There has been a lot going on!
OPEN: On May 25th , we had our opening reception to thank donors and contractors who worked on converting our Science Library into our new Research Center – a multi-year project that I have documented on this blog.
A big thank you to our donors and all the women and men who completed the work on the building. I have listed them several times before but our thanks are so very deep. We could have not have done it without all of them!
We will be having special workshops and open collection events throughout the summer – and some of our lectures will be held in the Research Center as well. So check out our calendar online. We hope to see you at one – or multiples!
OPEN: Mitchell House is open for the season! Come take a look and have a tour. If you have not been in in some time, or never (tsk tsk), now is the time with Maria’s 200th Birthday this year! Don’t just walk through the home she lived in – walk through the home she was born in 200 years ago!
COMPLETED: After another multi-year process, I am happy to report that the wrought iron fence at the Mitchell Family lot at Prospect Hill Cemetery (see below) has been completed and installed! This was a community Preservation Act funded project. The stone bases for the fence were realigned by Neil Patterson and his crew several years ago and DeAngelis Ironwork of Boston restored the fence using a historic photograph from our collection. It is not an exact reproduction as such a thing was completely cost prohibitive unfortunately but it speaks to the fence that was once there – just a bit simpler – using exiting patterns/molds.
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