When: Sunday, October 26, 2014 – 10:30 a.m – 2:30 p.m.
Location: Veronica B. Smith Multi-Service Senior Center, 20 Chestnut Hill Avenue, Brighton, Mass. Click here for directions.
Do you have a connection to the neighborhoods of Allston and Brighton in Boston, Massachusetts? Share your memories and take your place in Massachusetts history at this free, public event.
Please bring up to three photographs related to your experience of Allston and Brighton. The photos will be scanned and immediately returned to you at the event. All images and stories collected at Mass. Memories Road Shows are available online at openarchives.umb.edu.
The Mass. Memories Road Show is a statewide digital history project that documents people, places, and events in Massachusetts history through family photographs and stories.
The Mass. Memories Road Show is produced by the Joseph P. Healey Library at UMass Boston and is co-sponsored by the Patricia C. Flaherty ’81 Endowed Fund.
The Allston-Brighton Mass. Memories Road Show is being hosted by the Veronica B. Smith Multi-Service Senior Center and the City of Boston Elderly Commission (Emily F. Shea, Commissioner; Martin J. Walsh, Mayor). The event is sponsored locally by Allston-Brighton Community Development Corporation; Allston Village Main Streets; Boston Public Library, Faneuil Branch; Brighton-Allston Historical Society; and Brighton Main Streets.
Questions? Email carolyn.goldstein@umb.edu.