Washington Remembered, Washington Forgotten: Washington and Slavery

To mark the 250th anniversaries of the American Revolution and the founding of the United States a coalition of local non-profits and government agencies will present Washington in American Memory a seven-part speaker series. All events take place at the Cambridge Publi......More

To mark the 250th anniversaries of the American Revolution and the founding of the United States a coalition of local non-profits and government agencies will present Washington in American Memory a seven-part speaker series. All events take place at the Cambridge Public Library and will also be livestreamed.Explore how Americans have remembered and forgotten Washington’s involvement with slavery over the past 250 years featuring:  Kelli Racine Barnes ACE Mellon Humanities Postdoctoral FellowJohn Garrison Marks author of Thy Will Be Done: George Washington’s Legacy of Slavery and the Fight for American Memory (forthcoming) and Vice President of Research and Engagement at the American Association for State and Local History Kyera Singleton Executive Director of the Royall House & Slave Quarters and Postdoctoral Fellow at the Tufts University Center for the HumanitiesThis speaker series is made possible through the generous support of America's National Parks a nonprofit partner of the National Park Service. It is presented in partnership by the National Park Service/Longfellow House-Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site History Cambridge Cambridge Public Library Cambridge Historical Commission and Cambridge MA250. 

Cambridge Public Library Main Lecture Hall, and livestreaming (hybrid event)

Poetry Reading: Tribute to Rhina Espaillat

This event honors Rhina Espaillat beloved Dominican diasporic poet and English crossover poet. Espaillat will read favorite selections from her work alongside readings by the acclaimed Dominican diasporic poet and author Leonardo Nin and a reading by the award-winning D......More

This event honors Rhina Espaillat beloved Dominican diasporic poet and English crossover poet. Espaillat will read favorite selections from her work alongside readings by the acclaimed Dominican diasporic poet and author Leonardo Nin and a reading by the award-winning Dominican poet José Enrique Delmonte with translations by Shira Zohara Dickey.Co-presented by the New England Poetry Club and Longfellow House-Washington’s Headquarters National Historic Site.PoetsDominican-born Rhina P. Espaillat has published twenty-four full-length books four chapbooks and two CDs comprising her own poetry collections essays and short stories in both English and her native Spanish as well as numerous translations from and into both languages of work by other authors. Her work appears in numerous anthologies journals and websites and has received many national and international awardsEspaillat is a founding member of the Fresh Meadows Poets the Powow River Poets The Melopoeia musical Trio and the musical quintet known as The Diminished Poets. She has earned many national and international awards including the T. S. Eliot and Richard Wilbur Awards several from the Poetry Society of America the New England Poetry Club The Robert Frost Foundation the Ministry of Culture of the Dominican Republic and a Lifetime Achievement Award from Salem State College.José Enrique Delmonte is a poet essayist historian PhD in linguistics and literature and architect. He has received several literary awards including the 2014 Poetry Prize from the Universidad Iberoeramericana the Ibero-American Poetry Prize at the 2014 Madrid Book Fair the 2016 León Felipe International Poetry Prize (Zamora Spain) and the 2024 Editorial Project Award from Sial Pigmalión Publishing House Madrid Spain. He has published the poetry collections Alquimias de la ciudad perdida (Alchemies of the Lost City) Once palabras que mueve tu mundo (Eleven Words That Move Your World) and several others. José Enrique is a member of the Organizing Committee of the Santo Domingo International Poetry Week. His poetry has been translated into English and French.Shira Zohara Dickey (translator) is a US-born architectural historian author lecturer and former academic society director. She also translates and writes poetry and makes fine art. Fluent in multiple languages she has translated two Spanish poetry books by the renowned Santo Domingo poet essayist and architect José Enrique Delmonte into English. Shira's forthcoming projects include publications in architectural history a translation of another poetry collection by Delmonte and a chapbook with her illustrations dedicated to memories of her loving companion deceased MIT atmospheric physicist Ralph J. Markson.Leonardo Nin is a writer novelist poet and independent researcher in the fields of cultural anthropology and sociolinguistics. One of the main voices of Dominican literature in the United States and Latin America his published works include: Paid Space (poetry El Salvador 2019) That is why I will never go back (Short Stories 20202) I Only Know They Called her Shadow At the Blue Side of Nothingness and many others. He is currently the director of the Taino Museum of Magua Dominican Republic and editor of Ivy Editorial of Randolph Massachusetts.

How We Remember, What We Preserve: Washington's Legacy at Mount Vernon

To mark the 250th anniversaries of the American Revolution and the founding of the United States, a coalition of local non-profits and government agencies will present Washington in American Memory, a seven-part speaker series. All events take place at the Cambridge Pub......More

To mark the 250th anniversaries of the American Revolution and the founding of the United States, a coalition of local non-profits and government agencies will present Washington in American Memory, a seven-part speaker series. All events take place at the Cambridge Public Library, and will also be livestreamed.Explore the 19th century origins of preservation at Mount Vernon, current conservation work, and the estate’s future, featuring: Doug Bradburn, President and CEO of George Washington’s Mount Vernon and co-founder and editor of the book series, Early American Histories Andrea Sahin, Vice Regent for Massachusetts to the Mount Vernon Ladies’ AssociationThis speaker series is made possible through the generous support of America's National Parks, a nonprofit partner of the National Park Service. It is presented in partnership by the National Park Service/Longfellow House-Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site, History Cambridge, Cambridge Public Library, Cambridge Historical Commission, and Cambridge MA250. 

Cambridge Public Library Main Lecture Hall, and livestreaming (hybrid event)