The program includes music from the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl, especially the classic songs of Woodie Guthrie. Everyone is invited to bring a dessert to share. The event is not a pot luck supper as previously advertised. It includes the Old Berwick Historical Society annual membership meeting.
New members wishing to join are most welcome.
The Counting House Museum exhibit rooms will be open, showing displays on the textile mills, the Chadbourne archeology project, and gundalows and Salmon Falls River life. Admission is free. Using stories and monologues to explain the economics that followed the great crash of 1929, he will put a human face on the history and events of those times. They chronicled the times he lived in. Listening to one of his great ballads is like opening a door and walking into another time and place and seeing it through the eyes of those that lived it.