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2018 Spring Lecture Series: Natural Disasters in New Hampshire

Enjoy watching these past lectures presented at the New Hampshire Historical Society. Our sincere thanks to the presenters for sharing their knowledge with us!

Print of the eruption of Mount Tambora.

Frozen to Death, 1816: The Year Without a Summer
Howard Coffin, Historian

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Detail from Leavitt’s 1854 White Mountains map depicting the Willey Slide landslide tragedy on Mount Willey.

Macabre Attractions: The Willey Slide and Disaster Tourism
Marcia Schmidt Blaine, Plymouth State University

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Car being towed through floodwaters in the Ossipee Valley, New Hampshire, 1936

Natural Disasters: 20 Storms That Altered the New Hampshire Landscape
Kevin Skarupa, WMUR Meteorologist

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Forest fire burning through a wooded hillside, 1941

White Mountain Forest Fires and the Creation of a National Forest
David Govatski, U.S. Forest Service (ret.)

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Debris and damage after the 1938 New England hurricane.

Thirty-Eight: The Hurricane That Transformed New England
Stephen Long, author

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