Discovering Dublin celebrates town's colorful past and present

Friday, July 1, 2016

The picturesque town of Dublin and the legacy of its famed art colony will be celebrated in August and September, supported by a grant from New Hampshire Humanities. Since the founding of the art colony in 1888, Dublin’s love and commitment to the arts continues to thrive. The Dublin Community Center, partnering with the Dublin Historical Society, has planned several events to educate and engage area residents in the town’s rich heritage in the arts and humanities. 

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2016 Humanities High School Book Awards – Celebrating excellence in the humanities

Thursday, June 30, 2016
New Hampshire Humanities is pleased to announed the 2016 recipients of our New Hampshire Humanities High School Book Awards, presented to high school juniors around the state. These students have demonstrated genuine curiosity about history, literature, languages, or philosophy and hope to deepen that knowledge in college.
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Small town, rich history: Discovering Dublin celebrates past & present

Thursday, June 30, 2016
Portrait painter Abbott Handerson Thayer, familiar with the area from his boyhood in Keene, came to Dublin in 1888 and started the Dublin art colony. Thayer had originally been brought to the area by Mary Amory Greene, a wealthy patron of the arts. Thayer had an established reputation as a portrait painter and a wide network of friends in the art world.
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Strike up the band! Celebrating musical heritage and technological ingenuity in Winchester

Thursday, June 30, 2016
Did you know that the bucolic town of Winchester, New Hampshire was the home of both the first pipe organ constructed in American as well as the nation’s first successful manufacturer of musical instruments?
 
New Hampshire Humanities has awarded a grant to the Friends of Public Art for a project that will explore and celebrate Winchester’s unique place in music history.
 
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Lessons from the Artist’s Life: Connections Conversations

Thursday, June 30, 2016

At MindsEye Designs art studio in Dover a small group of student artists sat around a paint-splattered table, discussing the life and work of Georgia O’Keefe. They were about to read Georgia in Hawaii: When Georgia O’Keefe Painted What She Pleased by Amy Novesky and Yuyi Morales. This wonderfully-accessible book, with its simple narrative and striking illustrations, tells the story of the artist’s seminal trip to Hawaii. 

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Race and the Live Free or Die State - Documentary film premieres May 26

Wednesday, April 27, 2016
How does a state with the motto “Live Free or Die” confront its participation in slavery, segregation, and the neglect of its Black history? The University of New Hampshire’s Center for the Humanities explores that question in a documentary film, Shadows Fall North, that will premiere on Thursday, May 26 at 7 p.m. at the Music Hall in Portsmouth.
 
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Making Connections: Book Discussions for Adult Learners

Monday, April 25, 2016

by Susan Bartlett, Connections Program Coordinator

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“Oui” Francos are still here: Franco American heritage center stage at Castle in the Clouds

Monday, April 25, 2016
The Castle Preservation Society,  non-profit operators of the Castle in the Clouds in Moultonborough, has received a grant from New Hampshire Humanities for a multi-faceted project celebrating the Granite State’s deep Franco-American roots.
 
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Teacher Workshop will explore the legacy of the Civil War in NH

Wednesday, March 30, 2016
NH Sharpshooters monument at Gettysburg

Teachers are invited to expand their understanding of the effects of the Civil War in the Granite State at a three-day teacher workshop hosted by the Historical Society of Cheshire County in June. Funded in part by a grant from New Hampshire Humanities, the workshop will examine how people in New Hampshire (with a focus on the Monadnock Region) responded to a divided nation, war, and reconstruction from 1860 through 1877. 

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Building Community Through Oral History in Kingston

Wednesday, March 30, 2016
Jo Radner

Storytelling connects strangers, strengthens links between generations, and gives children the self-knowledge to carry them through hard times.  Collecting community stories helps create connections, preserve history, and foster a deeper understanding of the town or city’s collective roots, current challenges, and hopes for the future.

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