Sp58E The Mile of Manufactories on the Merrimack at Manchester (Zoom Only - Dartmouth)

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5/9/2024-6/13/2024

3:30 PM-5:30 PM EDT on Th

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The course charts the growth of the textile industry in Manchester, NH, from a single, wooden, cotton mill on the west bank of the Merrimack River at Amoskeag Falls to the magnificent red brick canyons of the mile-long Millyard on the east bank below the falls. The course also addresses the collapse of the Amoskeag Mfg. Co., how Manchester adapted to that near catastrophe, and how the historic Millyard changed as a result of 1960s zeal for urban renewal and the vision of modern entrepreneurs. The course will combine lectures with class discussion.

  • Enrollment Limit: 7

     

    Martin Jeffries, a polar scientist, first crossed the Arctic Circle in July 1980 in Norway, and lived for 21 years in sub-Arctic Fairbanks in central Alaska. Not content with merely living in that cold region, he pursued freshwater ice, sea ice, iceberg and ice shelf research in the Arctic and Antarctica. Later he was a federal government Arctic subject matter expert in Washington, D.C. After two years with the Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory in Hanover, NH, he retired and now enjoys life in the Upper Valley.