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Upcoming Events

- 7/27/2017, 7/28/2017
  Farm Explorers at Casey Farm: Week 3
  Casey Farm
  Rhode Island
  7/27/2017
  Members Only: Behind the Scenes in Collections Storage
  Haverhill
  Massachusetts
  7/27/2017, 7/28/2017
  Growing Together at Casey Farm: Week 3
  Casey Farm
  Rhode Island
- 7/27/2017, 7/28/2017
  Farm Friends at Casey Farm: Week 3
  Casey Farm
  Rhode Island
  7/27/2017
  Movies at the Mansion, Roman Holiday
  Lyman Estate
  Massachusetts
  7/28/2017
  Feast for the Farms
  Casey Farm
  Rhode Island
- 7/28/2017
  Twilight Lawn Concert, Featuring: The Blackburns
  Roseland Cottage
  Connecticut
  7/28/2017
  Nooks and Crannies, July 28
  Beauport, the Sleeper-McCann House
  Massachusetts
  7/29/2017
  Coastal Growers’ Market
  Casey Farm
  Rhode Island
- 7/29/2017
  Vintage Base Ball Triple-Header Game
  Spencer-Peirce-Little Farm
  Massachusetts
  7/29/2017
  The Legacy of Jonathan Sayward: With Honor and Reputation Sustained
  Sayward-Wheeler House
  Maine
  7/29/2017
  Designing Beauport, Room by Room
  Beauport, the Sleeper-McCann House
  Massachusetts

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And Then There Were None… Live Radio Play, August 4
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Herrmann’s Royal Lipizzan Stallions at Roseland Cottage, August 18
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Twilight Talks, Secure the Shadow: Victorian Spirit and Post-Mortem Photography
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Fashions of Their Times, 1805-1925: A Historical Fashion Workshop
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Featured Locations
Gropius House
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Beauport, the Sleeper-McCann House
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Eustis Estate Museum
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Roseland Cottage
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Featured Posts

Jul 27 2017

Attaching a show-stopping show cover: Minimally invasive upholstery in the Conservation Lab

Jul 27, 2017

Historic New England’s Thomas Wightman couch, which we reported on earlier here and here, is finally completed and ready for photography. What is minimally invasive upholstery?...

Jul 21 2017

Glass-plate negatives preserve work of early female photographer

Jul 21, 2017

Historic New England’s collection services team works with interns to help preserve, catalogue, and digitize our archival and object collections. Below, intern Gracey Hellstrom shares what her work...

Jul 13 2017

Capturing stories of modern Roxbury: Beryl Harris

Jul 13, 2017

This summer, Helina Dawit Yohannes, an incoming senior at Suffolk University, is working with Urban Edge and Historic New England to compile an archive of the personal stories...

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