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A photo from the Old Berwick Historical Society’s collection shows that bridge repairs, like those now underway on Route 4 over the Salmon Falls River, are timeless. To the right in both photos, the Counting House – once the business office of the cotton mill located at the falls below the bridge – is now the historical society’s museum. Today it contains thousands of pictures, maps, documents and objects dating from the 1600s through the 1900s.  Volunteers offer new displays every year or two, and the latest new feature, “Village Voices,” presents livelihoods in the local economy. (See photos below)

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The Rochester Opera House Board of Directors is pleased to announce the award of a $20,000 grant for operations support for the 2011/2012 season from the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation (the Piscataqua Region Community Fund and the Charles & Aroline B. Greenfield Fund).  This NHCF grant award follows the Foundation's $20,000 grant award for the previous season.  We are extremely pleased and fortunate to have been selected for this extremely competitive award, which is a tremendous boost for operations stabilization. (Continued below)

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Strawbery Banke Museum has won first place in the 2011 New England Museum Association Publication Award Competition for Good Morning, Strawbery Banke. The 40-page, full-color book aimed at readers aged 4-8 was written and illustrated by Wickie Rowland. The book won its category of volumes priced at $10 or less. NEMA received 206 entries from 64 organizations competing in 16 categories for the 2011 awards. (Continued below)

HISTORY NEWS

JULY 2011

This from the Maine Historical Society Newsletter in Portland, ME: “Efforts to repatriate the remains of Henry Wadsworth from Libya are gaining momentum. Wadsworth, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's uncle and namesake, was killed along with 12 fellow sailors when the USS Intrepid, the ship on which they were serving, exploded in Tripoli in 1804 during the First Barbary War. The bodies of those men have remained in unmarked graves, and legislation moving through the U.S. Congress seeks to bring them home.” (Continued Inside)