“Clothes for a Sustainable Future: Growing Flax, Processing Linen, and Weaving Cloth in Early New Hampshire” with Dr. Kimberly Alexander
Wednesday, December 13, 2023 5:30 p.m. Shaw Research Library “….in all Joshua Sow’d about 1½ Bu. & ½ peck flax Seed.” Samuel Lane, Almanack, May I, 1769 The history of flax and linen—its cultivation, production, sale, and trade–is an...1623: The Untold Story of New Hampshire’s Founding Family by J. Dennis Robinson
November 30, 2023 5:30 p.m. Shaw Research Library Why do we know so little about David and Amias Thompson of Plymouth, England? And why is the little we know so often wrong? Our first European couple “settled” at Rye, NH in 1623. Within five years the Thompsons...2023 Lecture Series: Water Has a Memory: Sea Level Rise, Our Past, Our Future with Rodney Rowland
Wednesday, November 15, 2023 5:30 p.m. Shaw Research Library & Zoom This year’s series concludes on November 15 when Rodney Rowland presents Water Has a Memory: Sea Level Rise, Our Past, Our Future. Strawbery Banke Museum is confronting the impacts of and...2023 Lecture Series: At Home in Portsmouth, 1750 – 1850, with Jane C. Nylander
Wednesday, October 18, 2023 5:30 p.m. Shaw Research Library & Zoom A long-time student of New England interiors, Jane C. Nylander’s talk on October 18, At Home in Portsmouth, 1750 – 1850 will weave together a host of primary sources to expand our...Calendar
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