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February 2008 Contest
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WIN! WIN! WIN! 
FEBRUARY 2008
from SeacoastNH.com

Answer a Seacoast history question
and you might win a prize from
(Be sure to read the rules first)

Rich With CHildren

Special Collection
GRAND PRIZE: RICH WITH CHILDREN
One signed limited edition copy

We’ve always wanted to say this – NOT AVAILABLE IN STORES! Now you can be the first and only one on your block to own a rare copy of this privately published book by SeacoastNH.com editor J. Dennis Robinson and Seacoast historian Lynne Vachon.

Four years in the making, RICH WITH CHILDREN is the true story of a Sicilian couple who arrived in New England at the dawn of the 20th century in a wave of millions of Italian immigrants. Gociacchino Sammataro and Anna Librizzi came to escape the poverty of their native land, and discovered the destitute conditions in America. Against all odds, they managed to move from the tenements of Lawrence, MA to their own home where they had 14 children. Based on in-depth research and recorded oral histories, RICH WITH CHILDREN details the life an immigrant family in a foreign nation and casts aside the ethnic stereotypes so frequently promoted by Hollywood films.

"RICH WITH CHILDREN: The Birth of an Italian Family in America" follows the daily life of the Sammataro family through its first century in America. It includes over 200 photographs plus a dramatic and highly-readable account of life below the poverty line -- including incidents in the famous 1912 labor strike that changed the textile industry in America.

This oversize hardcover is available exclusively through SeacaostNH.com only  on Amazon.com, but you can win this copy now. It is privately published in a limited edition by David and Marie Witham of Seacoast, New Hampshire..

FEBRUARY QUESTION

Over the next three years Portsmouth Historical Society plans to creating a Cultural Center for visitors and locals. Designed as the "gateway" to hundreds of arts and history venues in the Seacoast region, it will open in stages beginning in 2008. The old Portsmouth Pubic Library building will be recycled once again. Before it became the library, the main 1810 brick building was originally built to serve as what?  (Click for hint) 

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