Lecture by Timothy K. Parker, Ph.D. and sculpture dedication with sculptor Robert Shure From the smallest village to the largest cities, memorials and monuments abound. Join the Wright Museum of WWII as we dedicate our new outdoor sculpture and hear Timothy Parker discuss the role of monuments and sculpture in our society. Following the lecture, […]
Lecture by Cape Cod Maritime Museum Executive Director Elizabeth York PT-109 was an 80' Elco PT boat (patrol torpedo boat) last commanded by Lieutenant (junior grade) John F. Kennedy, future United States president, in the Solomon Islands campaign of the Pacific Theater during World War II. Kennedy's actions in saving his surviving crew after PT-109 […]
Lecture by Matthew F. Delmont Over one million Black men and women served in World War II. Black troops were at Normandy, Iwo Jima, and the Battle of the Bulge, serving in segregated units and performing unheralded but vital support jobs, only to be denied housing and educational opportunities on their return home. Without their […]
Wolfeboro Festival of Trees Gala Visit Eventbrite to purchase tickets.
Are you visiting New Hampshire for the upcoming total solar eclipse on April 8th and looking for things to do over the weekend? To welcome visitors to the region, the Wright Museum will be open April 5-7! For a special pre-season rate of $10 ($8 for students), you can explore the Wright Museum's permanent exhibits […]
Are you visiting New Hampshire for the upcoming total solar eclipse on April 8th and looking for things to do over the weekend? To welcome visitors to the region, the Wright Museum will be open April 5-7! For a special pre-season rate of $10 ($8 for students), you can explore the Wright Museum's permanent exhibits […]
Are you visiting New Hampshire for the upcoming total solar eclipse on April 8th and looking for things to do over the weekend? To welcome visitors to the region, the Wright Museum will be open April 5-7! For a special pre-season rate of $10 ($8 for students), you can explore the Wright Museum's permanent exhibits […]
Learn the incredible story of how one small airport in New Hampshire, now known as Manchester Airport, played an important role in transporting members of the 8th Airforce as well as weather squadrons sent to Greenland and Labrador to help predict the weather across Europe, especially D-day. Leah is Associate Director Aviation Museum of New […]
12:00 Noon Join us for a showing of the movie The Longest Day. Viewing will be in the Education Center. 5:30 p.m. D-Day Presentation by Prospect Mountain High School students. A group of students from Mike Folans’s history class at Prospect Mountain High School will present their research on the lives of NH […]
The Wolfeboro Library’s Tuesday Book group led by Joyce Davis will discuss the book, The Longest Day.
Joe McQuaid—War Fronts Home Fires: A WWII Correspondents remarkable coverage, his wife’s indominable spirit. As a World War II newspaper correspondent, B.J. McQuaid covered American and British front lines from the frozen Aleutian Islands of Alaska to the steaming jungles and seas of the South Pacific, at Tarawa and Guadalcanal and then to Europe from […]
Ron Janowski – Breakout from Normandy After the Allied landings in Normandy, commanders began to formulate a plan to push out from the beachhead. Initial efforts were hampered by the need to take the city of Caen in the east and the dense hedgerow country in the west. Seeking to launch a major breakout, General […]
2024 Festival of Trees
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