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HUB History
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HUB History is the podcast that brings you fascinating stories from Boston history. This channel shares videos that are featured or referenced in the show.
The Importance of Being Furnished, with Erica Lome and Tripp Evans
This week, Erica Lome and Tripp Evans join the show to discuss a new exhibit at the Eustis Estate called “The Importance of Being Furnished.” (www.historicnewengland.org/visit-the-importance-of-being-furnished-today/) In the wake of Oscar Wilde’s 1882 lecture tour focusing on The House Beautiful, outlandishly decorated bachelor households became an aspirational style that helped define American homes from the Gilded Age to the Jazz Era. The new Aesthetic Movement brought beauty and artistic sensibility to American homes, replacing conservative styles that reinforced traditional morality. “The Importance of Being Furnished” introduces four decorators who helped revolutionize interior design during this period: Charles Gibson, Ogden Codman, Charles Pendleton, and Henry Sleeper, as well as their homes in Boston’s Back Bay, Gloucester, Lincoln, and Providence. In their own time, all four men were known as bachelor aesthetes, born into privileged families but hiding their queerness to greater or lesser degrees in an era when homosexuality was punishable by jail time in Boston. In this interview, exhibit curators Tripp Evans and Erica Lome will tell us how these men took inspiration from their personal lives in decorating their own homes, and how they leveraged those lavish homes into careers in decorating for everyone from robber barons to Hollywood stars.
Full show notes: HUBhistory.com/308/
Support us: patreon.com/HUBhistory/
The Importance of Being Furnished
R. Tripp Evans is a professor of art history at Wheaton College, specializing in American art and architecture, with a focus on the material culture of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He is the guest curator of The Importance of Being Furnished and wrote the book that the exhibit is based on (bookshop.org/a/17788/9781538173954) .
Erica Lome is the Curator of Collections at Historic New England, specializing in American decorative arts and material culture. Her work focuses on the material culture of New England and the contributions of immigrant craftspeople to that body of work.
• Plan your visit (www.historicnewengland.org/visit-the-importance-of-being-furnished-today/) to the Eustis Estate to see The Importance of Being Furnished
• Learn more about the four men (www.historicnewengland.org/the-bachelor-aesthetes-who-redefined-american-interiors/) at the heart of the exhibit
• Register for Tripp’s talk titled A Museum of Her Own (my.historicnewengland.org/19855/a-museum-of-her-own) and find out more about talks and tours (www.historicnewengland.org/visit/events/?event_type=exhibition-program) related to this exhibit
• Learn how to visit Beauport, the Codman estate, and all of Historic New England’s properties (www.historicnewengland.org/visit/homes-farms-landscapes/)
• Visit the Gibson House Museum (www.thegibsonhouse.org/) in Boston’s Back Bay
• Charles Pendleton’s home is recreated at the RISD museum (risdmuseum.org/)
Full show notes: HUBhistory.com/308/
Support us: patreon.com/HUBhistory/
The Importance of Being Furnished
R. Tripp Evans is a professor of art history at Wheaton College, specializing in American art and architecture, with a focus on the material culture of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He is the guest curator of The Importance of Being Furnished and wrote the book that the exhibit is based on (bookshop.org/a/17788/9781538173954) .
Erica Lome is the Curator of Collections at Historic New England, specializing in American decorative arts and material culture. Her work focuses on the material culture of New England and the contributions of immigrant craftspeople to that body of work.
• Plan your visit (www.historicnewengland.org/visit-the-importance-of-being-furnished-today/) to the Eustis Estate to see The Importance of Being Furnished
• Learn more about the four men (www.historicnewengland.org/the-bachelor-aesthetes-who-redefined-american-interiors/) at the heart of the exhibit
• Register for Tripp’s talk titled A Museum of Her Own (my.historicnewengland.org/19855/a-museum-of-her-own) and find out more about talks and tours (www.historicnewengland.org/visit/events/?event_type=exhibition-program) related to this exhibit
• Learn how to visit Beauport, the Codman estate, and all of Historic New England’s properties (www.historicnewengland.org/visit/homes-farms-landscapes/)
• Visit the Gibson House Museum (www.thegibsonhouse.org/) in Boston’s Back Bay
• Charles Pendleton’s home is recreated at the RISD museum (risdmuseum.org/)
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A Light Under the Dome, with Patrick Gabridge
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This week, Patrick Gabridge joins us to talk about his new play “A Light Under the Dome,” which opens at the Massachusetts State House on August 12. The first in a series of works exploring the intersection between abolition and suffrage in the 19th and early 20th centuries, A Light Under the Dome recreates a specific moment in history that took place under the dome of the Massachusetts State H...
The Enduring Grip of Stillson’s Pipe Wrench
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Long before becoming a haven for software and biotech giants, Kendall Square was a center for manufacturing during the era of steam. Here, in the 1860s, two crucial advancements emerged: the standardization of threaded iron pipes and fittings for use in household plumbing, gas fixtures, and steam power and the invention of the modern pipe wrench that allows us to work on them. This episode expl...
Hail Britannia!
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This episode explores the impact of the Cunard Line of steamers and its flagship Britannia on Boston in the mid-19th century. Before the Britannia, transatlantic travel relied on fickle winds, making each crossing perilous and unpredictable. The introduction of steamships revolutionized transatlantic travel by offering faster and more reliable journeys. Boston became a central hub for this new ...
What’s In a (Nick)Name
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For this week’s show, I spent some time asking visitors and locals what nicknames they know for Boston. From the Hub to Titletown to Beantown and beyond, people know a lot of nicknames for Boston, but it turns out that most of us don’t know the meanings behind the monikers. In this episode, I dig into the stories behind five nicknames you might have wondered about. Full show notes: HUBhistory.c...
The Lincoln of Ireland at Fenway Park
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105 years ago this month, Irish President Eamon De Valera embarked on an 18-month tour of the United States, starting with a visit to Boston. His goals were to raise funds for the Irish Republic, gain international recognition, and garner support for Irish independence from British rule. De Valera’s visit to Boston included a massive rally at Fenway Park, a speech to the Massachusetts House of ...
General Patton Invades Boston
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On the first anniversary of D-Day, Boston was feeling festive. Yes, there was a somber editorial cartoon in the Globe picturing an allied cemetery in Normandy to remind people of the sacrifices that the nation had made, but Germany had just surrendered, making the sacrifice seem worthwhile. Now, on D 1 (or was it D 366?), the city would turn out to hail a conquering hero, as General George S Pa...
Around the World With a Less Famous Revere
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Joseph Warren Revere was a Boston boy, but a military career kept him from spending much of his adult life here. He was the grandson of the famous Paul Revere and named after the secular saint Joseph Warren. As a young Navy officer on the USS Constitution, he fought slavers and pirates, discovered buried treasure, met a czar, and almost killed a king. Falling in love with California while servi...
Seismic Boston
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Did you feel an earthquake in Boston on April 5, 2024? Depending on where you were at the time, you might have felt nothing or you might have noticed a mild tremor. While we think of Boston earthquakes as a punchline and damaging quakes as a California problem, that hasn’t always been the case. Imagine an earthquake that comes on with the sound of rolling thunder, one where the ground heaved li...
Starlit Old North
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During the bicentennial celebrations in 1976, Boston bustled with fireworks, concerts, and historical reenactments, while a unique spectacle quietly unfolded at the Old North Church. The iconic lanterns, forever linked to Paul Revere’s midnight ride, were illuminated not by candlelight, but by the distant light of a star some 200 light-years away. This episode explores the technological challen...
Eclipse Fever
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Eclipses happen when the moon passes between the sun and the earth during the daytime, briefly blocking the light of the sun from the face of the earth. Over the past few years, observers in the US have been treated to every flavor of solar eclipse: a partial in 2021 when part of the sun’s disc remains unobscured; a total eclipse in 2017, when viewers in the narrow path of totality experienced ...
Recent Archaeological Discoveries at Shirley Place, with Joseph Bagley
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This week I’m pleased to be able to share a recent talk from the Shirley-Eustis House in Roxbury about recent archaeological discoveries at Shirley Place that help shed light on the lives of enslaved residents at the 18th century governor’s residence, as well as evidence of the home’s original location before it was moved into its current position in the 19th century. The presenter is past podc...
Cotton Mather and the Women He Loved, with Helen Gelinas
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I’m pleased to share a recent talk called “Cotton Mather and the Women He Loved” that was part of the Congregational Library and Archive’s Valentines Day celebration. Helen Gelinas spoke about Cotton Mather and the women he was closest to: his three wives, his daughters, and his sisters, as well as his lifelong mission to understand the biblical Eve, the prototype for all women in his universe....
A Constitutional Culture: New England and the Struggle Against Arbitrary Rule in the Restoration ...
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In this episode, I'm joined by Professor Adrian Chastain Weimer, author of the recent book A Constitutional Culture: New England and the Struggle Against Arbitrary Rule in the Restoration Empire (bookshop.org/a/17788/9781512823974) . The book focuses on the period just after King Charles II returned the Stuarts to the English throne, during which he when he sought revenge against Boston Puritan...
The Rise and Fall of Black Boston’s First Hospital
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Despite the name, Plymouth Hospital was a South End institution. As the first training school for Black nurses in segregated Boston, Plymouth provided a needed service to an underserved community, led by a medical pioneer. Dr. Cornelius Nathanial Garland moved to Boston from the deep south to seek opportunity, but while he found opportunity in the Hub, he also found a deeply segregated medical ...
History in Bricks and Bones: Recent discoveries in the Crypts at Old North Church
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History in Bricks and Bones: Recent discoveries in the Crypts at Old North Church
King Hancock: The Radical Influence of a Moderate Founding Father, with Brooke Barbier
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King Hancock: The Radical Influence of a Moderate Founding Father, with Brooke Barbier
“This Perilous Hour of Trial, Horror & Distress”: Loyalist Exile and Return in Revolutionary Mass...
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“This Perilous Hour of Trial, Horror & Distress”: Loyalist Exile and Return in Revolutionary Mass...
Isabella Stewart Gardner: The Lioness of Boston, with Emily Franklin (reupload)
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Isabella Stewart Gardner: The Lioness of Boston, with Emily Franklin (reupload)
The Lioness of Boston, with Emily Franklin (reupload)
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The Lioness of Boston, with Emily Franklin (reupload)
The Lioness of Boston, with Emily Franklin (reupload)
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The Lioness of Boston, with Emily Franklin (reupload)
Disrupting Time: Industrial Combat, Espionage, and the Downfall of a Great American Company, with...
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Disrupting Time: Industrial Combat, Espionage, and the Downfall of a Great American Company, with...
The Lioness of Boston, with Emily Franklin
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The Lioness of Boston, with Emily Franklin
Disasters and Disaster Relief (episode 282)
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Disasters and Disaster Relief (episode 282)
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No one supports 'freedom" more than a shockingly conservative boy scout...."dib, dib dib! dob, dob! We will do our best!" .... we would chant this 'chant' in a town hall situated in a local park. I would walk, there and back, 5 blocks in the deep, dark ebony that hung over me and all the children local to this park and 'recreation' hall It situated in this loam green I remember one game that involved creating a seated
That was one of the 2 1940 blizzards that caught America Off guard on a holiday, it was February 14, 1940, for us in New England, especially the state of Massachusetts had the extremely worst Valentine's Day ever because of the blizzard. the other one was on November 11, 1940, along the Midwestern part of The United States, known as the Armistice Day Storm, dozens of duck hunters in Illinois and Wisconsin were dead, also in Iowa and Minnesota too when the temperature dropped quickly from the 60s to below zero within hours.
Fukk Boston and Massassachuttes in general having replaced Patriots with its #DEIDummies of present day..
It's 490. NOT 492. please note Shea and a woman who died in May got counted twice.