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The Best Years of Our Lives

Film starring Myrna Loy, Dana Andrews and Fredric March This program is free thanks to Edward Jones, Kevin Lawlor, Financial AdvisorThe story concentrates on the social re-adjustment of three World War II servicemen, each from a different station of society. The crisis each veteran faced upon arriving home is a microcosm of the experiences many […]

American St. Nick – Film Screening

The previously scheduled October 12 Education Program at the Wright Museum of WWII has been cancelled. However, the documentary film “The American St, Nick” will be screened on October 12 from 7-8:00pm. The film “The American St. Nick” is based on the book by the same name by author Peter Lion. Lion will be present […]

Director’s Tour

Director’s TourA tour of the Museum and special exhibits.

Service Credit Union Free Admission to Credit Union Members Day

Presented by Service Credit Union, admission is free to members of any credit union in New Hampshire in celebration of International Credit Union Day. Credit union members may bring one additional guest at no charge on this day.

The Rifle

Lecture and book signing by the author Andrew Biggio The Rifle is an inspirational story and hero’s journey of a 28-year-old U.S. Marine, Andrew Biggio, who returned home from combat in Afghanistan and Iraq, full of questions about the price of war. He found answers from those who survived the costliest war of all -- […]

Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet

PROGRAM IS SOLD OUT A Discussion with the author Jamie Ford, moderated by Dr. Monica Chiu, Professor of English at the University of New Hampshire Jamie Ford's novel, The Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, explores the age-old conflicts between father and son, the beauty and sadness of what happened to Japanese Americans […]

Tears in the Darkness: The Story of the Bataan Death March and its Aftermath

An online presentation by the authors Elizabeth and Michael Norman - Honoring the 80th anniversary of the Bataan Death March The New York Times wrote: the authors of the “Tears in the Darkness” have given us an authoritative history of the Bataan Death March. Ten years in the making, it is based on hundreds of […]

Nazis of Copley Square

PLEASE NOTE DATE CHANGE FROM JUNE 7th TO JUNE 9th Lecture by author Professor Charles R. Gallagher, S.J. On January 13, 1940, FBI agents burst into the homes and offices of 17 members of the Christian Front, seizing guns, ammunition, and homemade bombs. J. Edgar Hoover’s charges were that the group planned to incite a […]

War Pigeons: Winged Couriers in the U.S. Military, 1878-1957

Lecture by the author Elizabeth G. Macalaster War Pigeons traces the remarkable service of homing pigeons in the U.S. Military, from its beginnings after the Civil War to the birds’ invaluable communications role in every branch of the U.S. military through two world wars and beyond.  For 75 years, through four wars on four continents, […]

Art & World War II: Hitler’s Cultural Ambitions and Nazi Theft

Lecture by art historian Jane Oneail From his failed attempts as a painter to his grand plans to loot European masterworks, art played a central role in Hitler’s personal life and political strategies. Learn more about Nazi exhibitions of so-called “degenerate art,” theft from European churches, museums and private collections as well as the challenge […]