Events

The Irish Atlantic, Public Program

Make Your Own Comic: The Jamestown Relief Mission to Ireland


Tuesday, April 18, 2017, 2:00PM - 3:30PM
Registration required; no fee

Come to MHS during the school vacation week for a hands-on history program. Historians will tell participants a story related to Irish immigration: the famine relief mission from Boston to Ireland led by Robert Bennet Forbes aboard the Jamestown.  After the talk, local comic book artists will help the young historians make their own historical comic depicting stories of Irish immigration.