YouTube Recording: WNHHS April 2024 Meeting - Mary Kronenwetter - Corbin's Animal Garden
Tue, Apr 09
|Recording accessible through WNHHS.Org
Watch this recording of our 04/08/2024 meeting as Author Mary Kronenwetter presents an illustrated slideshow featuring archival images and a discussion of the complicated history of how this amazing New Hampshire landmark came into being. This is a recording. An RSVP is not required.
Time & Location
Apr 09, 2024, 12:00 AM – Apr 18, 2024, 11:50 PM
Recording accessible through WNHHS.Org
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Corbin's Animal Garden
With historian and author Mary Kronenwetter
{This program is made possible by a grant from the "New Hampshire Humanities "Humanities to Go" program.}
In the late 1800s, the banking, railroad, and real estate mogul Austin Corbin returned to his hometown in Newport, New Hampshire. He built a grand estate and bought out his neighbors’ farms to create a 22,000 acre wildlife game preserve stocked with boar, bison, bighorn sheep, antelope, elk, Chinese pheasant, and other imported animals. The grounds eventually became a prestigious private hunting park and hosted illustrious guests including Theodore Roosevelt, the Prince of Wales, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Joe Dimaggio, Rudyard Kipling, and Augustus Saint Gaudens. This illustrated slideshow features archival images and a discussion of the complicated history and legacy of New Hampshire’s own American Gilded Age robber baron. The…