Lectures

Christin Kaiser will explain how to grow Japanese vegetables, share recipes, and will “raffle” veggie starts to some lucky audience members.

Christin is the Wright Museum’s volunteer gardener who designed, built, and maintains our Victory Garden, which is located on the Museum campus.

Virtual Lecture by author Joanne D. Gilbert   Joanne D. Gilbert, grew up in a predominantly Jewish suburb of Detroit, where many Holocaust Survivors lived. Joanne’s earliest influence was her […]

A film directed and written by Tim Gray and narrated by Tom Selleck *90-minute showingThis 2016 documentary is shown in honor of the 80th anniversary of the December 7, 1941 […]

Presented by Jane OneailThis program is free – courtesy of the NH Humanities Council Norman Rockwell created dozens of images related to World War II. What happens when an artist […]

Lecture by Richard A. Lobban, Jr., Ph.D.Richard Lobban sets the stage of World War II Africa by discussing the political and military situation on the continent before the war, Africa’s […]

Lecture by Dr. C. Paul VincentThe Soviet liberation of Auschwitz on 27 January 1945 symbolizes the end of the Holocaust. Dachau was liberated by American soldiers three months later, one […]

Lecture by Linda MatchettSpies have always fascinated us, and the iconic image of a glamourous woman using her wiles to extract secrets from enemies is particularly compelling. However, the reality […]

Lecture and book signing by author Judith SumnerAs the first botanical history of World War II, Plants Go to War examines military history from the perspective of plant science. From […]

90-minute DocumentaryThis 2011 documentary film is shown in honor of the 80th anniversary of the formation of the first African-American Army Air Corps Squadron in January 1941. In Their Own […]

Lecture and book signing by author Dr. Julien AyotteCode Name Lily is an historical fiction novel based on the true story of Micheline “Michou” Dumon-Ugeux (code name Lily), who was […]

Lecture by Dr. Giovanni FrisoneIn September 1943, when an armistice was signed with the Allies, Italian soldiers thought the war had ended for them. Instead, they were arrested by the […]

Lecture and book signing by Jane HealeyIn The Beantown Girls, author Jane Healey places us to the final harrowing months of World War II in Europe, and brings it painfully, […]