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Free archaeology lecture



Date:   Saturday June 10, 2000
Time:   10:30 am
Location:       Massachusetts Archives Building, 220 Morrissey Blvd.
Contact:        MHC 617-727-8470
Title:  Archaeology, Manners, and Merchants in Colonial Massachusetts
Speaker:        Dr. Lorinda B. R. Goodwin

Summary:
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.

Bio:
Lorinda B. R. Goodwin is a historical archaeologist who earned her B.A. in
Archaeology from Boston University and her A.M. and Ph.D. in American
Civilization at the University of Pennsylvania.  She has worked on sites in
New England, the mid-Atlantic, and Britain, most notably the House of the
Seven Gables in Salem, Massachusetts and the 1607 Popham Colony in Maine.
An Archaeology of Manners: The Polite World of the Merchant Elite of
Colonial Massachusetts is her first book.

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