Conference Venue
The hotel headquarters for the meeting is The Doubletree by Hilton Manchester Downtown (visit their website here). The Thursday board meeting and evening reception, as well as Friday’s paper sessions, business luncheon, and evening banquet and awards ceremony be held there. Thursday walking tours and the Saturday field trip will depart from the hotel. The address of The Doubletree by Hilton Manchester Downtown is 700 Elm Street, Manchester, New Hampshire 03101.
Conference Events
Conference events will begin Thursday, October 3. The Board of Directors meeting will be held from 8:30 to 10:30 AM at The Doubletree by Hilton Manchester Downtown Hotel. Participants who are staying overnight are invited to check in to the hotel on Wednesday after 3 PM.
Thursday Walking Tours: Also on Thursday, October 3, from 11:00 AM-3:30 PM, a walking tour will focus on ethnic neighborhoods in industrial and post-industrial Manchester. We will explore Manchester’s West Side and Piscataquog Village neighborhoods. Although this section of the city was partially “rehabilitated” during the city’s Urban Renewal period, remnant landscapes, businesses, and institutions still exist pointing to the city's French Canadian, Irish, and German history. We will also focus on the role of the Amoskeag Manufacturing Company in the lives of the residents before 1936. After lunch in the Amoskeag Millyard, we will consider areas east of the downtown, including former Polish and Ukrainian neighborhoods. An evening welcoming reception will be held at The Doubletree by Hilton.
On Friday, October 4, paper sessions and a business luncheon will be held in the ground-floor meeting rooms of The Doubletree by Hilton. An evening reception, banquet, and awards ceremony will also be hosted at The Broadway.
On Saturday, October 5, a bus tour will explore southern New Hampshire between Manchester and Lyndeborough. Along the way we will visit former Jewish and Greek neighborhoods in Manchester before heading for Amherst, which served as Hillsborough County’s first shire town. Although the courthouse where a young Daniel Webster practiced law no longer exists, its replacement, where future President Franklin Pierce practiced law, still faces the town’s early nineteenth-century common. We will also visit the circa-1845 Town Hall and circa-1837 Congregational Church in Lyndeborough, as well as the town of Milford, which broke off of Amherst and developed as a separate industrial community. Many of the landscapes on the route were “Yankee” reactions to 19th and 20th century immigration from Europe.
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