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Schooner FAME Celebrates 1812 Bicentennial Print Email

Schooner_FameWAR OF 1812

FAME is a full-scale replica of a privateer schooner that sailed from Salem during the War of 1812. The original FAME was one of the first American privateers to get to sea and the first to send in a captured vessel. She took some 21 prizes before being wrecked in the Bay of Fundy in 1814. (See event listings below)

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Connor Garvey at Old Berwick Anniversary Print Email

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Folk-rock singer-songwriter Connor Garvey will perform at the society’s Counting House Museum on Thursday evening, May 24.  Doors open at 7:00 pm. The concert is open to members of the public who join the Old Berwick Historical Society, which owns the museum.  Annual membership is $20 per person, or $30 for a family. Member support provides the basis for the museum and for community local history programming throughout the year.  (Continued below)

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Portsmouth TV Open House Print Email

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The board of PPMtv proudly announce that veteran filmmaker, actor, producer, and broadcaster Bill Humphreys has been named to the new position of Executive Director at the community access cable channel in Portsmouth, known as PPMtv. In addition, the organization invites the media to PPMtv's Founders Club 2012 Gala on Thursday, May 17 from 5-8PM. (Continued below)

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Guide to Portsmouth Chippendales Print Email

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On June 19 Thomas M. Hardiman, Keeper of the Portsmouth Athenaeum, will give a  lecture titled “A Field Guide to Portsmouth Chippendale Chair Patterns” for the Piscataqua Decorative Arts Society at the Tyco Center in Strawbery Banke Museum. The lecture starts at 5:30 sharp, preceded by refreshments at 5. The cost to the general public is $10.00, while members are free. (Continued below)

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Black Diamonds to Buzz Portsmouth Print Email

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The Service Credit Union Boston-Portsmouth Air Show announced today that the Black Diamond jet demonstration team has been formally added to its 2012 lineup. This year’s show will take to the skies at the Portsmouth International Airport at Pease on June 30 and July 1 and will feature the United States Navy Blue Angels.  (Continued below)

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Rare Smuttynose Island Artifacts Exhibit Opens at Discover Portsmouth Print Email

Under_the_Shoals_logoRUNS THRU AUGUST 31, 2012

The long-buried secrets of Smuttynose Island are revealed this summer in a surprising new exhibit at Discover Portsmouth, the city’s new downtown visitor center. “Under the Isles of Shoals” features artifacts unearthed in recent years by archaeology professor Nathan Hamilton and his students. Hamilton created the exhibit with historian J. Dennis Robinson who has written a companion book about the historic “dig” that continues this summer at the Isles of Shoals. (Continued below)

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Portsmouth Day for Children is May 6 Print Email

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Mia Labrie is the winner of this year’s logo contest for Portsmouth Children’s Day. Mia, age 9, is a student at Rye Elementary School. Her logo artwork will be featured on the Volunteer T-shirts, the Children’s Day map and poster and the Pro Portsmouth Web site. Read more about the annual kid’s event below.

 

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Civil War Monuments of Maine on Thursday Print Email

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From Kittery to Ashland and from Bethel to Eastport, Maine has 175 Civil War monuments commemorating the sacrifices of the state's men and women to preserve the Union between 1861 and 1865.  Earle G. Shettleworth, Jr., Maine State historian will present ‘Silent Sentinels,’ the story of these tangible expressions of patriotism during the four-year conflict that divided the nation. (Continued below)

 

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Find Treasure in Your Attic May 20 Print Email

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In 1985, the 25th copy of a Dunlap Broadside of the Declaration of Independence was found in the attic of the Ladd-Gilman House, spurring the creation of the museum.  Are treasures sitting in your attic?  Find out on May 20th in Exeter, NH.  This is one antiques appraisal you can’t afford to miss. (Continued below)

 

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Strange Drama in Black and White Print Email

Jennifer_Day__DetailTHRU MAY 2012

On May 1, 2012 Jennifer Day will offer her exhibit “Black and White: Strange Drama” at the First Religious Society, 26 Pleasant Street, Newburyport.  This exhibit will continue through the month of May.  Office hours are weekdays from 8am to 1pm and Sunday mornings. Jennifer achieves a wide range of grays by rubbing oil paint away with paper towels, brushes and fingers, to expose light and white gessoed surface beneath. (Continued below)

 

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