President Charles Tarbell called the 113th annual meeting of the Piscataqua Pioneers to order at 10:00 a.m. on Saturday, July 29, 2017 at the Elks Lodge, 500 Jones Avenue, Portsmouth, NH. Approximately 50 members and guests were in attendance.
Following the business meeting and the luncheon, Wendy Pirsig, a representative from the Old Berwick Historical Society, gave a presentation on the founding of the Piscataqua Region. Following the meeting, all were invited to visit the exhibition, "Forgotten Frontier", at the Old Berwick Historical Society, Counting House Museum, 2 Liberty Street, South Berwick, ME. At this time, a check for $1,000.00 was presented to her on behalf of our society for their "Forgotten Founders" project.
Our next annual meeting will be held July 28, 2018 at 9:00 a.m. at the Elks Lodge in Portsmouth, NH. The guest speaker will be Patricia Q. Wall, author of Lives of Consequence: Blacks in Early Kittery & Berwick in the Massachusetts Province of Maine.
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