Location
Room 401, Hogan Campus Center, College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, Mass.
Start Date
1-6-2015 1:30 PM
End Date
1-6-2015 2:45 PM
Description
Local archivist and historian Lenora Robinson and maritime historian Mike Dyer will lead participants in exploring the workings of eighteenth-and nineteenth-century account books from local general stores and merchants to long distance trade to help us understand what might be on the table in households and how it got there. A primer in using account books for programming – useful and fun!
Moderator:
- Pleun Bouricius, Director of Grants & Programs, Mass Humanities
Presenters:
- Mike Dyer, Senior Maritime Historian, New Bedford Whaling Museum
- Lenora Robinson, Archival Librarian, New Bedford Whaling Museum Research Library
Molasses and Marshmallow: Food and Trading in New England Account Books
Room 401, Hogan Campus Center, College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, Mass.
Local archivist and historian Lenora Robinson and maritime historian Mike Dyer will lead participants in exploring the workings of eighteenth-and nineteenth-century account books from local general stores and merchants to long distance trade to help us understand what might be on the table in households and how it got there. A primer in using account books for programming – useful and fun!
Moderator:
- Pleun Bouricius, Director of Grants & Programs, Mass Humanities
Presenters:
- Mike Dyer, Senior Maritime Historian, New Bedford Whaling Museum
- Lenora Robinson, Archival Librarian, New Bedford Whaling Museum Research Library
Comments
Lenora Robinson's presentation "Slicing and dicing 19th century account books" is attached.