Learn some little known information regarding the witch trails in New England and Salem.
Contact
Margo Burns
42 Candia Road
Manchester, NH 03109
margoburns@gmail.com
Home Phone: 603-669-4942
Carrie Brown
A program describing the technological advances in manufacturing that first helped save the Union in the Civil War and then transformed consumerism. The speaker focuses on the critical role that Vermont and New Hampshire had in developing these technologies.
Contact: csb@carrie-brown.com
Civilians of Gettysburg by Lew and Ginny Gage
Portrays characters based on original diaries and reminiscences of civilians living in the town of Gettysburg in the summer and fall of 1863.
Contact: lewandginny1863@comcast.net 603-542-4664
Austin Clark
Presents a program called “The How and Why of Civil War Reenacting,” which includes a slide program on the 150th Anniversary Reenactment of the Battle of Gettysburg in 2013 and an appearance in full dress Union Civil War uniform representing the 5th New Hampshire regiment.
Contact: Clark.austin06@gmail.com
Aimee Fogg
Author of the book The Granite Men of Henri-Chapelle. As World War Two drew to an end in 1945, the New Hampshire state legislature adopted “Live Free or Die” as the state’s motto. While the New Hampshire state legislature prepared to adopt this motto, many families throughout the Granite State and the rest of the country prepared to welcome home their service members who had fought to preserve freedom around the world. For almost forty New Hampshire servicemen, including the author’s uncle, Private First Class Paul Lavoie, the return trip home did not happen. Instead, they remained in Europe, resting permanently at Henri-Chapelle American Cemetery in Belgium with 7,952 of their comrades. The Granite Men of Henri-Chapelle attempts to illustrate the lives lived and left behind by these forty men.
Contact: aimee.fogg@yahoo.com
Annette Holba
Dr. Annette Holba presents a NH Humanities Council program entitled “Lizzie Borden Took an Axe, or Did She?”
Contact: 603-536-3540 aholba@plymouth.eduMarina Kirsch
This program is based on Kirsch’s book Flight of Remembrance, which focuses on the experiences of her parents in Germany during World War 2 – her father was unwillingly drafted into the Luftwaffe, the family surviving the bombing of Berlin, the hardships of POW camps and deprivation of post-war years, and their eventual immigration to the United States. (An interesting side note: her parents are still alive and happily living in NH!) Kirsch’s program draws attention to WW2 as experienced by ordinary people who lived in Germany during that era to provide a fuller picture of war’s devastation.
Contact: mkirsch@kirschstonebooks.com mkirsch5@comcast.net
Steve Kurkjian
Author presentation of Master Thieves: The Boston Gangsters Who Pulled Off the World’s Greatest Art Heist. Discusses the happening of the theft, the key security issues that led to the heist, and the key suspects.
Contact: stephenkurkjian@gmail.com http://stephenkurkjian.com/Laurie Levinger
This author speaks about her nonfiction book Love and Revolutionary Greetings, which is about her uncle, who died in the Spanish Civil War. She discusses Sam Levinger and how she came to write Love and Revolutionary Greetings, reads from the book, and shows a brief slide show with music.
Contact: laurie@levinger.net http://www.levinger.net/laurie/
George Morrison
Presents a program on Benedict Arnold. Provides his own posters, bookmarks and reading lists and covers all his own technology requirements.
Contact: NHCivilWarMonuments@gmail.com 603-774-3834 http://www.nhhumanities.org/presenters/george-morrison