Events are funded in part through generous support from the Massachusetts Society of the Cincinnati, the Lowell Institute, Hub Town Tours, the Revere Hotel, and Ruby W. and LaVon P. Linn Foundation.
Events
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Captain Amasa Soper’s Company
The Paul Revere House 19 N Square, Boston, MACostumed members of this Revolutionary War reenactment group take on the roles of farmers, printers, and tailors who volunteered to defend Boston harbor after the siege of the city ended […]
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Stone Carving Demonstration
The Paul Revere House 19 N Square, Boston, MAMichael Brahce is a stone carver who has been working with Karin Sprague Stone Carvers, located in North Scituate, Rhode Island, since 2022. He will be carving a slate gravestone […]
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Bark Basket Making Demonstration
The Paul Revere House 19 N Square, Boston, MABark is to the Northeast Woodland tribes as bison is to the tribes of the Western Plains. Bark is the material traditionally used to make wigwams, canoes, harvesting and storage […]
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Piece by Piece: Crazy Quilting and Making Memory in 19th-Century Massachusetts, with Tenesha Carter Johnson
Smith Commons (5th floor), Sargent Hall, Suffolk University 120 Tremont Street, Bsoton, MA, United StatesPiece by Piece: Crazy Quilting and Making Memory in 19th-Century Massachusetts, with Tenesha Carter Johnson
Gaining distinct popularity by the end of the 19th century, “crazy” quilting was both a technique, and how makers kept a record of what mattered to them. These quilts reveal how ordinary women turned scraps and keepsakes into personal archives—and what their quilts can still tell us about the relationship between memory and material culture today.Free