Annual Encampment
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DATE: TBA, 2005

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News from the 96th Annual Department of New Hampshire Auxiliary-SUVCW Encampment (2004) . . .

New programs, new awards, new committees, new approach to budget, goals and purpose--a recommitment to our founding principles and purposes, as it were.

Click on the Dept. Officers page in the left margin for the new officers.

...ANNOUNCED: Mrs. Sharon Wood of Claremont is the 2nd Annual N.H. Woman "Keeping Green the Memory" honoree. This award honors any N.H. female (no age restriction) non-Auxiliary-SUVCW member working to preserve and honor the memory, sacrifice and deeds of "our boys in blue".

Sharon portrays Mrs. Abraham Lincoln--in costume--around the state. She is a N.H. Humanities Council speaker. She does a first-person portrayal of Ann Wyman Blake speaking on N.H.'s own Sarah Josepha Hale (10/24/1788-4/30/1879), a woman of many firsts. Mrs. Wood is a member of two Civil War Roundtables, the League for the Advancement of New England Storytelling and the Association of Mary Todd Lincoln Presenters. Sharon has appeared in numerous N.h. and Vermont parades, Civil War re-enactments and performed at many historical societies, retirement communities, schools and libraries. She is librarian in Claremont, where she lives with Lincoln Presenter husband, Steve.

Do you know someone who somehow works to preserve the memory of Union veterans of the Civil War? Send her name, age (relatively), address and include information on her deeds to: DP Bonnie J. Tolman, 322 Old Homestead Hwy., Swanzey, N.H., 03446. Remember, she must be a resident of New Hampshire and she cannot be a member of the Auxiliary-SUVCW (any Department). Submit information by December 31st each year. The Encampment is conducted in April each year and that is the time the announcements will be made.

...ANNOUNCED: the 2nd Annual Community Civil War Diligence Award. This year the City of Rochester is recognized for the community's acceptance and willingness to work with the Sons Camp 5 in Rochester. The veterans community there has embraced the local camp and embraced and advanced several Civil War-related projects and activities including the rehab. of the Civil War soldiers' monument, re-instating a Civil War presence in parades, adopting parade routes to accomodate the Civil War group and other local events. The local historical society worked with Sons Camp 5 to sponsor a Lincoln's birthday program in February this year. The city is even assisting in identifying an appropriate re-burial site for those buried in the Legros Cemetery which is to be moved due to expansion of the Spaulding Turnpike. Camp 5 sought the community's help as one of those buried in this small cemetery is a Civil War veteran.

Do you know of a N.H. community somehow working to preserve the memory of Union veterans of the Civil War? Send the community name and information on its deeds to: PDP Bonnie J. Tolman, 322 Old Homestead Hwy., Swanzey, N.H., 03446. Information should be received by December 31st each year. The Encampment is conducted in April each year and that is the time the announcements will be made.

...Two gift subscriptions to the "Civil War News" newspaper were given, first, to the residents of the N.H. Veterans' Home in Tilton; and, second, to the patrons of the Hooksett Public Library in thanks for allowing our rent-free use of the facility for the 2004 Encampment (our 96th!).
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