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SUMMARY:Quincy Open Heritage Day
DESCRIPTION:Join us Saturday\, September 27 for Open Heritage Day in Quincy!\n\nMore than a dozen historic sites across the city will be hosting 30+ FREE programs and events throughout the day — a perfect way to explore local history with friends and family.\n\n\n\n Quincy Historical Society & Museum will be open all day and hosting four exciting programs:\n\n\n\n 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM\nOpen House: Early Successful Chinese Businesses in Quincy\nDiscover the stories behind some of Quincy’s pioneering Chinese-owned businesses and their lasting impact on the community.\n\n\n\n 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM\n&\n 1:30 PM – 2:30 PM\nRevolutionary Eloquence: Quincy History’s Greatest Visionaries\nFrom John Adams’ deep considerations while constructing America’s new forms of government to Abigail Adams’ graceful yet radical prose on race and gender\, to 19th- and 20th-century reformers like Francis Parker and Adelaide Claflin — Quincy has long been home to bold\, world-shaping thinkers.\nThis program celebrates four centuries of powerful rhetoric\, oration\, and written word\, brought to life through dramatic readings performed by a cast of actors.\nPresented twice — choose the time that works for you!\n\n\n\n 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM\nIt All Began 33 Years Ago: The Cantonese Radio Show at WJDA (1992–2006)\nCelebrate the legacy of this beloved community radio program and learn how it connected and empowered Cantonese-speaking residents in Quincy and beyond.\n\n\n\n Mark your calendar\, invite your friends\, and come experience Quincy’s rich heritage — all for free!\n\n\n\n Learn more: https://quincy400.com/business_detail_T5_R38.php
URL:https://quincyhistory.org/event/quincy-open-heritage-day/
LOCATION:Adams Academy\, 8 Adams Street\, Quincy\, Massachusetts\, 02169
CATEGORIES:Quincy400
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SUMMARY:The Architectural Drawings of Henry Hobson Richardson
DESCRIPTION:Quincy Historical Society invites you to its 2025 Annual Meeting on Tuesday\, October 7th\, at 7pm at the Adams Academy\, where authors Jay Wickersham\, Chris Milford\, and Hope Mayo will discuss the subject of their new book Henry Hobson Richardson: Drawings from the Collection of Houghton Library\, Harvard University. This program explores Richardson’s work with a focus on one of Quincy’s beloved architectural gems\, the Thomas Crane Public Library.\n\n\n\nH. H. Richardson is 19th century America’s most iconic architect. Richardson’s preferred Romanesque Revival style makes his work playfully eye-catching\, and instantly recognizable. Wickersham\, Milford\, and Mayo’s book\, is the first in-depth publication of drawings by H. H. Richardson. The trove of over 4\,000 drawings\, preserved since Richardson’s death and kept by Harvard University\, have been largely unpublished until now. The book presents full-color reproductions of 450 sketches and renderings by the architect and his studio assistants.\n\nIt includes more than 50 projects\, including such masterpieces as Boston’s Trinity Church; the Allegheny County Courthouse and Jail in Pittsburgh; the Marshall Field Store and Glessner House in Chicago; and five libraries\, including Quincy’s own Thomas Crane Public Library.\n\n\n\nThe authors will discuss the Richardson drawings\, and what they reveal about collaboration in Richardson’s studio\, with a focus on the design process that produced the Crane Library.\n\n\n\nThis event is open to all and free to attend.\n\n\n\nAs the Historical Society’s Annual Meeting officers and board members will be elected for the coming year.
URL:https://quincyhistory.org/event/the-architectural-drawings-of-henry-hobson-richardson/
LOCATION:Adams Academy\, 8 Adams Street\, Quincy\, Massachusetts\, 02169
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SUMMARY:Atlas of Independence: John Adams & the American Revolution -- Presentation and Book Signing
DESCRIPTION:  \nIn early fall 2025\, Quincy Historical Society received an inquiry about the sculptor of the Merrymount Park bas relief depicting John Adams and John Quincy Adams in conversation. This perfectly ordinary inquiry turned into a months-long exchange with author Chris Mackowski as he put the final touches on his new book Atlas of Independence: John Adams and the American Revolution. On Thursday\, April 30th\, the Historical Society is delighted to host Dr. Chris Mackowski for a presentation and book signing. \nJohn Adams is widely heralded\, by historians and by his contemporaries\, as the Architect of American Independence. But what did Adams do to earn a moniker of such esteem\, while simultaneously cultivating a reputation for being stubborn and combative? \nAtlas of Independence sets the record straight about John Adams’ significant contributions to the Second Continental Congress\, where he worked tirelessly behind-the-scenes to nudge – and sometimes shove – his colleagues towards the inevitable conclusion that America must declare independence from Britain. This program will explore those efforts\, and the great personal sacrifices that Adams made in pursuit of principle. It will lay out an overview of Adams’ seminal role in that tumultuous Founding time. \nThis event is open to all and free to attend. \nChris Mackowski\, Ph.D.\, is a writing professor in the Jandoli School of Communication at St. Bonaventure University in Allegany\, NY\, where he also serves as associate dean for undergraduate programs. He is the editor-in-chief and co-founder of Emerging Civil War and the series editor of the award-winning Emerging Civil War Series\, published by Savas Beatie. He is also historian-in-residence at Stevenson Ridge\, a historic property on the Spotsylvania battlefield in central Virginia. He has worked as a historian for the National Park Service at Fredericksburg & Spotsylvania National Military Park\, where he gives tours at four major Civil War battlefields (Fredericksburg\, Chancellorsville\, Wilderness\, and Spotsylvania)\, as well as at the building where Stonewall Jackson died. An award-winning writer\, Chris has authored or co-authored nearly two dozen books and edited a half-dozen essay collections on the Civil War. Atlas of Independence: John Adams and the American Revolution is his first foray into Revolution-era history.
URL:https://quincyhistory.org/event/atlas-of-independence-john-adams-the-american-revolution-presentation-and-book-signing/
LOCATION:Adams Academy\, 8 Adams Street\, Quincy\, Massachusetts\, 02169
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