From the Fragments: Places and People in Colonized New England


Practical Information
Travel
Please be in Durham, NH ready to participate by 8 am Monday morning of your workshop week.
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Airport: Boston Logan is the closest major airport. The C and J bus runs from Logan to Portsmouth, NH which is a 15-minute drive from Durham (Uber and Lyft available, but as this is not an urban area, they can be slow coming). Manchester Airport is a smaller regional airport and another option.
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Train: Amtrak Downeaster runs five daily roundtrips from Brunswick, Maine and Boston, Massachusetts. The UNH campus in Durham is one of the stops.
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Driving: Durham, NH is easily accessible via driving. Most local lodging establishments provide parking. Durham is a small, walkable town. Parking on the UNH Campus is available at an hourly rate.
Stipend & Certificate
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You will receive a $1,300 stipend after your institute week either via direct deposit or mailed check. Stipends are taxable. Participants are required to attend all scheduled institute activities and to engage fully as professionals. You need to attend the full institute to receive the full stipend.
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UNH will provide a certificate of participation documenting 30 contact hours for teachers completing the institute. Certificates will not be provided to anyone who does not complete the full institute.
Lodging
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We have a block of rooms reserved at a discount rate at the Holiday Inn Express in Durham, NH ($115/night + taxes; book by May 30th). We strongly encourage participants to take advantage of this booking deal. While UNH has dorms, we could not secure an affordable rate from UNH housing; dorms also do not come with bedding/towels and most do not have A/C. The Holiday Inn has both and is within walking distance of campus as well as restaurants and stores.
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The beaches and port towns near Durham are major summer tourist destinations. Prices for lodging soar during summer.
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You are responsible for paying for your own meals. The Holiday Inn includes breakfast. Durham has a variety of dining options and a grocery store. UNH's main dining hall, Holloway Commons, is open all summer to paying guests. Excursions have some built in lunch stops where meals can be purchased.​
Area Attractions
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The seacoast of New Hampshire has a wide variety of recreational options and attractions.
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Portsmouth, the main port town of the Great Bay Estuary, has numerous dining, shopping, sight-seeing and entertainment options (click here for the official Portsmouth tourist website).
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Even closer to UNH are the revitalized mill towns of Dover and Newmarket, each with a rising culinary scene.
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The UNH campus itself has numerous wooded walking trails, with more extensive hiking opportunities in the surrounding area (e.g., the Sweet Trail).
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And of course, the Seacoast has several beaches one can enjoy.
UNH Campus Base
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The institute will run from 8 am to 5 pm Monday through Friday (lunch break/breaks provided).
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Our UNH classroom home base is 110 McConnell Hall (click here for an interactive UNH campus map). McConnell Hall is located off of Academic Way. We have chartered a bus for the institutes. The bus will do a pick up at the Holiday Inn each morning. Otherwise, you are responsible for getting here each morning by 8 am. McConnell is walkable from the Holiday Inn (0.7 mile walk/15 minutes).
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There are limited paid hourly parking spots in front of the building. There are other paid visitor parking lots on campus that are walking distance from McConnell (click here for UNH Visitor parking).
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Again, we have chartered a coach bus for site visits and we will leave for all excursions from outside McConnell Hall. Walking, sometimes across uneven terrain, is necessary on excursions.​
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Communication
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To contact Institute organizers, use: Landmarks.NEH@unh.edu
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If you become a Participant, we will communicate regularly with you beforehand via email sharing things like packing lists, required forms, updates, readings, and other resources.
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During your week at the Institute we will encourage the use of WhatsApp for easy group messaging. Institute readings (pdf files) will be shared out via email using OneDrive links (no account necessary to download files).

