The Portsmouth Historic House Associates present the "Life and Death in the Piscataqua Region" Symposium
Date and Time
Saturday Mar 4, 2017
10:00 AM - 3:00 PM EST
March 4, 2017
Location
St. John’s Lodge Masonic Temple
351 Middle Street, Portsmouth
Fees/Admission
Tickets reserved in advance (by March 3 at 4pm) are $15; $20 at the door.
Website
Contact Information
For reservations, call 603-436-8221 or 603-430-7968.
Description
The Portsmouth Historic Sites’ symposium includes four presentations:
Jim Craig, Executive Director, Albacore Park presents, “A Measureless Peril: Wartime Hysteria, Spies, Surrenders at Sea, and German U-boats off Portsmouth in WWII”
Richard Adams, President of Wentworth-Lear Association presents, “Notable Denizens of Portsmouth's South Cemetery”
Gerald W. R. Ward, Senior Consulting Curator Emeritus, MFA Boston and Consulting Curator Portsmouth Historical Society presents, “Four Centuries of Portsmouth Furniture: An Introduction”
Karen Raynes, Curious Researcher/Historian/Writer, presents the documentary film "The Queens of Hampton Beach New Hampshire: The History of the Carnival Queens & Miss Hampton Beach Beauty Pageant 1915-2015"
Plus, updates on current and upcoming projects
The symposium is a fundraiser for the Portsmouth Historic Sites and also will include raffle baskets and the sale of additional items from members Historic New England and the Gov. Langdon, Jackson and Rundlet-May houses, Strawbery Banke Museum, the John Paul Jones House Museum, the Warner House, Wentworth-Coolidge Mansion, the Moffatt-Ladd House and Garden, the Wentworth-Lear Historic Houses, the Albacore, and the Gundalow Company. Information on location and hours (most PHSA sites are open June through October) available at each website and http://www.portsmouthistorichouses.org
