The Treaty of Portsmouth (Portsmouth Peace Treaty)

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Sarah Farmer Peace Award - August 21, 2010
Web: www.greenacre.org Email: diane.brandon@gmail.com

In 1904, Sarah Farmer, founder of Green Acre Bahai School, raised the first peace flag in an effort to focus world attention on efforts to end the raging Russo-Japanese War. A year later, the Russian and Japanese diplomats gathered in nearby Portsmouth for the peace conference that resulted in the Treaty of Portsmouth, ending that war. In honor of peace-maker Sarah Farmer, the Eliot-area Bahai community presents the annual Sarah Farmer Peace Award. This year the award honorsLEsley Smith and her "Peaceable Kingdowm: Conflict Resolution" program for children. Award presentation in Reimer Hall, Kelsey Center at the Green Acre Bahai School at 7 pm. Free and open to the public. For more information contact Diane Brandon.

Sep 10, 2010
DAILY "An Uncommon Commitment to Peace" Exhibit

Sep 11, 2010
The Fells:"Partners in Diplomacy: TR & John Hay"

Sep 12, 2010
DAILY"An Uncommon Commitment to Peace" Exhibit

Sep 13, 2010
NH State Archives Treaty Exhibit M-F

For information about ordering fine art prints of this Treaty Centennial symbol, and other commemorative items, click here.

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For information about the Russia Society of New Hampshire, write to
PO Box 177
Concord NH 03302-0177

Telephone: 603-226-2312

For the Russian-language Library of Congress description of the Treaty of Portsmouth, click here.

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To learn nore, the following books are available, click here to order:

Heroes & Friends: Behind the Scenes of the Treaty of Portsmouth by Michiko Nakanishi

There Are No Victors Here: A Local Perspective on the Treaty of Portsmouth by Peter E. Randall

Also available, click here for ordering:

An Uncommon Commitment to Peace Exhibit Catalogue published by the Japan-America Society of NH

Blessed Are the Peacemakers: The Service of Thanksgiving for the Portsmouth Treaty, September 5, 1905 by Marina Grot Turkevich Naumann

Original 1905 newsreel footage on DVD

Treaty of Portsmouth 1905-2005 book of reproduction historical postcards.

The Portsmouth Peace Process: Guide for Teachers by Northeast Cultural Coop

Portsmouth Celebrates Centennial of Teddy Roosevelt's Nobel Peace Prize

Portsmouth, New Hampshire is celebrating the centennial of President Teddy Roosevelt's 1906 Nobel Peace Prize this year. Though known for his 'big stick' TR was actually a consummate diplomat.

In 1905 he worked for three months to convince the Russians and Japanese to come to the negotiating table to end the Russo-Japanese War which had been raging since January 1904. Now called "World War Zero," it was the first modern and brutally mechanized war and threatened to bring the nations of Europe in on either side. Roosevelt finally convinced both sides to negotiate by July 1905 and for 30 days that summer the two sides met in Portsmouth.

Thanks in part to TR's back-channel diplomacy with emissaries in Tokyo and St. Petersburg (plus good informants on the ground in Portsmouth -- TR was intentionally not at the table), the Portsmouth Peace Treaty was signed on September 5, 1905. TR earned the Nobel Peace Prize the next year for his efforts, becoming the first American to win a Nobel of any kind, as well as the first American President of just three to date to win the Peace Prize.

To celebrate the Portsmouth Peace Treaty Anniversary Committee has organized:

· "An Uncommon Commitment to Peace: Portsmouth Peace Treaty" exhibit at the Portsmouth Historical Society museum, corner of State & Middle St. Portsmouth. Adults $8 children under 12 free. www.portsmouthhistory.org, Open daily 11 am - 5pm May 27-Oct 31

· "The Peace of Portsmouth" an original play based on local newspaper accounts of the negotiations. Pontine Theatre,

959 Islington St., Portsmouth

. 8pm on Aug 11, 17, 20, 26 Tickets $20. www.pontine.org

· Portsmouth Peace Treaty Trail guided (fee) and self-guided (free map provided) tours of key sites important to the 1905 Peace Treaty summer. Greater Portsmouth Chamber of Commerce. Mondays and Fridays at 1 pm. Adults $8, seniors, $7 Through Columbus Day. www.portsmouthchamber.org

· Wentworth By the Sea Hotel "History Package" includes accommodations, dinner, illustrated coffee table book on the history of the hotel (which is where the Russian and Japanese delegates, and TR's informant, stayed) and tickets to "An Uncommon Commitment" exhibit. $149 per person, double occupancy, per night. www.wentworth.com

· Aug 25-28. “Global Governance and the Lesser Peace” seminar and annual Peace Flag raising ceremony. Green Acre Baha'i School, Eliot Maine. www.greenacre.org,

· Portsmouth Peace Treaty Commemoration. Portsmouth Naval Shipyard salute and downtown bellringing. Free. Sep 5

· Teddy Roosevelt Nobel Peace Prize Centennial commemoration. www.portsmouthpeacetreaty.com Dec 10 (the anniversary of the Prize presentation).

Additional lectures and events information constantly updated at www.portsmouthpeacetreaty.com