WNHHS YouTube Recording — Mary Kronenwetter presents — Ernest Harold Baynes: New Hampshire's Doctor Doolittle
Tue, Feb 11
|WNHHS YouTube Channel Recording
Watch This Recording of our 2/10/2025 Meeting: Ernest Harold Baynes is fondly remembered in NH as our own Doctor Doolittle. To the rest of the nation, he is known as an important early 20th century wildlife conservationist. An RSVP is not required to watch the recording.
Time & Location
Feb 11, 2025, 11:00 AM – Feb 25, 2025, 11:50 PM
WNHHS YouTube Channel Recording
About the Event
Click here to view YouTube Recording. {Available through February 25, 2025}
Ernest Harold Baynes: New Hampshire's Doctor Doolittle
With historian, author and educator Mary Kronenwetter
This program is made possible by a grant from the "New Hampshire Humanities "Humanities to Go" program.
Ernest Harold Baynes is fondly remembered in New Hampshire as our own Doctor Doolittle. To the rest of the nation, he is known as an important early 20th century wildlife conservationist. A self-taught naturalist, he wrote and lectured extensively on animal behavior, bird and bison restoration, the role of animals in WWI, and vivisection. Baynes shared his New Hampshire home with tame bear, fox, boar, bison, and wolf. He fought to end the trade in bird feathers for fashion and established one of the first bird sanctuaries in America. While serving as conservator to the Corbin Park bison herd, he convinced President Theodore Roosevelt to support the preserving of…