Historic Somerville

 

Preserving the Past for Our Future 

Historic Somerville Inc.
9 Knowlton St.
Somerville, MA 02145

eschofield2014@gmail.com

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  • Mission
  • About Us
    • Membership form 2019
    • Meeting Location/Contact Us
  • Online Membership Renewal
  • Lecture and Event Tickets
  • LTC Enoch Woodhouse lecture
  • Pictures and Past Events
    • JANUARY 3RD & 5TH, 2019: Byron DeLear
    • 243rd flag raising 2019
    • Winter Holiday Party-2018
    • Fall 2018 Events and Lectures
    • Cresap's Rifles
    • Docent Tours Summer-Fall 2018
    • Ghosts of Somerville 2018
    • The Yankee Division in the Meuse-Argonne Offensive WWI
    • Veterans Day Memorial Parade 2018
    • Veterans Day 2018
    • SUMMER 2018 EVENTS
    • Ed Gordon: Top Ten Favorite Historic Residences in Somerville
    • An Afternoon with Kevin Dua
    • Spring 2018 Events
    • 242nd Flag Raising
    • Ghosts of Somerville
    • Veterans Day 2017
    • HS Lecture: The Yankee Division, Dan Breen
    • Winter Holiday Party
    • Docent Tours Fall 2017
    • Spring 2017 Lecture Series and Events
    • Bulfinch and the Barrell Mansion, Joseph Cornish
    • Inventing the Charles River, Karl Haglund
    • Revisiting the Flag at Prospect Hill - Byron DeLear
    • Spring 2016 lectures
    • The Jews of Somerville and greater Boston
    • Milk Row Cemetery Tour
    • The History of Somerville Lumber
    • Fall 2015 Local History Lectures
    • From Smyrna to Belleau Wood and the Second Battle of the Marne by Dr. Daniel Breen
    • Charles Williams Jr.: Somerville's Connection to the First Telephone
    • Somerville Past and Present: Images of a Century of Change by Jeff Myers
    • Boston and the Civil War; Hub of the Second Revolution
    • My Life in the First African-American Unit of the Air Force
    • History of Agriculture in Somerville
    • Art Glass of the Union Glass Co.
    • Fall 2014 Events
    • Friday, Dec. 12th, 7-9PM, Winter Holiday Party
    • Tuesday, November 11th, 2:30PM, Veterans' Day Remembrance Ceremony
    • Sunday, Nov. 9th, 2-4PM, talk by Prof. Dan Breen, The March to Laurel Hill in 1864
    • Saturday, Oct.25th 3-5PM, Mr. Allen's Tidal Powered Rope Walk
    • Thursday, Oct. 23, 5-6:30PM, Milk Row Cemetery Docent-led Tour
    • Ghosts of Somerville 2014 pictures!
    • Milk Row Cemetery Docent Led Tours
    • Mystic River Roundtable with Richard Beinecke
    • Defiance of the Patriots lecture
    • 2013 Holiday Wreath Donations
    • The Spirit of Somerville: Booksigning by Eugene Brune
    • Struggles Unceasing: The POW Experience of the Somerville Guard in the Civil War
    • Ghosts of Somerville 2013
    • For Better or Worse: 19th C. Tales Along the Middlesex and Washington, D.C. Canals
    • The Better Homes Movement in Somerville, 1922-1930
    • Workshop: Repair Historic Windows
    • The Somerville I Didn't Know: The Influence of Africans, West-Indians and African Americans on Somerville, 1630-1860.
    • May is Preservation Month - Events 2013
    • The Mystic River: March 24th Lecture
    • Raising the Roof and More
    • First Flag - January 1st, 2013
    • The Struggles of the 39th Massachusetts Volunteers
    • Somerville: Haven for Ingenious Minds
    • Militia versus Regulars in America's War of Independence
    • The Menace of the Three Decker
    • Patriots Day 2012
    • Lafayette in Somerville (Charlestown Beyond the Neck) 1824-25
    • 236th Raising of the Grand Union Flag 2012
    • April 18th, 2011 Patriots Day Colonial Fair at Foss Park
    • 2010: Paul Revere and Colonial Fair in Somerville's Foss Park
    • Ghosts of Somerville Open Cemetery Tour 2010
    • Ghosts of Somerville 2009
    • Ghost of Somerville 2006-08
    • Alan Hoffman Lecture on General Lafayettes Tour of America 1824-25
    • Reenactments
    • Costumes for 1776
  • The Civil War Monument
    • Reading the Monument
    • West Side of the Monument
    • The South Side of the Monument
    • East Side of the Monument
    • North Side of the Monument
    • The Obelisk
  • Donate
    • The advantages of repairing rather than replacing your historic windows
  • Preservation
  • 2018-19 Help Keep Somerville History Alive! Advocacy Opportunities
  • Links Related to Somerville and History
    • The Barrell Mansion on Cobble Hill
    • The Round House
    • The Round House Interior - 1950s-1960s.
    • Greek Immigration to Somerville
    • Soldiers and Sailors Monument
    • American Legion and Vietnam Memorials
    • Spanish War Monument




 

Historic Somerville 2012 Local History Lecture Series presents:


 Somerville: Haven for Ingenious Minds

 

a talk by historian and author, Dee Morris

Somerville has always made room for creative thinkers. From 1837-58 the McLean Asylum for the Insane, situated on bucolic Cobble Hill, was guided by Dr. Luther V. Bell who insisted on humane treatment of the mentally ill. This unique institution also opened its doors to overwrought inventors such as Charles T. Jackson, a challenger to Morton's discovery of ether. The eccentric Enoch Robinson, famous for his Round House, filed patents for exquisite decorative hardware. During the 1880s craftsmen at the Union Glass Company created exquisite art glass while over at Tufts College Professor Dolbear struggled to gain credit for his version of the telephone and telegraph. Found in every tool kit, the Stillson wrench was the bright idea of a Civil War veteran from Tennyson Street. By the 1890s Harriet J. Wescott was shunning convention by becoming a pioneer in dress reform. Somerville and original thought – a community legacy!

Come hear acclaimed author Dee Morris speak about these and other ingenious Somervillians.

 

Sunday, October 7th from 2:00 to 3:30PM

The Somerville Museum

One Westwood Road in Somerville

General Admission: $8, HS members free

Light reception to follow

Signed copies of the book, Somerville: A Brief History by Dee Morris and Dora St. Martin, will be for sale by check or cash.  

Tickets will be sold at the door.  Individual membership to Historic Somerville is $25 and guarantees free entrance to all 6 historic lectures of the series.

RSVP to: admin@historicsomerville.org to reserve your seating. 

The HS lecture series is supported in part by a grant from the Somerville Arts Council, a local agency which is supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency



About the Author:

 

For over twenty-five years Dee Morris has been presenting programs and walking tours in the greater Boston area. The rich history of Forest Hills Cemetery and Mount Auburn Cemetery plus the diverse stories found in communities such as Somerville, Medford, Arlington and Stoneham have provided her with endless material. She became involved in local history when she attempted to save a neighborhood garden from being paved. In researching the land, she discovered that it had been the site of a famous nursery owned by a nationally-known Victorian horticulturist. Presenting his achievements to a contemporary audience was the beginning of her passion for shedding fresh light on New England's complex past. She is also the co-author of Somerville: A Brief History (2008). 


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Historic Somerville Inc.
9 Knowlton St.
Somerville, MA 02145

eschofield2014@gmail.com

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