A 1948 photograph by an unknown artist titled “Open House and Dedication at Our Lady of the Snows,” on loan from the Franconia Heritage Museum is part of the Museum of the White Mountains at Plymouth State University exhibition “The White Mountains: A Crossroads,” examining the history of communities in the Franconia Notch region. (COURTESY PHOTO)
An 1865 lithograph by John H. Burrford depicting the Pemigewasset House in Plymouth is on loan from the Robert S. Chase and Richard M. Candee Trust. The exhibit will open Saturday, May 31 and will run through Sept. 13. (COURTESY PHOTO)
The Bethlehem Heritage Museum is seen in 2025 in a photograph for the Museum of the White Mountains exhibit "The White Mountains: A Crossroads." (EMILIE TALPIN PHOTO)
A 1948 photograph by an unknown artist titled “Open House and Dedication at Our Lady of the Snows,” on loan from the Franconia Heritage Museum is part of the Museum of the White Mountains at Plymouth State University exhibition “The White Mountains: A Crossroads,” examining the history of communities in the Franconia Notch region. (COURTESY PHOTO)
An 1865 lithograph by John H. Burrford depicting the Pemigewasset House in Plymouth is on loan from the Robert S. Chase and Richard M. Candee Trust. The exhibit will open Saturday, May 31 and will run through Sept. 13. (COURTESY PHOTO)
The Bethlehem Heritage Museum is seen in 2025 in a photograph for the Museum of the White Mountains exhibit "The White Mountains: A Crossroads." (EMILIE TALPIN PHOTO)
PLYMOUTH — The Museum of the White Mountains at Plymouth State University will launch an exhibition called “The White Mountains: A Crossroads,” examining the history of communities in the Franconia Notch region, on Saturday, May 31, and will be open to the public through Saturday, Sept. 13. An opening reception will be held Friday, May 30, from 4-6 p.m.
The exhibit will dovetail with a traveling exhibition titled “Crossroads: Change in Rural America,” which is organized by “Museum on Main Street,” part of the Smithsonian Institution’s Traveling Exhibition Service, and coordinated by New Hampshire Humanities and the Vermont Humanities Council. The Smithsonian exhibition addresses general issues in rural America through the five themes of land, community, identity, persistence and managing change. That exhibition, which runs through Saturday, Aug. 9, will arrive at the museum already curated.
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