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Reconstructing Memories, Rebuilding the Community of Our Ancestors Shtetl in Poland

Sarah Coyne
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Please join us for two lectures examining place, family, and history presented by Jamaica Plain residents. Reconstructing Memories, Rebuilding the Community of Our Ancestors Shtetl in Poland by Anita Greenbaum-Brush Gąbin, a small town on the central plains of Poland, once had a thriving Jewish community. It was destroyed during WWII, when fewer than 10…
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Climate Change and the Future of History

Sarah Coyne
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Not only does climate change threaten our (immediate) future, but it also puts our past at grave risk. Changing weather patterns and rising sea level present unprecedented challenges to safeguarding our historical resources, especially the Native American and historical archaeological sites and landscapes of the Boston Harbor Islands. Join us at Loring Greenough House in…
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Tuesdays in the Parlor: Creating Mrs. Loring with Quentin Decker

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Ever wanted to learn about the illustrious past of some of the Loring-Greenough House’s most famous inhabitants? Now is your chance! Join novelist Quentin Decker as he discusses his research, crafting, and writing of Mrs. Elizabeth Lloyd Loring, purported mistress to British General William Howe during the American Revolution. Blamed by contemporaries for distracting the…
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New England Legends with Jeff Belanger

Sarah Coyne
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Tuesday in the Parlor “New England Legends with Jeff Belanger” For over 20 years, Jeff Belanger has been exploring the unexplained. He seeks out history, folklore, ghosts, monsters, and legends all over the world and in your backyard. New England Legends offers a tour of haunts, monsters, aliens, and weird history from our region. Based…
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Tuesday in the Parlor: A Deep Dive into the Orange Line

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Tuesday in the Parlor – A Deep Dive into the Orange Line with Jeremy Fox and Andrew Elder Tuesday April 9th, 7:30 – 9:30pm Back at the Loring Greenough House by popular demand, Jeremy Fox and Andrew Elder, authors of Boston’s Orange Line, will be back in the neighborhood where the elevated Orange Line had…
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The English Garden: Perfection on Earth – An Evening with Curt DiCamillo

Sarah Coyne
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The English Garden: Perfection on Earth – An Evening with Curt DiCamillo In this lavishly illustrated talk, noted historian Curt DiCamillo will discuss the development of the English landscape tradition and demonstrate why the English garden has often been called Britain’s single most important contribution to world culture. Though the earliest English gardens were planted…
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The Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918

Sarah Coyne
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The Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 This fall marks the 100th anniversary of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 when a plague swept across the world virtually without warning. No disease the world has ever known remotely resembles this flu pandemic. Victims bled from the ears and nose, turned blue from lack of oxygen, suffered…
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William Waldorf Astor: From American Tycoon to English Lord: An evening with Curt DiCamillo

Sarah Coyne
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William Waldorf Astor: From American Tycoon to English Lord.  Presented by Curt DiCamillo, Architectural Historian, Author and Authority on the British Country House In this richly illustrated talk, historian Curt DiCamillo will trace the extraordinary life of one of the world’s most enigmatic tycoons who became an English lord. Astor’s most magnificent houses will be featured,…
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