Brian O’Mahoney Submitted photo
Brian O’Mahoney is scheduled to to speak at Whitefield Historical Society’s annual meeting set for 2 p.m. Sunday, March 20, at the Whitefield Fire Station, 24 Town House Road, according to a news release from the society.
Brought up in Ireland, O’Mahoney has been a resident of Whitefield for more than 30 years. He teaches world and U.S. history at Lincoln Academy, where he has served as chair of the Social Studies Department.
O‘Mahoney is a collector of history and uses an anecdotal speaking style which inspires his students to explore history further. An example of this was his question to his students asking if they had heard of a gold mine in Whitefield. Soon after, four of his students went out on their own to find it.
O’Mahoney plans to discuss the settlement of the many Irish families who settled in Whitefield. He will talk a little about 19th and early century population changes and how those changes fit into the context of national events, as well as looking at the fall in the town’s population between 1850 and 1920.
A short election of officers will precede the program; masks are required.
For more information, call Sue McKeen at 207-446-7473.
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