Saving the Mountains: NH & the Creation of the National Forests
July 21, 2016
New Hampshire’s White Mountains played a leading role in events leading to the Weeks Act – the law that created the eastern national forests. Focusing on Concord’s Joseph B. Walker and the Forest Society’s Philip Ayres, Marcia Schmidt Blaine explores the relationship between our mountains and the economic, environmental and aesthetic questions posed by the individuals involved in the creation of the National Forest.
The presentation is scheduled for Monday, Aug. 15 at 2 p.m. in Taylor Community’s Woodside Building. This program is free and open to the public and made possible through a grant from the New Hampshire Humanities Council. Please call 366-1400 to reserve seating.
Ms. Schmidt Blaine is a historian of New Hampshire and New England history and Chair of the Department of History, Philosophy and Social Studies at Plymouth State University. While her academic work focuses on the development of American identity, eighteenth-century New Hampshire women and Anglo captives of the Abenaki, she also explores various aspects of White Mountains history through her work with the Museum of the White Mountains in Plymouth.
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