Letter To The Editor
Members of the Gilmanton Fire Department remove the beans
from
their hole ready to serve at the Gilmanton Old Home Day on
August 9.
To the editor:
The organizers of Gilmanton’s 116th Old Home Day on August 9th
extend special thanks to all of those who made the event a success.
We are grateful to all our volunteers who worked in the kitchen,
food booth, wait-staff, pie bakers, art show judges and
participants, ticket takers, car parkers, crafters, vendors, Cub
Scouts/Boy Scouts, American Legion flag ceremony, ambulance rescue,
antique car participants, raffle hawker, Lindsay and Her Puppet
Pals, and the Parker Hill Road Band.
Hearty thanks go also to everyone who attended to make our Old Home
Day a grand day!
Sarah Baldwin-Welcome for the Old Home Day Committee
Letter To The Editor:
Congratulations and many thanks to the Gilmanton Historical Society
for their wonderful program presented on Tuesday, August 26. The
topic was the story of Herman Webster Mudgett (alias H. H. Holmes)
who was raised in Gilmanton and earned notoriety as a convicted
serial killer in the 1890’s.
The research was well prepared and thorough and very interesting to
the audience. Mr. Mudgett is apparently still popular in our local
history as evidenced by the standing-room-only event. There were
several participants including an appearance by the villain himself.
Mudgett’s story is told in the book “Devil in the White City” by
Erik Larson which was a best-seller. That’s where to go for more
information if you are curious about him.
The program was very well done and deserves recognition. Thank you
Gilmanton Historical Society.
Joanne Gianni
Gilmanton Iron Works
The Gilmanton Youth Organization (GYO) is hosting its
second annual golf tournament on Sunday, October 5, 2014 at Loudon
Country Club. A shot-gun start will commence at 9:30 a.m. In
addition to 18 holes of golf played as a scramble 4-person team
format, golfers will enjoy coffee and muffins, lunch and a cart for
$85.00/person. Sponsorships are available and proceeds will be used
by GYO for uniforms, equipment, field maintenance and field
improvements. For more information or a registration form, please
contact Bob McKenna at 603-267-9813 or
[email protected].
Human Faces of the Textile Industry - Program at the
Gilmanton Historical Society September 23
Putting Human Faces on the Textile
Industry: The Workers of the Amoskeag Company is Robert Perreault’s
topic at the Gilmanton Historical Society on Tuesday, September
23rd, 7:30 pm.
Robert Perreault returns to the Gilmanton Historical Society on
Tuesday evening, September 23, for a talk on daily life for textile
workers at the Amoskeag Manufacturing Company. Mr. Perreault’s
presentation sheds light on how people from many rural locations
made the transition from an agrarian to an industrial society and
how that change affected families, cultures, the nature of work and
relationships among workers themselves. The program, at the Old
Town Hall on Route 140 in Gilmanton Iron Works, is sponsored by the
New Hampshire Humanities Council.
Robert Perreault has undertaken specialized study in New England
Franco-American culture. He conducts historical tours of Manchester
and has published works of fiction and non-fiction in English and
French.
This is the final program in the Society’s 2014 summer season.
Refreshments and social hour begin at 7 pm; the program begins
promptly at 7:30. The Society’s Museum, in the basement of Old Town
Hall, is open at 7 pm. The program is free and open to the public;
donations to support the work of the Society are gratefully
received.
The Gilmanton Historical Society offers a number of publications on
the history of the Town. They are available at all Society
programs, at the Town Clerk’s Office, and at the Brick House in
Gilmanton Corners. The Society’s Museum, at Old Town
Hall is open Saturdays from 10 am until noon, and at 7 pm before
each of the summer programs.
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