Submitted by the Friends of the Job Lane House
The 2015 annual meeting of the Friends of the Job Lane House will take place at First Parish on the Common, 75 The Great Road, from 2 to 4 pm on Sunday, March 8. Guest speaker Monica Rogers will discuss “18th Century Fallacies.”
The afternoon will begin with a coffee hour (guests are asked to please bring a finger food to share), a brief business meeting, and Monica Rogers’s talk. Many myths and mistakes about the 18th century abound because around the time of the centennial in 1876 historical research was lacking and anything ‘old timely’ qualified as colonial.
Rogers, a historian and colonial re-enactor, will discuss what we get right and what myths we are perpetuating. Her passion for colonial history began early in life. She says, “I read my first book about George Washington when I was in fourth grade and I was hooked. By the time I was in sixth grade I was sneaking into the adult section of the public library to read what they were hiding in there. It was about this time that I decided that I wanted to be a historian, but I wanted to tell it so that it would be as exciting and alive to others as it was to me. I started playing the fife with my first fife and drum corps in January of
1973 and by 1974 I was wearing 18th-century clothes as a Volunteer In Parks at Minute Man National Historical Park – the North Bridge in Concord. I participated during the Bicentennial with several minuteman groups and fife and drum corps. I attended UMass-Boston as a history major and English minor, and got my first paying job at the park service at Boston NHP. It has now been over 40 years since I started reenacting and I no longer march but I still volunteer at several historical houses in the area demonstrating music, food, needlework and children’s games.
For additional information visit the Job Lane House website, www.joblanehouse.org/
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