"People of 1763"
On Saturday, September 28, the Old State House will present an “open house” day of free public admission and special programming in recognition of National Endowment for the Humanities support for the 1763 Paris treaty 250th.
Visitors to the museum will meet colonial Bostonians—among them members of Thomas Marshall’s company of the Boston militia regiment—and a French colonial officer and his household, the
latter portrayed by the Montreal-based Société d’histoire in Memoriam. These “living historians” will engage in activities ranging from military drills to the crafting of period fashions, and share with visitors some of the diverse perspectives 1760s-era North Americans had on the war, the peace, and the future.
Demonstrating the weaving of wampum belts—in 1763 an essential tool for diplomacy involving Native nations—will be artist and museum educator Loren Spears, an enrolled Narragansett on the staff of the Tomaquag Museum in Exeter, RI. Visitors will be able to add beads to the belt Ms. Spears will be weaving at the Old State House, and make wampum strings of their own.
Don Carleton, guest curator of the Old State House exhibit “1763: A Revolutionary Peace,” will present gallery about the show’s highlights, including the British signed copy of the Paris treaty document and a rare original imprint of the “Royal Proclamation” of 1763, issued 250 years ago this October.
The program is presented with special support from Mass Humanities, which receives support from the Massachusetts Cultural Council and is an affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities, and by the Québec Government. Leadership support for the exhibition “1763: A Revolutionary Peace” has been provided by the Ruby W. and LaVon P. Linn Foundation and the Society of Colonial Wars, led by Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, and the General (national) Society.
For more information about this event, visit www.bostonhistory.org or call 617.720.1713.
Visitors to the museum will meet colonial Bostonians—among them members of Thomas Marshall’s company of the Boston militia regiment—and a French colonial officer and his household, the
latter portrayed by the Montreal-based Société d’histoire in Memoriam. These “living historians” will engage in activities ranging from military drills to the crafting of period fashions, and share with visitors some of the diverse perspectives 1760s-era North Americans had on the war, the peace, and the future.
Demonstrating the weaving of wampum belts—in 1763 an essential tool for diplomacy involving Native nations—will be artist and museum educator Loren Spears, an enrolled Narragansett on the staff of the Tomaquag Museum in Exeter, RI. Visitors will be able to add beads to the belt Ms. Spears will be weaving at the Old State House, and make wampum strings of their own.
Don Carleton, guest curator of the Old State House exhibit “1763: A Revolutionary Peace,” will present gallery about the show’s highlights, including the British signed copy of the Paris treaty document and a rare original imprint of the “Royal Proclamation” of 1763, issued 250 years ago this October.
The program is presented with special support from Mass Humanities, which receives support from the Massachusetts Cultural Council and is an affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities, and by the Québec Government. Leadership support for the exhibition “1763: A Revolutionary Peace” has been provided by the Ruby W. and LaVon P. Linn Foundation and the Society of Colonial Wars, led by Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, and the General (national) Society.
For more information about this event, visit www.bostonhistory.org or call 617.720.1713.