E.E. Cummings exhibit and Grand re-opening (free food)

On Saturday, November 1^st from 10am to 2 pm the Madison Historical Society will have a grand re-opening (after their move onto their new foundation) at the historical society museum (corner of Route 113 & East Madison Road). There will be free refreshments, pies and baked good for sale, books and cards, and post Halloween activities. The feature, besides touring the new construction, will be a new E.E. Cummings exhibit.

Art, maps and the AMC

Thought you all might enjoy this timely article from the Nov/Dec 2014
issue of AMC Outdoors. Be sure to see the exhibit of art and maps at the Museum of White Mountain Art, Jackson, NH.


AMC's Councilor of Art


By the way, did you know that Charles Fay had a summer home in Tamworth, NH and there is quite a collection of related items at the Tamworth Historical Society.

Bewitching Tamworth

Cook Memorial Library, in collaboration with the Tamworth Historical Society, has received a grant from the NH Humanities Council to present the program: “ Witches, Pop Culture, and the Past”  tonight  Wednesday, October 29 at 7:00 PM  at  Cook Memorial Library just  in time for Halloween. In 1692, nineteen people were executed in Salem and hundreds imprisoned during a witch hunt . Robin DeRosa says: " Salem tells its witch stories, history tourism, and performance collide, and 'truth,' both moral and macabre, vies with spooky thrills for its authentic place in history." The program is free and  open to the public with  refreshments. For more information contact the library at 323-8510.

Mapping the Mount Washington Valley

Check out the AMC facebook post about mapping in the White Mountains. It is a great tie-in with the not to be missed exhibit at the Jackson Historical Society. With all the rain, this may be a great time to see an indoor exhibit about the outdoors.

AMC facebook page

Louis Cutter: White Mountain Map Maker

Video on map making in the digital age

Jackson Historical Society webpage

Historical Halloween

There are a number of historically themed Halloween programs this weekend. Click on the links below to learn more. If you know of any others, please share them through your comments here!

Campton New Hampshire

Canterbury New Hampshire

Exeter, New Hampshire

Madison, New Hampshire

Portsmouth, New Hampshire

Playing cards blog two

Talk about timing, just as I was publishing the blog on the historic Conway 250th playing cards, I received an email with proofs of two of the cards. Buy the cards and bet the house! (of course I mean explore the history of Conway architecture ... we do not advocate, condemn or condone gambling)

Home Grown Lumber post cards

Thanks again to Steve and Olga Morrill for loaning their post card collection to the Henney History Room of the Conway Public Library. Thanks also to our volunteers, especially Curtis Tinker and Debra Cottrell for scanning almost 800 post cards to add to our online catalog.

We recently held a preview showing of the collection in the Ham Community Center at the Conway Public Library and heard wonderful stories from our patrons and the public on their own history and experiences at and around the places depicted in the post cards. We learned a lot, had a lot of fun, and hope this will become a more regular event as we head into the 250th celebration of the granting of Conway, New Hampshire.

If you know where this covered bridge is and the story or stories behind us, please leave us a comment on this blog. Thanks,

Morrill Covered Bridge. Home Grown Lumber post card collection.