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 The Sunapee Historical Society will hold a cracker barrel talk, The Life and Times of Herbert Welsh presented by Barbara Chalmers, on Thursday, July 21, 2011, at 7 PM at the Sunapee Historical Society Museum, Sunapee Harbor.
All are invited to attend and learn about Herbert Welsh---the artist, humanitarian, Indian rights activist, and father of public lands on Mount Sunapee.
"In so many ways he seems a man ahead of his time," said Chalmers, a member of the Friends of Mount Sunapee, Welsh Centennial Organizing Committee.
"I started out this research only knowing that he painted, summered at a
cottage in my neighborhood and was instrumental in the effort that
created the public lands on Mount Sunapee. What I discovered was so much
more," Chalmers added. "He
was a man blessed with a financial position that enabled him to use his
intelligence, writing and public speaking gifts to support many
humanitarian causes in pursuit of justice and conservation causes to
benefit future generations."
Refreshments will be served after the program.
View the program announcement here: The Life & Times of Herbert Welsh (pdf 349kb).
The cracker barrel talk is part of the Mount Sunapee: Welsh Centennial Celebration. For more information, email FOMS or call 603-863-0045.
Photo: Herbert Welsh (1851-1941) from his book The New Gentleman of the Road that chronicled his 450-mile trek from Philadelphia to Sunapee.
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