History Studio: A Home in Woods Hole

[Pleun Bouricius]

View this email in your browser History Studio: A Home in Woods Hole Wednesday, April 2 at 7pm   Join us for the next installment in our History Studio authors' series with Elizabeth Sheehy!   Walter Nickerson and Helena Nugent built a house in Woods Hole more than a hundred years ago. Though their descendants spread out across New England, they kept returning to the house on Eel Pond, which survived the 1938 New England Hurricane and also served as a boarding house for many years.  For our third installment in the History Studio series on authors and publishing in Massachusetts history, join us for a conversation with Elizabeth Sheehy. We will be talking about the making and publishing of A Home in Woods Hole: Life and History on Eel Pond published by The History Press in 2024,  in which she chronicles the history of Woods Hole through the lens of a house and the family that built it. Find out more about how history gets published!   Registration is free - but if you're able to donate to help us continue to offer programming like this, it's much appreciated! REGISTER HERE.     We will do our best to monitor your questions and comments during the History Studio. A recording will be publicly available in the Conversations on the Commons Archive. This event will be livestreamed on our YouTube channel.  Questions? Email com...@masshistoryalliance.org About our speaker: After the serendipitous purchase of a grand old house in Woods Hole in 2018, Elizabeth Sheehy turned to writing full-time to tell the story of people she met through the house, long dead and nearly forgotten. Retired from her career as a retail executive, Sheehy put her Trinity College history degree to work to uncover the fascinating lives of the Nickersons and the Nugents from one hundred years ago. A lifelong writer and lover of puzzles and mysteries, Sheehy grew up in California with English parents who passed down to her their passion for history. She and her husband split their time between Arlington, Virginia and Woods Hole.     Conversations on the Commons Where people from Massachusetts history organizations get to vent, empathize, laugh, complain, think, collaborate, brainstorm, plan, and in general be up to no good. Suggest a Conversation topic or volunteer as a peer panelist or moderator. Contribute to MHA today to support the Commons, which is free for all but does cost money to run! Mass History Commons is a project of the Mass History Alliance supported by the generous contributions of our sponsors: Mass Humanities (Major Sponsor) State Historical Records Advisory Board (MA-SHRAB) See all of our sponsors here! Help keep the ship afloat! Become a sponsor of the Mass History Commons. Copyright © 2025 Mass History Alliance, All rights reserved. You are receiving this email because you have expressed an interest in Massachusetts history. Our mailing address is: Mass History Alliance 123 Ashmont Street C/O Earl Taylor, Treasurer, Mass History Alliance Dorchester, MA 02124 Add us to your address book Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list.