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Jane Jacobs Exhibition Explores BC’s Connections to Famed Urban Theorist and Activist
Jane Jacobs would have turned 101 today. She died just short of her 90th birthday following tours for her last book, Dark Age Ahead. Yet, as a letter on exhibit from her archives at Burns Library indicates, she had plans … Continue reading
Posted in B. C. History, Exhibits & Events, Staff Posts
Tagged Activism, Boston, boston history, Jane Jacobs
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Edward Hartwell Savage’s Police Department Questionnaire of 1877
Question: Number of miles of streets in your jurisdiction? – Edward Harwell Savage, Chief of Police, Boston, Massachusetts Answer: A Philadelphia Lawyer could hardly answer this interrogatory. – A. Erickson, City Marshal, Houston, Texas Edward Hartwell Savage (1812-1893) joined the … Continue reading
The Golden Cockerel Press
Abebooks, an online rare book dealer, identifies fine and private presses in the following manner: “A fine press is a type of publisher that produces books of a high intrinsic and artistic quality…[A] private press…is a type of small press … Continue reading
Traditional Cape Breton and Irish Music in Boston: the Muise Family Collection
Followers of traditional fiddle music will be pleased to learn that the Muise Family Collection of Cape Breton and Irish Music has recently been processed as part of the Burns Library’s Irish Music Archives.
The Muise Family collection includes recordings of impromptu house sessions of Cape Breton and Irish music, performed by a variety of musicians in the Boston area. Included are informal music gatherings and social events that took place in the Muise home in Dorchester (1951-1965) and Roslindale (1965 and later), as recorded on home recording equipment by Johnny and Mary Muise. The collection also includes some concerts and other gatherings. Continue reading
James Brendan Connolly: Olympian, Author, Bostonian
Did you know that the first American Olympic medalist was a Bostonian and also a writer of sea stories? James Brendan Connolly is perhaps no longer a familiar name, but he was once considered the “foremost among sea-writers”(Dwyer,1). Fabien P. … Continue reading
New Year’s Gift
In the New Year of 1846, the children of Boston were given a New Year’s present: “Pictures from Memory’s Gallery”. An anonymous, eloquent author, in a pamphlet entitled Pictures from Memory: A New Year’s Gift from the Warren Street Chapel, … Continue reading
A Common Cause: David Goldstein and Martha Moore Avery
Over the summer, the archivists at the John J. Burns Library have been processing the papers of David Goldstein and Martha Moore Avery. Goldstein and Avery spent their lives as campaigners, even if what they campaigned for changed dramatically over … Continue reading
Posted in Archives & Manuscripts, Archives Diary, Student Posts
Tagged american socialism, Boston, Boston School of Political Economy, Burns blog Goldstein Avery, Catholic Campaigners for Christ, Catholic Campaigns, Catholic Church, Catholic Evidence Guild, Catholic Truth Guild, Catholics, correspondence, correspondence boston, David Goldstein, david goldstein and martha moore avery papers, history boston, History Catholic Church Boston, Martha Moore Avery, religion and politics, socialism, socialist labor party, Socialist Party
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