African American Soldiers and Sailors of New Hampshire During the American Revolution with Author Glenn Knoblock Description: African American Soldiers and Sailors of New Hampshire During the American Revolution One of the most interesting aspects of the American Revolution is the role played by African Americans in the fight for independence. Both free African Americans […]

Enter to Learn Go Forth to Serve: The First Hundred Years of Keene State College - Movie and Talk with Larry Benaquist How does a teacher training school in rural New Hampshire transform itself into a leading public liberal-arts college? This documentary chronicles Keene State's rise from Keene Normal School, founded in 1909, to an […]

https://youtu.be/NPBp8GE1dWk The public is invited to the premiere of the documentary, Jennie B. Powers: The Woman Who Dares, on Sunday, March 13, 2022, at 4pm at the Colonial Theatre's Showroom. SALT Project president Elizabeth Myer Boulton and Historical Society director of education Jennifer Carroll will speak following the film. The story of Jennie B. Powers […]

Annual Meeting and presentation: Steam Train USA 04 06 2022 at 7:00 pm 246 Main Street, Keene, NH    Click here to register  HSCCNH.ORG | 603.352.1895 "60 years ago, in 1962, F. Nelson Blount's Monadnock, Steamtown & Northern Railroad thundered out of Keene on the Boston & Maine Railroad's Cheshire Branch, briefly returning the Elm […]

On May 6, at 5pm, the first season concludes with speaker Alan Rumrill. Alan’s talk is titled: “Mountain as Muse: The Artists who Painted Mt. Monadnock.”   For almost 200 years artists have focused on the landscape of the mountain as a subject for their canvases.  For these artists Monadnock has been a source of […]

New Hampshire Old Graveyard Association annual meeting, guest speaker Alan F. Rumrill, “This Silent Marble Weeps: The Cemeteries of Stoddard, NH” PowerPoint and Dow Hill Cemetery tour. Stoddard Town Hall, May 14, 2022, at 9 am to 2 pm. Public Welcome

More than forty artists are taking part in a juried art exhibition this summer at the Historical Society of Cheshire County in Keene. The title is “Nature and Humanity in the Monadnock Region,” and the exhibition is free and open to the public from June 3 (opening reception 4- 6 pm) through August 26, 2022. […]

Local artist Alicia Drakiotes will be offering gallery tours and Artist Mary Iselin will give a plein-air demonstration on the Historical Society’s lawn on the morning of June 4 from 9-12 pm.   Also, join over sixty New Hampshire artists as downtown Keene is turned into an outdoor gallery. 2022 Keene ArtWalk is from Friday, […]

Take a magical history tour around downtown Keene to marvel at the beauty of the Walldogs murals and learn more local history. Click here to get your tickets and more information: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/walldogs-mural-tour-tickets-300061069737