Excerpt from Annual Reports of the Town of Lee, New Hampshire: For the Fiscal Year Ending June 30, 1990

As a young girl, Renata Kanicky Dodge grew up in the Moravian city of Ostrava, a strategic urban center in the northeastern uplands of Czechoslovakia, near the Polish border. Her father, a successful mining engineer and geologist, was the descendant of an old Bohemian family who had served on the Russian Front as an artillery officer during World War I.

In the late 19303, when Renata was in her early teens, the shadow of another world war enveloped Czechoslovakia, as German tr00ps occupied the Sudetenland and Moravia became a protectorate under the control of the Third Reich. During World War II Renata continued her schooling and for a time attended Charles University in Prague. Although her homeland emerged relatively unscathed from the conflict, Renata did endure a time of terror when Soviet Troops liberated Prague in May of 1945 and she witnessed first-hand the carnage of battle.

After the war ended, Renata and her family lived for four years in West Germany, where she attended the University of Munich, and then moved to Caracas, Venezuela, where her father became a geologist for the Ministry of Mines. Two years later, in 1952 Renata left for the United States, where she married Peter Dodge, a sociology graduate student whom she had met several years earlier in Munich. After living in Massachusetts and New York, the Dodges moved to New Hampshire in 1963 when Peter joined the Sociology Department at unb; soon after they settled in one of Lee's historic homesteads at Wadleigh Falls.

Renata, who had long been fascinated by her own family genealogy, soon developed a deep interest in the history of her new community and the people who had lived there in the past, including the Indian tribes who had once encamped along the Lamprey River near Wadleigh Falls. She became an active member of the Durham and Lee Historical Societies, as well as the New Hampshire Historical Society and the New Hampshire Old Graveyard Association. From 1975 until her death in 1990 she also served as a trustee of the town trust funds. Because of the knowledge she acquired through her research on Lee's old families, Renata was often consulted by the Selectmen and the Planning Boardmembers on such matters as the naming of town roads and the preservation of Lee's historic heritage.

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