Piscataqua Life and Death Returns
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Portsmouth Historic House Associates, Inc. will be holding its sixth annual symposium on “Life and Death in the Piscataqua” on Saturday February 12, 2011, from 10 am to 3:00 pm at the Masonic Temple at 351 Middle Street in Portsmouth.  Experts will focus on portrait painting, a disgraced Civil War soldier, samplers, and a PBS reality history series. (Continued below) 

 

Speakers include Tom Hardiman of the Portsmouth Athenaeum, Kimberly Alexander of the Strawbery Banke Museum, Sandra Rux of the Portsmouth Historical Society, Craig Tuminaro of Historic New England, and others.   

The cost of the Symposium is $10 prior to the event and $15 the day of the event with lunch included.  To register please call 603-430-7968.   

The symposium features recent research by prominent local scholars: Tom Hardiman will speak on the work of local 19th century portrait painter Joseph Greenleaf Cole. 

Sandra Rux will share new discoveries in Piscataqua Region Samplers, and Kimberly Alexander will speak on Portsmouth’s Civil War Hero, Fitz-John Porter, the subject of an upcoming exhibition at the Strawbery Banke Museum.  

Craig Tuminaro will share tales of his experiences as one of the participants in the PBS reality series “Colonial House.”  Craig has just been appointed as the new District Site Manager Historic New England’s New Hampshire and southern Maine properties.  

The symposium will also feature updates on the African American Burial Ground project by Valerie Cunningham, and on the project to build a second gundalow by Molly Bolster. 

Portsmouth Historic Houses Associates, Inc. (PHHA) founded in 1946, is a consortium of local historic house museums that includes Historic New England (Jackson House, Gov. John Langdon House and the Rundlet-May House), the Moffatt-Ladd House and Garden, the Portsmouth Historical Society at the John Paul Jones House, Strawbery Banke Museum, the Warner House Association, the Wentworth-Coolidge Mansion, and the Wentworth-Gardner and Tobias Lear Association.  PHHA is dedicated to fostering communication among Portsmouth's independent historic house museums to bring to a wider audience the history of Portsmouth, its architecture, its gardens, and its people.  Learn more about PHHA and its activities and other upcoming events at their Web site.

For more information or to register for the symposium, please call (603) 430-7968.