Teaches us all that love and understanding make the difference.Learn to treat each other better as well as be more tolerating.A story is a good way to help children first recognize feelings.Explains that angry feelings come and go.The division and a historical resources advisory group evaluate the criteria.A cute story with a great and important message Supporters must draft the marker’s text and provide footnotes and copies of supporting documentation, according to the state Division of Historical Resources. The purpose is to provide a snapshot that the local community feels is of historic value.”Īny person, municipality or agency can suggest a marker as long as they get 20 signatures from New Hampshire residents.
“The purpose of them is not to commemorate heroes. There are “many potentially controversial” markers, Stewart said. There is no state top-down effort to populate the state with historical highway markers.” Sarah Stewart, the commissioner for the Department of Natural and Cultural Resources, said at the meeting that the marker program is very popular “because it’s initiated at the local level. How can we possibly promote her propaganda, which still exists now through this sign in downtown Concord?”ĭavid Wheeler, a Republican who’s also on the five-member Executive Council, which votes on state contracts and Sununu’s department appointees, said he wants the council to have more oversight of the historical marker process. “This is a devout communist,” said Joseph Kenney, a Republican member of the Executive Council, at a regular meeting Wednesday. Chris Sununu is calling for a review of the state’s historical marker program. She was cremated, and her ashes were taken on a “flower-decked bier” to Red Square during a funeral tribute, according to Associated Press accounts at the time. government.įlynn later chaired the Communist Party of the United States and she died in Moscow during a visit in 1964, at age 74.
She was one of many party members prosecuted “under the notorious Smith Act,” the marker says, which forbade any attempts to advocate, abet or teach the violent destruction of the U.S. In addition to her rights activism, the marker also says she joined the Communist Party in 1936 and was sent to prison in 1951. A green and white Historical Highway Marker dedicated to her, one of 278 across the state, was unveiled Monday near her birthplace. Known as “The Rebel Girl” for her fiery speeches, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn was born in Concord in 1890. (AP) - A historical marker dedicated to a New Hampshire labor activist who championed women’s rights and was a founder of the American Civil Liberties Union - but who also joined the Communist Party and was sent to prison - has draw objections from Republican officials and scrutiny from the governor.
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