Join us on Thursday, June 13
at 7 PM in Laconia Public Library’s Rotary Hall
for Exemplary Country Estates of New Hampshire
with Cristina Ashjian, an art historian and an
independent scholar. In the early 20th Century,
the New Hampshire Board of Agriculture launched
a program to boost the rural economy and promote
tourism through the sale of abandoned farms to
summer residents. Using historic images
and texts, Ashjian discusses well-known estates
now open to the public such as The Fells on Lake
Sunapee, The Rocks in Bethlehem, and Saint-Gaudens
National Historic Site in Cornish. This lecture
is sponsored by the New Hampshire Humanities
Council and the Laconia Public Library.
