The New Hampshire Heritage Museum Trail recently welcomed Devon Kurtz as the new Executive Director of the New Hampshire Boat Museum (NHBM). Kurtz joins NHBM at a key time for the organization, which is opening for its first full season at its 24,000 square-foot Moultonborough facility on Saturday, May 24.

On Saturday, May 10, Remick Country Doctor Museum & Farm will host Soil Enhancements and Composting for Your Garden, the second in a seven session gardening series.

In June on the New Hampshire Heritage Museum Trail, Strawbery Banke Museum will host two two-week Archaeological Field Schools, a field session and lab session, at the Colonel Paul Wentworth House in Rollinsford. Built in 1701, the Paul Wentworth House is one of the oldest surviving dwellings in New Hampshire and is currently maintained by the Association for Rollinsford Culture and History (ARCH).

These flags, carried by the Second New Hampshire Continental Regiment, are the only known surviving stand, or set, of national and regimental flags from the Revolutionary War, but that is not the only remarkable thing about them. In fact they remained hidden for over a century and a half and crossed the Atlantic twice before they returned home to the Granite State.

On Tuesday, May 20 from 5:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m., Manchester Historic Association (MHA) will hold the 33rd Historic Preservation Awards Ceremony at Derryfield School in Manchester.

John and Molly Stark are New Hampshire’s most influential couple who served their country during the American Revolution.

General John Stark (1728-1822) was New Hampshire’s Revolutionary War hero. Born in Londonderry, his family moved to Derryfield (now Manchester) when he was eight years old. As a young man, he served with ‘Roger’s Rangers’ during the French & Indian War.

In early February, Portsmouth Historical Society hosted its first Community Valentine’s Project to show love for places and buildings in Portsmouth. In total, approximately two dozen Valentines were crafted during the event and subsequently hung on the City of Portsmouth’s “Tree of Love” in Market Square for a week after the event.

New England Racing Museum is offering $5 off admission in February in honor of “TrueLOVE”, where they will feature the 1956 Mercury Russ Truelove famously raced and crashed on the Daytona Beach and Road Course.

In 1907, Lord Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell adapted his military training program as “a game with a purpose”. The program was discovered by Chicago Publisher William D. Boyce, after getting lost in the London fog and being helped by an “Unknown Scout”. Boyce brought the program idea back to America, and The Boy Scouts of America was founded in 1910.

The Museum of the White Mountains (MWM) has opened a new exhibit, “Silent Shifts: Evolving Winters in the White Mountains,” on display until March 29.