The Treaty of Portsmouth (Portsmouth Peace Treaty)

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Jul 23, 2008
NH State Archives Treaty Exhibit DAILY M-F

Jul 24, 2008
DAILY "An Uncommon Commitment to Peace"

Aug 22, 2008
Dublin Historical Society "TR's Nobel Peace Prize"

Aug 31, 2008
Peace Flag Raising at Green Acre Baha'i School

Sep 05, 2008
"Flags Over Portsmouth" Photo Exhibit
Portsmouth Peace Treaty Bell-ringing

Sep 18, 2008
Beat Night Poetry & Jazz: Portsmouth Peace Treaty

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News and Links

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

Also available, click here for ordering:

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

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.

Aug 14, Catherine York Knowlton, piano
Location: St. John's Episcopal, 101 Chapel Street, Portsmouth
Presented thanks to John & Sharon Osborne

Pianist Catherine Knowlton is a graduate of New England Conservatory of Music where she studied piano with Stephen Drury and composition with Joe Maneri. A three-time winner of the Granite State Piano competition in New Hampshire, she also won the New England Conservatory honors piano competition in 1988, was a semi-finalist in the Stravinsky Awards International Piano Competition in 1989, and won the Commonwealth Competition for Young pianists in 1991. Catherine has performed extensively throughout New England, with other appearances in New York, the Midwest, and Western Europe. Ms. Knowlton's program focuses on composers Franz Liszt and Mussorgsky.

PROGRAM:
Sonata in B Minor Franz Liszt
Lento assai
Allegro energico
Andante sostenuto
Allegro energico
Pictures at an Exhibition Mussorgsky
Promenade
Gnomus
Il Vecchio Castello (The Old Castle)
Tuileries (Dispute of Children after Play)
Bydio Ballet of the Chicks in Their Shells
Two Polish Jews: One Rich, The Other Poor
Limoges, The Market Place (Great News!)
Catacombae,
Sepulcrum Romanum
The Hut on Fowl's Legs (Baba Yaga)
The Great Gate of Kiev

St. John's Church E. Warren Clark, former teacher to the Russian diplomats Komura and Takahira, preached to both delegations about Japan in 1905.