Antiques Show
Peddlers Wagon and Sage Farm Antiques will be at the Brimfield Antiques Show on May 28th and 29th with two full barns of vintage and antique treasures. The show is at the Deerfield Fairgrounds get your tickets at www.brimfieldlive.com.
Category: Portsmouth
Seacoast Women’s network
The Seacoasts Women’s Network meets at the Sheraton Harborside- Portsmouth on May 24th from 6 to 8:30 pm. Learn more about this group at https://www.seacoastwomensnetwork.com/
Fort Constitution History Day
Fort Constitution History Day on June 25th at Fort Constitution in Newcastle. Come visit the fort. We might even fire a cannon or two this day. More details to come.
Cancer Survivors Day Celebration
Cancer Survivors Day Celebration, Sunday, June 12, 12:00 – 3:00 pm Stratham Hill Park, 270 Portsmouth Ave, Stratham. Join us to celebrate with an afternoon of outdoor fun with food trucks, live music and entertainment. Event is free and open to the public.
The Field of Honor, 550 flags
The Field of Honor, 550 flags putting heroism on display at Rochester Common will open on Saturday, May 28, 2022, at 9am thru Tuesday morning, May 31, 2022. Each night at 7pm a bugler will play taps to commemorate members of all branches of the armed forces. A Memorial Day Ceremony with guest speakers will take place on Monday, May 30th beginning at 11am. All net proceeds help to fund Vouchers for Veterans.
https://www.vouchersforveterans.org/about/
History Day
Fort Constitution History Day on June 25th at Fort Constitution in Newcastle. Come visit the fort. We might even fire a cannon or two this day. More details to come.
Paws Walk with the NHSPCA
Paws Walk with the NHSPCA on Sunday, June 5th at Stratham Hill Park. Come celebrate 150 years of the NHSPCA and the Paws Walk 30th year at the festival beginning at 10am. The Paws Walk at Noon. Find more info and register your team at https://nhspca.org/paws-walk/.
Spring Craft Fair
Somersworth Festival Association to Host Spring Craft Fair May 14th
We are pleased to announce that the Somersworth Festival Association is hosting its 29th Annual Spring Craft Fair from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on May 14th at Somersworth High School, 11 Memorial Drive, Somersworth, NH. The craft fair will feature lots of talented crafters offering wood crafts, garden decorations, bird houses, paintings, metal decor, mugs, tote bags, gnomes, wind chimes, kids’ items, jewelry, food, and pet items, as well as sewn, knitted, and crocheted items and more! There will also be some great raffles! It will be a good opportunity to get unique graduation, teacher, birthday, wedding, and Father’s Day presents or something nice for yourself. Vendors will be inside and outside. The cafeteria will be offering food for sale.
For vendor inquiries or any questions, please email us at sfachild.festival@gmail.com, call us at 603-692-5869, or visit our website at www.nhfestivals.org.
We hope you will join us on May 14 th!
Run for the Dogs 5K and 2 mile walk
Run for the Dogs 5K and 2 mile walk on May 29th beginning 8:30 am at the Deerfield Fairgrounds. Leashed dogs are welcome. Race to benefit Mary’s Dog Rescue in Northwood. Learn more at www.marysdogs.org.
Lecture about Piscataqua Textiles in the 1700’s
Lecture about Piscataqua Textiles in the 1700’s
South Berwick, Maine- Old Berwick Historical Society will present an online lecture by textile historian Sandra Rux titled “Bed, Furniture and Window Curtain Textiles in Piscataqua Inventories, 1700-1800” on Thursday, April 28 at 7:30pm in the Whipple Theater at Berwick Academy.
Inventories of wealthy citizens reveal many high-end fabrics used for bed coverings and curtains plus, as the 18th century progressed, an increasing number of window curtains. The inventory of Elizabeth Rindge Wentworth (d. 1794) is notable for its inclusion of a silk quilt paired with worsted damask bed and window curtains with window squabs. Middling and aspiring families such as Tobias Lear and Bartholomew Stavers owned bed and window curtains of furniture check. Rux will discuss the benefits and pitfalls of using inventories to help reconstruct the stories of the lives lived by early Piscataqua people.
Sandra Rux received a BA in History from the University of Connecticut and an MA in History from Trinity College, Hartford CT and is a graduate of the Museum Studies program of the Munson Institute, Mystic Seaport Museum. She came to Portsmouth in 2005 as the Synergy manager for the Portsmouth Historical Society, Warner House and Wentworth-Gardner and Lear Houses and then served as manager and curator for the Portsmouth Historical Society until December 2014. She served as Curator of the Warner House Association (2014-2019) and chairperson of the Portsmouth Athenaeum Exhibits Committee (2014-2021). A hand loom weaver herself, she has written about nineteenth-century carpet weaving for the Dublin Seminar and in Corsets, Clocks and Locks, a book about the industrial development of New Haven, CT.
Admission is free to members, donations gratefully accepted from non-members. The lecture is open to the public, no registration is required. The lecture will be recorded and posted to the society’s website. The Old Berwick Historical Society’s 2022 lectures are generously sponsored by Kennebunk Savings and supported by historical society members and donors.
The Counting House Museum is currently open by appointment only. The upcoming textile exhibit, “Material Culture: Domestic Cloth-Making in 18th-Century New England” opens on June 4th. More information is available by calling 207-384-0000 or visiting www.oldberwick.org.
