Opening Our Doors

MHS will participate in the Opening Our Doors program hosted by the Fenway Alliance. Stop by to explore our Turning Points exhibition, which explores 15 decisive moments when everything changed or a process began that would change what followed. These are not the only, or even the most important, events in American history, but turning points described in eyewitness accounts and personal records, or commemorated by "dumb witnesses"--artifacts found in the Society's collections. The exhibition begins with an account of sailing a small boat through New York Harbor on 11 September 2001 and then travels back in time to the opening of the American West in the 19th century; the abolitionist movement and the Civil War; the American Revolution and the birth of the United States; and culminates with John Winthrop's account of setting sail for New England in 1630.

For more information about Opening Our Doors, please visit http://fenwayculture.org/programming/opening-our-doors/