The Society's 2010 Summer Heritage Festival will include the Hall Memorial Lecture (Friday evening, August 13th, at 7:30 PM); demonstrations of old-time crafts; a display of paintings by the late artist Helen Ann Morton; antiques appraisals; tours of the Society's 1813 period house museum; an "antiquarian supper" and much more!  For a full schedule of events, click on the PDF file below.

This year's Hall Lecture, entitled "Unbuttoning New England: Peyton Place and the Undocumented Past," will be presented by Ardis Cameron (Ph.D., Boston College), Director and a Professor of American and New England Studies at the University of Southern Maine.  Cameron was named a Fellow by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowships in 2002 and received a National Endowment for the Humanities Senior Research Fellowship in 2001. Both were for her project "Tales of Peyton Place: The Biography of a Big Book." She is the author of Radicals of the Worst Sort: The Laboring Women of Lawrence Massachusetts, 1880-1912, (U. of Illinois Press, 1994) and Looking For America: The Visual Production of People and Nation (Blackwell Publications, 2004). Professor Cameron is the author of numerous articles about women, cultural politics and working class history.  FMI: 207-824-2908