WARNER HISTORICAL SOCIETY HIRES NEW DIRECTOR
Long-time Director, Rebecca Courser, to Retire February 28
The Board of Directors of the Warner Historical Society (WHS) is pleased to announce the appointment of Lynn Clark as WHS Executive Director beginning March 1. Clark succeeds the long-serving and much beloved Rebecca Courser, who retires at the end of the month.
Clark received a B.A. in Anthropology from the State University College at Buffalo and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Anthropology from Binghamton University. She has many years of experience working in New Hampshire museums, including the New Hampshire Historical Society and the Hopkinton Historical Society. Most recently she served as a Trustee and as the Executive Director of Mt. Kearsarge Indian Museum.
Clark has worked with the MUSE group, a group of neighboring historical societies and museums which includes four of Warner’s museums. She has written grants and helped produce the exhibits and programming for Along the Basket Trail, Along the River and Over There, Over Here: World War 1 and Life in New Hampshire Communities.
Her creative writing projects include a cemetery walk for the Hopkinton Historical Society and the NH Telephone Museum and Warner Historical Society’s HISTORY WALK in 2018.
She and Courser have worked together for a number of years on multiple projects. They first met in 2001 when both were researching the lives of rural African-Americans living in western Merrimack and Sullivan Counties. They continue to collaborate on publishing and presenting programs on the subject.
Courser was the first WHS Executive Director. She leaves the society on a firm financial footing with a dynamic Board of Directors and over sixty active volunteers.
The Warner Historical Society formed 50 years ago to preserve, educate about, and keep alive Warner’s heritage. The Society has yearly exhibits and programs in the Upton Chandler House Museum on Main Street and maintains the Lower Warner Meeting House which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
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