Take Scandinavian and Austrian immigrants, the Dartmouth Outing Club, the Cannon Mountain Tramway, amateur tinkers and Professor E. John B. Allen. Cover it with snow and shake and you have all the makings of a unique New Hampshire history.

Tucker Free Library in Henniker is pleased to host E. John Allen and his Humanities to Go program “New Hampshire on Skis.”   This talk will explore NH’s unique place in skiing history.  Allen is the long time historian for the New England Ski Museum, a member supported non-profit organization dedicated to the history of skiing located in Franconia Notch State Park.  Dr. Allen has not only written books and articles on skiing instruction and history; he is a national and international lecturer on the subject.

Allen retired in May 1997 from Plymouth State University, Plymouth, New Hampshire after 29 years.  Now Emeritus Professor of History.  Secretary and Historian for the New England Ski Museum, Franconia, NH.  1997 elected Honorary Non-resident Fellow of the College of Fellows of the European committee for the History of Sport.