FEATURED VIDEOS
If you weren’t able to attend Brian Donahue’s excellent Annual Meeting lecture on Weston’s agricultural history, the link to the lecture video is below. Thanks as always to Weston Media Center for filming and editing the lecture, and for making it available online.
John Martin (far left) worked the land owned by the Loring family estate. His 16-year-old son, Charles, is hoeing at right. In the rear is the Martin house at 168 Summer Street. Route 128 now cuts through this farm field. (1898 photo by Howes Brothers)
Spring Lecture April 10
King Philip’s War: A History and Legacy of America’s Forgotten Conflict
by Eric B. Schultz
Wednesday, April 10
7:30 pm
Weston Public Library Community Room
Refreshments. All Are Welcome
Join author Eric B. Schultz for a talk on his book King Philip’s War: A History and Legacy of America’s Forgotten Conflict, which he co-authored with Michael Touglas. Schultz will present an overview of the war, a travelogue of key events, and its lasting legacy.
Metacom (c.1638–1676), also known as King Philip, was a tribal leader of the Pokanoket tribe (R.I.) and Wampanoag nation. The second son of Massasoit, he followed his father as chief sachem, but his relationship with the colonists was more contentious. Disputes over land, peace treaties, and the ensuing mutual mistrust led to an uprising against the colonists known as King Philip’s War (1675 – 1676), considered the bloodiest per capita in U.S. history. More than half of New England’s towns were attacked, including an incursion into Weston.
Eric Schultz is a former chair of the New England Historic Genealogical Society and the Gettysburg Foundation. He is currently a director of the Old Colony Historical Society in Taunton.
Save the Date
Celebrate Weston
Saturday, May 18
11 to 3
The Weston Historical Society board and volunteers are hard at work setting up the new office and archives at the Josiah Smith Tavern and preparing two exhibits that will open May 18:
“Weston Then and Now,” an exhibit of historic and contemporary photographs of the Town Center showing changes over time, including outstanding images by photographer Nicole Mordecai.
“The Jones Family at Home,” an exhibit of furniture, decorative arts, and photographs belonging to three generations of the Jones family, who occupied what is now the Josiah Smith Tavern until 1950.