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The 29^th annual Bread and Roses Heritage Festival is a celebration of the ethnic diversity and labor history of Lawrence, Massachusetts. It takes place on Labor Day, Monday, September 2, 12-6 pm. In honor of the most significant event in Lawrence history, the festival honors the 1912 Bread and Roses Strike. (Continued below) 

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The fourth in this year's Piscataqua Decorative Arts Society lectures David C. Walters in a presentation entitled “Silver in Newburyport: Harold E. Nock and The Towle Silversmiths." The October 22 lecture will be held at Stoodley’s Tavern on Hancock Street, across from the Tyco Center at Strawbery Banke Museum in Portsmouth, NH. The lecture starts at5:30pm, preceded by refreshments at 5 pm. The cost to the general public is $10.00, while members are free. (Continued below)

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On Wednesday, August 28, Prescott Park Arts Festival will welcome Spirit Family Reunion to the FairPoint Communications MainStage in Portsmouth’s Prescott Park as part of the River House Restaurant Concert Series. Spirit Family Reunion will play their lively homegrown Americana music starting at 7 pm. (Continued below) 

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Imagine a portrait of John Paul Jones coming alive and saying to you. For one night the John Paul Jones historic house museum will turn into a world where the people who lived on the Seacoast hundreds of years ago come to life and tell their stories on September 28. (Continued below). 

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Thanks to legislation passed in 2010, the state of New Hampshire commemorates Portsmouth Peace Treaty Day – the day the treaty ending the Russo-Japanese War was signed at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard – on September 5, 2013 and in perpetuity. The celebrations will continue with special Portsmouth events on September 5. (Continued below) 

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Prescott Park Arts Festival will offer a special outdoor movie feature as part of the Service Credit Union Movie Series on Monday, August 19, just after 7:00pm. Dan Brown, the acclaimed local author, and whose current release, Inferno, is a #1 best-seller around the world, will join the audience for a special presentation of the movie Angels & Demons. (Continued below) 

A SHOALS HISTORY WEEKEND

Visitors to the next ISHRA history conference can experience island life and learn about energy sources of the past and future. Learn while you relax at the Isles of Shoals, six miles off the New Hampshire coast, from Friday, September 6, rough Sunday afternoon, September 8, 2013. 

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Veterans Count Seacoast Chapter Board of Directors announced today that a traveling exhibit entitled Native Words, Native Warriors, from the National Museum of the American Indian at the Smithsonian, will be open to the public att Pease from August 19-22. (Continued below).

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Two teams from the Essex Base Ball Association in Newbury, Massachusetts will play a doubleheader in Portsmouth on Saturday, August 17th. The E.B.B.A. is a four-team league of "base ball re-enactors" who play baseball using rules from the 1860s. (Continued below) 

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The Port of Portsmouth Maritime Museum Association is pleased to announce an event which will occur on Saturday, August 17, 2013 from 10am until 3 pm. The submarine museum is planning Submarine History Day with a celebration of the life of local hero and medal of honor recipient, Richard O’Kane. This famous submarine commander was born in Dover, NH and grew up in Durham. (Continued below)