1974
1979
1981
1984
IT HAD TO BE
DONE SO I
DID IT
HUMANITIES IN
THE LEGISLATURE
PROJECT
NH Council
for the
Humanities
started on
Steve Taylor’s
sheep farm.
1983
First programming
partnership with
NHPR
1987
1989
The Ninth State:
NH and the
New Nation
Here Am I, Send Me
documentary about
NH’s Jonathan Daniels
1990
Ken Burns’ The Shakers:
Hands to Work, Hearts
to God premieres
Connections adult
literacy program debut
1991
1992
1993
2007
2009
1998
ANNUAL
DINNER WITH
DESMOND TUTU
Of Apples and
Origins: Stories
of Life on Earth
At What Cost? Shaping
the Land We Call
New Hampshire
Annual dinner
with Elie Wiesel
1996
Shakespeare in Global
Perspectives
CALLING
OURSELVES
HOME
2004
1994
2010
1999
The Many
Faces of
God project
First Chautauqua
living history festival
2011
SHIFTING GROUND:
Speakers Bureau becomes
Humanities to Go
2012
2013
Constitutionally Speaking
Justice Souter event
RELIGION AND CIVIC
First Celebration of
Literacy: Night of Stories
HYPE DAY
The Story of
a Pumpkin
2015
40 Over 40
LIFE IN AMERICA
Fences and
Neighbors: New
Hampshire’s
Immigration
Stories
2003
New Hampshire Humanities has been connecting people
to culture, history, places, ideas and one another, for
four decades.
We bring the thrill of discovery and the power of ideas to
people of all walks of life, from all corners of our state.
We support local cultural and educational institutions
during hard economic times by awarding grants for
innovative educational programs and capacity-building.
We invite citizens to reason together, to learn from and
listen to one another.
We offer teachers cost-effective, content-rich professional
development that strengthens the teaching of the humanities
in our schools, from civics to Native American history.
And we develop communities of readers, especially among
those struggling with literacy and those new citizens just
learning about their new culture and government.
Dear friends,
For 40 years, New Hampshire Humanities has brought the transformative
power of ideas to people of all walks of life, in all corners of our state.
The humanities provide a
framework for talking about
the complexities of our world,
our shared experiences, and
our diverse beliefs.
The humanities provide a framework for talking about the complexities
of our world, our shared experiences, and our diverse beliefs. These faceto-face opportunities to delve deep have never been more vital in the
age of the sound bite and the tweet. And we provide these opportunities
for civil conversations about challenging ideas in settings that are free
and open to all.
New Hampshire Humanities programs transform the individuals who
participate in them, the organizations that host them, the scholars who
present them, and by extension, the community that is New Hampshire.
At the close of our 40th anniversary year, New Hampshire Humanities
is embarking on its own transformation, celebrating the shared
accomplishments of the first 40 years while laying the groundwork for
the next with a refreshed brand and new digital tools. As you will see
in these pages, our mission remains the same — to stimulate minds,
strengthen community bonds, bolster struggling local organizations, and
contribute to the civic health of our state.
Through your participation, your guidance, and your support, we will
continue to connect people with ideas and with each other for the
next 40 years and beyond. Thank you!
Stephen B. Barba
Deborah Watrous
ChairExecutive Director
The most transformative part of
New Hampshire Humanities work can
be summed up in one word—access.
Ellen Scarponi’s humanities moment
“I am more aware.”
When Ellen Scarponi thinks about the
ways the humanities and the programs of
New Hampshire Humanities have impacted
her life, this awareness is key.
“New Hampshire Humanities programs
have made me so much more aware of the
ways people connect with one another
and communicate,” she says. “Of new ideas
and how to embrace them. Of how to
think critically and consider other people’s
points of view.”
Ellen is the Vice Chair of New Hampshire
Humanities Board of Directors and Director
of Government Affairs and Economic
Development at FairPoint Communications.
But just as important to her, she’s a
dedicated, long-time volunteer with the
Canterbury Historical Society, where
she has seen the impact of grants to
community organizations first-hand.
“I’ve attended New Hampshire Humanities
programs on topics I knew nothing about,”
Ellen says. “Topics I never imagined
knowing so much about — from global
issues to how to build a stone wall
and why that matters. New Hampshire
Humanities work gives all of us so many
opportunities to expand our minds and be
more aware of the world around us, and to
our connections to it.”
“The most transformative part of New
Hampshire Humanities work can be
summed up in one word,” Ellen says.
“Access. New Hampshire Humanities
enables access for everyone, and that’s
a unique and essential contribution to
the people of New Hampshire.”
Ellen says her own love affair with the
humanities began when she was a child
and her mother took her to scores of
theatrical productions, instilling a deep
and lasting love of theater in her daughter.
“I realized that the heart of my excitement
about going to the theater was the personto-person connection. That’s what the
humanities are — that personal connection.
New Hampshire Humanities’ grants and
programs offer so many opportunities for
those personal connections that make
us human.”
Her blue eyes gleam. “It fills my mind
and enriches my soul,” she says.
ABOUT ELLEN
Ellen Scarponi is Director of Government Relations and Economic Development at FairPoint Communications. She has served
as board president for the Boys & Girls Club of Manchester and as an active member of the Greater Concord, Manchester
and Nashua Chambers of Commerce.
New Hampshire Humanities…
was a life work, a portal into deep
relationships with people… places
of the mind I’d never have traveled
to otherwise.
Charlie Bickford’s humanities moment
For 18 years, Charlie Bickford led New
Hampshire Humanities on an odyssey of
intellectual exploration, economic growth,
and institutional achievement that forged
the organization’s reputation as a cultural
broker and trusted convener.
In his retirement, Charlie reflected on
his career. “I have done other things,” he
says, “but the New Hampshire Humanities
Council — now New Hampshire Humanities
— was a life work, a portal into deep
relationships with people; rich, complex
subjects; places of the mind I’d never have
traveled to otherwise.”
The hundreds of memories Charlie can
conjure up hint at what his career offered
not only him, but the people whom New
Hampshire Humanities connected with
ideas. There is no more sublime way of
understanding what reconciliation means,
for example, than having dinner with
Bishop Desmond Tutu, our Annual Dinner
speaker in 1998. Idea people like Janet
Ward brought the finest scholars in the
world to New Hampshire to talk about the
brain, the mind, and human meaning. No
one can watch the documentary film on
the life of Jonathan Daniels, Here Am I, Send
Me, without asking what motivates people
to make the supreme sacrifice for the sake
of an ideal.
“At New Hampshire Humanities, I was
energized, thoughtful, and reflective,”
says Charlie. “The work kept my love of
intellectual life alive and challenged me
to keep learning. It encouraged me to
explore every subject imaginable from
Arabic to New Hampshire taverns.”
Charlie’s visionary leadership helped
the organization grow beyond the
parochial. He and the staff and boards
whose talents and passions he nurtured
created a cultural hub whose spokes
consisted of a remarkable array of local,
regional, and national organizations.
These collaborations enabled the
implementation of projects that benefited
and uplifted whole communities and which
continue to be fruitful. When organizations
work to create a network of humanities
connections, great things happen. This
is Charlie’s legacy.
ABOUT CHARLIE
Charlie Bickford served for nearly two decades as the Executive Director of New Hampshire Humanities. Following his
retirement, he taught at the Royal University of Phnom Penh. He serves on the Board of the Friends of Khmer Culture and
oversees the Bickford Foundation.
It gave me a chance to have
a voice. That’s an opportunity
rarely given to refugees.
Jane Yen’s humanities moment
When Jane Yen arrived in Concord in 2003
Neighbors: New Hampshire’s Immigration
“It made me so happy to hear my fellow
as a refugee from Uganda, she was deeply
Stories. The film explored the constellation
students say they had a new understanding
relieved to leave behind the chaos and
of new realities that African youth face as
of refugees,” Jane says. “I believe it helped
mortal danger she faced in Africa and
they rebuild their lives in New Hampshire.
them appreciate and value cultures
eager for the opportunities that lay ahead.
But as she began life in her adopted home
she faced an unexpected challenge —
racism in school.
“I was surprised to find that people didn’t
understand how we are the same,” Jane
says. “Our culture and experiences may be
different, but we’re the same inside.”
“It gave me a chance to have a voice,” Jane
different from their own.”
says. “That’s an opportunity rarely given
Jane lights up when she explains how that
to refugees. It allowed me and other new
experience, and her continued connection
Americans to open up and share our stories.”
with New Hampshire Humanities, has
Jane was moved by the reception the film
received at screenings around the state.
At follow-up Q & A sessions, she stood and
increased her self-confidence and helped
her connect with ideas and people she
might never have known about.
talked about her experiences as a refugee
“I’ve learned so much and gained new
So Jane leapt at the chance to be featured
and now a confident new American. Jane
perspective on myself and my dreams,”
in Who Am I Going to Be?, a documentary
says the atmosphere in her school and
she says. “It’s a light that moves me.”
directed by Lynn Clowes and funded in
the treatment of refugee students has
part by a New Hampshire Humanities grant
improved markedly since the film was
through the four-year project Fences &
shown there.
ABOUT JANE
Jane Yen is a student at New Hampshire Technical Institute – Concord’s Community College. Concerned about
the lack of access to medical care she witnessed in Uganda, she hopes to become a doctor and practice
medicine in Africa.
…this process has made
me understand how deeply
our beings are rooted in a
particular place and time.
David Watters’ humanities moment
“The humanities have been my internal
compass during a lifetime of wrestling
with enduring questions of how to live a
good life and what it means to be fully and
authentically human,” says David Watters.
“The questions change with experience,
but also through encounters with literature,
the arts, history… and with the lives of
other people.”
David has been involved with New
Hampshire Humanities almost from the
beginning as a scholar, donor, and now
Board member.
“New Hampshire Humanities has provided
me with the opportunity to engage face to
face with the people of New Hampshire, its
places, history, and culture,” he says. “And
this process has made me understand how
deeply our beings are rooted in a particular
place and time.”
“Over the past 35 years, I’ve participated
in humanities projects that delved deeply
into the poetry of Robert Frost and the
fiction and non-fiction of other writers.
Through these writers, the past becomes
not only personally riveting and inspiring,
but essentially relevant to the wider
human community. Through these writers,
the human condition takes on a palpable
continuity and persistence.
“Humanities to Go, New Hampshire
Humanities’ speakers bureau, brought me to
countless town halls, libraries, and churches
to talk about early New England gravestone
carving. One such cemetery visit led me to
the discovery of Sampson Battis, sparking
a research project of several years into the
hidden history of African Americans,” David
recalls. “Projects on Harriet Wilson; teacher
workshops on Nathaniel Hawthorne; the
New Hampshire Stories radio series in
partnership with NHPR; an investigation
of life, place, and history in the Calling
Ourselves Home project — all these and
more have combined my institutional
academic work with public education and
community-building.”
“It is now a privilege to serve on the Board,”
David concludes, “to engage with other
leaders from across the state to ensure
that New Hampshire Humanities truly does
connect people with ideas across the state
and with emerging audiences.”
ABOUT DAVID
David Watters is a State Senator representing New Hampshire’s District 4. He has been a professor of English at UNH since
1978. He coedited The Encyclopedia of New England and has written books and essays on literature and about New
England’s old gravestones.
I could see it in their eyes—
they could see the path
opening up in front of them.
Maria Cristina Rojas’ humanities moment
Maria Cristina Rojas laughs in delight as she
remembers the response of her Connections
adult literary students when they
encountered Benjamin Franklin in a book
shared in a class for recent immigrants and
refugees learning English.
imagine a safe and productive life there for
her and her two daughters. Upon her arrival
in New Hampshire, she honed her own
English skills in New Hampshire Humanities
Connections classes, and then made the
transformation from student to teacher.
“My students were amazed to learn about
Franklin and the way he transformed his
life through his own thoughts and ideas,”
she says. “All my students wanted to be like
Franklin. Those kinds of ideas and energy
are contagious.”
“My first Connections class as a teacher was
magic,” she says, beaming. “I taught a class
of women from Africa. Through Connections
the students learned, as I had, that they
were part of a community. I could see it
in their eyes — they could see the path
opening up in front of them. ”
Maria Cristina knows all about
transformation. She emigrated from
Columbia five years ago because the
increasing violence made it impossible to
One of her recent Connections classes
read I Am Malala, the biography of the
Nobel Peace Prize-winning Pakistani girl
who was shot by Islamic fundamentalists
for attending school. She has become an
international advocate for the rights of girls.
“My students spontaneously asked for paper
and started writing ‘I Am Malala,’” Maria
Cristina says. “They wanted to be like her
and share that commitment to making
positive change in their lives and in their
communities. They asked me to take their
photo with the book and their ‘I Am Malala’
signs because they could relate to her.”
“My students are willing and wanting to
give back to the community,” she adds.
“Connections helps give them the tools
to do that.”
ABOUT MARIA CRISTINA
Maria Cristina Rojas is a facilitator in New Hampshire Humanities Connections adult literacy program and a Bilingual
Family Liaison in the Manchester School District. She works closely with parents and students and helps parents become
knowledgeable about the US educational system.
I wake up every morning
thinking about new ways
we can bring cultural
understanding and creative
excitement to our region.
Frumie Selchen’s humanities moment
Since Frumie Selchen came to New
Hampshire in 1981, she has become
an influential culture broker, bringing
essential lifelong learning programs to
the North Country.
ask for advice and help. Amazingly,
they said yes! We offered our first Write
Now! Conference for teachers, with Don
Graves, one of the greatest humanists
I’ve ever known.”
“I can pinpoint the moment I first came to
understand New Hampshire Humanities
and its work,” says Frumie. “In 2000, the
Arts Alliance had committed itself to a new
approach: We would no longer serve only
as a link between organizations but rather
reach out directly to our communities
through programming.
Frumie shares Graves’ approach to the
humanities. “Don’s premise was simple and
revolutionary. He believed every person has
a voice. Rather than tell children how to
write, we could observe them in the writing
process, ask them about it, and learn from
them. Children would learn that writing is
a form of liberation, a way to get ideas out
into the sunlight and let them soar.”
“We planned a pilot venture with New
Hampshire writers offering programs in
libraries, community centers and schools.
We turned to New Hampshire Humanities to
The Write Now! project is still flourishing. In
2015 more than 400 teachers attended from
eight states and three Canadian provinces.
“I realize that what Don taught me was a
framework for all the humanities work that
followed: look at, listen to and appreciate
what people care about. Connect them,
through encounters with humanists, with
ideas they haven’t yet discovered, and invite
them to reflect on those ideas together.”
Frumie’s passion for the humanities, and
for her partnership with New Hampshire
Humanities, remains unabated.
“I wake up every morning thinking
about new ways we can bring cultural
understanding and creative excitement
to our region. I am so grateful that New
Hampshire Humanities is there to help us
move this vision toward fruition.”
ABOUT FRUMIE
As Executive Director of the Arts Alliance of Northern NH, Frumie Selchen transformed the organization into a major
force in NH. Under her guidance, the AANNH increased access to the arts for students, families, the elderly, and visitors
across the North Country.
I, for one, have had a gentle,
life-quaking experience.
Veronika Simms, New Hampshire Humanities
program participant
Board of Directors
Stephen P. Barba, Chair
Concord
Ellen Scarponi, Vice-Chair
FairPoint Communications
Martha McLeod, Treasurer
MMcLeod Consulting
Bob Odell, Secretary
New London
Robin O. Kenney,
Immediate Past Chair
Peterborough
Jane Christie
Kingston
Stephen Christy
Mascoma Savings Bank
Kathy Gillett
Manchester
Wilbur A. Glahn, III
McLane Middleton
Jada Keye Hebra
St. Paul’s School
Evan A. Smith
Hypertherm
Lynn Douillette
Development Officer
Patricia Hicks
University of New Hampshire,
Manchester
David Watters
University of New Hampshire
Jessica Eshleman
Development Director
Daniel E. Will
Devine Millimet
Susan Hatem
Associate Director
Susan DeBevoise Wright
Sunapee
Cathy Kaplan
Humanities to Go Coordinator
Ken Burns
Director Emeritus
Mary Anne LaBrie
Finance Officer
Staff
Kathy Mathis
Program Director
Inez McDermott
New England College
Deborah Watrous
Executive Director
Rachel Morin
Office Assistant
Daniel Thomas Moran
Webster
Susan Bartlett
Connections Program
Coordinator
Jamison Hoff
Hollis
Marcia J. Kelly
Dartmouth College
Kristina Lucas
NHTI - Concord’s
Community College
James E. Morris
Orr & Reno, P.A.
Rusty J. Mosca
Nathan Wechsler
& Company, PA
Sue Butman
Office Manager
Anne Coughlin
Marketing Director
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New Hampshire
Humanities
Annual Report
2014
Circle Donors
November 1, 2013 through
October 31, 2014
New Hampshire Humanities
is grateful to the donors
and partners who help us
connect people with ideas
For four decades, New Hampshire Humanities has led hundreds
of thousands of Granite Staters on journeys of discovery, inviting
people to think, learn, and connect with one another in meaningful
and sometimes surprising ways.
The following individuals, businesses, organizations, and
foundations have made these encounters with ideas possible
through their financial support. They ensure that lifelong learning,
community engagement, and civil conversation are available to all.
We are deeply grateful for their support.
New Hampshire Humanities is
grateful for the significant
unrestricted support of donors
who have made a gift of $1,000
or more. We recognize and thank
the Leadership Circle (donors
pledging multi-year support
of $1,000 or more) by listing
their names in bold.
Stephen & Gail Barba
Charles & Barbara Bickford,
The John Bickford
Foundation
John & Pamela Blackford
Adam & Mary Anne Boyce in
memory of Robert E. Boyce
The Dan & Blythe Brown
Foundation of the NH
Charitable Foundation
Jack & Dorothy Byrne
Foundation
William L. Chapman
Chickering & Company, CPAs
The Geoffrey E. Clark & Martha
Fuller Clark Fund of the NH
Charitable Foundation
Jere & Elena Daniell
Dianne & Dayton Duncan
Tom Ewing
Drs. Lorne & Nona Fienberg
Mr. & Mrs. James L. Garvin
Kathy & Bill Gillett
Katherine M. Hanna
Patricia Hicks
John E. Hoffman
Dr. Lourdes N. Jiménez &
Dr. Daniel M. Kervick
Cleve Kapala & Lucia Kittredge
Robin & Leslie Kenney
Thomas & Kristina Lucas
Lisa MacFarlane
Sylvia & Craig McBeth
Inez E. McDermott &
Paul Barbadoro
Martha & Richard McLeod
Blanche M. Milligan in memory
of George T. Milligan
The Daniel Thomas & Karen K.
Moran Charitable Fund
of the NH Charitable
Foundation
Rusty & Pam Mosca
Selma Naccach-Hoff &
Paul Hoff
Bob Odell
Peter Powell, The Governor
Wesley Powell Fund of the
NH Charitable Foundation
Jim & Judy Putnam
Jack & Carol Resch in memory
of Robert & Nell Resch
Terry & Linda Robinson
The Rhoda Ross & Joseph
Solomon Fund of the NH
Charitable Foundation
The Rowley Agency, Inc.
Michael & Sheila Satzow
Ellen & Bob Scarponi
Tracy & Wally Schier
Cathleen A. Schmidt
Peter and Marjorie Smith
Evan & Sae-lm Smith
Stephen Taylor & Carla Skinder
Bryant F. Tolles, Jr.
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Services, Inc.
Michael & Janet Ward
Deborah & Richard Watrous
Senator David H. Watters
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Susan & James Wright
Anne & Kimon Zachos
Program
Sponsors
CONNECTIONS
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Endowment For Health
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Bank Foundation
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ENDOWMENT
FOR INNOVATION
Charles & Barbara Bickford,
The John Bickford
Foundation
OPERATING SUPPORT
Anonymous Foundation
Charles & Barbara Bickford,
The John Bickford
Foundation
Jack & Dorothy Byrne
Foundation
McIninch Foundation
NH Charitable Foundation
Samuel P. Hunt Foundation
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National Endowment for
the Humanities
Saul O. Sidore Memorial
Foundation
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Center
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Nathan Wechsler
NH Charitable Foundation
NH Magazine
NHPR
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PAX World
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Public Service of
New Hampshire
Radisson Manchester
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Southern NH University
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University of New Hampshire
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Unrestricted Gifts
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of Tracy Schier
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Acorn Financial
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The Allen Family Trust
Stephen & Joan Ames
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Chance Anderson
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The Honorable Elaine
Andrews-Ahearn &
Mr. David Ahearn
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Care Association
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Foundation
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of Edward J. Brogan
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Charlotte Brown
The Dan & Blythe Brown
Foundation of the NH
Charitable Foundation
Sarah B. Brown
Tafi Brown
Herbert G. & Nancy
Brown-McKinney in memory
of Joseph & Elsie Brown
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Sherry Bryant
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Foundation
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Cambridge Trust Company of NH
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of Tracy Schier
Sharon Churchill
Carolyn Cicciu
Citizens Bank
Charles & Priscilla Clark
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The Geoffrey E. Clark & Martha
Fuller Clark Fund of the NH
Charitable Foundation
Margery A. Clark in memory
of Charles E. Clark
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John Clough
CMH Wealth Management, LLC
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of Ruth Cohen
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in memory of Dr. Robert
Michael
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Charles & Denise Doleac
Daniel Donnellan
Nancy S. Donnelly
Larry & Ann Douglas
Lynn Douillette
Marjorie Dow
Joanne Y. Dowdell
Mr. & Mrs. William D. Downall
Maralyn G. Doyle
Mr. & Mrs. Richard Doyle
Lawrence Drake
Charles Drew
Katherine Drisko
Penelope B. Drooker
Eric & Antoinette Drouart
Darlene & Charles Drutman
Caroline & Walter Dueger
Anna F. Duke
Dunbarton Historical Society
Dianne & Dayton Duncan
William W. Dunnell III
Dick & Nancy Dutton
Sarah DuVerlie
Christine Dwyer
Richard & Linda Dyer
E & S Insurance Services LLC
Janet Eagleson
Patricia Wood Eckels
Andrew Eills Law Offices, PLLC
Judith Eliasberg in memory
of Leah Mathios
Michael Elwell
Warren & Julia Emley
Robert & Alfrieda Englund
Priscilla Epstein
Kathy & Dick Erskine
Jessica L. Eshleman
Peter S. Espiefs
Peter & Esther Estabrooks in
honor of Esther M. Leiper,
Poet Laureate, WMR
Mary Lou & Bob Evans
Risa Evans
Evans Printing Company, Inc.
Douglas & Martha Evelyn
Tom Ewing
Farmington Historical Society
Edward & Mary Jane Farmlett
Linda S. Farnham
William & Carol Farrell
Patricia Faubert
Louise Fazakerley
Joseph & Katherine Fellows
Michael Ferber
Mr. & Mrs. Richard R. Fernald
Andrew Fersch
Mr. & Mrs. Robert B. Field, Jr.
Drs. Lorne & Nona Fienberg
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Candace Flanders
Dick & Kathie Flanders
Paula & Donald Flemming
Carolyn Fluke in memory
of Roy Fluke
John & Maggie Ford
Daniel & Kathleen Fortin
Robert & Daralyn Foster
Joanne Foulk & Denis Kelemen
Elvin M. Fowell
Ed & Ruth Fowler
Mr. & Mrs. Thomas M. Francis
Franconia Area Heritage
Council
Jim Freiburger &
Eleanor Dunfey
Mr. & Mrs. Carroll D. French
Kevin & Susan Frewert
Roger & Kathryn Frieden
Merle Luber Friedenberg
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Patricia Frisella
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Thomas & Susan Galligan
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Carolyn & Louis Gargasz
Faith Garnett
Gerry & Teresa Gartner
I cannot begin to express the value of
face-to-face communication in a world
where so much is said from behind a screen.
Sydney Coyle, Exeter High School student
John Garvey &
Cotton Cleveland
Mr. & Mrs. James L. Garvin
Michael & Diane Gavrish
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Louise & Wayne Gehman
Richard & Shari Gelber
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of Leonard Hutchins
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Martin Isaks
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Susan Leahy
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Mr. Michael Lehman &
Ms. Jan McClure
New Hampshire Humanities
has been both my training
and proving ground — and
ever so much fun.
Judith Moyer
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Capt. & Mrs. Robert S. Lewellen
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José & Ingrid Lezcano in
memory of Gustavo Lezcano
Barbara Lezon
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Grace Mattern
Kathleen & Alan Matthews
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Keith McCarthy in memory
of Judy McCarthy
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Paul Barbadoro
Douglas McDonald & Lesa
Lakeman-McDonald
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Mary S. McGowan &
Lew Feldstein
The Honorable Kathleen A.
McGuire
McIninch Foundation
Mr. and Mrs. Edgar G. McKenney
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Dr. Elizabeth Meadow
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John G. Meisel in memory of
Maryanne Meisel
Professor Don W. Melander
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Merchants Fleet Management
Jack Middleton
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Kathleen Mirabile
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Rebecca Mitchell
Charles & Mary Louise
Montgomery
Paul & Sandra Montrone
Kimberly Moody
Norma Jean Moore
The Daniel Thomas & Karen K.
Moran Charitable Fund
of the NH Charitable
Foundation
Peter Morin
Rachel Morin
James Morris &
Deborah de Peyster
Ms. Evelyn M. Morrison
Rusty & Pam Mosca
Robert Moses &
Gena Cohen Moses
Dr. Judith N. Moyer
Pam & Bill Mueller
Kelley Muir
Kathryn & James Muirhead
Rev. Maryellen D. Muller in
memory of Wilhelm R. Muller
Naomi Muller in appreciation
of the wonderful teachers
at the Merrimack Valley
Montessori School
Adair Mulligan
Diane Murphy
Barbara M. Myers
Jeff Myrdek
Robert Naber
Selma Naccach-Hoff &
Paul Hoff
Mrs. Norma L. Nason
The Nature Conservancy of NH
Gloria J. Neary
Daniel M. Nelson
Sharon Nelson
New Hampshire Charitable
Foundation
New Hampshire Print &
Mail Services
Grace Newman
Haven Newton & Ann Ford
Paul & Mary Nichols in memory
of Barbara Filleul
Bill & Anne-Marie Nichols
Carol & Robert Niegisch
Nixon Peabody LLP
Charles & Susan Noon
Timothy & Susan Norris
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Parker Education
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Kim Peavey & Frank Hunter
Joanna Pellerin
Nancy A. Penney
Ruth & Nick Perencevich
John & Holly Perrault
Robert B. & Claudette O.
Perreault in honor of Victoria
& Charles Perreault, Jr.
Mr. & Mrs. Henry H. Peterson
Cynthia P. Reardon Phillips
in honor of Olive G. Pettis
Library, Goshen, NH —
Honoring a little rural
library’s service as a link
to the greater world.
Emma Phillips
Walter & Nancy Pierce
Janet S. Pitman-Anderson
in honor of Steve Taylor,
Plainfield
The Penny Pitou & Milo Pike
Charitable Fund of the NH
Charitable Foundation
Pontine Theatre
Jeanine Poole & Tom Moran
Linda G. Porter
Portsmouth Brewery Beer &
Skittles Fund of the NH
Charitable Foundation
Peter Powell, The Governor
Wesley Powell Fund of the
NH Charitable Foundation
Tanya Prather
Benjamin Pratt
Janet Prince & Peter Bergh
Phyllis D. Prouty
Richard & Jeanne Provencher
Fran & Jack Pruett in honor
of George Morrison
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Jim & Judy Putnam
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Thomas P. Putnam
Gwendolyn Quezaire-Presutti
Don & Gloria Quigley
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Jo Radner in honor of the
wonderful NHHC staff
Diane & Ray Raimo
Tom Ramsey
Rath, Young and Pignatelli, P.A.
Red River Theatres
Len & Joan Reed
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Sharon Reed-Erickson
David & Celeste Reid
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Alan & Joan Reische
Darayl S. Remick
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of Robert & Nell Resch
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Ann S. Robinson
John S. Robinson
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Linda & Rick Roesch in honor
of Susan Wright
Jeffrey C. Rogers & June E.
Trisciani
Nina Rogers
Al & Jane Rollins
Judy Romano
Stephanie Roper
The B. & J. Rosenfield Family
Fund of the NH Charitable
Foundation
Bud & Kate Ross
Edwards & Marilyn Ross
The Rhoda Ross & Joseph
Solomon Fund of the NH
Charitable Foundation
Dan & Lisa Rothman
Dr. John C. Rouman
Linda S. Rousseau
The Rowley Agency, Inc.
Sharon Ruggiero
Gordon & Barbara Russell
Jim & Carolyn Russell
Patricia C. Rust
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Judy McCarthy
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Tillman
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Green, P.A.
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Medora Snigger
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Carol & Gary Sobelson
Society for the Protection of
New Hampshire Forests
Southern New Hampshire
University
Kathleen Specht
Mary Spindel
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of William L. Taylor
Nancy Taylor
Stephen Taylor & Carla Skinder
TD Bank
Rodney & Roberta Tenney
Jim & Pat Theisen
Joan Theve
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Priscilla A. Thomas
Dan & Kathy Thompson
Jim Thompson
Sarah Thorne & Tom Howe
A. Thurston
Bryant F. Tolles, Jr.
Ed Tomey & Maich Gardner
Vivian Treat
Edith Tucker
Phil & Betsy Twombly
Mimzie & Roger Uhler
Linda Upham-Bornstein
Peggy Vagts & Mark Miller
Pamela VanArsdale &
Robert Dewey
James C. Van Dongen in
memory of Hendrika C.
Van Dongen
Mr. & Mrs. George D. Van Dyke
Maureen Van Horn
Jim & Cindy Varnum
Patricia Vasbinder
Cynthia & Vladimar Vascak
Brad & Ruslyn Vear
Dick Vee
George & Suzanne Veilleux
John & Julia Ver Ploeg
Veteran Technology
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The Volanakis Family
John & Sarah Voll
Karen Wadsworth
Ann E. Walker
Brian Walsh & Linda Patchett
Jeanna Walsh & Ken Rosso
Matthew R. Walsh
Margaret M. Ward in memory
of Winnifred H. Higgins
Michael & Janet Ward
Joseph & Linda Warner
Peter & Jenny Wasserman
Deborah & Richard Watrous
Senator David H. Watters
Michael & Debra Wayne
Ann & Cassius Webb
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Ruth J. Wellington
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Liz Whaley
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Patricia C. Whitney
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Margaret Wiley
Dan & Laurel Will
Keith Williams
Mark W. Willis
Elizabeth Wilson
Robert & Jill Wilson
Bob & Inger Woerheide
Dan & Beverly Wolf
Fred Wolff
Steve & Sharon Wood
Betsy Woodman
Ed & Judy Wright
Susan & James Wright
Diana Wyman
Kathy Yackanin
Jackie Yakovleff
Malcolm Wetherbee &
Patricia Yosha
Oge & Pam Young
Paula B. Young
Pearl Young
Anne & Kimon Zachos
Daniel & Jean Zavisza
William & Barbara Zeckhausen
Shari & Steven Zedeck
Dr. & Mrs. William G.
Zimmerman
Mr. & Mrs. Rodman Zwirner, Jr.
Matching Gifts
General Electric Foundation
The Pfizer Foundation
TransCanada
In-Kind Gifts
Chickering & Company, CPAs
Evans Printing Company, Inc.
Events United
Hopkinton Town Library
Keene Historical Society
Mt. Kearsarge Indian Museum
NH Print & Mail Services
Radisson Hotel Manchester
Downtown
Red River Theatres
Society for the Protection
of NH Forests
State of NH
Maren C. Tirabassi
Veteran Technology
Services, Inc.
The Woodstock Inn Station
& Brewery
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New Hampshire Humanities
Community Project Grants
Awarded in 2014
Winnipesaukee Playhouse, Meredith: $9,675
The Brundibar Project—An exhibit, educational materials, and
facilitated discussions about the power of the humanities to give
meaning and sustenance even in the face of evil. The discussions
followed each of five community theater performances of the
allegorical musical Brundibar, which was first performed by
children in a Nazi concentration camp, and the one-act play about
the musical, But the Giraffe.
NH Audubon, Concord: $6,045
Meeting Our Environmental Heroes—In conjunction with
NH Audubon’s centennial celebrations, five living history
presentations in three communities featuring Lucy Audubon, wife
of John James Audubon.
UNH Center for the Humanities, Durham: $5,000
Fade to Black: Recovering New Hampshire’s Buried African American
History—Support for post-production phase of a documentary
about NH’s African American history, how historical accounts are
created and why some stories are ignored.
Opera North, Lebanon: $5,000
Street Scenes: Émigrés in a New World—Scholar-led talks on the
opera Street Scenes, the émigré experience in the 1930’s and its
relevance today, and the collaboration of composer Kurt Weill and
librettist Langston Hughes.
Redfern Arts Center, Keene State College, Keene: $5,000
City Council Meeting: Performed Participatory Democracy—Activities
and programs bringing a diverse group of Keene citizens together
to examine a local issue, culminating in a performance in which
audience members actively engage as participants.
World Affairs Council, Manchester: $4,847
The Refugees of Shangri-La: Exploring Modern Immigration and
Identity—Film screenings and facilitated discussions in three
communities about the experiences of Nepali Bhutanese refugees
in NH.
Gorham Public Library, Berlin Public Library &
White Mountain Community College Library: $2,439
New Hampshire and the Revolutionary War—Book, film discussion
and living history series.
Historical Society of Cheshire County: $1,000
The American Revolution and the New Nation­­­—Two-day
teacher workshop.
Saint Anselm College, Manchester: $1,000
Embers of War: The Meaning of the Viet Nam War—Lecture
by Pulitzer-Prize winning author Fredrik Logevall.
UNH Dimond Library, Durham: $1,000
Beat on the Street: Second Lines, Mardi Gras Indians, and
the Photography of Gary Samson—In conjunction with exhibit of NH
artist Gary Samson’s photography on the African-American Mardi
Gras Indians of New Orleans, film showing, discussion and visit
with Chief Alfred Doucette.
NH Preservation Alliance, statewide: $1,000
NH History Week 2014—Support and publicity for statehouse
proclamation and website listing of local events.
Hopkinton Historical Society, Hopkinton: $1,000
Along the River: Exploring Community Connections—Support and
publicity for 23-event project exploring the fluid relationships
between natural and human communities along the Lane, Warner,
Contoocook and Merrimack Rivers.
Wadleigh Memorial Library, Milford: $1,000
Making Sense of the Civil War—Facilitated book and film
discussion series.
Meredith Public Library, Meredith: $1,000
Lakes Region Reads: Community Read of Rebecca Rule’s Live Free and
Eat Pie—Book discussions and related programs, a region-wide
author visit, and a storytelling workshop.
Friends of the Cook Memorial Library, Tamworth: $1,000
One Book, One Valley: Community Read of Amy Belding Brown’s Flight
of the Sparrow—Book discussions, related programs, a region-wide
author visit and history lectures.
Community Support Networks, Inc., Concord
and Statewide: $1,000
Beyond Words: Conversations about Language, Inclusion and
Disability—Pilot series offering civic reflection to four groups
of people who direct support the developmentally disabled
community in NH. Discussions of challenging questions about
inclusion, communication, and difference explored through the
lens of selected images and short texts.
Madbury Public Library, Madbury: $1,000
Making Sense of the Civil War—Facilitated book and film
discussion series.
Arts Alliance of Northern NH, Laconia: $1,000
Drawing from the Past: Using Local History Sources to Inspire
Learning—Day-long workshop for teachers and historically-minded
people exploring the use of sequential art (comics) as a tool to
analyze, interpret and share primary source material.
The Gordon-Nash Library, New Hampton: $978
Reading the Romantics—Exhibit, book and film discussion and
lecture series.
Hopkinton Public Library: $867
Building Community through Oral History—Day-long workshop for
teams of historically-minded people from different communities
interested in learning how to conduct oral history projects.
Theatre KAPOW, Manchester: $800
ARTiculate Play Reading and Discussion Series, Season 2—Actor-read
plays and scholar-led discussions related to current exhibitions at
the Currier Museum of Art.
Weeks State Park Association, Lancaster: $350
How Benton MacKaye’s Idea for the Appalachian Trial Led
to the Wilderness Act—Lecture by independent scholar
and biographer Larry Anderson.
Friends of the Fremont Library, Fremont: $267
Edie Clark: What There Was Not to Tell–Author visit and lecture.
Year at a glance
Revenue/Support
Grants NEH: $610,140
Contributions: $610,753
Endowment Distribution: $134,584
Program Fees: $57,814
Donated/In-kind: $97,159
Expenses
Connections is an example
of New Hampshire Humanities
identifying a real need,
rallying partners around
it, and coming up with an
innovative solution.
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Program Services: $789,506
Admin: $147,523
Development: $248,126
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