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The Jamaica Plain Historical Society recently added a new article to their archives, a wonderful lecture that took place here at the Loring-Greenough House. Learn about how the Boston Tea Party affected the Greenough family in 1773 with historian Peter Drummey, a Jamaica Plain resident and Librarian of the Massachusetts Historical Society where the Greenough family papers are housed.
In 1773, brothers David and John Greenough found themselves embroiled in a bitter controversy, the boycott of tea imported by the East India Company that led to the Boston Tea Party. In December 1773, John Greenough, then a merchant, bought tea salvaged from the William, a ship that went ashore on Cape Cod. This placed him in direct conflict with his neighbors, his town, and his family in Boston where his father and brother were active in the movement to resist Royal authority.
You can both listen to lecture and read the text of the talk here at the Jamaica Plain Historical Society.
Sadly, due to a hand injury, Tish Anne Kilgore will not be able to present the concert planned for Sunday, January 23. We wish her a speedy recovery and hope to invite her again to the series next year.
On Sunday, January 9, 2011, at 3:00 pm. at the historic Loring-Greenough House, 12 South Street, Jamaica Plain, Pianist Leslie Hitelmann, will play a varied program on the Loring-Greenough 1790 Longman and Brodirp forte piano, including works of Bach, Mozart and Schubert along with her own compositions and arrangements. Later in the month on Sunday January 23st, Tish Anne Kilgore, forte piano and flute, will present Bach’s Sonata for Flute, piano sonatas by Padre Antonio Soler, and Schubert’s Piano Music for 4 hands, assisted by her daughter Meghan Taevs.
. . . → Read More: CANCELLED Fortepiano concert, January 23rd at Loring-Greenough House
Please join the Jamaica Plain Tuesday Club for a Holiday Open House at the Loring-Greenough House!
12 South Street, Jamaica Plain
Saturday, December 4, 1:00 pm ’til 4:00 pm
Refreshments & Activities
Holiday fun for everyone!
Free admission
Mayor Menino will light the Jamaica Plain
Christmas Tree by the Monument at 2:00 pm
A day of the 18th century in Jamaica Plain!
Experience the Revolutionary War with Gardner’s Regiment encamped on the grounds. See and learn about 18th century life in Boston, the Battle of Bunker Hill, soldiers and their equipment and much more! There will be a musket demonstration, drilling, a fiddler and tours of the 1760 House, an important site in the early days of the American Revolution.
This is a fun day you won’t want to miss!
Saturday, August 14, 2010
11 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Loring-Greenough House
12 South St., Jamaica Plain (opposite the Monument)
For additional info: 617-983-5220 or emsinjp@yahoo.com
Check out this article about our new Farmer’s Market!
http://jpgazette.com/node/4198
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