The Warner Historical Society invites the public to their Annual Meeting on Thursday, Sept. 24, at 7 p.m. online using Zoom. Join us to hear all we accomplished this year despite the challenges of the pandemic.
The meeting will be followed at 8pm by an online talk by John Porter on the features of barns. Barns evolved to handle the increased productivity required to meet the needs of a growing population and respond to changes in society. Porter will point out specific features of barns that evolved to meet these demands.
Porter was raised on a dairy farm in Lebanon, New Hampshire. He graduated from the University of New Hampshire with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Animal Science, and then went on to get a master’s degree from Cornell University in Animal Nutrition and Farm Management. In 2005, he earned a Master’s degree in Education Administration from Bob Jones University. He served as a Dairy Specialist for the UNH Cooperative Extension from 1974 until his retirement in 2006. He still works part-time for UNH, specializing in structures and farmstead planning. In 2001, he co-authored the book Preserving Old Barns; in December of 2007, was editor and contributing author of The History and Economics of the New Hampshire Dairy Industry; in 2011 was a contributing author of Crosscurrents of Change, an updated history of Concord; and in 2019 published the new edition of Preserving Old Barns.
Porter’s talk is sponsored in part by a grant from New Hampshire Humanities and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
The meeting and talk are free and open to the public. Email [email protected] for a Zoom link.
The Warner Historical Society formed over 50 years ago to preserve, educate about, and keep alive Warner’s heritage. The Society has yearly exhibits, and programs in the Upton Chandler House Museum on Main Street and maintains the Lower Warner Meeting House which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
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