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Archaeology lecture-reminder



FREE LECTURE

Archaeology, Manners, and Merchants in Colonial Massachusetts

Dr. Lorinda B. R. Goodwin
Peabody Essex Museum
Boston University

Commonwealth Museum
Saturday June 10, 2000
10:30 am

Colonial merchants used manners and fine material goods to establish
themselves at the apex of society, often by altering traditional British
status symbols to suit New English tastes.  Diaries and letters reveal just
how important manners were and oftentimes it is the examples of bad manners
that tell us the most about American and British social life in the 17th and
18th centuries.  By studying these personal documents along with
contemporary courtesy works, archaeological evidence, and artwork, it is
possible to see how polite behavior affected colonial life from the drawing
room to the counting house.

Part of the Commonwealth Museum's current exhibit:

Archaeology of the Central Artery Project
Highway to the Past
Co-sponsored by
the Massachusetts Historical Commission

William Francis Galvin, Secretary of the Commonwealth
Massachusetts Archives Building
220 Morrissey Boulevard, Boston, MA 02125
For information or directions call 617-727-8470
or visit our website
http://www.state.ma.us/sec/mus

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