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[OSMH] Charlestown in the Victorian Era
Jan. 4th, 2007 04:15 pmToday was the first of the "Middays at the Meeting House," noonish Thursday lectures in January. This month's theme is Victorian Boston.
The speaker was Ed Gordon, president of the New England chapter of the Vicotiran Society in America, spoke partly about the history of Charlestown, and partly about the architecture tour he wrote for the book Victorian Boston Today (twelve walking tours of Boston). I learned stuff, but more as discrete chunklets than as a flow of narrative, which is what I'd been hoping for. On the plus side, there were slides, so my not remembering to bring my crocheting was not nearly as annoying.
( random bits of Charlestown history )
The speaker was Ed Gordon, president of the New England chapter of the Vicotiran Society in America, spoke partly about the history of Charlestown, and partly about the architecture tour he wrote for the book Victorian Boston Today (twelve walking tours of Boston). I learned stuff, but more as discrete chunklets than as a flow of narrative, which is what I'd been hoping for. On the plus side, there were slides, so my not remembering to bring my crocheting was not nearly as annoying.
( random bits of Charlestown history )