The Pierce Brigade announces the 2020 Brigade Lecture Series program calendar. The Brigade Lecture Series is produced by the Pierce Brigade and held at 7 p.m. March through October in Concord at the Pierce Manse – the historic home of President Franklin Pierce, the 14th President of the United States. The series focuses on New Hampshire history and culture. Brigade Lecture Series programs are free and open to the public. The series kicks off on March 26 with the New Hampshire Humanities program “Yankee Ingenuity: Headstrong and Resourceful People.” Highlights of the schedule include “Ordinary Women Doing Extraordinary Things,” on May 28; “Television: The Art and Ethics of Manipulation,” on June 25; “All About Concord Cemeteries and What Goes on Behind the Stone Walls” September 24 and a program on African American Slave Ona Judge Staines by The Portsmouth Poet Laureate Tammi Truax on Aug. 27. Brigade Lecture Series programs typically occur on the fourth Thursday of each month and are open to the public. A complete schedule is at piercemanse.org.
Brigade Lecture Series: ‘Yankee Ingenuity’
