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Friday, May 1
Wright Museum Opens for
Season
May through October
Monday - Saturday, 10a.m.-4p.m. Sunday,
Noon-4p.m.
Tuesday Night at the Wright
Summer Lecture
Series
Tuesday, June 30,
7p.m.
One Man and His Jeep
John Harrigan, Newspaper
Columnist
Admission Is $5 and Free for Museum
Members
Call
603/569-1212 to R.S.V.P.
 Each week, thousands of Granite Staters read John
Harrigan's columns illustrating life in New Hampshire's
North Country.
His vivid descriptions of
rural life and the landscape surrounding his Colebrook home
bring into focus for readers across the state and beyond the
experience of one man's life north of the notches.
One of Harrigan's prized
possessions is his 1947 jeep, "made the same year I was," as
he likes to quip. Like Wright Museum  founder David Wright, Harrigan revived his
vintage vehicle, saving it from the scrap heap of
history.
Harrigan's jeep will be on
display the evening of his talk for one night only before
making its journey back to the North Country.
Lecture & Book Signing
Tuesday, July 7,
7p.m.
To the
Survivors
The 8th
Air Corps' Bombing of
Germany in
WWII
Henry S. Maxfield, Author
of To the Survivors
 Henry S. Maxfield served as a navigator on a
B-24 Liberator bomber in the 8th Air Force in WWII. He and
his crew were shot down by flak over Gelsenkirchen in
November, 1944. Six of the crew of ten were killed. He and
the three other survivors were made Prisoners of
War.
 Now retired, Maxfield is the author of several
books. His most recent, a historical novel titled To the
Survivors, is based largely on his own experiences as
an aviator and a POW.
 Save the Date!
Sun., July
12,11am-3pm
Family Day at the Wright
Museum
Everyone's favorite! Don't
miss out on a full day of WWII vehicle rides, activities,
re-enactors, and BBQ'd burgers and dogs.
 Family Day at the Wright
Museum, now in its 11th year, has become a cherished
Wolfeboro tradition.
Admission is $10/$7 for
Wright Museum
members.
Tuesday Evening
Lecture
Tuesday, July 14,
7p.m.
The Nazis and
the Holocaust,
1933-44
Tom White, Keene State College's
Cohen Center for Holocaust
Studies
 Focusing on one of the most horrific chapters in
human history, this presentation will broadly trace the
assumption of power by the Nazis, their
ideology, the rise of the police state, and the
evolution of Nazi policy towards the "Jewish Question."
By tracing the evolution of Nazi
Germany into a genocidal state and the
development of the death camps, this lecture will illustrate
how Germany's policy developed from forced emigration in the
1930s to the "Final Solution" by
1941.
Tuesday
Evening Lecture
Tuesday, July 28,
7p.m.
Junk Ain't
Junk No More
The National Scrap Drive of
1942
James Kimble, Seton Hall
University
 The U.S. and Allied war effort required
unprecedented amounts of steel, aluminium, and copper to
churn out the tanks, bombers, and ammunition needed to
overcome the Axis threat.
Recent
historical studies indicate that the scrap drives were
important morale boosters as well. The public did get caught
up in the patriotic enthusiasm, saving tin foil from gum
wrappers, donating tons of pots and pans, and scouring
midden sites for disused metals.
Lecture and
Booksigning
Tuesday, August
4, 7p.m.
We Went to
War
New
Hampshire Remembers
WWII
Mike
Pride, Co-editor, We Went to
War
 More than six decades following the end of WWII,
thirty-eight Granite Staters recall their personal stories
from the largest military undertaking in human history.
Originally published as a regular feature in the Concord
Monitor, these firsthand accounts have been compiled in a
volume that illustrates the compelling personal dimension of
America's role in the Second World War. Ken Burns has
praised We Went to War saying, "What a wonderful,
moving collection of memories and stories - the basic DNA of
the greatest cataclysm in history. This is the war
undistracted, unmediated by the sentimental. This is the
real stuff."
Lecture and
Display
Tuesday, August 11,
7p.m.
A History of the
Motorcycle,
1900-1950
Mike Hashem, Private
Collector
 From the creation of the Indian Motocycle
Manufacturing Company in 1904 through two world wars, this
program will trace the evolution of a mode of travel that is
emblematic of the American spirit. There will be a display
of vintage motorcycle memorabilia
from the speaker's private collection, as well as an
on-loan Indian motorcycle. This is a night no bike
enthusiast should
miss!
Live Drama at the Wright
Museum!
Thursday, August 13 at
7p.m.
Hi, I'm Ernie Pyle
A One Man Theatrical Performance
Presented at the Wright Museum by the
Morrison Theater Group of
Grand Rapids,
MI
Tickets are $20, $10 for Wright Museum Members
Call 603/569-1212 to Order of for More
Information
 Hi,
I'm Ernie Pyle is
a tribute to the men and women who fought and died
during World War II as told through the dispatches of
Pulitzer Prize winning war correspondent Ernie Pyle.
As a correspondent, Pyle
covered the war from the
soldier's view point, up close and personal, starting with
the London blitz through the invasions of North Africa,
Sicily, Italy, D-Day, the liberation of Paris and in the
South Pacific.
 Hi,
I’m Ernie Pyle is a sometimes touching, sometimes
humorous look at the war through the eyes of Ernie
Pyle as he and thousands of Americans boys lived it.
In his dispatches Ernie Pyle gave his readers a first-hand
view of what life was like on the front.
The play captures the period in
Ernie’s life when his articles were the most widely
anticipated of any war correspondent. Ernie Pyle was
the first journalist to write a daily aviation column, and
for five years he traveled the United States writing a
column about anything that interested him. What the American
public soon found was that what interested Ernie Pyle also
interested them.
 Ernie
Pyle died April 18, 1945, killed by a Japanese sniper, on Ie
Shima, an island just off the coast of Okinawa. At the site
of where he was killed his "boys" in the 77th Infantry
erected a sign that read: "At this spot the 77th Infantry
Division lost a buddy. Ernie Pyle. 18 April
1945."
About the
Performer
Gary Morrison was born April 18,
1945, the day Ernie Pyle was killed by a Japanese sniper's
bullet on Ie Shima, a small island off the coast of Okinawa.
Morrison has performed Hi,
I'm Ernie Pyle for dozens of service organizations,
educational facilities and libraries throughout the Midwest
and the East, including the National D-Day Memorial in
Bedford, Va.
Lecture and
Booksigning
Tuesday, August
18, 7p.m.
No Greater Sacrifice,
No
Greater Love
Walter
Carter, Author,
No
Greater Sacrifice, No Greater
Love
 This is a powerful story of heroism,
loss, and love in World War II, as seen through the intimate
lens of one family's experience, one's family war. Growing
up, Walter Carter know only a few basic acts about his
father: He was a family doctor who volunteered for Army,
landed on Omaha Beach in Normandy on D-Day, and was killed
by sniper fire 11 days later while trying to rescue a
wounded soldier.
Lecture and
Booksigning
Tuesday, August
25, 7p.m.
V-Mail
Letters to
Luette
Hal
Close, Editor, V-Mail: Letters to
Luette
 In 1945, Joe Close, a 37-year-old father of two and
PR man, found himself on his way to Europe on a commission
by the US Embassy to write radio reports for the Office of
War Information. But they weren’t the only things he was
writing from the war-front. When Close wasn’t celebrating
his country, he was writing letters to his wife back
home.Joe aches to see his wife and clearly misses his young
kids—but against a backdrop of a ragged new post-war Europe
we see a London awakening after its bombing siege and the
opening up of Germany’s concentration camps. History is
rapidly unfolding and Close is there to witness it
all.
Tuesday, September 1,
7p.m.
Under a Hail of Bombs Recollections of a German
Boyhood under the Third
Reich
W. Richard Doerre, WWII
Survivor
 Richard Doerre was a young boy when WWII began. His
recollections of the conflict are replete with memories of
Allied bombing raids, Nazi propaganda, and the privations
resulting from the German war effort. Join us for this
fascinating glimpse into the war experience
from a different perspective.
Tuesday, September 8,
7p.m.
Coke Goes to
War
A Nostalgic Look at the Ads
of WWII
Mark Foynes, Wright Museum
Director
By 1941, Coke was bottled in 44 countries. With the
entry of the U.S. into the war, Coke built an additional 64 plants to
ensure that American servicemen could have a little taste of
home.
This illustrated slide show will explore how Coke’s
advertising helped position the company as one of the
preeminent backers of the war effort.
Check Back Soon for Updates on the Wright
Museum's 2009 Programming!
You Can also E-mail Us Your Suggestions by Contacting the
Wright Museum at mark.foynes@wrightmuseum.org
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The
Wright Museum, P.O. Box 1212, 77
Center Street, Wolfeboro, NH 03894
Phone: 603/569-1212 • Email: mark.foynes@wrightmuseum.org
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All rights reserved. Updated April 7, 2009
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