EVENTS
UNSEEN NEW ENGLAND
ONLINE
WEDNESDAY, MAY 15, 2024, 6-7:30PM
EMELIE GEVALT
American Folk Art Museum curatorial chair Emelie Gevalt introduces us to a new way of seeing - the presence and invisibility of Black people in early New England art. Examining four key pieces from Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut, she’ll show us how people were imagined, erased and made visible - despite the wishful thinking that New England was a slavery-free region. This presentation coincides with the opening, on May 1, of Unnamed Figures, the exhibition from which these images come, at Historic Deerfield. Not to be missed!
salem 1692: interpreting history and finding relevance
ONLINE
TUESDAY, JUNE 18, 2024, 7-8:30PM
DAN LIPCAN AND PAULA RICHTER
The story of the Salem witch trials has been told over and over. But which story is correct? In this curatorial odyssey, Peabody Essex Museum curators, responsible for four key exhibitions on the trials, take us through these various interpretations of the events of 1692. This presentation coincides with the opening of their latest exhibition at the superb Peabody Essex Museum, holder of the world’s largest collection on the Salem trials.
boston: the prequel
ONLINE
SATURDAY, JULY 20, 2024, 2-3:30PM EDT
NEIL WRIGHT
How did Boston, Massachusetts, get its name? And why is the prequel so important? Leading local historian Neil Wright tells us all the answers in this fascinating account of the people and sites of Boston, Lincolnshire - the Puritan heartland from which many of Boston, Massachusetts’ colonial founders originated. Explore the medieval, 17th century and Victorian buildings that mark this ancient town and the reasons why Boston’s Puritans left their home.
“This presentation nailed it - and should cause people to sit back and realize that mankind has done a lousy job of planning for pandemics because they don’t pay attention to history.”
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