Stephen Taylor, former NH Agriculture Commissioner, will present his Humanities-to-Go talk “Late in Arriving: How Electricity Changed Rural NH Life.” at Warner Town Hall, 2 pm. Free, and refreshments provided by Warner Historical Society.
Cosponsored by Pillsbury Free Library and Warner Historical Society with funding assistance from NH Humanities. https://www.nhhumanities.org/programs/3059/
Imagine a New Hampshire town where some people enjoyed the benefits of electricity – lighting at the flick of a switch and reliable heating controlled by a thermostat – while others lived with smelly kerosene lamps and smoky box stoves. In New Hampshire, during the first half of the 20th century, residents of developed communities enjoyed the transformative benefits of electric power while those in the sparsely populated regions lived and worked in conditions little changed from the 19th century.
Reliable electric power brought new ways of life to farmers and artisans. This program will explore how these developments changed civic and social life in New Hampshire’s countryside, and touch the ways the disparity of broadband access in the state today echoes these earlier struggles
