WHS November 2024 Monthly Meeting with Adair Mulligan's Presentation — A Walk Back In Time: The Secrets of Cellar Holes
Mon, Nov 11
|Online Zoom Event
Join us via Zoom for our November monthly meeting with a presentation by Adair Mulligan's Presentation — A Walk Back In Time: The Secrets of Cellar Holes An RSVP is not required, but your response allows us to send you an event reminder and any other important updates.
Time & Location
Nov 11, 2024, 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM
Online Zoom Event
About the Event
A Walk Back In Time: The Secret of Cellar Holes
With author Adair Mulligan.
Northern New England is full of reminders of past lives: stone walls, old foundations, a century-old lilac struggling to survive as the forest reclaims a once-sunny dooryard. What forces shaped settlement, and later abandonment, of these places? Adair Mulligan explores the rich story to be discovered in what remains behind. See how one town has set out to create an inventory of its cellar holes, piecing together the clues in the landscape. Such a project can help landowners know what to do if they have archaeological sites on their land and help stimulate interest in a town's future through its past.
Adair Mulligan has a runaway curiosity about the natural and cultural history of northern New England. Author of The Gunstock Parish: A History of Gilford, New Hampshire, she has also…