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  • Tuesday, March 22, 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm – Conversations with Olmsted: Civil War, Abolition, and the American Park Idea, Online

    Hosted by the National Association for Olmsted Parks, and moderated by professor and landscape architect Sara Zewde, Civil War, Abolition, and the American Park Idea will highlight a new book by the same name. Book co-authors Ethan Carr and Rolf Diamant will discuss Olmsted and the 1865 Yosemite Report, where Olmsted called for the creation of a national park system in order to help unify a deeply divided country after the Civil War. This new scholarship is designed to show the important role that the Olmsteds played in the formation of the National Park Service. The event takes place on Zoom March 22 from 3 0 4 pm. To register, visit www.olmsted200.org

  • Tuesday, January 15, 5:15 pm – 7:30 pm – Camp Benson and the “GAR” Camps: Recreational Landscape of Civil War Memory in Maine

    The Massachusetts Historical Society will host C. Ian Stevenson, of Boston University, along with commentator Ian Delahanty of Springfield College, in an Environmental History Seminar on January 15 from 5:15 – 7:30 at the Massachusetts Historical Society headquarters, 1154 Boylston Street in Boston. The topic is Camp Benson and the “GAR” Camps: Recreational Landscapes of Civil War Memory in Maine, 1886 – 1910. This seminar examines sites where veterans transitioned the Civil War vacation toward a civilian audience: Camp Benson, where several Grand Army of the Republic (GAR) posts built a campground, and at the “GAR Camps” where a single veteran proprietor built rental cottages. The speakers ask why postwar civilians would want to mimic the veteran desire to associate healthful destinations with wartime memory. How do these outdoor landscapes explain the nation’s healing process from the Civil War? The seminar is free and open to the public.

    To RSVP: email seminars@masshist.org or call (617) 646-0579.

  • Saturday, March 29, 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm – Tell It With Pride

    The Massachusetts Historical Society (MHS) and the Friends of the Public Garden are co-presenting a special event of talks and exhibit tours related to the MHS Tell It with Pride exhibition. The event is in commemoration of the memorial designed by Augustus Saint-Gaudens that honors the 1863 Civil War battle of Fort Wagner led by Colonel Robert Gould Shaw and the men of the 54th Massachusetts Regiment. Unveiled on May 31st, 1897, and located on the edge of the Boston Common facing the State House, the Shaw/54th Memorial is an important landmark in Boston, a monument created in gratitude to Shaw and the 54th Regiment’s bravery in battle.

    On Saturday, March 29th, visitors are encouraged to come and celebrate both the iconic statue and the people keeping its spirit alive. At 1:00 p.m. that day, you can meet the men of the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Regiment Company A, a group of civilian re-enactors who do living historical displays, educational lessons and Civil War period encampments and re-enactments. This group is also very involved in Making History on the Common, an event hosted annually by the Friends of the Public Garden.

    At 2:00 p.m. that same day, listen to a talk by Kathryn Greenthal, author of the book Augustus Saint-Gaudens: Master Sculptor, and Henry Duffy, the curator of the Saint-Gaudens National Historic Site (located in Cornish, New Hampshire) about the creator of this landmark.

    This event is open to the public and free of charge, but registration is required. If you are interested in attending, please register online at this link or call the MHS reservations line at 617-646-0560.

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  • Saturday, December 12 – Weston Holiday House Tour

    The Women’s Community League of Weston is pleased to announce Holiday House Tour ’09.  On Saturday, December 12, six stunning pre-civil war homes decorated for the holidays will be featured.  Over the summer the committee designed a fabulous day, chock full of Holiday Cheer, American history, and innovative combinations of the past, present, and future, bound to thrill all of those in attendance.  They  are especially pleased to debut their new Platinum Corporate Sponsors:  Boston Properties, Biogen Idec, Highland Meadows and Weston Landscaping. These corporations are proud to support the Women’s Community League Services and Scholarship Fund and give back to their local community.  Contact Nancy Hughes at nancy.hughes@comcast.net, or log on to www.wclweston.org for directions, hours, and pricing information.  The beautiful wreath below was created by Susan Snow Summerside of Moving Designz (sic) Interior Decorating.

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