Members of Central New Hampshire Chapter 41 participated as veteran advisors, gallery guides, and classroom speakers in conjunction with the Currier Museum of Art’s exhibit, Visual Dispatches from the Vietnam War. The exhibit of thirty-five iconic photographs and accompanying text and videos of the Vietnam War closed in November. The Currier Museum in Manchester, New Hampshire, had partnered with chapter members to provide a personal perspective of the war for those attending the exhibit.
Chapter 41 members made presentations to more than one thousand students, including some six hundred at the museum and four hundred at local schools. Working with museum staff, they gave a sense of the war as it was experienced by American troops and the South Vietnamese people. Chapter members continue to make presentations about the exhibit to New Hampshire schools, colleges, and civic organizations.
From left: Nick Metes, Ray Goulet, Bob Williams, Jim Covatis, Wayne Nelson and Jack Mallory with Susan Strickler, Director of the Currier Museum of Art.
[This article appeared in the March/April 2014 issue of The VVA Veteran.]