- This event has passed.
Conversations on the Commons: Baking with Historians
December 18, 2020 @ 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm
Baking with Historians
December 18, 2020, 1:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.
Join Margo Shea and Noah Berman as they prepare holiday treats, share historical recipes and cookbooks, and offer tips for busy cooks during the festive season. Margo Shea, editor at Historians Cooking the Past, whose philanthropic virtual bake sales have raised thousands of dollars in 2020, will offer guidance and tools for organizing and implementing a flash virtual bake sale to support nonprofit organizations during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Registration is free. REGISTER HERE!
This Conversation will be livestreamed. We will do our best to monitor your questions and comments during the livestream. A recording will be publicly available in the Conversations on the Commons Archive.
-
- Margo Shea is Associate Professor of History at Salem State University, where she teaches public history, Irish history and world history, oversees a public history certificate program and supervises internships for History majors. She is the author of Derry City: Memory and Political Struggle in Northern Ireland and several articles and chapters in anthologies on heritage, memory and collaborative practice. Her expertise lies in planning, implementing, and evaluating crowdsourced projects and in decoding thoughts, feelings, opinions, hopes and fears of historical actors who left few written and archived records behind. At the heart of her work is a commitment to sharing the tools of public history in ways that center listening in our explorations of the past and do not ignore the larger structures around which memory and identity take and change shape.
-
- Noah has spent the last 15 plus years living a very nomadic life, living in many unique places around the world. During this time he worked his way up in restaurants becoming a chef and helped open many restaurants in the US, Caribbean and Mediterranean regions. These travels allowed him to pursue his love of history, learning not just the local foods but their stories as well. Most recently he returned to the US after the hurricanes of 2017 which made Noah and his dog climate refugees. He is now a graduate student at Salem State working towards becoming a history teacher and sharing the stories and histories of all the wonderful places he has had the benefit of experiencing.
Questions? Be in touch with Caroline Littlewood: commons@masshistoryalliance.org
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.