When the National Park Service wanted to create a federal park on Cape Cod, residents worried about what would happen to their homes, communities, and coastal traditions. This Massachusetts Historical Society lecture examines how citizens articulated their concerns, and how these responses helped the NPS and Senators John F. Kennedy and Leverett Saltonstall to create a new acquisition and land management policy that would then be applied to other living landscapes. The lecture will be given at the Massachusetts Historical Society building on Boylston Street in Boston by Jacqueline Gonzales of Historical Research Associates, with comment by Steven Moga of Smith College.
Free and open to the public. To RSVP: email seminars@masshist.org or call (617) 646-0579.
