A Small Bench by the Side of the Road: Elise Lemire on Remembering Concord’s History of Slavery
Posted on | June 17, 2011 | No Comments
In this post, Penn Press author Elise Lemire describes a community’s efforts to bring its history of slavery to light.
Members of the Drinking Gourd Project and officers from the Toni Morrison Society at the dedication of Concord’s Bench by the Side of the Road. Photo courtesy of Tom Hersey.
Read the article on the Penn Press Log
Book Signing on Saturday, July 9
Posted on | June 17, 2011 | No Comments
Book Signing
Saturday, July 9, 2011 at 7:30-9:00 pm
Book Signing at Masonic Temple (Downstairs)
1. Gayle Moore, Wild Harmonies2. Thomas Potter, Sensual Harmonies3. Albena Bakratcheva, The Call of the Green: Thoreau and Place-Sense in American Writing; Rochelle Johnson, Passions for Nature: Nineteenth-Century America’s Aesthetics of Alienation. University of Georgia Press, 2009; Essays on Nature and Landscape by Susan Fenimore Cooper. Edited and with an introduction by Rochelle Johnson and Daniel Patterson. Foreword by John Elder. University of Georgia Press, 2002; Rural Hours [1850], by Susan Fenimore Cooper. Edited and with an Introduction by Rochelle Johnson and Daniel Patterson. University of Georgia Press, 1998.4. Peter Alden, Field Guides5. Laura Dassow Walls, The Passage to Cosmos: Alexander von Humboldt and the Shaping of Americaa. Laura Dassow Walls, Emerson’s Life in Science: The Culture of Truthb. Laura Dassow Walls, Seeing New Worlds: Henry David Thoreau and Nineteenth-Century Natural Sciencec. Laura Dassow Walls, The Oxford Handbook of Transcendentalism (Oxford Handbooks) by Joel Myerson, Sandra Harbert Petrulionis, and Laura Dassow Wallsd. Laura Dassow Walls, More Day to Dawn: Thoreau’s ‘Walden’ for the Twenty-first Century by Sandra Harbert Petrulionis and Laura Dassow Wallse. Laura Dassow Walls, Material Faith: Thoreau on Science by Henry David Thoreau, Laura Dassow Walls, and J. Parker Huber6. Kevin P. Van Anglen, Environment: An Interdisciplinary Anthology (The Lamar Series in Western History) by Mr. Glenn Adelson, Mr. James Engell, Brent Ranalli, and Kevin P. Van Anglen7. Bob Gross, Minutemen and their world8. Leslie Wilson, In History’s Embrace: Past and Present in Concord, Massachusetts9. Dillon Bustin, Walden CD10. Jeffrey S. Cramer, The Maine Woods: A Fully Annotated Edition by Henry D. Thoreaua. Jeffrey S. Cramer, Walden: A Fully Annotated Edition by Henry D. Thoreaub. Jeffrey S. Cramer, I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreauc. Jeffrey S. Cramer, Excursions
11. Jack Larkin, Where We Worked: American Workers and the Nation They Built 1830s–1930s (2010)
12. Joanne Pope Melish, Disowning Slavery: Gradual Emancipation and “Race” in New England, 1780–1860
13. Stephen Cole, The Rangeley and Its Region: The Famous Boat and Lakes of Western Maine,The Cranberry: Hard Work and Holiday Sauce14. Corinne H. Smith, Westward I Go Free: Tracing Thoreau’s Last Journey15. Howard Nelson, The Nap by the Waterfall; Earth, My Likeness: Nature Poetry of Walt Whitman 16. Joanna Greenfield, The Lion’s Eye: Seeing in the Wild17. David Wood, An Observant Eye: The Thoreau Collection at the Concord Museum18. Michael Berger, Thoreau’s Late Career and “The Dispersion of Seeds”: The Saunterer’s Synoptic Vision19. Tom Montgomery-Fate, Beyond the White Noise, Steady and Trembling, Cabin Fever20. Michael Stoneham, Literary Confrontation in the Era of John Brown21. Robert Gerzon, Finding Serenity in an Age of Anxiety22. John P. Miller, Transcendental Learning: The Educational Legacy of Alcott, Emerson, Fuller, Peabody, and Thoreau23. Barbara Novak, Voyages of the Self: Pairs, Parallels, and Patterns in American Art and Literature24. Brian O’Doherty, Studio and Cube ; The Deposition of Father McGreevy; American Masters: The Voice and Myth25. Frederick C. Dahlstrand, Amos Bronson Alcott: An Intellectual Biography26. Jacqueline Schwab (Discography): Mark Twain’s America – A Portrait in Music (Dorian 90299), 2001; Down Came an Angel (Dorian 90275), 1999; Mad Robin (Midsummer Recordings 223), 1996; Songs of the Civil War (Piano Disc CD 9310) (playable on PianoDisc systems)
Society Places the Fifth Bench by the Road in Concord Massachusetts
Posted on | May 31, 2011 | No Comments
On May 21st, the Drinking Gourd Project of Concord Massachusetts joined the Bench by the Road Project of the Toni Morrison Society by placing the fifth bench in the Series in honor of Caesar Robbins, the second African American homeowner in Concord, Massachusetts. On the morning of May 21st, The Caesar Robbins House was moved from 324 Bedford Street back to its original location across from the Old Manse in Concord on land managed by the Minute Man National Historic Park where it will become The Robbins House Interpretive Center.
Read the full article: Society Places the Fifth Bench by the Road in Concord Massachusetts
To view the photo gallery of the Caesar Robbins Bench placement click here.
Still Moving
Posted on | May 23, 2011 | No Comments
Pictures from this morning. Inch by inch….
Caesar Robbins House in the news – Bill would secure CPA funding state match
Posted on | May 23, 2011 | No Comments
Bill would secure CPA funding state matchBy David Riley and Cheryl LecesseWicked Local Concord
Posted May 23, 2011 @ 01:43 PM
Concord — This past weekend, a historic house on Bedford Street made its way to its new home on Monument Street.
The Caesar Robbins House, the former home to a freed slave in Concord, will become a center for interpretive history, where residents and visitors can learn more about the town’s African and abolitionist history. While donations helped the nonprofit organization the Drinking Gourd Project save the house from demolition, much of the funding for this labor of love came from the town’s involvement in the Community Preservation Act.
“Without the community agreeing to put CPA funding in that project, it wouldn’t be happening right now,” said Lynn Huggins, chairman of Concord’s Community Preservation Committee. “That’s a perfect example of a fragile, irreplaceable resource that the town was able to move quickly to preserve.”A bill advancing again through the Legislature after stalling at the end of last year’s session would guarantee significant state support for the CPA. The legislation would assure a 75 percent state match for local funds collected in towns and cities that have adopted the CPA. Supporters say this and other changes could bolster the CPA’s effectiveness and encourage more communities to join the voluntary program.
Read more: Bill would secure CPA funding state match – Concord, MA – The Concord Journal
Caesar Robbins House Moved (Video)
Posted on | May 22, 2011 | No Comments
Moving the former home of Caesar Robbins Saturday, May 21, 2011 through the town. Built in the late 1700’s and owned by the first freed slave, it is to become the centerpiece exhibit illustrating this era and located by Old North Bridge.From Jeff Olitsky via YouTube
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