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Upcoming at
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THURS APR 11
Brown Bag Lunch:
"The Sky Above, The Water Beneath, and God Everywhere"
God and Eighteenth-Century Seafarers"
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Stephen Berry
WED JUNE 19
Brown Bag Lunch:
"Rebecca Kellogg Ashley"
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Joy Howard
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Find out about our collections and what we are working on at the Library by checking out our blog,
Beacon Street Journal.
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NEW OPPORTUNITY for SCHOLARS Congregational Library joins New England Regional Fellowship Consortium
| Executive Director Peggy Bendroth recently announced that the Library was invited to join the New England Fellowship Consortium, a collaboration of 18 major cultural agencies, that will offer at least 12 awards in 2013-2014. Each grant will provide a stipend of $5,000 for a minimum of eight weeks of research at participating institutions. Awards are open to U.S. citizens and foreign nationals who hold the necessary U.S. government documents. Grants are designed to encourage projects that draw on the resources of several agencies.The Library is in good company; other participants include the Boston Athenĉum, the Connecticut Historical Society, the Houghton Library, Harvard University, Maine Historical Society, Massachusetts Historical Society, the Schlesinger Library, the Sophia Smith Collection at Smith College, and the Watkinson Library at Trinity College.
For the past several year The Library has partnered with the Boston Athenĉum offering a fellowship; recent topics include, "Divided Faiths: The Rise of Segregated Northern Churches, 1730-1850" and "A Divine and Supernatural Light: Religious Emotion and the Rise of Evangelical Culture in America, 1740-1840".
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Yo Ho Ho... Our April Brown Bag Lunch!
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Atlantic travel narratives from the eighteenth-century reveal a kaleidoscope of practices and beliefs as people of varying persuasions intermixed on British sailing vessels without the established presence of any single religious tradition. This talk will focus on the spatial dimensions of shipboard life and its effects on passengers' religious practices as well as their interactions with one another. Despite the cramped quarters and social divides aboard ship, people carved out space to practice their religions.
Stephen Berry is an assistant professor of history at Simmons College in Boston. He has recently completed a book manuscript documenting the cultural history of the transatlantic voyage and its meanings for European passengers in the mid-eighteenth century
This Brown Bag Lunch will take place on Thursday, April 11.
All Brown Bag Lunches begin promptly at 12:00pm and run until 1:00pm. We encourage you to register early online.
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Our 14 Beacon Neighbors
Boston African American National Historic Site
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On a visit to the Library this time of year you are likely to see a person in uniform. Rangers from the National Park Service are pouring over manuscripts and computers, preparing for the busy tour season that starts next month. Since rangers research and write their own tours every year, the Library provides unique reference material and a quiet place to work. New tours include The Cost of Freedom: Racial Riots in Boston, A Hill Divided: Money and Morals on Beacon Hill and Black Bostonians of the Revolution. A favorite of visitors and Bostonians is the Black Heritage Trail, a fascinating walk through Beacon Hill illuminating the rich history of the Abolitionist Movement, the Underground Railroad and the early struggles for freedom and equality for all. Over the summer we hope to host several rangers at our History Matters brown Bag Lunch series. What a wonderful way to learn more about Boston's history as you hit the sidewalk with other interested folks. You can learn more about the free tours and other programs at www.nps.gov/BOAF and 617-742-5415.
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New to Our Collection
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One Colonial Woman's World
Michelle Marchetti Coughlin
University of Massachusetts Press, 2012
The staff of the Congregational Library are always interested the diaries of the earliest settlers of this country. They provide us with a look into the days and years of ordinary people and those of women are often the hardest to locate. Mehetable Chandler Coit lived from 1673 to 1758. She was born in Roxbury, Massachuestts and later moved to Connecticut. Her diary contains poems, recipes, folk and herbal remedies, religious mediations, and financial accounts. She describes her world of Colonial New England and the people in her community.
Michelle Marchetti Coughlin is an independent scholar and former editor who holds graduate degrees in history and English and American Literature.
"This book will be a stunning development, the first deep examination of an unknown diary that affords a very rare glimpse into women's lives in this time and place." -from review by Marla Miller, author of The Needle s Eye: Women and Work in the Age of Revolution
For more information about this book, the author, and an events schedule:
http://www.onecolonialwomansworld.com/index.htmlClaudette Newhall, Librarian
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