BETHEL — The Bethel Historical Society will present Historic Preservation awards to Greenwood Historical Society at its annual meeting on Thursday, Sept. 8.

The business meeting will begin at 7:30 p.m.

Following the election of new trustees and officers for 2016-17, several photos of ongoing restoration work at that Society’s Swan and Bennett houses will be shown. Enlarged historical Locke Mills photos prepared for the town’s bicentennial will be on display.

The evening will begin with a potluck supper. The public is invited. Attendees are asked to bring a salad, dessert or hot dish to share.

Society staff and volunteers will provide updates on collections management upgrades and related technological improvements, including those made possible by the Society’s Charles R. Huntoon Center for Archives, Library and Museum Collections.

The event will be in the Mason House exhibit hall on Broad Street.

On Saturday, Sept. 17, a short-term exhibit of landscapes titled “The Painters’ Perspective: Artists Among the White Hills,” will open in conjunction with Harvestfest.

This White Mountain art exhibition will include paintings by Benjamin Champney, Aaron Draper Shattuck, Delbert Dana Coombs, Edward Hill, Frank H. Shapleigh, Benjamin Tupper Newman, Samuel Colman, Charles E. Beckett, James Thorpe Flaherty, Samuel W. Griggs, Franklin Stanwood, Hippolyte Louis Garnier, Samuel Lancaster Gerry, Lauren Sansaricq and Erik Koeppel.

The exhibit will be on display through Oct. 14 from 1 to 4 p.m. Tuesday through Friday at the Dr. Moses Mason House. Admission is free, donations will be accepted.