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Photos from the 2024 Annual Conference in Manchester, New Hampshire – “A Mosaic of Cultures: Landscapes of Migration and Identity”

We are pleased to share these images from our 55th Annual Conference of the International Society for Landscapes, Place, & Material Culture which was held in Manchester, New Hampshire, in October 2024. Click any image for a larger view and/or view the photos as a slide show, using your keyboard’s arrow keys. On a touch screen, simply tap the image for an enlargement — best viewed in the wide orientation.

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The group photo on Manchester’s West Side at Lafayette Park in front of the statue for Ferdinand Gagnon (1949). Gagnon, a nineteenth-century newspaper publisher, is considered the “father of Franco-American journalism.”
Scott and Stephanie leading the Thursday Walking Tour.
From the Saturday Bus Tour a repurposed gas station in Milford, NH now dispensing beer.
Group photo on the Saturday Bus Tour at the Lyndeborough Center in front of the Town Pound (1774) and Congregational Church (1837).
From the Thursday Walking Tour, a motel where “you can check in anytime you like, but you may never leave...”
The infamous fried chicken platter at the J. Ruston Tavern in Arrow Rock, Missouri.