The next series of speakers in Pembroke has been announced by the Pembroke Historical Society, the Pembroke Town Library and the Friends of the Pembroke Town Library. The program is arranged in conjunction with New Hampshire Humanities, a Concord-based organization that connects people across the state to culture, history, ideas and each other through free public events, literacy programs and grantmaking.
This series of presentations starts on Monday evening, November 24, with a presentation on “Jennie Powers: The Woman who Dares” about a Humane Society agent in Keene in the early twentieth century. Jenna Carroll of the Historical Society of Cheshire County has researched this subject and brings to life this influential woman and her activism in protecting animals and women and children.
On Monday, December 22, Art Historian and Professor Jane Oneail will explore
how a popular American painter came to portray America’s diversity in his work in
“Norman Rockwell: Inclusion, Exclusion and Representing America.”
Award-winning Milford teacher David Alcox will start the new year off on
Thursday, January 15, speaking on “Unpacking the Declaration of Independence,
What it Meant, Then and Now.” An important topic for these times.
All events are free and open to the public, and will be held at the Pembroke
Town Library, 313 Pembroke Street; all events will start promptly at 7 p.m. For more
information, contact the Pembroke Town Library at 603-485-7851.
