Upcoming Events

March 20, 2008 6:30-8:30 p.m.
Guest Lecturer: “Artists in Two Centuries: New Hampshire in a New Light”
Deborah Child on John S. Blunt, 19th-century seacoast artist.
Gary Samson on Lotte Jacobi, 20th-century photographer.
Part of the New Hampshire Historical Society, Concord, NH. Part of History Course “Men and Women Who Made New Hampshire” (March-April 2008)

Past events

January 16, 2008 5:30 p.m.
Guest Speaker: Great Aunt Florence’s Trunk: Discovering the Artistic Legacy of John Samuel Blunt. Warner House ANNUAL MEETING. Stoodley’s Tavern, Strawbery Banke Museum.

	“Coming of Age on the Piscataqua: John Samuel Blunt’s Views from Nature” Portsmouth Historical Society, Portsmouth, NH. June 1-October 31, 2007. This exhibit of landscape and marine paintings of the Piscataqua region by Portsmouth-born John Samuel Blunt (1798-1835) was the first show of his work in this city since 1830. It featured enlarged pages from his 1821 sketchbook alongside views of the city, the Navy Yard, and the Piscataqua shoreline.
September 12, 2007 Guest Speaker: Great Aunt Florence’s Trunk: Discovering the Artistic Legacy of John Samuel Blunt. Colonial Dames Annual Meeting, Moffat-Ladd House, Portsmouth, NH