February 21, 2025 – May 9, 2025
2025 marks the 60th anniversary of Antioch University’s New England campus. Over that time, countless contributions of Antioch students, faculty, staff, and alumni have won important victories for the Monadnock Region. The Historical Society of Cheshire County’s exhibit highlighted the profound ways in which the University has left its mark.
These include:
- Working through Antioch New England Institute, a team of students and staff collaborated with the City of Keene and Pathways for Keene to research and complete the first phase of the Cheshire Rail Trail in 1994.
- One of the most successful companies in the region, Badger Balm, was co-founded in 1995 by MA Education graduate Katie Schwerin (’93).
- For their 2007 masters project, Environmental Studies Masters students Bonnie Hudspeth and Katie Stoner developed the business plan for the Monadnock Food Co-op.
- Georgia Cassimatis focused her 2014 Internship on founding Friends of Public Art, and later joined the Walldogs in Keene executive committee (which also included ES PhD alumnus Rowland Russell) to put on the 2019 Magical History Tour Mural Festival.
“Antioch University in the Monadnock Region: Celebrating 60 Years of Service,” opened Friday, February 21st at the Historical Society of Cheshire County’s Putnam Exhibit Hall. This exhibit celebrated those accomplishments, highlighting the role Antiochians have played in founding and leading organizations, teaching our children, protecting our wildlife and ecosystems, facilitating change, and lifting the arts.
Guest curator Rowland Russell, an AUNE alumnus and Historical Society board member, was excited to share these stories. “Ingenuity and compassion are at the heart of what Antioch folks have always contributed here, which can’t help but make this a better place.”
