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Lecture
Tuesday, July 15, 7p.m.
The Marine's
Carlson's Raiders and the War in the Pacific
Harold "Bub" Sheffield, WWII
Veteran, USMC
Non-member Admission
$5; Museum Members, Free
Call 603/569-1212 to R.S.V.P. Space Is
Limited
The
Marine Raiders were elite units established by the United
States Marine Corps during World War II to conduct
amphibious light infantry warfare, particularly in landing
in rubber boats and operating behind the lines. The
"Edson's" Raiders of 1st Marine Raiders Battalion and
Carlson's Raiders of 2nd Marine Raiders Battalion are
acclaimed to be the first United States Special Operations
Forces to form and see combat in
WWII.
Harold Sheffield served with Carlson's
Raiders from 1943 to 1945 and saw action on Bougainville,
Guadalcanal and other islands in the
Pacific.
The Wright
Museum thanks GI Plastek for its generous
sponsorhip of this
event.
Lecture
Tuesday, July 22, 7p.m.
Curious
George and the Flight from Nazi Germany
Nat Scrimshaw, Curious George Cottage
Director
Non-member Admission $5;
Museum Members, Free
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Limited
Curious George co-creators Hans
and Margaret Rey fled Germany during
Hitler’s rise to power. The Jewish couple fled to
France, and eventually
America —bringing
with them the original Curious George manuscript, which was
published in 1941. The Reys would eventually settle in
Waterville Valley,
N.H., where they continued
to churn out children’s classics. Nat Scrimshaw was a family
friend whose boyhood memories are filled with vivid
recollections of visits to the Reys’ home.
The Wright
Museum thanks the Penny Candy
Shop , located in Wolfeboro's Durgin Stables,
for its generous sponsorhip of this lecture.
Lecture
Tuesday, July 29, 7p.m .
“By His
Deeds, Measure Yours:” Making the Case for Sacrifice on the
American Home Front
James J. Kimble, Seton Hall
University
Non-member Admission $5; Museum
Members , Free
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Limited
During WWII, the Office of Civilian Defense
mounted an ambitious home front campaign intended to get
Americans to make sacrifices in support of the war
effort. One of the
more graphic elements of the campaign depicted dead or dying
soldiers, intended as a way for those back home to keep the
privations they were asked to endure in the larger context
of the sacrifices that Americans were making on the
frontlines.
The Wright
Museum thanks Wolfeboro's Backbone
Communications for its generous sponsorhip of
this
event.
Lecture
Tuesday,
August 5, 7p.m.
A Tale of Two
Wars: Parallels between the Civil War & WWII
Mike Pride, Co-Author of My Brave Boys: To War
with Colonel Cross and the Fighting
Fifth and Too Dead to
Die: A Memoir of Bataan and Beyond
Non-member Admission $5; Museum
Members, Free
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Limited
Separated by eighty years and thousands
of miles, the American experiences of the Civil War and WWII
were undoubtedly historically distinct. There are,
however some striking
similarities.
The Wright
Museum thanks Flags Over Winnipesaukee for its generous
sponsorhip of this lecture.
2008
Featured Event!
An Evening with Ken Burns
Thursday, August 7, 7p.m.
Members Only Reception, 5:30p.m.
Non-Member
Admission - $35
Wright Museum
Members - $20
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Purchasing
Tickets
New Hampshire-based filmmaker Ken
Burns has made some of America's best-loved and most-watched
historical documentaries, which have educated and delighted
millions of viewers for over 30 years.
The Wright Museum
of WWII History is delighted to host this special evening
with a filmmaker that many call "America's Storyteller."
Burns will discuss the inspiration of his most recent
documentary, The War, and
describe the massive undertaking entailed in guiding this
important project from idea to reality. Following a brief
formal talk, Burns will open the floor to audience
questions.
The War
is a seven-part film that tells the
story of the Second World War through the personal accounts
of 40 men and women from four quintessentially American
towns. The series explores the most intimate human
dimensions of the greatest cataclysm in history - a
worldwide catastrophe that touched the lives of every family
on every street in every town in America.
Six years in the making,
this epic 14-hour film, reminiscent in scope and power of
Burns’s landmark series The
Civil War, focuses on the stories of citizens from four
geographically distributed American towns — Waterbury,
Conn.; Mobile, Ala.; Sacramento, Calif.; and the tiny
farming town of Luverne, Minnesota. These four communities
stand in for — and could represent — any town in
theUnited States
that went through the war’s four devastating years.
Individuals from each community take the viewer through
their own personal and quite often harrowing journeys into
war, painting vivid portraits of how the war dramatically
altered their lives and those of their neighbors, as well as
the country they helped to save for generations to come.
“The Second World War was so massive,
catastrophic and complex, it is almost beyond the mind’s and
the heart’s capacity to process everything that happened
and, more important, what it meant on a human level,” said
Burns.
By focusing on the personal stories of
ordinary Americans who had extraordinary experiences, the
film tries to bring one of the biggest events in the history
of the world down to a very intimate scale. And in the end,
we all begin to see that there are no “ordinary
lives.”
Robert Bianco of USA
Today said, “There are works of TV art so extraordinary
all you can do is be grateful.
With The War, gratitude abounds.”
Keith Olbermann of NBC/MSNBC
said,“This is the finest
documentary series of the last decade… if not more.”
The War
is a production of N.H.-based Florentine Films and
originally aired on PBS stations nation wide in
September 2007. The War was
directed and produced by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick.
Lecture
Tuesday, August 12, 7p.m.
They Sawed
up a Storm: Concord's Women Sawmillers
Sarah S. Smith, UNH Cooperative
Extension
Non-member Admission $5;
Museum Members, Free
Call
603/569-1212 to R.S.V.P. Space Is Limited
In 1942, a group of New Hampshire
women operated a sawmill on the shores of Turkey Pond,
Concord.
The sawmill, one of two on the pond, was built to saw
up what remained of the logs stored in the water from the
1938 hurricane. Join us for this slide talk that
illustrates the work of this group of women, the 1938
hurricane, and the determination of the people of New England.
The Wright
Museum thanks the Lincoln Financial Group for its generous
sponsorhip of this lecture.
Lecture
Tuesday,
August 19, 7p.m.
“Love as
Ever:” The Wartime Correspondence of New
Hampshire’s Rene
Gagnon
Rene
Gagnon Jr. and Joshua Gagnon
Non-member Admission $5; Museum Members, Free
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Limited
A recently-discovered
cache of letters between Manchester’s Rene Gagnon—one of the
six Americans who raised the flag on Iwo Jima—and his
sweetheart, Pauline Harnois, offer a glimpse into how their
relationship evolved and deepened during the war. Gagnon’s
son will share his personal recollections of his father,
while Joshua will discuss a theatrical adaptation he is
basing on his grandparents’
correspondence.
The Wright
Museum thanks the Marine for Life program for its generous
sponsorhip of this lecture.
Lecture
Tuesday,
August 26, 7p.m.
Two
Personal Accounts of the Invasion of Europe
Robert Foster and Morley Piper
Non-member Admission $5; Museum Members, Free
Call 603/569-1212 to R.S.V.P. Space Is
Limited
The Allied Invasion of the European
Continent was one of the most massive military undertakings
in human history. Join us for a pair of first hand accounts
of this epic chapter in world history - one from a D-Day
participant, and another from the subsequent waves of
armored divisions that followed shortly
thereafter.
The Wright
Museum thanks the Wolfeboro office of Genworth Financial for
its generous sponsorhip of this lecture.
