A SIGNIFICANT LECTURE SERIES
Lee McColgan Presents: A House Restored
Sun, Jan 12, 2025 2pm Price: $20 HSOY Member:$15
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In 2018, Lee McColgan quit his job with a major investment firm to start his own company doing something very different: restoring historic properties. And to teach himself the necessary skills for this new career, he bought a dilapidated house in Pembroke dating back to 1704 and lived in it with his wife and family while restoring it. He then recounted the experience in a wonderfully written book that shares both its title and its content with today’s talk. Anyone who has either owned an antique home, dreamed of owning one, or wonders what attracts others to do so will find much to enjoy in Lee’s presentation.
Ted Reinstein Presents: Before Brooklyn
Sun, Feb 2, 2pm Price: $20 HSOY Member: $15 To register visit www.hsoy.org/events
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Mention the “color barrier” that once existed in professional baseball and the name that springs most readily to mind is Jackie Robinson, who famously became the first Black player in Major League Baseball when he started for the Brooklyn Dodgers in April 1847. But as you will hear today from Ted Reinstein, award-winning TV reporter on Boston/WCVB’s beloved Chronicle program, the fight against segregation in baseball had been going on for many decades – and Robinson was far from the first Black player to play ball professionally.
Mary Woodward presents: The Faces of the American Revolution: Portraits by John Singleton Copley
Sun, March 2, at 2pm Price: $20 HSOY Member Price: $15 To register visit www.hsoy.org/events
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Copley was born in Boston in 1738 into a poor family, but through his self-taught talent, industrious work ethic, and ambition, he rose to move in Boston’s highest social circles. Mary Woodward, an art historian and HSOY Trustee who currently works with Historic New England as an interpreter, will explain how Copley accomplished this transition to become the preferred choice of rebels and royalists alike who wanted their likenesses captured for posterity. Today, Copley is recognized as the finest portrait painter in Colonial America.