Program Highlights Fall 2012 - Spring 2013
Alex Prud'homme – "The Ripple Effect: The Fate of Fresh Water in the Twenty-first Century."
Time: 6:00 p.m.
Location: Club of Odd Volumes, 77 Mount Vernon Street, Boston
In this lecture the author will discuss his new book of the same title, the basis for the eco-documentary Last Call at the Oasis. Experts call it "the next oil," and predict water will be the focus of increased tension and great innovation in the coming decades.
Matthew Waldman – "Afghanistan: Current Conditions and the Road Ahead"
Time: 6:00 p.m.
Location: American Meteorological Society 45 Beacon Street, Boston
Matthew Waldman, Research Fellow at Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, will offer an overview of the current security and governance conditions in Afghanistan, and provide recommendations for what is planned to be a year of withdrawal of US troops from the country.
Traditional Beacon Hill Eggnog Party
Time: 6:00 – 8:00 p.m.
Location: Nichols House Museum 55 Mount Vernon Street, Boston
Join us for a cup of cheer and delicious hors d'oeuvres with friends and neighbors of the Nichols House.
Holiday Open House
Time: 12:00 – 4:00 p.m.
Location: 55 Mount Vernon Street, Boston
Free admission to the Nichols House Museum
Melissa Renn—"Life in the Art World: Life Magazine and Modern American Art."
Time: 6:00 p.m.
Location: American Meteorological Society 45 Beacon Street, Boston
Life magazine was a champion of American modernism, actively promoting the work of 20th-Century artists and architects, including Thomas Hart Benton, Georgia O'Keefe, Stuart Davis, Jackson Pollock, Robert Rauschenberg, and Frank Lloyd Wright. This lecture will explore the magazine's alliances with artists, architects, curators and critics, and will discuss how such collaborations influenced public's reception of modern art in the United States.
May 18
The Art of Entertaining
A Focus Tour in Conjunction with the House Museum Alliance of Downtown Boston
Time: Tours at 1:00 p.m., 2:00 p.m., 3:00 p.m.
Location: The Nichols House Museum, 55 Mount Vernon Street
Related tours also at The Otis House and The Gibson House Museum.
The Boston House Museum Alliance announces its spring 2013 tour series, "The Art of Entertaining." For these special tours, the Otis House Museum, Gibson House Museum, and Nichols House Museum draw on their rich collections to illuminate a variety of amusements in eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth-century Boston. Enjoy a forty-minute tour of each house. Tickets are $5 and are sold separately at each site.
Nichols House
For Rose Standish Nichols, the best form of entertainment was interesting conversation.
At her famous salon-style afternoon tea parties at 55 Mount Vernon Street, she hosted
artists, intellectuals, writers, politicians, religious leaders, and other accomplished
individuals for discussions about current events, the arts, and philosophy. Rose Nichols
continued the late nineteenth and early twentieth-century Beacon Hill tradition of women
promoting social causes through gatherings in their homes.
Come to the Nichols House to learn of the fascinating ways women on Beacon Hill, including Rose Nichols, used their homes as gathering places for discussion and activism. After the tour, guests will be able to taste the strong Hu-kwa tea Rose famously served at her tea parties!
Megan Marshall – "The Passion of Margaret Fuller: A Biographical Romance"
Time: 5:30 p.m.
Location: American Meteorological Society, 45 Beacon Street, Boston
Pulitzer Prize finalist Megan Marshall will talk about the research and writing of her latest biography Margaret Fuller: A New American Life, praised by Emerson biographer Robert D. Richardson as "the best single volume ever written on Fuller."
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