The Second Installment in our History Studio on Authors and Publishing in Massachusetts: David Whitemyer
March 12, 2025
7:00pm

Massachusetts is littered with the remains of public and private buildings and landscapes: hospitals, factories, churches, houses, and harbors. For our second installment in the new History Studio series on Authors and Publishing in Massachusetts History , join us for a conversation with architect, designer, and photographer David Whitemyer. We will be talking about the making and publishing of his gorgeous book Abandoned Massachusetts (2023), in which he directs his camera at many of these structures. Find out more about how history gets published!

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We will do our best to monitor your questions and comments during the conversation. A recording will be publicly available in the Conversations on the Commons Archive. This Conversation will be livestreamed on our YouTube channel. Questions? Email commons@masshistoryalliance.org

About our speaker:
David Whitemyer is an amateur, self-taught photographer who has been exploring modern ruins since his adolescence in the early 1980s. He grew up in the Chicago suburbs and currently lives in southeastern Massachusetts with his wife, sons, and cats. In addition to his photographs, David’s passion for history and architecture is demonstrated through his twenty-five years of work in the museum and exhibition planning profession, as a designer, architect, project manager, writer, and adjunct faculty member.

Conversations on the Commons Where people from Massachusetts history organizations get to vent, empathize, laugh, complain, think, collaborate, brainstorm, plan, and in general be up to no good.