by Ben Franklin's World | Apr 6, 2021 | The Kiosk
https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/benfranklinsworld/299_Yorimoto_Boldt.mp3 What can a portrait reveal about the history of colonial British America? Portraits were both deeply personal and yet collaborative artifacts left behind by people of the past. When historians...
by Historic New England | Apr 2, 2021 | The Kiosk, Uncategorized
A celebration of New England stories On April 6 at 6:00 p.m., Historic New England premieres Make History, a special streaming event celebrating our region’s stories and rich cultural heritage. “New England is a region full of stories of history, people, and...
by Historic New England | Apr 2, 2021 | The Kiosk, Uncategorized
If you scroll to the bottom of any record in our online collection, you’ll notice a new paragraph addressing our commitment to writing image descriptions that are respectful to the individuals and communities who create, use, and are represented in them. For a...
by Westborough Center | Apr 2, 2021 | The Kiosk
(Library of Congress) To Be Human, Part II In a past newsletter, I posed three questions that I believe we should periodically ask ourselves over the course of our lives. This issue continues the list of activities I posted in my last issue that help answer the second...
by Historic New England | Apr 1, 2021 | The Kiosk, Uncategorized
by Ellie Paliga, preservation services manager, Northern New England “It is better to preserve than to repair, better to repair than to restore, better to restore than to reconstruct.” – Adolphe Napoleon Didron (1839) May is #PreservationMonth, so we’re...
by Historic New England | Mar 31, 2021 | The Kiosk, Uncategorized
MoreThanaMarket.org is a virtual tour of past and present-day local markets. The markets have been fixtures in Burlington and Winooski neighborhoods for almost two hundred years. We are happy to introduce you to the first phase of a three-year project —More than...
