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September 2, Saturday, 1pm, Burial Hill Tours: History in Progress: Gravestone Conservation (tour begins at the top of Burial Hill in Plymouth, Massachusetts). A close look at individual stones to reveal changing techniques and highlights the philosophy of modern day historic preservation. Led by Dr. Donna Curtin, Executive Director of Pilgrim Hall Museum, and Dr. Anne Reilly, Executive Director of the Plymouth Antiquarian Society. For more information email pasm@verizon.net or call 508-736-0012
September 2, 3, and 4, Militia Weekend at Old Sturbridge Village, Sturbridge, Massachusetts. This weekend will feature all the sights and sounds of the training days that 1830s companies took part in at least twice a year. You will experience everything from cannon and musket demonstrations, to martial music and sham battles. Included with museum admission. www.osv.org
September 3, Sunday, 1pm – 4pm, American Canadian Genealogical Society Brickwall Meeting at 4 Elm Street, Manchester, New Hampshire. Please email your brickwall challenge a few days prior to ACGS@ACGS.org.
September 4, Monday, 6pm, New England Quilts and the Stories They Tell, at the Conway Public Library, 1 Greenwood Avenue, Conway, New Hampshire. Present by Pam Weeks, sponsored by the New Hampshire Humanities Council. Free to the public. Contact information 603-447-5552.
September 6, Wednesday, noon, Brown Bag Lecture: The Liberator’s Legacy: Memory, Abolitionism, and the Struggle for Civil Rights, 1865 – 1965, at the Massachusetts Historical Society. Free to the public. Presented by Donald Yacovone of Harvard University. https://www.masshist.org/calendar
September 7 and 8, Thursday and Friday, Boston Charter Day, Free to Massachusetts residents. See the webpage https://www.facebook.com/OSMHBoston
September 7, Thursday, noon, Lunch & Learn: Four Seventeenth Century Globetrotters, at Plimoth Plantation Museum, Plymouth, Massachusetts. Hear Virginia and Alden Vaughn discuss four early explorers from the 1600s – John Pory, George Sandys, Stephen Hopkins and John Smith. Free for members, $8 non-members. Bring a lunch, or buy one at the visitor’s center. http://www.plimoth.org/calendar#/?i=10
September 7, Thursday, 7pm, The Music History of French Canadians, Franco-Americans, Acadians, and Cajuns, at the Langdon Public Library, 328 Nimble Hill Road, Newington, New Hampshire, presented by Lucie Therrien, sponsored by the New Hampshire Humanities Council. Free to the public.
September 8 – 13, 2017, General Society of Mayflower Descendants Congress 2017, Plmouth, Massachusetts. Congressinfo@theMayflowerSociety.org The General Congress will take place at the 1620 Hotel with business meetings Monday and Tuesday for members, along with other activities. The public can view the Pilgrim’s Progress will begin at the Mayflower House at 2pm, Sunday and participants will march to Cole’s Hill and then to the first Parish Meetinghouse for opening ceremonies.
September 8, 1pm, New Hampshire’s One-Room Rural Schools: The Romance and the Reality, at the Congress of Claremont Senior Citizens, 67 Maple Street, Claremont, New Hampshire. Presented by Steve Taylor, sponsored by the New Hampshire Humanities Council. Free to the public. Contact information 603-542-2180.
September 8, Friday, 11am, Walk with Washington, at the Langdon House, 143 Pleasant Street, Portsmouth, New Hampshire. A guided walking tour through Portsmouth in the footsteps of George Washington. $8 Historic New England members, $12 non-members. Registration required at 603-436-3205.
September 9, Saturday, 10am, New Visitor Tour of the New England Historic Genealogical Society Library, at 99 – 101 Newbury Street, Boston, Massachusetts. Free to the public. No registration necessary. Feel free to stay and use the library for research following the tour.
September 9, Saturday, 10:30am – noon, Naugatuck Valley Genealogy Club Genealogy Presentation, at the Prospect Library, 17 Center Street, Prospect, Connecticut. A presentation by TV researcher and genealogist Janeen Bjork. Free to the public.
September 9, Saturday, 10am, Mount Hope Cemetery Walking Tour, meet up at the superintendents office at Mount Hope Cemetery, Bangor, Maine for a 90 minute guided tour of the nation’s second largest garden cemetery. Tickets are $10 for adults, $5 for ages 12 and under. Sponsored by the Bangor Historical Society.
September 9, Saturday, Irish Study Genealogy Group, at the New England Historic Genealogical Society, 99 – 101 Newbury Street, Boston, Massachusetts. Free to the public. Contact mary Ellen Grogan at megrogan@ix.netcom.com for more information.
September 9, Saturday, 10am – noon, Fashions of Their Times, 1805 – 1925: A Historical Fashion Workshop, at the Nickels Sortwell House, 121 Main Street, Wiscasset, Maine. $25 non-members, $15 members of Historic New England. Registration is limited, please call 207-882-7169 for more information.
September 10, Sunday, 1pm, Surprising and Inspiring Stories of Jews Buried at Mount Auburn Cemetery, hosted by Mount Auburn Cemetery, 580 M. Auburn Street, Watertown, Massachusetts. Meet up at the Grove Street Gate. Click here to purchase tickets for the tour https://www.eventbrite.com/e/surprising-and-inspiring-stories-of-jews-buried-at-mount-auburn-cemetery-tickets-33173072553?aff=efbeventtix
September 10, Sunday, 2pm, New England Lighthouses and the People Who Kept Them, at the Ray-Fre Senior Center, Raymond, New Hampshire. Free to the public. Presented by Jeremy D’Entremont, sponsored by the NH Humanities Council. Contact information 603-895-4536.
September 11 and 18, 7pm, Mondays, Climbing Your Family Tree Part I, at the Greenwich High School, 10 Hillside Avenue, Greenwich, Connecticut. Greenwich Adult and Continuing Education is sponsoring five two part Monday night Genealogy classes taught by TV researcher and genealogist Janeen Bjork this fall. Fee: $49. The class fee includes three daytime bonus labs at the Greenwich Library. See page 11 of the catalog online: https://www.greenwichace.com/customer-content/www/CMS/files/Fall17catalogws.pdf
September 11, Monday, 7pm, New Hampshire on High: Historic and Unusual Weathervanes of the Granite State, at the Stratham Fire Department Morgera Meeting Room, 2 Winnicutt Road, Stratham, New Hampshire. Presented by Glenn Knobock, hosted by the Stratham Historical Society. Contact information 603-772-4346.
September 12, Tuesday, 7pm, New England Lighthouses and the People Who Kept Them, at the Elkins Library, 9 Center road, Canterbury, New Hampshire. Free to the public. Presented by Jeremy D’Entremont, sponsored by the NH Humanities Council. Contact information 603-783-4386.
September 12, Tuesday, 7pm, A Tale of Two Domestics: Adventures in Archival Archaeology, at the Lyman Estate, 185 Lyman Street, Waltham, Massachusetts. $5 Historic New England and Waltham Historical Society members, $10 non members. Registration recommended at 617-994-5912.
September 13, Wednesday, 5:30pm, The Devil's Half Acre Walking Tour, meet up at the Bangor Historical Society's Thomas A. Hill House, 159 Union Street, Bangor, Maine. $10 per person. www.bangorhistoricalsociety.org
September 13, Wednesday, 6 – 7:30, Monstrous Births, Powerful Midwives: The Battle Over Women’s Bodies in 17th Century Boston, at the Boston Public Library, 700 Boylston Street (Copley Square), Boston, Massachusetts in the Rabb Lecture Hall. Presented by author Eve LaPlante. Free to the public. www.bpl.org
September 14, Thursday, 6pm, New England Quilts and the Stories They Tell, at the Upper Pemigewasset Historical Society, 26 Church Street, Lincoln, New Hampshire. Present by Pam Weeks, sponsored by the New Hampshire Humanities Council. Free to the public. Contact information 603-745-8159.
September 14, Thursday, 6pm, Harnessing History: On the Trail of New Hampshire’s State Dog, the Chinook, at the Wiggin Memorial Library, 10 Bunker Hill Avenue, Stratham, New Hampshire. Presented by Bob Cottrell, sponsored by the New Hampshire Humanities Council. Free to the public.
September 15 - 17, Friday - Sunday, The New Hampshire Highland Games, at Loon Mountain Resort in Lincoln, New Hampshire. See the website for details https://nhscot.org/festival/activities/seminars
September 15, Friday, 9:30 am – 3:30pm, Blacksmithing Friday in the Forge, at the Lawrence History Center, 6 Essex Street, Lawrence, Massachusetts. FREE event. Richard Wright of the Granite State Hammer Alliance will demonstrate traditional blacksmithing methods in our historic courtyard.
September 16, Saturday, 10:30 - noon, Fee or Free Genealogy: Finding Free Records, Deciding When to Pay, at the Stamford History Center, 1508 High Ridge Road, Stamford, Connecticut. Free to the public. A lecture by Marian B. Wood sponsored by the Connecticut Ancestry Society. www.connecticutancestry.org
September 16, Saturday, 2017 Annual Maine State Genealogical Society Fall Conference, at the Point Lookout Resort, 67 Atlantic Highway, Northport, Maine. www.maineroots.org Featured speaker will be David Allen Lambert, Chief Genealogist for NEHGS.
September 16, Saturday, 1:30pm, Identifying and Dating Family Photographs, at the Connecticut Society of Genealogists, in the Raymond Library, 840 Main Street, East Hartford, Connecticut. Free to the public. Please pre-register at this link: http://www.csginc.org/csg_view_event.php?event=269
September 16, Saturday, 9am – 4:15pm, Researching the Lives of Your Irish Ancestors, at the New England Historic Genealogical Society, 99 – 101 Newbury Street, Boston, Massachusetts. Cost $125 Breakfast and lunch included. A full day seminar with Fiona Fitzsimmons, lead investigator of the Irish Family History Centre in Eneclann. For information and registration: https://shop.americanancestors.org/products/researching-the-lives-of-your-irish-ancestors
September 16, Saturday, 6pm, Mount Hope Cemetery Walking Tour, meet up at the superintendents office at Mount Hope Cemetery, Bangor, Maine for a 90 minute guided tour of the nation’s second largest garden cemetery. Tickets are $10 for adults, $5 for ages 12 and under. Sponsored by the Bangor Historical Society.
September 16, Saturday, 1pm, New England Lighthouses and the People Who Kept Them, at the Joseph Patch Library, Warren, 320 NH Route 25, New Hampshire. Free to the public. Presented by Jeremy D’Entremont, sponsored by the NH Humanities Council. Contact information 603-764-9072.
September 16, Saturday, Yard Sale sponsored by the Plymouth County Genealogists, at the Hanson Historical Society, Hanson, Massachusetts.
September 18, Monday, 7:15pm, Liberty Is Our Motto!: Songs and Stories of the Hutchinson Family Singers, at the St. James Methodist Church, 646 DW Highway, Merrimack, New Hampshire. Presented by living historian Steve Blunt. Free to the public. Contact information 603-424-0383.
September 19 and 26, Tuesdays, 10:30 - noon, Researching Your Family Tree: A Six Week Course at the Library, (completed on Oct 3, 10, 17, and 24) at the Lynnfield Public Library, 18 Summer Street, Lynnfield, Massachusetts. Presented by Linda B. MacIver, former genealogy specialist at the Boston Public Library. Free to the public. Space is limited. Pre-registration and computer skills required. Contact Samantha Cabral at cabral@noblenet.org or (781) 334-5411.
September 19, Tuesday, 7pm, The Capital Crime of Witchcraft: What the Primary Sources Tell Us, at the Belmont Corner Meeting House, at the intersection of Fuller & Sargent Streets, Belmont, New Hampshire. Presented by Margo Burns, sponsored by the New Hampshire Humanities Council. Contact Information 603-524-8268.
September 19, Tuesday, 6pm, New England Quilts and the Stories They Tell, at the Goffstown Public Library, 2 High Street, Goffstown, New Hampshire. Presented by Pam Weeks, sponsored by the New Hampshire Humanities Council. Free to the public. Contact information 603-497-2102.
September 19, Tuesday, 6:30pm, New Hampshire on High: Historic and Unusual Weathervanes of the Granite State, at the Kimball Public Library, 5 Academy Avenue, Atkinson, New Hampshire. Presented by Glenn Knobock, hosted by the Stratham Historical Society. Contact information 603-362-5234.
September 19, Tuesday, 6pm, A Visit with Queen Victoria, at the Gilmanton- Year-Round Library, 1285 NH Route 140, Gilmanton Iron Works, New Hampshire. Presented by living historian Sally Mummey in proper 19th Century clothing resplendid with Royal Orders. Sponsored by the NH Humanities Council. Free to the public.
September 20, Wednesday, 6 – 8pm, Preserving Your Family History, at the Boston Public Library, 700 Boylston Street (Copley Square), Boston, Massachusetts, in the Commonwealth Salon. Free to the public. Presented by Steven Edson and Dan Gilman.
September 20, Wednesday, 1pm, New England Quilts and the Stories They Tell, at Kimball-Jenkins Estate Carriage House, 266 North Main Street, Concord, New Hampshire. Presented by Pam Weeks, hosted by the New Hampshire Weaver’s Guild, sponsored by the New Hampshire Humanities Council. Free to the public. Contact information 207-829-611.
September 20, Wednesday, 7pm, Poor Houses and Town Farms: The Hard Row for Paupers, at the Veteran’s Hall, 105 Old Homestead Highway, Richmond, New Hampshire. Presented by Steve Taylor, hosted by the Richmond Public Library. Free to the public. Contact information 603-239-6169.
September 20, Wednesday, 7pm, Songs of Emigration: Storytelling Through Traditional Irish Music, at the Center Barnstead Town Hall, 108 South Barnstead Road, Center Barnstead, New Hampshire. Presented by Jordan Tirrell-Wysocki, and hosted by the Oscar Foss Memorial Library. Free to the public.
September 21, Thursday, 6:30pm, Not-So-Good Life of The Colonial Goodwife, at the Old Colony History Museum, 66 Church Green, Taunton, Massachusetts. Presented by Velya Janca-Urban. Free to the public. Refreshments at 6:30, talk at 7pm.
September 21, Thursday, noon, Lunch and Learn: When Shipping Was King: The Piscataqua Region in Colonial America, at the American Independence Museum, Folsom Tavern, 164 Water Street, Exeter, New Hampshire . Free to the public. Presented by Jeff Bolster. Bring a lunch to enjoy during the lecture.
September 21, Thursday, 7:30pm, The Capital Crime of Witchcraft: What the Primary Sources Tell Us, at the Speare Museum, Nashua Historical Society, 5 Abbott Street, Nashua, New Hampshire. Presented by Margo Burns. Free to the public. Contact information: 603-883-0015
September 22, Friday, 7pm, Abby Hutchinson’s Sweet Freedom Songs: Songs and Sories of the Struggle for Abolition and Woman Suffrage, at the Weare Town Hall, 15 Flanders Memorial Road, Weare, New Hampshire. Presented by living historian Deborah Anne Goss as Abby Hutchinson Patton. Hosted by the Weare Historical Society. Free to the public. Contact information 603-529-2630.
September 23, Saturday, 10:30 - noon, DNA Testing for Genealogy Research, at the Cos Cob Library, 5 Sinoway Road, Cos Cob, Connecticut, presented by TV researcher and genealogist Janeen Bjork. Free to the public. Light refreshments will be served.
September 23, Saturday, 2pm, Family, Memory, Place: Writing Family Stories, at the Bath Public Library, 4 Lisbon Road, Bath, New Hampshire. An Interactive workshop run by Martha Andrews Donovan and Maura MacNeil. Sponsored by the NH Humanities Council. Free to the public. Contact information 603-747-3372.
September 23, Saturday, 10am, New Visitor Tour of the New England Historic Genealogical Society Library at 99 – 101 Newbury Street, Boston, Massachusetts. Free to the public. No registration necessary. Feel free to stay and use the library following the tour.
September 24, Sunday, 2pm, Poor Houses and Town Farms: The Hard Row for Paupers, at the Lempster History Hall, 4 2nd NH Turnpike, Lempster, New Hampshire. Presented by Steve Taylor, hosted by the Lempster Historical Society. Free to the public. Contact information 603-863-1121.
September 23 and 24, Saturday and Sunday, Living History Weekend: 18th Century Medicine, at the Fort at No. 4, 267 Springfield Road, Charlestown, New Hampshire. www.fortat4.org
September 23 and 24, Saturday and Sunday, 11am – 3pm, Thirteenth Annual Portsmouth Fairy House Tour, starting at the Langdon House, 143 Pleasant Street, Portsmouth, New Hampshire and continuing throughout the historic South End neighborhood including Strawbery Banke and Prescott Park. Please call 603-436-3205 for more information. Advance tickets recommended. http://www.portsmouthfairyhousetour.com/ and on Facebook.
September 25 and October 2, Mondays, 7pm, Climbing Your Family Tree II, at the Greenwich High School, 10 Hillside Avenue, Greenwich, Connecticut. Greenwich Adult and Continuing Education is sponsoring five two part Monday night Genealogy classes taught by TV researcher and genealogist Janeen Bjork this fall. Fee: $49. The class fee includes three daytime bonus labs at the Greenwich Library. See page 11 of the catalog online: https://www.greenwichace.com/customer-content/www/CMS/files/Fall17catalogws.pdf
September 26, Tuesday, 7pm, A Taste of the Old Country in the New: Franco-Americas of Manchester, New Hampshire, at the Marlborough Community House, 160 Main Street, Marlborough, New Hampshire. Presented by Robert Perreault. Hosted by the Marlborough Historical Society. Free to the public.
September 26, Tuesday, 7pm, The Zimmerman Telegram Story, at the Wright Museum of World War II, 77 Center Street, Wolfeboro, New Hampshire, presented by Professor Douglas Wheeler, about the famous leaked telegram that helped propel the USA into World War I. $8 admission, and reservations required by calling 603-569-1212. www.wrightmuseum.org
September 27, Wednesday, 6pm, Privies and Peach Pits: Public Health in Puritan Boston, at the New England Historic Genealogical Society, 99 - 101 Newbury Street, Boston, Massachusetts. Sponsored by the Partnership of Historic Bostons. Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/privies-and-peach-pits-public-health-in-puritan-boston-registration-36661947873 Free to the public.
September 27, Wednesday, noon, Brown Bag Lecture: The Constitution of Disability in the Early United States, at the Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston, Massachusetts. Free to the Public. Presented by Laurel Daen, MHS- NEH Fellow.
September 27, Wednesday, 11:30am “If I am Not For Myself, Who Will be For Me?” George Washington’s Runaway Slave, at the Rivier University Dion Center, 4 Clement Street, Nashua, New Hampshire. Living historian Gwendolyn Quezaire-Presutti will portray Oney Judge Staines. Free to the public. Hosted by the Women’s Studies program at Rivier University. Contact information 603-897-8563.
September 27, Wednesday, 6:30pm, The Capital Crime of Witchcraft: What the Primary Sources Tell Us, at the Silsby Free Public Library, 226 Main Street, Charlestown, New Hampshire. Presented by Margo Burns, sponsored by the New Hampshire Humanities Council. Free to the public. Contact Information 603-826-7793.
September 27, Wednesday, 6:30 pm, Rosie’s Mom: Forgotten Women of the First World War, at the Belknap Mill, 25 Beacon Street East, Laconia, New Hampshire. Presented by historian Carrie Brown and hosted by the Belknap Mill. Free to the public.
September 27, Wednesday, 7pm, New England Lighthouses and the People Who Kept Them, at the Kensington Public Library, 126 Amesbury Road, Kensington, New Hampshire. Presented by Jeremy D’Entremont. Sponsored by the NH Humanities Council. Free to the public. Contact 603-772-5022.
September 28, 6:30pm, Yankee Ingenuity: Stories of Headstrong and Resourceful People, at the Hooksett Library, 31 Mount Saint Mary’s Way, Hooksett, New Hampshire. Jo Radner shares historical tales about New Englanders who have used their wits to solve problems and create inventions. Free to the public through a grant from the NH Humanities council.
September 28, Thursday, 7pm, Poor Houses and Town Farms: The Hard Row for Paupers, at the Old Webster Courthouse, 6 Court Street, Plymouth, New Hampshire. Presented by Steve Taylor, hosted by the Plymouth Historical Society. Free to the public. Contact information 603-536-1376.
September 30, Saturday, American Canadian Genealogy Society Fall Conference, at the Puritan Restaurant, 245 Hooksett Road, Manchester, New Hampshire (in the Pappas Room). Annual meeting, three speakers (Jeanne Douillard, Lucie LeBlanc Consentino, and Leslie Choquette), buffet luncheon, and raffle. Register here: https://acgs.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Fall-Conference-2017-1.pdf Members $70, nonmembers $80.
September 30 and October 1, Saturday and Sunday, Return to Number 4: Revolutionary War Weekend at The Fort at No. 4, 267 Springfield Road, Charlestown, New Hampshire. www.fortat4.org
October 1, Sunday, 2pm, Giving Voice: An Afternoon with Annette Gordon-Reed, at the Royall House & Slave Quarters, 15 George Street, Medford, Massachusetts.
October 3, Tuesday, 6:30pm, New England Lighthouses and the People Who Kept Them, at the Hampton Falls Free Library, 7 Drinkwater Road, Hampton Falls, New Hampshire. Presented by Jeremy D’Entremont. Sponsored by the NH Humanities Council. Free to the public. Contact 603-926-3682.
October 3, Tuesday, 7pm, Brewing in New Hampshire: An Informal History of Beer in the Granite State from Colonial Times to the Present, at the Hollis Social Library, 2 Monument Square, Hollis, New Hampshire. Free to the public. Presented by Glenn Knoblock. Sponsored by the NH Humanities Council. Contact 603-465-7721.
October 4, Wednesday, noon, Brown Bag Lecture: Commerce and the Material Culture of the Maritime Atlantic World, at the Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston, Massachusetts. Presented by J. Ritchie Garrison of the University of Delaware. Free to the Public. https://www.masshist.org/calendar
October 4, Wednesday, 6 – 7:30pm, Margaret Newell, author of Brethren by Nature: New England Indians, Colonists, and the Origins of American Slavery, at the Boston Public Library, Commonwealth Salon, 700 Boylston Street, Boston, Massachusetts. Present by author Margaret Newell. Free to the public.
October 5, Thursday, noon, Lunch & Learn: Salem Witch Museum and Salem Witch Trials of 1692 and 1693, at the Plimoth Plantation visitor’s center, Plymouth, Massachusetts. Presented by Stacy Tilney. Register at this site: http://www.plimoth.org/calendar#/?i=14 Free for members, $8 non-members. Bring a lunch or buy one at the visitor’s center.
October 5, Thursday, 6:30pm, The Capital Crime of Witchcraft: What the Primary Sources Tell Us, at Fremont Public Library, 7 Jackie Bernier Drive, Fremont, New Hampshire. Presented by Margo Burns, sponsored by the New Hampshire Humanities Council. Free to the public. Contact Information 603-702-0120.
October 6, Connecticut Roots at 40 Conference, at Goodwin College, 1 Riverside Drive, East Hartford, Connecticut. Keynote Speaker, Colson Whitehead. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/roots-at-40-reflections-and-rememberances-tickets-32911981623
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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "September 2017 Genealogy and Local History Calendar", Nutfield Genealogy, posted August 28, 2017, (https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2017/08/september-2017-genealogy-and-local.html: accessed [access date]).
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