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2010 PROGRAM SCHEDULE
April 13th (Tuesday) at 7:00 P.M. Charles E. Clark: "What New Hampshire Thought Was Funny Two Hundred Years Ago." Using primarily the
"Farmer's Museum", a Walpole-based newspaper published by a coterie of lawyers and "wits", Clark will explore the jokes and anecdotes intended to tickle the NH funny bones of the
early post-Revolutionary day. He will also offer an explanation of the cultural circumstances that made them "funny".
May 11 th (Tuesday) at 7:00 P.M. Gerald Sedor: "Covered
Bridges in New England." As New England developed, the simple bridges built to cross its many waterways deteriorated too rapidly. By 1850, American designers provided a longer-lasting solution
-- covered bridges. Many of these bridges remain in service. The history and design features of covered bridges are illustrated by photographs taken throughout New England.
October 12th
(Tuesday at 7:00 P.M. Steve Taylor: "The Great Sheep Boom and Its Enduring Legacy on the New Hampshire Landscape." In a brief 30-year period in the early 19th century, the New Hampshire
countryside became home to hundreds of thousands of sheep. Farmers overcame enormous challenges to make sheep husbandry succeed, but forces from beyond NH were to doom the industry, with social
consequences that would last a century.
November 9th (Tuesday) at 6:00 P.M. David Stewart-Smith: "Native American History of New Hampshire." The Pennacook Indians of the Merrimack
Valley, along with their Abenaki allies from Maine and Canada, held off Europeans for almost 90 years during a succession of "Indian Wars," culminating,in 1761. During this time, Indians
and colonists exchanged and en<:ountered each other's cultures. A pot luck supper will begin at 6:00 P.M
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