History Cafe: When Crafty Women Take the Domestic Arts to the Public Realm

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Walking Tour: 5:30-6:30pm: 

Stroll past 'Bee' members' homes, and hear their stories; all in the Hooper-Lee-Nichols House vicinity. Tour led by Steve Pinkerton. Meeting location to be announced. Please check back.

History Cafe, 6:30-8pm:

A parlor conversation with Steve Pinkerton & Pamela Baldwin about two 'craftivist' moments- Cambridge’s own Civil War ‘Bee,’ and the recent ‘Pussyhat Project;' and a look at 'Bee' collections objects, with intern Heather Larson.

Libations and light snacks.

Needlework is welcome here!

CHS Council member Pamela Baldwin is an art historian and administrator at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. A longtime knitter, she is a newly-active craftivist with a deep interest in the intersection of domestic practice, material culture, and social movements.

Stephen Pinkerton is volunteer docent at Mount Auburn Cemetery, where he gives history-themed talks and serves as resident genealogist. His interest in 'The Bee' grew from desigining a walking tour at Mount Auburn Cemetery, where 27 'Bee' members are buried.

Heather Larson is a collections intern at the Cambridge Historical Society and is currently working towards an A.L.M. in Museum Studies at the Harvard University Extension School. 

Questions? Email lwaskelis@cambridgehistory.org or call 617-547-4252