“A memento mori, keen as the sword suspended over the head of Damocles. My face looks to myself like a ruin—Yet how I waste the few hours that are left me!”
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John Gray Mourning Ring
This mourning ring was made for John and Mary (Otis) Gray to remember their son, John Gray, who died six days after his birth in September 1763. Less than two months later, Mary Gray also died. Jewels bearing skulls and skeletons reminded the wearer that they, too, will die and should live with the next world in mind.
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MHS Staff First to Finish the BPL Passport Program
The Boston Public Library (BPL) recently began a passport program to encourage library visitors to visit all branches of the BPL. MHS’s own Director of Research, Dr. Kanisorn Wongsrichanalai, was the first person to visit every BPL branch and finish his passport.
“I am a huge fan of the passport program run by National Park Service, so I could not resist this new BPL activity. I loved the experience of learning about the BPL system, Boston’s neighborhoods, and the MBTA,” shared Dr. Wongsrichanalai. He explained that he “used almost all modes of transportation to get to the locations: on foot, by bike, by bus, by commuter rail, and by subway. I honestly did not expect to be the first one in the city to complete the program but, at the MHS, we like being first.”
Photograph by Anne Bentley, MHS Curator of Art & Artifacts, Emerita.
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Happy 258th Anniversary to John and Abigail Adams
“This day dearest of Friends compleats 13 years since we were solemly united in wedlock; 3 years of the time we have been cruelly seperated. I have patiently as I could endured it with the Belief that you were serving your Country, and rendering your fellow creatures essential Benefits. May future Generations rise up and call you Blessed, and the present behave worthy of the blessings you are Labouring to secure to them, and I shall have less reason to regreat the deprivation of my own perticuliar felicity.”
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Tuesday, 25 October | 5:00 PM
Aabid Allibhai, Harvard University; Daniel Bottino, Rutgers University; Rev. Dr. Christian Cuthbert; Camden Elliot, Harvard University; and Can Mert Kökerer, University of Chicago
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Thursday, 27 October | 5:00 PM
Alexi Garrett, Saint Michael's College; Kathryn Angelica, University of Connecticut; with comment by Laura F. Edwards, Princeton University
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Friday, 28 October | 6:00 PM
Stacy Schiff, in conversation with Sara Georgini, MHS
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First of Three Celebrity Speaker Receptions This Friday
Celebrity Speaker Reception Sponsors
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Tuesday, 29 November at 7:30 PM: Writing History: An Extended Q&A with Stacy Schiff in conversations with Ryan J. Woods, EVP and COO of American Ancestors/New England Historic Genealogical Society, and Catherine Allgor, President of MHS.
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