Tuesday, November 12, 2024

MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL PRESERVATION COMMISSION

Today’s Topic

1. Re: Seeking Input: Municipal Responses to Tercentenary

Markers (Martha J McNamara)

2. Re: Seeking Input: Municipal Responses to Tercentenary

Markers (Sullivan, Charles M.)

3. Re: Seeking Input: Municipal Responses to Tercentenary

Markers (Pleun Bouricius)

Dear Michael —

I’ve long been fascinated by the Mass Tercentenary markers.

Many of them express problematic interpretations of the Commonwealth’s history, but they are important evidence of 1930s commemoration.

I would hope that there would be a statewide response to these historic commemorations rather than a town-by-town approach.

 I’m not sure how that could be accomplished, but it would be a really interesting project.  

Has there been a statewide inventory of those plaques?  Is there a history of the project?

With apologies for not really answering your question

Best,

Martha

On Tue, Jul 9, 2024 at 8:14 AM Michael Wallace via MassHistPres <

masshistpres@cs.umb.edu> wrote:

Hello, I’m a member of the Sudbury Historical Commission, and at the request of our Select Board, we are initiating additional discussion regarding the 5 tercentenary markers in Sudbury that are largely …
… and interpreted.

 Thank you in advance for your thoughts.

Michael Wallace Sudbury Historical Commission MassHistPres mailing list MassHistPres@cs.umb.edu https://mailman.cs.umb.edu/listinfo/masshistpres

Martha J. McNamara

she/her

Director, New England Arts & Architecture Program

Co-Director, Architecture Program

Department of Art, Wellesley College

781-283-2961

106 Central Street

Wellesley, MA 02481

mmcnamar@wellesley.edu