The speaker will be Dr. David-Stewart-Smith, the historian for the New Hampshire Intertribal Council. His presentation will illuminate the pre-history of New Hampshire, including the area around Amoskeag Falls in Manchester. Northern New England was home to native peoples for almost 10,000 years before European contact. Natives were faced with the after-effects of an ice age, the emerging changes in ecosystem and climate, and new choices regarding materials for making tools, clothes, and shelter. Dr. Stewart-Smith will tell about how this “prehistoric” time was anything but stagnant or sedentary; rather, it was a time of tremendous movement, energy, innovation and survival.
18th Annual Historic Preservation Awards
The 18th Annual Historic Preservation Awards dinner is scheduled for Thursday, May 13 at the Radisson Hotel – Center of New Hampshire in Manchester. This event honors individuals, institutions and companies who have contributed to the preservation of Manchester’s historical resources. Proceeds enable the Manchester Historic Association to advocate for historical preservation in the community and to offer free and inexpensive educational programs for schools and for the general public. Tickets are $100 each ($75 for MHA members), or a table seating 8 for $600.
Won’t you consider supporting the Historic Preservation Awards program? If you cannot attend the dinner, please consider making a donation to the MHA at this time, in any amount. This is money well invested!
We thank our generous dinner sponsors: Central Paper Products Company, Inc., Public Service of New Hampshire, and RBC Wealth Management – Richard M. Bunker and Gregory G. Hood. Please check our website for further details about the event, and for a full list of sponsors with links to their businesses.
Please see the end of this e-mail for a summary of additional programs scheduled through June. Details are posted on the Manchester Historic Association website: www.manchesterhistoric.org, and also on our Manchester History Network website at www.meetup.com/Manchester-History-Network.
Best wishes on a happy week, and we will hope to see you soon at the Millyard Museum or at the Research Center!
Aurore
Aurore Eaton
Executive Director
Manchester Historic Association
Millyard Museum – 200 Bedford Street – Manchester, NH – 03101
Research Center – 129 Amherst Street – Manchester, NH – 03101
(603) 622-7531 ext. 223
List of additional programs through June 2010:
Walking Tour of the Amoskeag Millyard
Saturday, May 8 – Starting at the Millyard Museum – 10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
$5 MHA members; $10 general public
Log Cabin Quilting Workshop
Saturday, May 15 – At the Millyard Museum – 1:00 p.m.-4:00 p.m.
$5 MHA member; $10 general public (includes museum admission)
Pre-registration is required.
Annual Meeting of the Manchester Historic Association
Friday, May 21 – At the Millyard Museum – 5:30 p.m.
Featuring a talk about the Pandora Mill rehab project.
FREE admission
Pre-registration is required.
Pine Grove Cemetery Walking Tour – Part 1
Sunday, June 6 – 1:30 p.m.-3:30 p.m.
$5 MHA members; $10 general public
Pre-registration is required.
Part 2 of this walking tour will take place on Sunday, June 13.
“Tracing Lincoln’s Footsteps” Walking Tour
Wednesday, June 9 – Starting at the Millyard Museum – 5:30 p.m.-7:30 p.m.
$5 MHA members; $10 general public
Pre-registration is required.
“John Stark’s Journey to the Battle of Bennington” Talk
Saturday, June 12 – At the Millyard Museum – 10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
FREE members; $10 general public
Pre-registration is requested.
Pine Grove Cemetery Walking Tour – Part 2
Sunday, June 6 – 1:30 p.m.-3:30 p.m.
$5 MHA members; $10 general public
Pre-registration is required.
Part 1 of this walking tour took place on Sunday, June 6.
“A Franco-American Murder Mystery in Manchester: Lambert’s The Innocent Victim” Talk
Saturday, June 19 – At the Millyard Museum – 10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
FREE MHA members; $10 general public
Pre-registration is requested.
“Tracing Lincoln’s Footsteps” Walking Tour
Sunday, June 27 – Starting at the Millyard Museum – 1:30 p.m.-3:30 p.m.
$5 MHA members; $10 general public
Pre-registration is required.
These announcements have been provided by Quilter’s Muse Publications as a public service.
