More than likely I am the only one interested in this event but I wanted to pass it along anyways. No sense in wasting a Sunday sitting around when there is stuff to do in town. The Bostonian Society runs great historical events and is a very active historical society. They do a great job at the Old State House, one of my favorite buildings in Boston. I went and saw a Boston Massacre re-enactment there this spring and it was very impressive. The best part about their program and events is that you can be a history professor or just a casual observer and you will not feel uncomfortable. The events are as intellectual or hands on as you want them to be. They call this the Sunday series and I think it is a lecture or forum. This topic is of particular interest to me and I spent the spring semester studying the conflicting ideals of middle class Bostonians' in the 15 years leading up to the Revolution. Here is the description from their website.
Sunday July 25, 2:00p.m Sunday Series Tour: The Better Sort and the Meaner Sort: Class in the 18th Century Boston
How did social class affect the lives of the revolutionaries? Learn how rich and poor lived in 18th century Boston and how they all joined together to fight for American independence.
UPDATE: Be glad that there wasn't a massive inflow of College Take followers at the Sunday Series today. I was very disappointed. First of all, the event was scheduled for 2 PM, as the website clearly stated yesterday. When I showed up at 1:55, the staff informed me that the talk was at 1 PM. They were extremely rude and their explanation for the time change was that the director of educational programs decided to change it to fit his schedule better. There was no update on the website. Very poorly handled and the staff was pretty disorganized. To their credit they decided to do another one at 2:15 for a group of about 5 people. The guy giving the talk was impersonal and did no more than outline the basic characteristics of each social class that any 7th grader could do in a 5 minute talk. It was not intellectual and the generalizations did not teach me, or anyone there, anything new. The guy giving the talk tried to use props to get the crowd involved and it was pretty pathetic. The only good thing that came out of the visit was that I was reminded of how great the museum and artifacts they have housed there are.
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