Fellowships at the American Antiquarian Society
This short film describes the fellowships available at the American Antiquarian Society, a national research library of American history, literature and culture located in Worcester, Massachusetts. The Society collects the printed record of what is now the United States, the British West Indies and Canada from 1640 through 1876.
American Artifacts: American Antiquarian Society - First Bible Printed in America
The American Antiquarian Society in Worcester, Massachusetts, is an independent research library founded in 1812 by Revolutionary War patriot and printer Isaiah Thomas. The library's collection includes more than four million items and focuses on printed materials dating from the first European settlement of American through 1876 and the post-Civil War Reconstruction era. American History TV visited the American Antiquarian Society to look at some of the highlights from their collection. In this segment, we learn about the first Bible ever printed in America.
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Snow Ghost Community Show #18: American Antiquarian Society
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A video tour of the American Antiquarian Society in Worcester, Massachusetts.
Shot by Mike Benedetti and Cindy Brennan.
Created by Mike Benedetti, Cindy Brennan, Jonathan Lane, and James David Moran.
Bach's Italian Concerto performed by Martha Goldstein and licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike license.
Thanks to Allison Malcom, Joycelyn Moody, Jaclyn Penny, and Rachel Pieters.
Special thanks to the American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, Massachusetts.
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The American Antiquarian Society - Orientation Film
This short film describes the American Antiquarian Society (AAS). AAS is an independent research library and learned society founded in 1812 in Worcester, Massachusetts. The library's collections document the life of America's people from the colonial era through the Civil War and Reconstruction.
Live with the VP of the American Antiquarian Society
Did you know about the American Antiquarian Society? It's one of Worcester's hidden gems and Jim Moran, Vice President for Programs and Outreach, is here to tell us all about it in this previously recorded live video.
Top 16. Tourist Attractions & Things to Do in Worcester, Massachusetts
Top 16. Tourist Attractions & Things to Do in Worcester, Massachusetts: Worcester Art Museum, The Hanover Theatre for the Performing Arts, EcoTarium, Elm Park, Green Hill Park, Worcester Historical Museum, Wormtown Brewery, Bancroft Tower, Fitton Field, Union Station, American Antiquarian Society, City Hall, Quinsigamond State Park, Central Rock Gym, DCU Center, Salisbury Mansion
Analyzing Revere's Engraving of the Boston Massacre
Jim Moran, Director of Outreach at the American Antiquarian Society in Worcester, Massachusetts, models how to analyze Paul Revere's engraving of the Boston Massacre, a primary source image, for teachers. The production of this video was done by EASTCONN staff and funded through the Teaching American History grant. For more information, lessons and multimedia, visit
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The Life of Jack Larkin Video
John W. Larkin
1943 - 2013
WARREN - Jack Larkin, proud father, loving husband, terrific grandfather, raging intellect, scholar, and historian, mentor to budding historians and scholars, tenor and choral singer, and overall wonderful person, died Friday, March 29th 2013 after a nine month battle with pancreatic cancer.
He is survived by his wife and best friend of 42 years, Barbara Bauman Larkin; his beloved sons and daughters-in-law Timothy Dwight Abrahamson-Larkin and Adelpha Abrahamson-Larkin of CA, Daniel Edward John Larkin and Molly Thomas Larkin of PA; his wonderful grandchildren Noah Daniel Abrahamson-Larkin, Eli Jack Abrahamson-Larkin, Owen Isaac Abrahamson-Larkin, Graham Kenneth Jack Larkin, and Annabel Eileen Larkin; two brothers, Michael Larkin of Middletown, CT, and William Larkin of Chicago, IL; his sister in-law and brother-in-law Patricia and John Sparks; his mother-in-law Rita Bauman Smith; eight nieces and nephews and nine great nieces and nephews, his dog Abbie and cats Lily and Dickens.
Jack was born in Chicago Illinois on June 26, 1943 to his parents, Irene and Jack Larkin. He graduated as valedictorian of Mount Carmel High School in 1961, received his AB from Harvard College in 1965 and his MA in American Studies from Brandeis University.
He was a VISTA worker in the Missouri Ozarks, where he enrolled many people during the initial implementation of Medicare; He was also a Head Start Teacher in Brockton, Ma. In 1971 he began working at Old Sturbridge Village, Sturbridge, Massachusetts, first as Assistant Director of Museum Education, and continued for 38 years in many roles - Acting Director of Museum Education, Researcher, Director of Research, Director of Research, Collections and Library, Chief Historian, and Museum Scholar. He retired in 2009 as Chief Historian and Museum Scholar Emeritus. He was also Affiliate Professor of History at Clark University from 2004 to the present. He was a Fellow at the American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, Ma. from 2011-2012. From 1971 to his death, he was active in the education of middle and high school history teachers. From 2009-2013 he was principal faculty member for Teaching American History projects for the Polk county Schools in Lakeland, Florida and the Worcester Public Schools in collaboration with the American Antiquarian Society. He received numerous awards, including the Kidger Award for Outstanding Scholarship from the New England History Teachers Association in 1999, the President's Award from Old Sturbridge Village in 1996. His book, The Reshaping of Everyday Life, 1790-1840, was a distinguished finalist for the P.E.N/Martha Albrand Award for nonfiction in 1988.
His publications are extensive and include the following books: The Reshaping of Everyday Life 1790-1840; Where We Lived, Discovering the Places we Once Called Home; Where we Worked: a Celebration of America's Workers and the Nation they Built; and with Caroline Sloat, A Place in My Chronicle: A New edition of the Diary of Christopher Columbus Baldwin, 1829-1835.
Jack was a member of the Second Congregation Church in Palmer, MA where he was a member of the choir. He was a past member of the United Church of Ware, where he was a choir member, chair of the Board of Trustees, a Deacon, and member of the Finance and Stewardship Committees. He was also a past member of the former Federated Church of Warren, where we was a Sunday School Teacher, Choir member, and served on many committees and projects. He was an active part of the Warren Community Theater, and held the role of Max in the Sound of Music. He was a member of the Warren Library Board and the Warren Thief Detecting Society. He was a Pee-wee League baseball coach for several years, coaching the famous Yellow Team to do their best and to play together harmoniously.
Calling Hours will be Friday April 5, 2013 at Beers and Story Palmer Funeral Home, 1475 North Main Street, Rte. 20, Palmer MA from 6:00 - 8:00 p.m. A Memorial Service will be held on Saturday, April 6 at the Second Congregational Church, 1070 Pleasant St., Palmer, MA at 2:00 p.m.
Memorial Contributions in his name can be made to the following : The UMass Memorial Foundation/UMass Pancreas Program 333 South Street Shrewsbury Ma. 01545; CUREOM/Melanoma Research Foundation PO Box 759329 Baltimore, Md. 21275; The Music Collection of the Second Congregational Church, 1080 Pleasant Street, Palmer, Ma. 01069.
From A Plea for Captain John Brown | A Visit from Henry David Thoreau
A highly acclaimed and widely performed one-man dramatic show presented over 350 times around the nation since 1991.
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Kevin Radaker's splendid dramatic presentation is truly transcendental. The challenging ideas, mind-thumping humor, and bristly passion of Thoreau are realized in the scholarship and artfulness of Radaker. The question and answer sessions with Thoreau and then Radaker are a particular delight. Dusty literature and dull history are dealt a death blow here; this performance has in it as a constant a happy punch of immediacy, and I heartily recommend it.
--Lee Stetson, Performer of An Evening with John Muir, Yosemite National Park, Yosemite, California; Voice of John Muir in Ken Burns' The National Parks: America's Best Idea
Kevin Radaker brings out the principled passion of Henry Thoreau's actions and writings. Students respond enthusiastically to his performance, which meaningfully extends Thoreau's legacy beyond the classroom and into the contemporary world.
--Sandy Petrulionis, Professor of English (Penn State, Altoona); author of To Set This World Right: The Antislavery Movement in Thoreau's Concord
Kevin Radaker's portrayal of Thoreau combines penetrating and exhaustive scholarship with vibrant and dynamic theater. The result is a mesmerizing performance that is moving, illuminating, and profound.
--James David Moran, Director of Outreach, American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, Massachusetts
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Video clip courtesy of Montgomery College Television, Germantown, MD
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Byron Menides - WPI Super Fan & Extraordinary Man
Worcester - Byron A. Menides died peacefully at age 85 from complications of pneumonia at Dodge Park Rest Home, Worcester, MA. He leaves his wife of 55 years, Laura Jehn-Menides, his son John and daughter Georgia, and many nieces and nephews.
Byron was born in Lynn, MA on August 20, 1931. He attended Lynn English High School, Dartmouth College BS 1953, and Amos Tuck Business School MBA 1954.
He was employed by Arthur Andersen, in its Paris office doing accounting in France, Iran and the Netherlands. Later he worked for MW Kellogg, in South America, primarily in Argentina. In 1960, Byron, together with Tom Gilbert, started TOR Education, whose mission was to promote programmed learning and which had acquired Chicago based International Accountants Society, IAS, a home study school with a reputation for excellent teaching materials.
Byron became president of IAS and he and Laura moved to Chicago. They had married in December of 1961, after only a 6-month courtship. In 1966 while vacationing in Athens, Greece, Byron met and collaborated with Gilbert Granet, president of Famous Artists Schools, located in Westport, Connecticut, which then acquired IAS. Byron and Laura moved back East with their young son and lived in Rye, New York. Byron became very ill in New York and was hospitalized for over two months and was absent from Famous Artists School, FAS, when it was dissolved. Then living in New York City where their daughter, Georgia was born, Byron established Byron Menides Management Company and eventually became associated with State Mutual Investors in Worcester, MA, Fred Fedeli, President. Fred and Byron worked on many projects until State Mutual was sold. Worcester became their home for 40 years.
Byron began teaching management courses at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, WPI, and became WPI's assistant football coach. He enjoyed coaching until he turned 83. He continued attending WPI's home football, and basketball games to cheer the teams on. His commitment to Worcester is evidenced by his joining the Torch Club, The Antiquarian Society, The Historical Society, attending yearly concerts at Mechanics Hall, poetry readings and the theater in Worcester.
News of Byron's death spread widely primarily because of Georgia's publishing of a photograph on Facebook of Byron taken two days before his death. The results have been a flurry of complimentary comments about Byron. His friendliness, openness, sense of humor, mean jazz piano playing, fine art collections, and reputation as a fine business man. It has been heartwarming to his family. Many thanks.
This is a short video tribute to Byron which include several clips of him doing one of the things he enjoyed. Attending WPI football games on a Friday night or warm fall Saturday afternoon. Enjoying people...
017 American Revolutions
This week at In The Past Lane, we take a new look at a familiar event - the American Revolution. Think you know this key chapter in American history? Think again. For as our special guest, historian Alan Taylor, argues in his new book, American Revolutions: A Continental History, 1750-1804, the American Revolution was also a civil war. And it had an impact far beyond the 13 colonies along the Atlantic coast. We also talk to Jim Moran, Director of Outreach at the American Antiquarian Society in Worcester, MA, about a little-known but important chapter in the story of American independence.
Billheads with poster stamps 1899-1930 lot x 15 unusual rare commerce business receipts
(Billheads with poster stamps / Letterheads/ receipt / advertising / commerce).
Issued between 1899 and 1930.
Nice unique lot of twelve (12) pictorial vintage business (commerce) billheads and commercial payment receipts, each with an original poster stamp affixed as used at the time. Also added- three banking and hotel printed receipts with revenue stamps affixed.
All are attractive and well-preserved examples. Short video captures condition much better than words. Nicer lot than typical for the type.
Minor light toning and wear from folding, etc. as normal and typical for loose single sheet paper items of this vintage, perhaps small minor edge splits or flaws, but to our eyes, all remain entirely acceptable and nice looking examples.
The Tarbell-Watters Co. Inc., Wholesale Distributers of Motor Car Necessities, 1926. (2 billheads with different poster stamps).
Crompton & Knowles Loom Works, Worcester, MA., 1918.
Morton H. Meinhard & Co., Credit Department, NYC, 1920. (2 billheads with different poster stamps).
The F. S. Bidwell Co., Dealers in Lumber and Building Materials, Agricultural Implements, Hardware, Painters' Supplies, Seeds and Fertilizers, Windsor Locks, Conn. 925. (2 billheads with different poster stamps).
The Charles C. Lewis Co., Iron, Steel and Metals, Springfield, MA., 1920.
Eugene A. Olson Company, Greeting Cards, Hartford, CT. 1919.
United States Rubber Company, Springfield, Mass. 1925.
Carlisle Hardware Co., Springfield, Mass. 1929.
George Townsend Co., Manufacturing Printers, 1920.
Queen's Park Hotel, 1930.
City of Chilliwack Bank of Montreal, School Account,1922.
Androscoggin Water Power Co, First National Bank, Bath, ME, 1899.
Sheets range in size from c. 3 1/4 x 8 3/8 to c. 11 x 9.
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[Wikipedia] Charles Allen (Massachusetts politician)
Charles Allen (August 9, 1797 – August 6, 1869) was a United States Representative from Massachusetts.
He was born in Worcester, Massachusetts on August 9, 1797, the son Joseph Allen and grandnephew of Samuel Adams). Allen attended Leicester Academy (1809–1811) and Yale College (1811–1812) and studied law. He was admitted to the bar in 1818 and commenced practice in New Braintree. He returned to Worcester in 1824 and continued the practice of law. In 1827 he was elected a member of the American Antiquarian Society.
Allen was a Member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives (1830, 1833, 1835, and 1840); he served in the Massachusetts State Senate (1836–1837). He was a member of the Northeastern Boundary Commission in 1842; a judge of the Court of Common Pleas (1842–1845) and a delegate to the Whig National Convention at Philadelphia in 1848. He was elected as the Free-Soil Party candidate to Congress (March 4, 1849 - March 3, 1853) and did not seek renomination in 1852. In 1849 he edited the Boston Whig, afterward called the Republican.
After leaving Congress, he resumed the practice of law in Worcester. He was a member of the state's constitutional convention in 1853. He was Chief Justice of the Sufolk County Superior Court (1859–1867).
He was a delegate to the peace convention held at Washington, D.C. in 1861, in an effort to devise a means to prevent the impending Civil War.
Charles Allen died in Worcester on August 6, 1869. He was interred in the Rural Cemetery.
The home on which he began construction, the Charles Allen House, was completed by his descendants and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.
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American Geography books 1793-1824 lot x 5 old books by Morse Dwight & Parrish
Early American Geography Books- Geographical education in the United States in the first quarter of the 19th century. All issued 1793-1824.
All in early / original period bindings, profusion of fascinating cultural woodcuts and small maps.
A Short but Comprehensive System of the Geography of the World: by Way of Question and Answer, by Nathaniel Dwight. 1800, Hartford, Hudson and Goodwin.
Geography Made Easy: Being an Abridgment of the American Universal Geography by Jedidiah Morse, D.D. 1813, Boston, Thomas & Andrews. Fragments of two early folding maps. Early owners suede cover to leather binding.
A New System of Geography, Ancient and Modern, by Jedidiah Morse, D.D. and Sidney Edwards Morse, A.M. 1824, Boston, Richardson & Lord. Leather spine, marbled paper covered boards. signed by early owner Lewis Glazier, Gardner (Mass.).
A Compendious System of Universal Geography, Compiled from the Latest and Most Distinguished European and American Travellers, Voyagers and Geographers, by Elijah Parish, D.D. Publ. c.1807. Amherst, NH, Joseph Cushing. Paper covered wooden boards, leather spine.
The American Universal Geography, or, a View of the Present State of all the Empires, Kingdoms, States, and Republics in the Known World, and of the United States of America in Particular, by Jedidiah Morse, A.M.
1793, Boston, Young and Etheridge. Period full leather, no maps within.
Short video captures condition much better than words. Please watch prior to purchase to ensure a clear understanding of the lot.
Smallest book measures: 6 3/4 H X 4 1/2 W.
Largest book measures: 9 H X 6 W.
Set along the shelf measures: 6 1/4.
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We need the tonic of wildness | A Visit from Henry David Thoreau
A highly acclaimed and widely performed one-man dramatic show presented over 350 times around the nation since 1991.
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Kevin Radaker's splendid dramatic presentation is truly transcendental. The challenging ideas, mind-thumping humor, and bristly passion of Thoreau are realized in the scholarship and artfulness of Radaker. The question and answer sessions with Thoreau and then Radaker are a particular delight. Dusty literature and dull history are dealt a death blow here; this performance has in it as a constant a happy punch of immediacy, and I heartily recommend it.
--Lee Stetson, Performer of An Evening with John Muir, Yosemite National Park, Yosemite, California; Voice of John Muir in Ken Burns' The National Parks: America's Best Idea
Kevin Radaker brings out the principled passion of Henry Thoreau's actions and writings. Students respond enthusiastically to his performance, which meaningfully extends Thoreau's legacy beyond the classroom and into the contemporary world.
--Sandy Petrulionis, Professor of English (Penn State, Altoona); author of To Set This World Right: The Antislavery Movement in Thoreau's Concord
Kevin Radaker's portrayal of Thoreau combines penetrating and exhaustive scholarship with vibrant and dynamic theater. The result is a mesmerizing performance that is moving, illuminating, and profound.
--James David Moran, Director of Outreach, American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, Massachusetts
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Video clip courtesy of Montgomery College Television, Germantown, MD
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Gender in Early America
Cornell University history professor Mary Beth Norton discusses four books she's written since 1980 as part of a presentation titled Reflections on Gender and Politics in Anglo-America. The subjects range from the Salem Witchcraft Crisis of 1692 to the experiences of women during and after the American Revolution. We recorded her talk in Worcester, Massachusetts, where she delivered the American Antiquarian Society's 14th annual Robert C. Baron Lecture.
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Along the Blackstone Episode 33: Come Closer Children and You Will Hear . . . Family Stories Part 1
The preservation of memory, family memory, our memory is a vital part of determining who we are as a people as well as helping to define each of us in terms of our own special story.All too often, a valued family member will pass away and his or her family stories will pass away with them.In our fast-paced world of facebook, iphones and other technology, who has time to sit down and listen to Grandpa talk about the 2nd World War or the Great Depression or Aunt Rosa talking about life working in a mill or surviving the Great Influenza of 1918.Saving family stories is important, so join us as Along the Blackstone's Episode #33 helps us learn how to listen and preserve these marvelous family stories.And along the way, we're hear some great stories too.This is Part I of a two Part series.