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SUMMARY:Congregational Library & Archives Open House 2024
DESCRIPTION:At our 2024 Open House\, we celebrated the launch of our new online exhibition\, Religion of Revolution: Congregational Voices on Liberty\, with an in-person display of materials from Revolutionary America and a special performance by Norumbega Harmony. \nCongregationalists interpreted liberty through their own religious framework\, which included principles of autonomy\, fellowship\, and consensus. The exhibition highlights what Congregationalists had to say about liberty as documented in important printed works of the period as well as manuscript church records\, letters\, and sermon literature from the CLA’s collections and the New England’s Hidden Histories project. \nNorumbega Harmony is one of the largest and most active groups of Sacred Harp and shape-note singers in New England. Its repertoire consists of music from the colonial and Revolutionary era of New England as well as music from the Sacred Harp and other American folk-hymn traditions.
URL:https://congregationallibrary.org/events/congregational-library-archives-open-house-2024
LOCATION:Congregational Library & Archives\, 14 Beacon Street\, Boston\, MA\, 02108\, United States
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SUMMARY:Squanto: A Native Odyssey
DESCRIPTION:This virtual book talk celebrated the upcoming release of Squanto: A Native Odyssey with author Dr. Andrew Lipman. \nAmerican schoolchildren have long learned about Squanto\, the welcoming Native who made the First Thanksgiving possible\, but his story goes deeper than the holiday legend. Born in the Wampanoag-speaking town of Patuxet in the late 1500s\, Squanto was kidnapped in 1614 by an English captain\, who took him to Spain. From there\, Englishmen brought him to London and Newfoundland before sending him home in 1619\, when Squanto discovered that most of Patuxet had died in an epidemic. A year later\, the Mayflower colonists arrived at his home and renamed it Plymouth. \nPrize-winning historian Andrew Lipman explored the mysteries that still surround Squanto: How did he escape bondage and return home? Why did he help the English after an Englishman enslaved him? Why did he threaten Plymouth’s fragile peace with its neighbors with a daring plot that shocked colonists and Natives alike? Was it true that he converted to Christianity on his deathbed? Drawing from a wide range of evidence\, Lipman reconstructed Squanto’s upbringing\, his transatlantic odyssey\, his career as an interpreter\, his surprising downfall\, and his enigmatic death. The result was a fresh look at an epic life that ended right when many Americans think their story begins. \nSPEAKER BIO \nDr. Andrew Lipman is associate professor of history at Barnard College\, Columbia University. His first book\, The Saltwater Frontier: Indians and the Contest for the American Coast (Yale University Press\, 2015) was a winner of the Bancroft Prize in American History. His second book\, Squanto: A Native Odyssey\, was published by Yale University Press in 2024.
URL:https://congregationallibrary.org/events/squanto-native-odyssey
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SUMMARY:Colonization and the Wampanoag Story: A Virtual Book Talk with Linda Coombs
DESCRIPTION:When you think about the beginning of the American story\, what comes to mind? Three ships in 1492\, or perhaps buckled hats and shoes stepping off the Mayflower\, ready to start a new country? But the truth is\, Christopher Columbus\, the Pilgrims\, and the colonists didn’t arrive to a vast\, empty land ready to be developed. They arrived to find people and communities living in harmony with the land they had inhabited for thousands of years\, and they quickly disrupted everything they saw. \n\nFrom its “discovery” by Europeans to the first Thanksgiving\, the story of America’s earliest days has been carefully misrepresented. Told from the perspective of the New England Indigenous Nations that these outsiders found when they arrived\, Colonization and the Wampanoag Story tells the true story of how America as we know it today began. \nThis virtual book talk with Linda Coombs (Aquinnah Wampanoag) focused on her book in the Race to the Truth series\, a book line for young adults that aims to correct common falsehoods and celebrate underrepresented heroes and achievements. \nSPEAKER BIO \nLinda Coombs is a citizen of the Aquinnah Wampanoag tribe on Martha’s Vineyard and has lived in Mashpee for more than 40 years. She has worked for 49 years as a museum educator\, spending 11 years at the Boston Children’s Museum; 30 years in the Wampanoag Indigenous Program at Plimoth Plantation; and 9 years at the Aquinnah Cultural Center\, one of the old homesteads in the Aquinnah community that was built by an Aquinnah Wampanoag man and is now a museum of Aquinnah Wampanoag history. \nShe has been an interpreter\, artisan\, and researcher; led workshops and teacher institutes; written children’s stories and articles on various aspects of Wampanoag history and culture; and developed and worked on all aspects of a wide variety of exhibits. \nLinda has worked extensively with her own Wampanoag communities as well as with the public. The goal of her work continues to be communicating accurate and appropriate representations of the history\, cultures\, and people of the Wampanoag and other Indigenous nations.
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SUMMARY:Sharing Your Story: Using the Archives to Write Your Church’s History
DESCRIPTION:Whether or not your church has an upcoming anniversary\, it is still important to consider how to share your church’s history with the wider world. Church histories are not only of interest to today’s congregants\, but to members of a church’s community\, genealogists\, family historians\, local history enthusiasts\, archivists writing historical notes\, and prospective church members. Fortunately\, many of the tools necessary to research your church’s history can be found within your archive. \nIn this webinar\, CLA archivists Billy McCarthy and Zachary Bodnar explored the types of records that appear within church archives and how they can be used to write a church’s story. They discussed options for writing community-focused histories that focus on people and celebrate a church’s accomplishments\, overview practices of reparative history\, and consider how churches should write about the portions of their past that may not reflect their current beliefs or values. \nSPEAKER BIOS \nZachary Bodnar graduated with a Masters of Library and Information Science from Simmons University\, with a concentration in archives management\, in 2018. Prior to his work at the CLA\, Zachary worked at the Bellamy-Ferriday House and Garden archive\, the Vassar College Special Collections\, the Harvard Law School Library\, and the Harvard Botany Libraries. Zachary joined the CLA as an Archives Assistant in 2017\, helping to prepare materials for digitization through the New England’s Hidden Histories program. In 2018\, he took on the title of Archivist. His professional interests include metadata collection and management\, digital archiving\, audio/visual preservation\, and archives management. \nBilly McCarthy graduated with a Masters of Library and Information Science (MLIS) at Simmons University with a concentration in Archival Management. He started working at the CLA through a graduate internship and was hired full-time as an Archivist in 2018. Billy is the Head of Reader Services\, helping the CLA’s visitors with reference requests and facilitating in-person research. Billy also serves as the collection manager for the archives\, working with CLA’s offsite vendor to protect and maintain the organization’s archival records. Some of his professional interests include increasing access\, collection management\, processing of complex materials\, and facilitating research.
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