Water Works
On Tuesday, July 28, our third A Sense of Place event, Water Works was hosted by Bob Brown and Helen Frink. Bob, who took many shop classes at the Mill, offered a virtual tour of its water power. Helen, an author and historian, discussed the history of mills and their importance in the development of manufacturing in New England.
About Robert Brown: AB Dartmouth College in Earth Sciences, and MA Antioch New England University in Education. Bob has worked for Thompson & Lichtner Co, Brookline, MA as Staff Geologist, and for the Research Corp of the University of Hawaii in marine geophysical research prior to settling on a career as a public school science educator and later Director of Curriculum and Instruction for the Fall Mountain Regional School District, in Langdon, NH. A former member of the Alstead Conservation Commission, he has a long history of personal connection to Chase’s Mill over the last 60 years.
About Helen Frink: Helen holds a BA in English from the University of New Hampshire and masters and doctoral degrees in German from the University of Chicago. She retired from Keene State College as Professor Emerita of Modern Languages in 2009. She is the author of These Acworth Hills, Alstead Through the Years, Women after Communism: the East German Experience, and Oil, Ice and Bone: Arctic Whaler Nathaniel Ransom. She is descended from two families of Yankee whalers and lives too far from the sea in Acworth, New Hampshire.
You can watch the recording of the event on our YouTube Channel or click below.
This video and the virtual programming event were made possible by a grant from New Hampshire Humanities and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
