2025 Speaker Series

Tuesday, April 1, 2025

“Meredith at the Battle of Bunker Hill” 

Presenter: Rudy VanVeghten, former editor of the Meredith News and author of Ebenezer Smith, Meredith’s Prime Mover and “These Sons of Liberty”: Meredith in the American Revolution

Location: Community Center, 1 Circle Drive
Time:  Doors open at 6:30 p.m.

Light refreshments will be served. Program begins at 7:00 p.m.


Tuesday, May 6, 2025

“Joseph Plumer, the Hermit of Meredith Hill”

Presenter: Bob Manley, proprietor of Hermit Woods Winery, Main Street, Meredith

Location: Community Center, 1 Circle Drive
Time: Doors open at 6:30 p.m.

Light refreshments will be served. Program begins at 7:00 p.m.


Tuesday, June 3, 2025

“Robert Frost on the Farm: New Hampshire Farming in 1900 as Told by the Poet”

Presenter: Jeffrey Zygmont

A New Hampshire Humanities Program

Location: Community Center, 1 Circle Drive
Time: Doors open at 6:30 p.m.

Light refreshments will be served. Program begins at 7:00 p.m.


Tuesday, July 1, 2025

 “Ice Age Glaciers–How They Shaped New Hampshire’s Lakes Region and White Mountains”

Presenter: Woodrow “Woody” Thompson, former geologist with the Maine Geological Survey, and descendant of the Pease Family of Meredith

Location: Community Center, 1 Circle Drive
Time: Doors open at 6:30 p.m.

Light refreshments will be served. Program begins at 7:00 p.m.


Tuesday, August 5, 2025

“Benedict Arnold, Patriot (and Traitor)”

Presenter: George Morrison

A New Hampshire Humanities Program

Location: Community Center, 1 Circle Drive
Time: Doors open at 6:30 p.m.

Light refreshments will be served. Program begins at 7:00 p.m.


Tuesday, September 2, 2025

Main Street Museum Open House and Tours

Hosts: Meredith Historical Society Board of Directors

Location: 45 Main Street
Time:  5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.

Hot dogs and ice cream will be served.


Tuesday, October 7, 2025

“History of the New Hampshire Presidential Primary”

Presenter: Bill Gardner, former New Hampshire Secretary of State

Location: Community Center, 1 Circle Drive
Time: Doors open at 6:30 p.m.

Light refreshments will be served. Program begins at 7:00 p.m.


Tuesday, November 4, 2025

“Bob Fogg and the Golden Age of Aviation”

Presenter: Jane Rice, MHS director, author of Bob Fogg and the Golden Age of Aviation and co-author of the Images of America book Moultonborough 

Location: Community Center, 1 Circle Drive
Time: Doors open at 6:30 p.m.

Light refreshments will be served. Program begins at 7:00 p.m.


 PROGRAMS and the Open House are FREE and all are WELCOME!

ALL PROGRAMS ARE SCHEDULED AS LIVE EVENTS AND MAY BE SUBJECT TO CAPACITY LIMITATIONS OR POTENTIAL


Programs (with the exception of the September Open House) will be held at the Meredith Community Center 1 Circle Drive, Meredith, NH

Doors open at 6:30 p.m. Programs begin at 7:00 p.m.

Light refreshments will be served.