Lectures
Bulldozer: Clearing the Way for Post WWII Suburbs
Hingham Historical Society 34 Main St, Hingham, MA, United StatesSUNDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 2023 AT 3:00 P.M. Hingham Heritage Museum 3rd Floor Gillis Reading Room, and via Zoom. Speaker on Zoom Bulldozer: Clearing the Way for Post WWII Suburbs Francesca Ammon, Associate Professor, City & Regional Planning and Historic Preservation, Weitzman School of Design, University of Pennsylvania In the years following World War II, the […]
Greater Boston’s Suburban Development
Hingham Historical Society 34 Main St, Hingham, MA, United StatesSUNDAY, December 3, 2023 AT 3:00 P.M. Hingham Heritage Museum 3rd Floor Gillis Reading Room, and via Zoom. Speaker on Zoom Greater Boston’s Suburban Development James C. O’Connell, Chair, Massachusetts Zoning Reform Working Group; Professor, Boston University Metropolitan College In his comprehensive overview of the making of Greater Boston, Professor O’Connell covers two centuries of […]
The Suburbanization of Hingham
Hingham Historical Society 34 Main St, Hingham, MA, United StatesSUNDAY, January 21, 2024 AT 3:00 P.M. Hingham Heritage Museum 3rd Floor Gillis Reading Room, and via Zoom. Speaker on Zoom The Suburbanization of Hingham Gordon Carr, Chair, Master Plan Committee and Member, Planning Board, Town of Hingham, MA The town of Hingham, Massachusetts, since settlement by English colonists in the 1630s, has gone through […]
Rev250 Author Event: Revolutionary Patriots of Hingham
Hingham Historical Society 34 Main St, Hingham, MA, United StatesJoin us to celebrate the publication of Revolutionary Patriots of Hingham with authors Ellen Stine Miller and Susan Garrett Wetzel. Just in time for the 250th commemoration of the American Revolution and America's 250th birthday in 2026. Miller and Wetzel have spent over five years researching and refining a directory of the over 800 men […]
Retrofitting Suburbia
Hingham Historical Society 34 Main St, Hingham, MA, United StatesSUNDAY, February 18, 2024 AT 3:00 P.M. Hingham Heritage Museum 3rd Floor Gillis Reading Room, and via Zoom. Speaker on Zoom Retrofitting Suburbia Ellen Dunham-Jones, Professor, Urban Design, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta Ellen Dunham-Jones is an award-winning architect and a Fellow of the Congress for the New Urbanism. Her teaching and professional work focus […]
The Suburban Swing Vote in National Elections
Hingham Historical Society 34 Main St, Hingham, MA, United StatesSUNDAY, April 7, 2024 AT 3:00 P.M. Hingham Heritage Museum 3rd Floor Gillis Reading Room, and via Zoom. Speaker on Zoom The Suburban Swing Vote in National Elections Lawrence Levy, Executive Dean, National Center for Suburban Studies, Hofstra University In his decades as a reporter, editorial writer, and political commentator, Lawrence Levy was known for […]
Suburbia Lecture Series Wrap Up Discussion
Hingham Historical Society 34 Main St, Hingham, MA, United StatesSUNDAY, April 28, 2024 AT 3:00 P.M. Hingham Heritage Museum 3rd Floor Gillis Reading Room, and via Zoom. Suburbia Lecture Series Wrap Up Discussion Please join Education Committee members Eileen McIntyre and Ruth Gilbert Whitner for a moderated wrap up discussion on this past year's lecture series; Suburbia: The American Dream? What have you learned […]