Brown Bag Lunch Series: Dr. Kimberly Alexander

When:
Friday, Apr 11, 2025 12:00p -
1:00p

Where:
Wenham Museum
132 Main Street
Wenham, MA 01984

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Admission:
FREE

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From the Ground Up: The Role of Shoes During the American Revolution, presented by Dr. Kimberly Alexander

April 2025 marks the 250th anniversary of the start of the American Revolution. To commemorate this anniversary, Dr. Kimberly Alexander from the University of New Hampshire joins us to discuss the importance of shoes during the Revolution.

ABOUT DR. KIMBERLY ALEXANDER

Dr. Kimberly Alexander is Director of Museum Studies and Lecturer, teaching museum studies, material culture, American history, Architectural history, and New Hampshire history in the History Department of the University of New Hampshire. She has held curatorial positions at several New England museums, including the MIT Museum, the Peabody Essex Museum and Strawbery Banke. She is the author of Treasures Afoot: Shoe Stories from the Georgian Era, which traces the history of early Anglo-American footwear from the 1740s through the 1790s and the companion book, Fashioning the New England Family, which covers the history of New England clothing from the colonial seventeenth century, through the Revolutionary eighteenth century, and into the national nineteenth.

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The Brown Bag Lunch series is a free program for adults held the 2nd Friday of each month at noon (October to June). Join us for speakers who share presentations about local history and other topics of interest.

Please bring your own lunch, beverages and dessert will be provided.

Thank You to Our Sponsor:

This program series is sponsored by the Institution for Savings

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