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October 2017 Genealogy and Local History Event Calendar



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September 28, Thursday, 7pm,  The Capital Crime of Witchcraft: What the Primary Sources Tell Us, at Wilmot Public Library, 11 North Wilmot Road, Wilmot, New Hampshire. Presented by Margo Burns, sponsored by the New Hampshire Humanities Council.  Free to the public.  Contact Information 603-526-6804.

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 3, Tuesday, 6:30pm, When There is No Doctor:  Home Remedies of 17th Century Boston, at the Old North Church and Historic Site, 193 Salem Street, Boston, Massachusetts.  Presented by Lori Lyn Price, an expert in botanical medicine. This event includes a short visit to the St. Francis Garden, behind the church.   Please register at this link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/when-there-is-no-doctor-home-remedies-of-17th-century-boston-registration-35631981215  

October 4, Wednesday, 12:30pm, Witchcraft in Salem in 1692, but why in Andover?, at the Andover Historical Society, Andover, Massachusetts.  Bring your lunch and hear Enders Robinson, witch trial historian and descendant of Samuel Wardwell discuss theories as to why Andover became so embroiled in the 1692 witch trials.  Free for members, $5 for non-members. 

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, Friday, 2pm, How Boston Became the West: George Ticknor and the Arrival of Spanish Culture to the United States, at the Massachusetts Historical Society, 1154 Boylston Street, Boston, Massachusetts.  To reserve a seat please call 617-646-0578 or register online at www.masshist.org/events

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

October 7, Saturday, 1pm, Burial Hill Tours:  History in Progress: Finding Early Plymouth: an Archaeological View of Burial Hill, (tour begins at the top of Burial Hill in Plymouth, Massachusetts).  Dr. David Landon from the University of Massachusetts Fiske Center for Archaeological Research will discuss archaeological developments in our understanding of early Plymouth.  For more information please email pasm@verizon.net or call 508-746-0012

October 7, Saturday, 9am – 3pm, Women of the Fort, at the Fort at No. 4, 267 Springfield Road, Charlestown, New Hampshire.  Various activities including dying, cooking, working with wool, etc.  Included with admission to the historic 18th century wooden fortress on the banks of the Connecticut River.  http://www.fortat4.org

October 8, Sunday, 5:30 – 7:30pm, 1627 Harvest Dinner with the Pilgrims, at Plimoth Plantation, Plymouth, Massachusetts.  Enjoy a 17th century meal, sit with Pilgrims who will answer questions, and be entertained with songs and psalms.  Click here to make a reservation and to pay online: http://www.plimoth.org/calendar#/?i=14

October 9, Monday, 10am, October is Polish-American Heritage Month, Northampton, Massachusetts.  High mass at St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Parish Church on King Street, followed by a parade to the center of the city to Pulaski Park on Main Street.  This is followed by speeches and music performances.  The day concludes with a buffet at St. Elizabeth Seton’s community room.

October 9 and 16, Climbing Your Family Tree III,  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 

October 10, Tuesday, 7pm, New Hampshire Cemeteries and Gravestones, at the Cornish Town Office Building, 488 Town House Road, Cornish, New Hampshire.  Presented by Glenn Knoblock, hosted by the Cornish Historical Society.  Free to the public. Contact 603-477-2844.

October 10, Tuesday, 7pm,  New England Quilts and the Stories They Tell, at the Elkins Public Library, 9 Center Road, Canterbury, New Hampshire.  Presented by Pam Weeks, hosted by the Canterbury Historical Society, sponsored by the New Hampshire Humanities Council.  Free to the public.  Contact information 207-783-4090.

October 12 – 14, Thursday – Saturday, Cultural and Historic Preservation Conference:  Gentrification and Prservation: A Reappraisal,  at Salve Regina University, 100 Ochre Point Avenue, Newport, Rhode Island,  $175 or onsite registration $199.  Keynote speaker is Dr. Lance Freeman, a leading researcher in the study of gentrification https://salveregina.formstack.com/forms/conference_registration

Oct 12, Thursday, 7pm, Puddn'Heads:  Childhood in Colonial America, at the Andover Historical Society, Andover, Massachusetts.  A talk by author Velya Jancz-Urban.  Members $10, non-members $15.

October 12, Thursday, 2pm, Crosscut:  The Mills, Logging and Life on the Androscoggin River, at the New Hampshire Veteran’s Home, 139 Winter Street, Tilton, New Hampshire.  Presented by Rebecca Rule, sponsored by the New Hampshire Humanities Council.  Free to the public.

October 12, Thursday, 6:30pm, A Visit with Abraham Lincoln, at the Kimball Library, 5 Academy Avenue, Atkinson, New Hampshire.  Presented by living historian Steve Wood.  Free to the public.  Contact 603-553-0531. 

October 12, Thursday, 7pm, The Capital Crime of Witchcraft: What the Primary Sources Tell Us, at the Laconia Public Library, 695 Main Street, Laconia, New Hampshire.  Presented by Margo Burns, sponsored by the NH Humanities Council.  Free to the public.

October 13 and 14,  Friday and Saturday, 2017 Polish Genealogy Conference, at the Courtyard Marriott Hotel, 1583 Southeast Road, Farmington, Connecticut, sponsored by the Polish Genealogical Society of Connecticut and the Northeast.  http://pgsctne.org/

October 14, Saturday, 1 – 4pm, Genealogy Workshop:  Researching Veteran Ancestors, at the New Hampshire Historical Society, 30 Park Street, Concord, New Hampshire.  https://www.nhhistory.org/

October 14, Saturday, 1 – 3pm,  French Canadian Genealogy Society of Connecticut Fall General Membership Meeting, at the United Congregational Church of Tolland, 45 Tolland Green, Tolland, Connecticut.   Coffee, a brief business meeting, followed by guest speaker Lucie LeBlanc Consentino.  Open to non-members $5 suggested donation.  www.fcgsc.org 

October 14, Saturday, 2pm, No Cause to Judge Them:  A narrated hike through Baker's Meadow, Meet at Baker's Meadow, Andover, Massachusetts, hosted by the Andover Historical Society and the Andover Trails Committee.  A narrated history hike through land once owned by Rev. Francis Dane.  Free to the public. 


October 14, Saturday, 10am – 4:30pm, The Rebellion Begins:  Westborough Training Day, at Veteran’s Freedom Park, 169A West Main Street, Westborough, Massachusetts, hosted by the Westborough Rotary Club.  This reenactment celebrates the 243rd anniversary of the Westborough patriot militia’s march to Worcester in 1774, one of the first events that sparked the American Revolution. Watch drills, musket firing demonstrations, a colonial market, and re-enactors.

October 15, Sunday, 2pm, A City at War:  Concord, NH during World War I, at the Penacook Historical Society, 1834 House, 11 Penacook Street, Penacook, New Hampshire. 

October 15, Sunday, 5:30 - 8:30, After Hours Genealogy Research with Experts and Library Staff, at the Portsmouth Public Library, Portsmouth, New Hampshire.  Meet up in the Levenson Room for a brief presentation to start, then free time to explore, research, ask questions or go deep on a specific topic.  Call the reference desk to reserve your spot 603-766-1720.  Limit of 40 participants. 

October 17, Tuesday, 7pm, The Capital Crime of Witchcraft:  What the Primary Sources Tell Us, at the Dover Public Library, 73 Locust Street, Dover, New Hampshire.  Presented by Margo Burns, sponsored by the NH Humanities Council.  Free to the public.

October 17, Tuesday, 7pm, Songs of Emigration:  Storytelling Through Traditional Irish Music, at the Cook Memorial Library, 93 Main Street, Tamworth, New Hampshire.  Presented by musician Jordan Tirrell-Wysocki, sponsored by the NH Humanities Council.  Free to the public. 

October 18, Wednesday, noon, Brown Bag Lecture: Palatable Slavery: Food, Race, and Freedom in the British Atlantic, 1620 – 1838, at the Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston, Massachusetts. Presented by Heather Sanford of Brown University.  Free to the public.  https://www.masshist.org/calendar

October 18, Wedesday, 7pm, The Capital Crime of Witchcraft:  What the Primary Sources Tell Us, at the Epsom Public Library, 1606 Dover Road, Epsom, New Hampshire. Presented by Margo Burns, sponsored by the NH Humanities Council.  Free to the public.

October 18, Wednesday, 7pm, Abraham and Mary Lincoln:  The Long and Short of It, at the Medallion Opera House, 20 Park Street, Gorham, New Hampshire. Presented by living historians Steve and Sharon Wood portraying President Lincoln and his First Lady.  Free to the public thanks to a grant from the NH Humanities Council.

October 19, Thursday, 6:30pm, Battlefield Archaeology, at the Old Colony History Museum, 66 Church Green, Taunton, Massachusetts, presented by author Da Sivilich who will trace the history of musket balls and small shot. Free to the public. Refreshments at 6:30 and talk at 7pm.

October 19, Thursday, 6:30pm, Rosie’s Mom:  Forgotten Women of the First World War, at the Brookline Public Library, 16 Main Street, Brookline, New Hampshire.  Presented by historian Carrie Brown, and sponsored by the NH Humanities Council.  Free to the public.

October 19, Thursday, 7pm, Witch Andover? Which Andover? at Memorial Hall Library, 2 North Main Street, Andover, Massachusetts.  Hosted by the Andover Historical Society and the North Andover Historical Society, in partnership with Memorial Hall Library.  Registration required, free to the public.  Local historian, Char Lyons will explore the history of the witch trials and how they shaped Andover as we know it today. Please register at www.andoverhistorical.org  

October 19, Thursday, 7pm, New Hampshire on High: Historic and Unusual Weathervanes of the Granite State, at the East Andover Grange Hall, 7 Chase Hill Road, East Andover, New Hampshire.  Presented by Glenn Knoblock, and sponsored by the Andover Historical Society and the NH Humanities Council.  Free to the public.

October 19, Thursday, 7pm, The Capital Crime of Witchcraft:  What the Primary Sources Tell Us, at the Madison Library (Chick Room), 1895 Village Road, Madison, New Hampshire.  Presented by historian Margo Burns.  Sponsored by the NH Humanities Council.  Free to the public.

October 20, Friday, 4pm, The Capital Crime of Witchcraft:  What the Primary Sources Tell Us, at the Barnstead Town Hall, 108 South Barnstead Road, Center Barnstead, New Hampshire.  Presented by historian Margo Burns.  Sponsored by the Oscar Foss Memorial Library and the NH Humanities Council.  Free to the public.

October 21, Saturday, 9am - 2pm, DNA: Who Are You?  Your DNA Results Might Surprise You! , at the Duxbury Senior Center, Duxbury, Massachusetts.  Sponsored by the Duxbury Senior Senior Center Genealogy Club.  Speaker will be genealogist and DNA expert Jennifer Zinck.  $35 including lunch with a Q& A session until 2pm. RSVP 781-934-5774. 

October 21, Saturday, 9:30 - 2:30, New Hampshire Society of Genealogists Fall Meeting, at the Holiday Inn, 172 North Main Street, Concord, New Hampshire.  Guest speaker will be Maureen Taylor "The Photo Detective".  $30 members, $40 non members, continental breakfast, two lectures, business meeting, luncheon, raffle and door prizes.  http://www.nhsog.org/nhsog/mtgs/2017fall.htm   

October 21, Saturday, 2pm, The Apparitionists: A Tale of Phantoms, Fraud, Photography, and the Man who Captured Lincoln’s Ghost,  at the Massachusetts Historical Society, 1154 Boylston Street, Boston, Massachusetts, presented by Peter Manseau, of the Smithsonian National Museum of American History. To reserve a seat please call 617-646-0578 or register online at www.masshist.org/events  

October 22, Sunday, 1pm, Witch Trials Descendants Tour of South Church Cemetery, 41 Central Street, Andover, Massachusetts.  Led by historian Char Lyons who will highlight and discuss the graves of descendants of both accused witches and accusers.  Free to members of the Andover Historical Society, non members $5.  Please register at www.andoverhistorical.org  

October 23 and 30, Mondays, 7pm, Getting More from Ancestry.com, at the Greenwich High School, 10 Hillside Avenue, Greenwich, Connecticut.  Fee: $49.  Greenwich Adult and Continuing Education is sponsoring five two part Monday night Genealogy classes taught by TV researcher and genealogist Janeen Bjork this fall.  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   

October 23, Monday, noon, Brown Bag Lecture: “Let it be your resolution to be happy”: Women’s Emotion Work in the Early Republic, at the Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston, Massachusetts. Presented by Laura McCoy, Northwestern University. Free to the public. https://www.masshist.org/calendar

October 23, Monday, 2:15pm, Motivating the WWII Home Front via Magazine and Radio Advertising, at the Havenwood Auditorium, 33 Christian Avenue, Concord, New Hampshire.  Presented by Calvin Knickerbocker, sponsored by the NH Humanities Council.  Free to the public.

October 24, Tuesday, 10am – 11:30am, Genealogy for Beginners, a four part class at the Polish Center of Discovery and Learning, 33 South Street, Chicopee, Massachusetts.  Free to the public.

October 24, Tuesday, 7pm, A Storm of Witchcraft: The Salem Trials and the American Experience, at the Andover Historical Society, 97 Main Street, Andover, Massachusetts.  Presented by Professor Emerson Baker on his recent book.  Members $10, non-members $15. 

October 24, Tuesday, 7pm, The Capital Crime of Witchcraft:  What the Primary Sources Tell Us, at Hampstead Public Library, 9 Mary E. Clark Drive, Hampstead, New Hampshire.  Presented by historian Margo Burns.  Sponsored by the  Hampstead Public Library and the NH Humanities Council.  Free to the public.

October 25, Wednesday, noon, Brown Bag Lecture: Political Appetites: Revolution, Taste, and Culinary Activism in the Early Republic, at the Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston, Massachusetts.  Presented by Nancy Siegel, Towson University.  Free to the public. https://www.masshist.org/calendar

October 25, Wednesday, 6 – 7:30pm, The East Boston Immigration Center Project, at the Boston Public Library, Commonwealth Salon, 700 Boylston Street, Boston, Massachusetts.  Free to the public, presented by Lisa Berenson about the state-of-the-art exhibit hall that will provide the experiences of Jewish, Irish, Italian and other immigrant groups that come through the Port of Boston in the 19th and 20th centuries.

October 25,  Wednesday, 7pm, The Capital Crime of Witchcraft:  What the Primary Sources Tell Us, at Daland Memorial Public Library, 5 North Main Street, Mount Vernon, New Hampshire.  Presented by historian Margo Burns.  Sponsored by the Daland Public Library and the NH Humanities Council.  Free to the public.

October 26, Thursday, 7pm, Minutemen Revisited, at the American Antiquarian Society, 185 Salisbury Street, Worcester, Massachusetts.  A lecture by Robert A. Gross.  Doors open at 6:30, seating is first come, first served.  http://www.americanantiquarian.org/baron-lecture-robert-gross

October 26, Thursday, 6:30pm, New England’s Colonial Meetinghouses and their impact on American Society, at the Hooksett Public Library, 31 Mount Saint Mary’s Way, Hooksett, New Hampshire.  Presented by Paul Wainwright, and sponsored by the Hooksett Historical Society.  Free to the public.

October 26, Thursday 7pm, Family, Memory, Place: Writing Family Stories, at the Stephenson Memorial Library, 761 Forest Road, Greenfield, New Hampshire.  This interactive workshop is led by Martha Andrews Donovan and Maura MacNeil.  Free to the public.

October 27, Friday, Fall Meeting of the Genealogical Society of Vermont, 2962 Vermont Route 12A, Braintree, Vermont, see the website for details. http://www.genealogyvermont.org/

October 27, Friday, 7pm, New Hampshire Cemeteries and Gravestones, at the Harvey-Mitchell Memorial Library, 151 Main Street, Epping, New Hampshire.  Presented by Glenn Knoblock.  Sponsored by the NH Humanities Council.  Free to the public.

October 28, Saturday, 2pm, An American Nurse at War, at the Webster Public Library and Town Hall, 974 Battle Street, Webster, New Hampshire.  A 36 minute film about Marion Rice who spent four years as a nurse in France during WWI.  There will also be presentations about local nurses who served in WWI.  Free to the public. 

October 28, Saturday, 1pm – 3pm, Crossing the Ocean: Researching Family History in the Polish Archives, at the Chicopee Public Library, 449 Front Street, Chicopee, Massachusetts.  Sponsored by the Polish Genealogical Society of Massachusetts, and presented by Professor Jonathan Shea.  Free to registered participants at http://pgsma.org/index.html

October 28, Saturday, 3pm – 5pm, Open House at the Polish Center of Discovery and Learning, 33 South Street, Chicopee, Massachusetts.  Free to the public. Refreshments, artifacts, photographs, and a genealogical library. 

October 28, Sunday, 5:30 – 7:30pm, 1627 Harvest Dinner with the Pilgrims, at Plimoth Plantation, Plymouth, Massachusetts.  Enjoy a 17th century meal, sit with Pilgrims who will answer questions, and be entertained with songs and psalms.  Click here to make a reservation and to pay online: http://www.plimoth.org/calendar#/?i=17 

October 29,  Sunday, 2pm, The Capital Crime of Witchcraft:  What the Primary Sources Tell Us, at the Center Meeting House of Newbury, 927 Route 103 Intersection of Routes 103 & 103A, Newbury, New Hampshire.  Presented by historian Margo Burns.  Sponsored by the Daland Public Library and the NH Humanities Council.  Free to the public.

October 29, Sunday, 3pm, African American Soldiers and Sailors of New Hampshire During the American Revolution, at the Plainfield Town Hall, 1079 Route 12A, Plainfield, New Hampshire.  Presented by Glenn Knoblock, and sponsored by the Plainfield Historical Society.  Free to the public.

October 29, Sunday, 3:30pm, Sleepy Hollow-een Tour, at Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, 34 Bedford Street, Concord, Massachusetts.   A guided tour through the cemetery with a guide from the Concord Museum.  $10 per person/  $5 members  http://www.concordmuseum.org/calendar.php?&month=10


November 1, Wednesday, noon, Brown Bag Lecture:  Equal School Rights: Black Girlhood and School Desegregation in Antebellum Massachusetts, at the Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston, Massachusetts. Free to the public.  Presented by Kabria Baumgartner, University of New Hampshire. https://www.masshist.org/calendar  

November 12, Sunday 2pm, Honoring Those Who Served:  Recognition of Local World War I Veterans, at the Penacook Historical Society, 1834 House, 11 Penacook Street, Penacook, New Hampshire. 


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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "October 2017 Genealogy and Local History Event Calendar", Nutfield Genealogy, posted September 28, 2017, (https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2017/09/october-2017-genealogy-and-local.html: accessed [access date]).

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