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Westborough Center Pastimes – April 19, 2024
Westborough Center Pastimes – March 15, 2024
Historical Society Program: Classical Ballet and Music from Southern India
Westborough Center Pastimes – February 16, 2024
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Old Colony History Museum Welcomes Two New Additions to Its Growing Team
Podcasts
Episode 382: Friederike Baer, Hessians in the American Revolutionary War
Episode 381: Martha Menchaca, Texas in the Spanish Empire
Episode 379: Susan H. Brandt, Women Healers in Early America
Episode 378: Tara Bynum, Everyday Black Living in Early America
Episode 377: Ade Solanke, Phillis Wheatley & the Playwright
Beyond the Commonwealth
Mission Over Tradition
By Bethany Hawkins, AASLH Chief of Operations A few weeks ago, my pastor was speaking about the calling of the church and said it must value mission over tradition. If you have ever attended a business meeting at a small, older Baptist church, you can understand why...
Urgent: Ask Your Representative to Support America’s 250th
Dear Members and other friends of AASLH, I am reaching out today with an urgent request. Last week AASLH circulated an alert about the U.S. Senate. Today we need your help to ask your House member to prioritize America’s 250th anniversary in Congress’s appropriations...
The Health of Our Volunteer Programs
By Alexandra Rasic, James N. Gamble Executive Director National Volunteer Appreciation Week is here! At The Gamble House, we’ll be celebrating our dedicated docents at a special sunset reception on Friday evening. Events like these are always a wonderful opportunity...
Reparative Reprocessing of Historic Church Records in Salem
Author: Samuel Edwards; MA SHRAB Archival Field Fellow My placement through the State Historic Records Advisory Board was with the Saint Peter/San Pedro Episcopal Church in Salem. Founded in 1733, the church is one of the oldest in Salem, and one of the earliest...
Urgent: Contact Your Senators for America 250 Funding
Dear Colleague, I am reaching out today with an urgent request, one AASLH rarely makes. We need you to reach out to your Senators to help secure major, new federal funding for the work of history organizations. For the last several months, AASLH has met with many...
Westborough Center Pastimes – April 19, 2024
House Raising by William P. Chappel, 1870s (Metropolitan Art Museum: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/10453) Raising Parties in Colonial Westborough Craft is a social act. We first learn a craft from people who are proficient at it, and as time goes on...
Clemente students visit MFA Boston for annual trek
In early April, students from the Clemente Course in the Humanities visited the Museum of Fine Arts Boston (MFA) for a day of art appreciation and community building. Students from Springfield, Holyoke, Worcester, Brockton, and New Bedford Clemente sites explored an...
Episode 382: Friederike Baer, Hessians in the American Revolutionary War
https://traffic.libsyn.com/benfranklinsworld/382_Baer.mp3 Within the Declaration of Independence, the founders of the United States present 27 grievances against King George III as they declare their reasons for why the thirteen British North American colonies sought...
A small, yet deceptively complicated collection: Processing multi-format, multi-generation family papers in Lincoln.
Author: Matthew Lawrence, Archival Field Fellow Lincoln Public Library, January 2024 Lincoln Public Library is located in the center of a proud rural community located roughly twenty miles west of Boston. Town records are housed in two locations: vital records are...
Calling All Gamemasters!
By Kurt Griesemer, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, WI Do you have a set of polyhedral dice? Have you enjoyed guiding adventurers deep into darkened dungeon corridors? Does the phrase “What do you want to do?” stir a longing to explore fantastical worlds? Then...
House Ways & Means Budget Invests $25.9M into Arts & Culture
04.10.2024 Bethann Steiner, Senior Director of Public Affairs Budget Beacon Hill has turned its attention to building the next state budget, with today’s release of House Ways & Means FY25 budget recommendations. Mass Cultural Council is extremely pleased and...
Museum on Main Street returns for “Voices and Votes” in Massachusetts
By Marie Pellissier, Program Officer We at Mass Humanities are so excited to bring back the Museum on Main Street (MoMS) program! MoMS is a collaboration with the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service (SITES) and six local partners in rural communities...
Standards and Ethics Committee Seeks Nominees
By Erin Richardson, AASLH Standards and Ethics Committee Chair AASLH’s Standards and Ethics Committee is currently seeking nominees for terms beginning October 1, 2024. If you are interested in museum and public history ethics or know someone who is, this may be an...
Helping the History Community Thrive in 2023
In 2023 AASLH hewed to its mission: helping the history community to thrive and making the past meaningful to all people. What kept the association grounded in this busy year were two things: always asking how our work could help small history organizations in...
Arts & Cultural Sector Hit All-Time High in 2022 Value Added to U.S. Economy
04.03.2024 Dawn Heinen, Digital Communications Manager The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) has released new data showing arts and cultural industries hit an all-time high in 2022, contributing 4.3% of gross domestic product, or $1.1 trillion, to the U.S....