Date: September 13, 2020
Time: 2:00-4:00 p.m.
Location:
Newmarket Town Hall
168 South Main Street
Newmarket, NH
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— TEA IS CANCELLED FOR THIS YEAR DUE TO CORONAVIRUS —-
Dr. Nicolette Gullace, UNH Associate Professor of History has an extensive background in women’s history in Victorian Britain, WWI, and feminism in modern European history. She has published numerous books including The ‘White Feather Girls’: Women’s Militarism in the UK …”where the suffrage movement was split by the Great War. Most often remembered are the pacifists, but the militant history of feminist war supporters in Britain, and the audacity of the ‘White Feather Girls’ … shamed young men into enlisting.”
Date: September 14, 2020
Time: 7 p.m.
Location:
Newmarket Town Hall Auditorium
186 South Main Street
Newmarket, NH
Fee: None (Donations always appreciated!)
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were authors, businesswomen, entrepreneurs, artists and poets, lawyers and activists, Olympians, teachers, politicians, police women and military volunteers - many of whom broke glass ceilings and were Newmarket Firsts!—
(Photo:Newmarket resident Harriett Carpenter, along with her sister Esther, were the first women to enlist in the US Navy during WW I)
Our Presenter is also a Newmarket First!
Attorney Patti Blanchette is a Newmarket native and a graduate of Newmarket High School, the University of New Hampshire, and Franklin Pierce Law Center. While in high school she championed a Constitutional Amendment to allow 18 year olds to vote, addressing the NH House of Representatives on that issue at the age of 15. After law school she worked for the Boynton and Waldron Law Office in Portsmouth—the first woman hired by that firm. In 1974 at the age of 22, she was elected to the New Hampshire House of Representatives after leading the Concerned Citizens of Newmarket, which opposed locating the Onassis Oil refinery in Newmarket.
Patti was the subject of an NHPTV video “Lawmaker At Work” which was shown in schools throughout the state to educate young students on the role of a Legislator. She served seven terms in the House while also chairing the Newmarket Budget Committee. In 1992, Patti was elected as the first woman President of the New Hampshire Bar Association. She then went on to serve as President of the New England Bar Association in 1994 and 1995. She has been honored by her peers for her distinguished service to the profession, and was previously named as one of the top ten most powerful women in New Hampshire.
Attorney Blanchette has had an active family law practice spanning several counties, and is a lifetime member of the Newmarket Historical Society. Most recently, with support from the Historical Society, she headed the Friends of the Rockingham Ballroom to save the 80-year-old Ballroom from being closed to due the lack of a fire sprinkler. Ten years later, the sprinkler is in place and the dancing goes on.
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Time: 7:00 PM
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Fee: None (Donations gladly accepted)
Dr. Robert Goodby is a professor of Anthropology at Franklin Pierce University in Rindge. He holds a Ph.D. in anthropology from Brown University and has spent the last thirty years studying Native American archaeological sites in New England. He is a past president of the New Hampshire Archeological Society, a former Trustee of the Mount Kearsarge Indian Museum in Warner, and served on the New Hampshire Commission on Native American Affairs. In 2010, he directed the excavations of four 12,000 year-old Paleoindian dwelling sites at the Tenant Swamp site in Keene.
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Fee: None (Donations greatly appreciated!)
(photo: the old Elm Block in 1905, at the corner of Elm Street & Nichols Avenue, a scene of adultrous rage, revenge, and bloody murder)
will range from:New Market Historical Society Board Member Michael Provost will dig deep into his collection of the peccadilloes of former Newmarket residents and share some of their stories. Michael is a longtime Newmarket resident, local historian, and is noted for his walking tour of “Murder, Mischief, Mishaps, and Mayhem: Tales of Old Newmarket”. Special thanks are extended to John Carmichael, who has also caught the “spirit” and continually adds to Michael’s collection as he pursues his own research on local history.
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EVENT CANCELLED due to Covid-19Jordan Tirrell-Wysocki is a teacher and historian who displays the Irish immigrant experience that evolved into New England’s musical repertoire. On acoustic fiddle and guitar, he is an award-winning fiddler who grew up playing dances and folk festivals around New England. He was first recognized as part of New Hampshire’s culture at the age of 12, when he was the youngest member of the delegation representing the state at the Smithsonian Folklife Festival in Washington, D.C. Jordan has toured nationally with bands of various genres, performed across Ireland, and released multiple recordings of Celtic music that can be heard on radio stations around New England. He currently performs over 200 shows each year, mostly with his own band, the Jordan TW Trio. His lifelong passion for history helps bring to life the traditional music around which he built his career.
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Time: 1 - 5 p.m.
Location:
Newmarket Community Church Kitchen
137 Main Street
Newmarket, NH
Fee: $25 pre-payment
Board Member Michael Provost, past owner of Mike’s Cafe, caterer, and cook of all things Polish will teach this course. After Michael’s Polish program last fall, he was asked by several members to teach a class in Polish cooking. He looks forward to explaining the mysteries of Pierogis to you at the Community Church.
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Stone School Museum
3 Granite Street
Newmarket, NH
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Historical Society Board of Directors
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Downtown Newmarket
HOPEFULLY IN
2021 — SEVERAL PUBS ONCE
AGAIN WILL OPEN THEIR DOORS
FOR THIS CELEBRATION
Fee: $20.00
Photo from our 2019 Pub Crawl