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Goffstown’s Big Watch: Community Conversation with Student Voices

What happens when a 250-year-old experiment becomes the center of a community conversation? In Goffstown, the New Hampshire Humanities US@250: Big Watch initiative, (locally organized by Caroline Kenney, Assistant Director & Head of Adult Services and Outreach for the Goffstown Public Library and the Goffstown Historical Society), offered a clear answer. What could have been a simple celebration instead became a place for civic reflection, bringing together 35 high school students and community members to explore the founding of the United States and what it means today.

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