Week of Events
Play Reading: ‘Sophia Hayden Deserves Better’
Join Jamaica Plain History Society on Zoom for a reading of the play Sophia Hayden Deserves Better by Stephanie Alison Walker. In 1891 a brilliant 23-year-old woman from Jamaica Plain won an architecture contest to design the Woman’s Building for the World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago. What should have been the start to a flourishing […]
Confronting Racial Injustice: Rising Asian American Political Power
Confronting Racial Injustice: Rising Asian American Political Power
Anti-Asian violence is not new. Join us for a conversation about the history of racial violence against Asian Americans, and the recent rise of political power of Asian Americans. Panel will feature: Boston Mayor Michelle Wu; Paul Lee, former Partner, Goodwin, Procter & Hoar; Phil Nash, Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund; and Representative […]
Walking Tour of Stony Brook
Walking Tour of Stony Brook
Explore a fascinating industrial area at the geographic heart of Boston that includes 19th-century tannery and brewery buildings, the homes of early German settlers, and today’s Boston Beer Company, the brewers of Samuel Adams. In the 1970s, a coalition of community groups joined together to block construction of the Southwest Expressway through Jamaica Plain and […]
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