Historical Society presentation will focus on family life during WWII

The presentation will focus on the challenges mothers and young children experienced during the war years (Courtesy photo)

ROCHESTER - The Rochester Historical Society will host a presentation on how area residents managed to hold American family life together during World War II on April 9.

Peggy Cameron-Boyle is the featured speaker. She is a retired early childhood teacher, a career she enjoyed for 33 years. She has often done volunteer work at the New Hampshire Farm Museum.

In addition, she has developed an extensive knowledge of artifacts from the 1940s and 1950s related to children. Her presentation highlights, in particular, the challenges mothers and young children experienced during the war years, with special emphasis on viewpoints involving the young.

She has also interviewed survivors from the war era.

The Rochester Historical Society is located at 58 Hanson St.

The presentation begins at 6 p.m.