EVENTS
Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association, Deerfield MA
THE LONG LEGACY
IN PERSON AND LIVESTREAMED, THURSDAY, MAY 28, 2026, 5:30-7:30pm ET
BOSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY, COPLEY SQUARE
CHERYLL TONEY HOLLEY, PAULA PETERS, MACK SCOTT AND KIMBERLY TONEY
Forced displacement, enslavement, land seizures and dispossession, a global diaspora and suppression of languages - the war that bore the name of Metacom, or Philip, left a long and devastating trail of destruction. Join this important panel discussion, live at the Boston Public Library and livestreamed, in asking: what is due to the people of the Eastern Woodlands? How do we reckon with this bloody history and its legacy today? The final event in our Metacom’s Resistance series.
1630: from shawmut to boston
WALKING TOUR, THURSDAY, MAY 21, 2026, 5:30-7PM
ROXANNE REDDINGTON-WILDE
Stroll through history with our original walking tour, 1630: From Shawmut to Boston! Meet the people, places and ideas of 1630s Boston - built on the Native land but created in a Puritan English image. Places are limited, so register now! Price: $10/person.
We start in 1630 on the slopes of the Shawmut peninsula. The English Puritan founders of the Massachusetts Bay Colony looked to create an ideal society as seen through their own – and no one else’s – eyes. Boston, as they renamed the place, became its center. Meet the people, places and ideas that turned Shawmut into Boston.
1630: from shawmut to boston
WALKING TOUR, TUESDAY, JUNE 9, 2026, 5:30-7PM
ROXANNE REDDINGTON-WILDE
If May doesn’t suit you, join us in June! Strolll through history with our original walking tour, 1630: From Shawmut to Boston! Meet the people, places and ideas of 1630s Boston - built on the Native land but created in a Puritan English image. Places are limited, so register now! Price: $10/person.
We start in 1630 on the slopes of the Shawmut peninsula. The English Puritan founders of the Massachusetts Bay Colony looked to create an ideal society as seen through their own – and no one else’s – eyes. Boston, as they renamed the place, became its center. Meet the people, places and ideas that turned Shawmut into Boston.
stolen relations: UNCOVERING UNTOLD STORIES
PANEL DISCUSSION, MAY 28, 2026, 5:30-7PM
LINFORD FISHER, CHERYLL TONEY HOLLY, PAULA PETERS AND LORÉN SPEARS
From the first moments of European colonization, Native people in the Americas were captured and enslaved - most of them remaining unnamed and unknown. Now you can find the names and lives of thousands of them, thanks to the groundbreaking Stolen Relations project. The result of collaboration between reearchers at Brown University and a dozen regional Native nations, the Stolen Relations database tells the stories of nearly 8000 people. Find out what this remarkable database has to offer - rich documentation, suprisingly intimate details, and many names - from the core team involved in its creation.
“You knocked it out of the park with this lecture. Have signed up for them all.”
—attendee, Enslavement & Resistance series