Lectures tagged "Boston Harbor Islands"

Diary From Great Brewster Island: Girls Night Out in the 1890s
Stephanie Schorow
November 19, 2009
00:36:50
Author Stephanie Schorow explores the lives of four remarkable women who, on a hot July day in 1891, set off for 10 days of "roughing it" on Great Brewster Island and kept a diary of their summer adventure on their "enchanted isle." Now in the collection of the Schlesinger Library at Harvard Univers
Boston's Spectacle Island and its Native American Past
Ellen Berkland
November 5, 2009
00:37:40
Boston City archeologist Ellen Berkland shows how archeologists have pieced together a rich story of the daily lives of some of the first communities in Boston, on Spectacle Island. The Boston Harbor Islands have been inhabited for thousands of years. From A.D.
Native Americans: Living in Two Worlds
Gill Solomon
April 1, 2009
00:24:02
The people who first inhabited the land now known as the Commonwealth of Massachusetts share their own stories. They show the difference between the European world view and the natives' world view, and demonstrate the importance of passing on oral traditions to younger generations.
In Their Own Voice: Native Americans Tell Their History
Gill Solomon
April 1, 2009
01:08:19
Gill Solomon, chief sachem of the Massachuset-Ponkapoag Tribal Council, and Mary Anne Hendricks, sachem of the Natick Nipmuc Indians, talk to park rangers from the Boston Harbor Islands about how they
Paul Goodnight: Memorial for the Middle Passage
Paul Goodnight
October 30, 2008
00:26:54
African cultural artist Paul Goodnight talks about the power of art and its ability to fight inhumanity, change perceptions, and heal old wounds. This is what a Boston monument memorializing the slave trade's "Middle Passage" could do for the world.