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SUMMARY:History Studio: A Home in Woods Hole with Elizabeth Sheehy
DESCRIPTION:A Home in Woods Hole with Elizabeth Sheehy\nApril 2\, 2025\n7:00-8:30pm \nWalter Nickerson and Helena Nugent built a house in Woods Hole more than a hundred years ago. Though their descendants spread out across New England\, they kept returning to the house on Eel Pond\, which survived the 1938 New England Hurricane and also served as a boarding house for many years. \nFor our third installment in the History Studio series on authors and publishing in Massachusetts history\, join us for a conversation with Elizabeth Sheehy. We will be talking about the making and publishing of A Home in Woods Hole: Life and History on Eel Pond published by The History Press in 2024\,  in which she chronicles the history of Woods Hole through the lens of a house and the family that built it. Find out more about how history gets published! \nRegistration is free – but if you’re able to donate to help us continue to offer programming like this\, it’s much appreciated! REGISTER HERE. \n  \n  \nWe 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 \n  \nAbout our speaker: \nAfter the serendipitous purchase of a grand old house in Woods Hole in 2018\, Elizabeth Sheehy turned to writing full-time to tell the story of people she met through the house\, long dead and nearly forgotten. Retired from her career as a retail executive\, Sheehy put her Trinity College history degree to work to uncover the fascinating lives of the Nickersons and the Nugents from one hundred years ago. A lifelong writer and lover of puzzles and mysteries\, Sheehy grew up in California with English parents who passed down to her their passion for history. She and her husband split their time between Arlington\, Virginia and Woods Hole. \n\nConversations 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.
URL:https://masshistorycommons.org/event/history-studio-a-home-in-woods-hole/
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SUMMARY:History Studio: Abandoned Massachusetts with David Whitemyer
DESCRIPTION:The Second Installment in our History Studio on Authors and Publishing in Massachusetts: David Whitemyer\nMarch 12\, 2025\n7:00pm \nMassachusetts 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! \nRegistration is free. REGISTER HERE! \nWe 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 \n  \nAbout our speaker:\nDavid 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. \n\nConversations 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.
URL:https://masshistorycommons.org/event/history-studio-abandoned-massachusetts-with-david-whitemyer/
LOCATION:Online\, MA\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250219T190000
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SUMMARY:History Studio: Author Talk with Jane Sciacca
DESCRIPTION:  \nEnslavement in the Puritan Village: The Untold Story of Sudbury and Wayland\, Massachusetts \nWednesday\, February 19 from 7:00-8:30PM on Zoom \n\nA History Studio featuring author\, public historian\, and Wayland resident Jane Sciacca\n\n \nColonial Sudbury\, Massachusetts\, was designated the Puritan Village by author Sumner Chilton Powell in his 1964 Pulitzer Prize–winning history of the founding of this quintessential New England town in 1638. Yet this quiet rural village also had a darker history that is often overlooked. Sudbury’s Puritan inhabitants\, including some of the most prominent citizens in town\, held and sold enslaved Black people throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Stories gleaned from preserved records highlight the lives of men\, women and children held in bondage\, including a court case involving an enslaved boy repeatedly beaten and left scarred by his master less than thirty years after the town’s founding\, as well as the bill of sale of Phebey\, age two\, to a woman in another town. Local author Jane Sciacca uncovers the hidden side of suffering in this New England town.\n\n \nRegistration is free. REGISTER HERE! \nWe 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 History Studio will be livestreamed on our YouTube channel. Questions? Email commons@masshistoryalliance.org \n\nConversations 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.
URL:https://masshistorycommons.org/event/history-studio-author-talk-with-jane-sciacca/
LOCATION:Online\, MA\, United States
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SUMMARY:History Studio: Has Anyone Seen $500 Million in Missing Art?
DESCRIPTION:Has Anyone Seen $500 Million in Missing Art? \nDecember 1\, 2023\, 12:00-1:00 p.m. \nSt. Patrick’s Day\, 1990. Two men dressed as Boston cops entered the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum\, stayed for about 90 minutes\, and left with 13 pieces of art. None of the priceless items have been found. Numerous suspects have been named over the years but none have been arrested. Many are now dead. Bob Ainsworth\, the author of DUPED\, a fictional account of the robbery\, will review the actual details of the theft\, the suspects\, and the motives behind the world’s most valued art theft. He will also tell of his own brush with the infamous crime. \nRegistration is free. REGISTER HERE! \nWe 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. \nQuestions? Email commons@masshistoryalliance.org \n  \nAbout the speaker: \nBob Ainsworth was raised in New Jersey\, earned a BS in Accounting from Boston College\, an MBA in Finance from Northeastern University\, and had his CPA. He worked in corporate accounting as a CFO and Controller and taught accounting. He uncovered two fraud cases during his career. The idea for the Harry Bartlett stories sprang from his Accounting students’ positive reactions to fraud anecdotes. He started to write his first story while commuting and then continued after retiring. He has self-published 3 novels- DUPED\, CONNED and SCAMMED. A fourth\, PONZI’d\, is planned for 2024. He loves reading mysteries and thrillers by authors such as John Grisham\, Dennis Lehane\, Robert B. Parker\, David Baldacci\, Earl Stanley Gardner\, Arthur Conan Doyle\, Hank Phillippe Ryan\, and Elmore Leonard. He also likes to read non-fiction history. He lives in retirement in Massachusetts with his family. \n\nConversations on the Commons \nWhere people from Massachusetts history organizations get to vent\, empathize\, laugh\, complain\, think\, collaborate\, brainstorm\, plan\, and in general be up to no good.
URL:https://masshistorycommons.org/event/conversations-on-the-commons-photography-in-collections-2/
LOCATION:Online\, MA\, United States
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SUMMARY:History Studio: Central Massachusetts Black History Collaborative
DESCRIPTION:History Studio: Central Massachusetts Black History Collaborative \nRESCHEDULED to October 6\, 2023\, 3:00-4:30pm \nA History Studio on the Commons \nThe Mass History Alliance’s History Studios highlight local history people\, projects\, and places. Join us for an inaugural “get acquainted” meeting of the Central Massachusetts Black History Collaborative. Modeled after a similar project by the Pioneer Valley History Network\, the Collaborative will bring together history organization\, local historians\, and genealogists to research and document the lives of African Americans in Worcester County and western Middlesex and Norfolk counties. \nRegistration is free. Please email us at commons@masshistoryalliance.org to register! (If you previously registered for this event prior to its rescheduling\, you do not need to re-register.) \nWe 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. \nQuestions? Email commons@masshistoryalliance.org \n\nConversations on the Commons \nWhere people from Massachusetts history organizations get to vent\, empathize\, laugh\, complain\, think\, collaborate\, brainstorm\, plan\, and in general be up to no good.
URL:https://masshistorycommons.org/event/history-studio-central-mass-black-history-collaborative/
LOCATION:Online\, MA\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221207T190000
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SUMMARY:History Studio: Screening and discussion of 'Contradictory Place'
DESCRIPTION:A screening and discussion with film collaborator Professor Robert Forrant \nFrom the 1830s through the Civil War\, many Lowellians from all walks of life engaged in concerted efforts to block the expansion of slavery and helped freedom seekers even when this meant defying federal law. “A Contradictory Place” offers viewers a way to learn about an important\, but too often neglected\, chapter of our history. The forty-minute film was written by Robert Forrant and Maritza Grooms\, produced by former Lowell Telecommunications Executive Director Wendy Blom\, and edited by former Lowell Telecommunications News Director Caroline Gallagher. \nRegistration is free. REGISTER HERE. \n\n		\n		\n			\n				\n			\n				\n				Robert Forrant is Distinguished University Professor of History at the University of Massachusetts Lowell and a Lawrence History Center board member. He has been the principal historian on numerous projects funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities\, the Lowell National Historical Park\, and Mass Humanities. In 2018 he was the Humanities Scholar in Residence funded by the Massachusetts Endowment for the Humanities to work with the Hatfield\, MA Historical Museum. Utilizing newly discovered archives he produced a scholarly article and helped to produce an exhibit on the Porter McLeod Machine Company\, a small machine shop that exported the lathes it built around the world. His new book\, Interpreting Labor and Working-Class History at Museums and Historic Sites\, with Mary Anne Trasciatti\, will be published by the University of Illinois Press in June 2022 in its Working-Class in American History series. \n				\n		\n \nQuestions? Be in touch with Caroline Littlewood: commons@masshistoryalliance.org
URL:https://masshistorycommons.org/event/history-studio-contradictory-place/
LOCATION:Online\, MA\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221202T120000
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SUMMARY:History Studio: Ten Footer Shoe Shops
DESCRIPTION: \nBootmaker and Artist Sarah Madeleine T. Guerin presents her work as an artisanal Keeper of Tradition in Massachusetts and a working artist. With a thorough knowledge of traditional Western bootmaking\, Sarah researches and analyses the connections between evolving methods of footwear making craft of the 1800s in Massachusetts – with an architectural focus on vernacular Ten Footer Shoe Shops – to the stability of a contemporary art practice heavily based in handmade footwear techniques and skills. Sarah holds degrees in Fine Arts and Architecture from the Rhode Island School of Design\, was certified in Footwear at Cordwainers College – London College of Fashion\, apprenticed with Colorado bootmaker Jim Covington\, founded the bootmaking studio Saboteuse\, and is a mentor artist in the Mass Cultural Council Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program. Q & A to follow presentation. \nRegistration is free. REGISTER HERE. \nA bi-cultural artisan\, Sarah builds Western boots by hand with the passion of her New England work-ethic and her French design sensibilities. A graduate of Rhode Island School of Design’s architecture and Cordwainers College’s Intensive Summer Footwear programs\, Sarah’s design skills were complimented by years of training in a variety of hands-on workshops culminating in a one-on-one Western bootmaking apprenticeship. She established the atelier Saboteuse in 2015. Driven by creative process\, Sarah intentionally combines bootmaking\, artmaking\, historical research\, and public engagement to better understand relationships between knowledge and quality. Steeped in tradition\, her work illustrates meticulous craftsmanship and the unique\, thoughtful creativity that makes Saboteuse boots stand apart. Through her provocative bootmaking practice Sarah shares her journey with an uncurated public. With every stitch and decision Sarah slowly builds beautiful handmade boots that unravel a good story – her clients become a collaborative influence in this traditional American craft. \nQuestions? Be in touch with Caroline Littlewood: commons@masshistoryalliance.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221026T183000
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SUMMARY:History Studio: Exploring Women's History Through Folksongs
DESCRIPTION:A Silver Dagger: Exploring Women’s History Through Folksongs \nWednesday\, October 26\, 6:30 – 8:00 p.m. \nPassed down for generations\, folk songs provide insights into the lives of ordinary people in centuries past. Diane Taraz mines these traditional songs for clues to the inner lives of people in Europe and America from about 1500 to 1850\, especially women. Women left few written records\, but we can learn much about them through the music that they used to speed their work\, lift their spirits\, or ease an aching heart. \nRegistration is free. REGISTER HERE. \n\n		\n		\n			\n				\n			\n				\n				Steeped in history\, Diane Taraz creates programs that use the music of an era to show the inner lives of people who lived long ago. Women\, especially\, left behind few records of their existence\, but the songs they used to speed their work\, sing a child to sleep\, or ease an aching heart show us their minds and hearts. Diane is on the Scholarly Advisory Board of the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History\, based in New York City\, and brings her programs to museums\, universities\, libraries\, and historic houses throughout New England. She is director of the Lexington Historical Society Colonial Singers\, for whom she has produced two CDs\, and her own two dozen recordings are enjoyed worldwide.\n				\n		\n \nQuestions? Be in touch with Caroline Littlewood: commons@masshistoryalliance.org
URL:https://masshistorycommons.org/event/history-studio-exploring-womens-history-through-folksongs/
LOCATION:Online\, MA\, United States
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