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Maine Historical Society and Maine Humanities Council are pleased to invite you to a public symposium marking the mid-point of the Civil War sesquicentennial at USM's Hannaford Hall on Saturday, April 27, 2013. (Continued below) 

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BJ's Wholesale Club and LG Electronics are pleased to present New Hampshire's premier ballet company, Northeastern Ballet Theatre in their production of "Cinderella" on April 6 at 7pm and April 7 at 2pm at OysterRiverHigh School in Durham, NH.  (Continued below) 

CLOSES MAY 28

Wired! explores the electrification of Maine during the 20th century, and how a rural state became modern. Told primarily through material from the Central Maine Power collection, it explores the landscape, mechanics, economics, politics, and culture of electricity. Don't miss this exhibit at Maine Historical Society, Portland, ME (Continued below) 

APRIL 13, 2013

When Portsmouth first hosted the Caribbean Nights Dance Party in 2010, just about everyone was thinking about Haiti. The country had just been devastated by an earthquake and the world was focused on helping. Today, other catastrophes have taken center stage, but residents of the Seacoast continue to eat, mingle and dance up a storm as part of their all-out effort to continue educating children at a small school in northern Haiti. (Continued below) 

RUNS APRIL 5- MAY 27, 2013

In 1947, Omer  T. Lassonde was declared one of America's great painters by Benjamin Bradlee in the NH Sunday Times.  Sixty-six years later the Portsmouth Historical Society is delighted to present a retrospective of Lassonde’s work that celebrates his spirited landscapes and expressive use of bold color. (Continued below)

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Portsmouth photographer Carl Austin Hyatt and anthropologist Hillary S. Webb, Ph.D. will present a discussion on Andean Ceremonial Celebrations at the Museum of Art, Paul Creative Arts Center, University of New Hampshire on Saturday, March 23, 2013 beginning at 2 p.m. (Continued below)

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Seacoast theatergoers will finally enjoy the work of Sarah Ruhl on March 29, when her play “Eurydice” opens at the Players’ Ring. Ruhl has received a MacArthur “Genius Grant” and two Pulitzer Prize finalist nominations. (Continued below) 

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On Wednesday, March 20 at 7:00pm in the lower meetinghouse of the First Religious Society, 26 Pleasant Street, Newburyport, there will be a presentation of Bill Moyers February 22 segment of “Taming Capitalism.”  This features two interviews; the first with Professor Richard Wolff, Emeritus Economics Professor from UMASS and now Visiting Professor Graduate Program in International Affairs at the New School in New York.  (Continued below) 

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In one of the region’s better-known tragedies of the seventeenth century, Charles Frost was killed by Indians on his way home from Sunday meeting in 1697.  Twenty-seven years later, the will of his son Charles left the Frost family’s silver tankard to the congregation. Descendants of those parishioners, today’s First Parish Federated Church, still proudly cherish this historic tankard today. (Continued below) 

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The Old Berwick Historical Society is now accepting applicants for its hands-on summer archaeology opportunity for college and upper level high school students, teachers in need of recertification credits, and history buffs interested in exploring an area with a rich colonial history. (Continued below)