children's museum exhibit
"PEACE! A Pictorial History of The Treaty of Portsmouth"
Through reproductions of fascinating period photographs, political cartoons, and newspaper headlines and clippings, presented picture-book style with brief annotations, visitors of all ages will become acquainted with the little-known story of this ground-breaking international and local event.
Punctuating this informal retelling are colorful strings of origami cranes, international symbols of peace based on an old Japanese legend. The cranes were folded by students in classrooms throughout New Hampshire.
The Thousand Cranes Project
In Japan, cranes symbolize luck. Creating peace cranes, made from folded paper in the Japanese tradition of origami, stems from "Sadako's Paper Cranes," the story of a little girl in Hiroshima, and has now grown to an international initiative.
Teachers around the state helped their students make strings of paper cranes, and individual children and children's teams, clubs and scout troops contributed their cranes, as well. The cranes are displayed in the Children's Museum through September 5th, after which they will be sent on to the International Peace Park in Hiroshima, Japan.
The idea was an outgrowth of Northeast Cultural Coop's creation of a school curriculum that helps teachers present the history of the Portsmouth Peace Treaty to New Hampshire schoolchildren. Students from the following schools contributed cranes to the display: Great Brook School, Antrim NH; Atkinson Academy; Kennett High School, Conway, NH; Hollis Brookline Middle School, Hollis NH; Londonderry Middle School, NH; Derryfield School, Manchester NH; Jewett Street School, Manchester NH; Marlboro School, Marlboro NH; Inter-Lakes High School, Meredith, NH; Newmarket NH Elementary School; Pittsburg NH School; New Franklin School, Portsmouth NH; Rochester NH Middle School; Sandown NH Central School; Wachusett Regional High School, Holden MA; Lee H. Kellogg School, Falls Village CT; Newfane High School, Newfane NY.
Through reproductions of fascinating period photographs, political cartoons, and newspaper headlines and clippings, presented picture-book style with brief annotations, visitors of all ages will become acquainted with the little-known story of this ground-breaking international and local event.
Punctuating this informal retelling are colorful strings of origami cranes, international symbols of peace based on an old Japanese legend. The cranes were folded by students in classrooms throughout New Hampshire.
The Thousand Cranes Project
In Japan, cranes symbolize luck. Creating peace cranes, made from folded paper in the Japanese tradition of origami, stems from "Sadako's Paper Cranes," the story of a little girl in Hiroshima, and has now grown to an international initiative.
Teachers around the state helped their students make strings of paper cranes, and individual children and children's teams, clubs and scout troops contributed their cranes, as well. The cranes are displayed in the Children's Museum through September 5th, after which they will be sent on to the International Peace Park in Hiroshima, Japan.
The idea was an outgrowth of Northeast Cultural Coop's creation of a school curriculum that helps teachers present the history of the Portsmouth Peace Treaty to New Hampshire schoolchildren. Students from the following schools contributed cranes to the display: Great Brook School, Antrim NH; Atkinson Academy; Kennett High School, Conway, NH; Hollis Brookline Middle School, Hollis NH; Londonderry Middle School, NH; Derryfield School, Manchester NH; Jewett Street School, Manchester NH; Marlboro School, Marlboro NH; Inter-Lakes High School, Meredith, NH; Newmarket NH Elementary School; Pittsburg NH School; New Franklin School, Portsmouth NH; Rochester NH Middle School; Sandown NH Central School; Wachusett Regional High School, Holden MA; Lee H. Kellogg School, Falls Village CT; Newfane High School, Newfane NY.