Event Registrations
2026 Speaker Series
This year, the WCMA, in collaboration with the NH Bureau of Historic Sites, is offering a series of lectures about the history of the Mansion and the Revolutionary history of the region. The talks are free to attend; donations are encouraged.
We hope you’ll join us for these windows back through time!
Count Rumford, the most famous of the NH Loyalists
Tories, Loyalists, and Fence Sitters: Choosing Sides in the Opening Days of the American Revolution
Sat. October 3 at 4pm, Wentworth-Coolidge Mansion Visitors Center
Join us for the final talk of the season, with historian Patrick Jennings discussing our local Revolutionary history.
Hear about NH loyalists, where they lived, occupations, religious affiliations, and political sentiments. We’ll learn the fates of those who left the new nation and those who stayed, as well as a broad view of what drove both those who remain loyal to the crown and those who hated them the most.
This is a free event, no registration necessary.
Patrick Jennings is the Manager of the Wentworth-Coolidge Mansion State Historical Site. He holds a Ph.D. in American History from Loyola University in Chicago and a Master’s of Arts from the University of Oklahoma. Prior to moving to NH, he worked for the National Park Service as a museum specialist, park ranger, and historian. Transferring to the Department of the Army, he helped design and build the new National Museum of the U.S. Army and become a senior historian with the U.S. Army Center of Military History.
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