Annual Meeting

January 15, 2012

2:00 pm - First Free Will Baptist Church, North Sutton

Join us for a brief business report and discussion of the past year's major events, followed by refreshments and a 3:00 lecture by New Hampshire Humanities Council guest speaker Steve Taylor. Steve's talk, "New Hampshire's Grange Movement: Its Rise, Triumphs, and Decline" will highlight the development of the Grange movement in the 1880s and 1890s. Established as a vehicle to draw communities together in the wake of population decline, abandonment of farms, and the shrinking of villages, the Grange movement gained political momentum and force by the early 1900s.

Steve Taylor is an independent scholar, farmer, journalist and longtime public official. For a quarter century he served as NH's Commissioner of Agriculture. He currently operates a dairy and maple farm in Meriden Village, NH.

The New Hampshire Humanities Council nurtures the joy of learning and inspires community engagement by bringing life-enhancing ideas from the humanities to the people of New Hampshire. They connect people with ideas. Learn more about the Council and its work at www.nhhc.org.

This event is free and open to members and the general public.