EVENTS
1630: from shawmut to boston
WALKING TOUR, TUESDAY, JULY 1, 2025, 6-7:30pm
ROXANNE REDDINGTON-WILDE
Walk through history with our updated walking tour, 1630: From Shawmut to Boston! Meet the people, places and ideas of 1630s Boston - a city built on the Native land but created in the Puritan colonial image. We start on the slopes of the Shawmut peninsula before following in the footsteps of English colonists such as John Winthrop, William Blackstone and Anne Hutchinson to discover how they saw the society they founded. SOLD OUT
1630: from shawmut to boston
WALKING TOUR, TUESDAY, JULY 22, 2025, 6-7:30pm
RAIN DATE: TUESDAY, JULY 29, 2025, 6-7:30pm
ROXANNE REDDINGTON-WILDE
Led by our knowledgeable guides, you’ll follow in the footsteps of the Puritans who built colonial Boston, rejecting the possibility of coexistence with Massachusett people to create a town in their own English image. Why did the Puritans leave their English homes and what did they hope to achieve in Massachusetts? Delve into the ideas and people of 1630s Boston.
A STORM OF WITCHCRAFT
VIRTUAL BOOK CLUB, WEDNESDAY, JULY 23, 2025, 7-8:30pm ET
EVANA ROSE TAMAYO
More than three centuries ago a wave of witchcraft hysteria swept through Massachusetts, as fear and accusations spread across the region. What really happened? How do we understand the fear, the willingness to testify against a neighbour’s , the turning on others that led to 20 deaths? Our online book discussion of Emerson Baker’s acclaimed A Storm of Witchcraft, limited to ten people, immerses you in these questions as, together, we consider the past.
A STORM OF WITCHCRAFT
VIRTUAL BOOK CLUB, WEDNESDAY, JULY 30, 2025, 7-8:30pm ET
EVANA ROSE TAMAYO
Our first book club meeting sold out within three hours, so here’s another chance to join us! Together, we’ll explore what really happened in 1692, and ask: how do we understand the fear, the willingness to testify against a neighbour’s, the turning on others that led to 20 deaths? Our online book discussion of Emerson Baker’s acclaimed A Storm of Witchcraft will consider the many unanswered questions of the past - and what they might say about our present. Places limited to 10 people.
“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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