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WED | MARCH 5  | 5:30 PM

Plymouth Historical Museum and Memory House

in the Old Webster Courthouse tucked behind Town Hall

 

PRESENTATION

LIVING IN PLYMOUTH:

A Community Discussion 

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Join area neighbors to discuss what it is like living in Plymouth, a rural crossroads. While we have a rich archive of early town history, we also want to gather more recent events that will become tomorrow’s history. Your answers will provide first-person experiences that will provide context for upcoming exhibits and programming .

 

The Museum of the White Mountains is one of only three locations in New Hampshire that will be hosting a traveling exhibit by Museum on Main Street (MoMS), a special partnership of the Smithsonian Institution and State Humanities Councils nationwide that serves the small-town museums and citizens of rural America. This exhibit, Crossroads: Change in Rural America, offers small towns a chance to look at their own paths, highlighting the changes that affected their towns over the past century. In conjunction with this exhibit, the Museum of the White Mountains, Pease Public Library, and the Plymouth Historical Society will be presenting exhibits and programming on this theme in the summer, focusing more directly on northern New Hampshire towns and Plymouth itself.

 

How would you answer such questions as…

• Why did you originally come to Plymouth?

• What keeps you here?

• What do you gain from living in a rural town?

• What has our community lost that matters to you and why?

• How has the town changed for the better — or worse? 

• What do you hope to see for Plymouth’s future?

 

Please gather with us on March 5 and share your thoughts, they will enrich the Plymouth exhibits and enlighten us all. 

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WED | APRIL 2 | 5:30 PM

Pease Public Library

 

PARTNER PRESENTATION

A SOLDIER'S MOTHER TELLS HER STORY

presented by Sharon Wood 

sponsored by Pease Public Library

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Speaking as Betsey Phelps, the mother of a Union soldier from Amherst, New Hampshire who died heroically at the Battle of Gettysburg, Ms. Wood offers an informative and sensitive reflection on that sacrifice from a mother's perspective. Wood blends the Phelps boy's story with those of other men who left their New Hampshire homes to fight for the Union cause and of the families who supported them on the home front.

 

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WED | APRIL 16| 5:30 PM

Old Webster Courthouse

 

 PRESENTATION

CELEBRATING NH ARCHEOLOGY

presented by

Nadine Miller, NH Division of Historical Resources