by Westborough Center | Nov 18, 2022 | Museums, The Kiosk
“First Landing of Christopher Columbus” by Frederick Kemmelmeyer (ca. 1800) – Which culture is being valorized in this painting? This essay is part of a new Westborough History Connections series called, “A Meeting of Two Cultures: Native Americans and Early European...
by Westborough Center | Oct 21, 2022 | Museums, The Kiosk
The following essay inaugurates a new Westborough History Connections series called, “A Meeting of Two Cultures: Native Americans and the English in Westborough.” Seasonal Change and the Meeting of Two Cultures The shocks of short-lived color in the trees, the sudden...
by Westborough Center | Sep 16, 2022 | Museums, The Kiosk
Westborough’s Second Meeting House The Inspired Origins of the New England Town Meeting On Monday, October 17, Westborough will go to Town Meeting to decide some important issues, not least is the fate of the proposed renovation of the Westborough Public Library. As...
by Westborough Center | Aug 19, 2022 | Museums, The Kiosk
Film still from “Citizen Kane.” Ironies of History and Collecting We often bemoan change. We mourn when an old building is torn down and replaced with a new one. We pause and reflect when we learn that the last person who lived through an important event passes away,...
by Westborough Center | Jul 15, 2022 | Museums, The Kiosk
Columbus landing on Hispaniola, Dec. 6, 1492; greeted by Arawak Indians – ca. 1594 (Library of Congress) The Documentation of Westborough History I often assert that Westborough is the best town for studying rural life in eighteenth-century New England. Why? Because...
