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Contacts: Barbara M. Ward or Jennifer Belmont-Earl, Moffatt-Ladd House and Garden, 154 Market Street, Portsmouth, NH. (603) 430-7968. Moffattladd@gmail.com and programs@moffattladd.org.

Moffatt-Ladd House Celebrates Anniversary with Exhibition Featuring Women Leaders and Pioneers
This year’s annual open house and heirloom plant sale will be held at the Moffatt-Ladd House on Sunday June 5, from 10AM to 5PM. In addition to self-guided tours of the house, and beautiful plants from the house’s wonderful Colonial Revival garden (including many perennials not to be found elsewhere) the day will have a special celebratory theme this year. The museum is owned and operated by The National Society of The Colonial Dames of America in the State of New Hampshire (NSCDA-NH), and this year marks the 125th anniversary of the NSCDA nationally. In celebration, from June 1 to June 19, the house will be featuring two loan exhibitions: History’s Keepers and Women of Vision.  History’s Keepers discusses the origins of The (NSCDA) in 1891, and the Society’s pioneering efforts in the field of historical preservation. Women of Vision highlights the lives of outstanding NSCDA members who made groundbreaking contributions to American life from 1891 to the present.  These women include First Ladies, prominent suffragists and activists, scientists, conservationists and intellectuals. 
One of these women was “Amazing Grace,” the Navy admiral and computer programming pioneer Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper (1906-1992). A member of the renowned Brewster family of Wolfeboro. NH, Admiral Hopper was a pioneer in the field of computer science. Although she was born in New York City, she spent many childhood summers with her cousins at the family home on Lake Wentworth in Wolfeboro.
Grace Murray Hopper earned a Ph.D. in mathematics from Yale, while teaching at Vassar but took a leave of absence to enlist in the Navy WAVES during World War II. She joined the Navy’s early computer project at Harvard. Later, she and her team developed a program to translate words into computer-readable code, eventually leading directly to COBOL.
After the war she was not allowed to transfer to the regular Navy due to her age but she remained in the Naval Reserve. She joined the developing computer industry and continued to be involved with important breakthroughs in computer language.

The Navy recalled her in 1966 to improve digital communication among its systems. At her retirement in 1985, Rear Admiral Hopper was the oldest serving naval officer.


She was the recipient of many honors and awards, among them the Charles Holmes Pettee Medal from the University of New Hampshire in 1988. The U.S. Navy Arleigh Burke class guided-missile destroyer USS Hopper is named for her. She was especially interested in speaking to young people and the Center for Computer Learning at Brewster Academy was named for her after she was instrumental in gaining funds for the project.
Called “Amazing Grace” by some, she's also credited with coining the term “debugging” while working at Harvard when she traced an error in the Mark II to a moth trapped in a relay.

The exhibition at the Moffatt-Ladd House and Garden, 154 Market Street, Portsmouth, highlights the lives of some of the extraordinary past members of the National Society of the Colonial Dames of America (NSCDA), an organization with the triple mission of preservation, education, and patriotic service. With over 15,000 members it is among the leaders in preservation of historic sites, buildings, gardens, art, and artifacts nationally. The Moffatt-Ladd House and Garden is a shining example of NSCDA stewardship. Owned and operated by NSCDA-NH, this National Historic Landmark has been open to the public as a museum since 1912.


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