2012 Calendar
February 23, 5:00-6:30
Reception with author
Sydney Nathans
The Cambridge Historical Society, with Beverly Morgan-Welch, executive director of the Museum of African American History; Charlie Sullivan, executive director of the Cambridge Historic Commission; James Shea, museum manager of the Longfellow House - Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site; and representatives from the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research will host a reception to meet Sydney Nathans, the author of To Free a Family: The Journey of Mary Walker. This new book uncovers the remarkable story of Mary Walker, a slave who in August 1848 fled her owner for refuge in the North. She spent the next 17 years trying to recover her family. She lived much of her life in the Dexter Pratt House in Harvard Square and, with the help of a few Cambridge families, became its owner.
Tickets are $25.00 and the proceeds benefit the Cambridge Historical Society and the Museum of African American History.
Sydney Nathans will be giving a lecture at the Cambridge Center for Adult Education immediately following this reception. Tickets for this lecture at $10 and are sold separately through the CCAE. For more information on the lecture, please visit: www.ccae.org/ifthesewalls.html
Sydney Nathans is a Professor Emeritus of History at Duke University.