Life and Death in the Piscataqua
Portsmouth Historic House Associates Annual Symposium
Saturday February 12, 2011
10am to 3pm
St. John’s Masonic Hall
351 Middle Street
Portsmouth, NH
Schedule
9:30-10:00 Refreshments
10:00 Welcome
10:10-10:55 Tom Hardiman, Keeper, Portsmouth Athenaeum, “The Paintings of Joseph Greenleaf Cole”
11:00-11:45 Kimberly Alexander, Sr. Curator, Strawbery Banke Museum: “General Fitz John Porter: Monument to Memory at Haven Park”
11:45-12 Kelvin Edwards, African Burying Ground Committee: Update on Portsmouth’s African Burying Ground Memorial Park Project
LUNCH
1:15-1:30 Molly Bolster, Executive Director, The Gundalow Company:
Update on building the new Gundalow
1:30-2:05 Sandra Rux, Curator, John Paul Jones House Museum: “New Discoveries in Piscataqua Region Samplers”
2:10-3:00 Craig Tuminaro, Regional Site Manager, New Hampshire and Maine Properties, Historic New England: “The Historian and the Reality Show: Participating in “Colonial House”
Cost includes morning refreshments and lunch. $10 for pre-registrants; $15 at the door.
For more information or to register, please call 603-430-7968.
I had a previous commitment. If you think of it, please post these kinds of “feasts” as early as possible so I can shuffle things around, I would have loved to have gone.
ReplyDeleteI ate at Mombo for the first time last Wednesday. Interesting combination, named after a camping place in Botswana Africa, in the old Dunaway Store at Strawberry Banke complete with exposed beams, and working fireplaces, decorated with the proprietors collection of Russian expressionism, serving New American cuisine. I mention this on this blog because it is an interesting study in material culture today…also Wednesday nights is ladies night, half price on drinks until 7:00 and they have a pretty good wine list. Good place for class make up?
I am enjoying the reading for class. Plate 5 from Jaffee’s book portrays a couple in their living room with their bounty of “refined living” spread about them. What is lacking in pictorial quality is made up in the sheer number and type of items, as well as the activities they are engaged in. Perhaps they were the “Jones” everyone must keep up with. There are 9 chairs, a decorated mirror, miniature portraits, decorative boxes, fresh flowers, dining table, chest of drawers, a silver serving tray, a carpet. They have no time to enjoy these spoils, Lord Charles is playing the fiddle and reading music, while Lady Sarah is sewing and reading books, and (there are six books/music sheets on the table). If I were their neighbor, MY painting would include a dog, a cat, a child, and at least a shelf clock. I would be sewing, reading and caring for my child, and my husband would be playing the fiddle, reading music and studying the world on a globe, …. as well and petting the dog with his foot.
Gillian Cusack
Hi Gillian- Thank you for your comments-- will respond tomorrow or Monday. Now that I know you are interested, will try to give advance notice of local lectures/films/exhibits. Event was successful with 100 or so in attendance and the talk on Porter went well-- you will hear it later in the semester. Mombo is a great addition to the Strawbery Banke Community and I appreciate your observations--perhaps will dine there after our class on 4/23 or for lunch--good idea!
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