The Friends of the Rye Public Library and the Rye Historical
Society worked cooperatively to secure a New Hampshire
Humanities Council grant allowing for the presentation of this
fascinating program. Join us as Dr. Robert Goodby, Professor of
Anthropology at Franklin Pierce University, recounts his
archaeological explorations of New Hampshire in search of the
record of Abenaki culture. Abenaki history has been reduced to
near invisibility as the result of conquest, a conquering
culture that placed little value on Indian experience, and a
strategy of self-preservation that required many Abenaki to go
“underground”. The true Abenaki identity has been concealed for
generations, but archeological evidence shows their deep
presence in New Hampshire, inches below the Earth’s surface! Dr.
Robert Goodby, Ph.D. Anthropology, Associate Professor of
Anthropology at Franklin Pierce University, New Hampshire, is
our guide on this historic journey. A veteran of archaeological
field research in New Hampshire, Massachusetts,