Paul Revere, Silversmith: Assessing his Craft and Legacy with Janine E. Skerry and Jeannine Falino
Join Executive Director Nina Zannieri and two noted silver experts for a thoughtful discussion of Revere as perhaps America’s best-known silversmith. Is this status warranted by his talent, a result of his “Midnight Ride” fame, or a little of both? How does his work inform our notion of craft, craftsmanship, business, and entrepreneurship?

By the late 1700s only about two dozen elements were known, there was no periodic table, and there were very few of the laboratory practices and equipment we use today. […]

Crafting Reform: The Saturday Evening Girls and the Paul Revere Pottery with Nonie Gadsden
The Saturday Evening Girls' club was established in 1899 for Italian and Jewish immigrant girls in the tenements of Boston's North End, and in 1908, the club leaders founded a pottery where the girls could work. They named it the Paul Revere Pottery in honor of the patriot and to emphasize their own desire to be seen as Americans. The lecture will explore how the Pottery exemplified the Arts and Crafts movement. 

Restoring the Plants, Restoring the Practice with Paula Peters
Paula Peters will explore the deep relationship between environmental health, Indigenous knowledge, and cultural practice. Focusing on native materials such as bulrush and wampum, the talk will show how plants and shells are not simply resources, but living connections to land, water, craft, and identity. Peters will discuss how invasive species, development, and ecological imbalance threaten these traditions—and how restoration efforts to bring native plants back can help renew both the landscape and the cultural practices rooted within it.