Events

Join us for our last Zoom meeting of the year when SNHU Professor of Philosophy Kiki Berk will share her very topical presentation: The Ethics of AI. This program explores some of the most urgent moral challenges that Artificial Intelligence presents to society today. Click RSVP for a Reminder.

Join us as Colby-Sawyer College Professor Emeritus Patrick Anderson focuses on five American artists from the 20th century who painted small town and rural life, including Charles Burchfield, John Steuart Curry, Grant Wood, Thomas Hart Benton and Edward Hopper. Click RSVP for a Reminder.

Join us for our February Zoom meeting when performance artist Jackson Gillman brings Rudyard Kipling to life, providing an inside look at the writer's experience in New England and some of the controversy surrounding this complex man. Click RSVP for a Reminder.

With a focus on Vanilla and Cloves, Plymouth State College Associate Professor of Anthropology Laura Tilghman will help us appreciate the people and places behind the global products we buy and consume every day. Click RSVP for a Reminder.

Canoes were central to the lives of Native Americans in New England. A few dozen ancient dugout canoes have been recovered from across northern NE. Join archaeologist Dr. Robert Goodby to discover what we’ve learned from them, including 8 from New Hampshire. Click RSVP for a Reminder.

Join us for a Potluck Supper, Member Meeting, and Dan Billin’s fascinating presentation “Last of the Granite State Rattlesnakes.” Dan presents vivid, little-known stories and images from our centuries-long war on our rattlesnakes and reviews current conservation efforts. Click RSVP for Reminder.

Join us for a Potluck Supper and Member Meeting, then Master Iconographer Marina Forbes will share a beautifully illustrated, interactive presentation featuring the history of Matryoshka nested doll making in Russia. Click RSVP for Reminder.

Join us for a Potluck Supper and Member Meeting, then Whitney Van Praagh will tell us about the settling of Island Pond and introduce us to fascinating characters like Harriet Bell, Perley Crane, and Augusta B. Hartt, who was a founding member of the Girl Scouts. Click RSVP for Reminder.

Join us for a Potluck Supper, Annual Election, then Marek Bennett presents a whirlwind survey of comics from around the world and throughout history, with special attention to what these vibrant narratives tell (and show) us about the people and periods that created them.  Click RSVP for Reminder.

Join us for a Potluck Supper and Member Meeting, then Steve Taylor discusses how farmers overcame enormous challenges to make sheep husbandry succeed, but forces from beyond New Hampshire were to doom the industry, with social consequences that would last a century. Click RSVP for Reminder.

Greet Halloween with delightfully spooky poems and stories by two American masters, Emily Dickinson and Edgar Allan Poe. The recital features gruesome poems in a pounding cadence by Poe and elusive works by Dickinson. Click RSVP for Reminder.