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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Boston Environmental History Seminar at the
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<p class="MsoNormal">Tuesday, January 16, 2018, 5:15 PM<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#17375E">Jeffrey Egan, University of Connecticut<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i>Comment: Karl Haglund, Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation</i><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt">“The Fight before the Flood: Rural Protest and the Debate over Boston’s Quabbin Reservoir, 1919-1927”<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">In 1919, state engineers proposed solving Boston’s water supply crisis by damming the Swift River, flooding a western Massachusetts valley and evicting 2,500 people. The contentious six-year debate that followed does not fit the standard
story of urban conservationists versus rural peoples, as many valley residents defined themselves as rural and conservationist, and thus offers scholars a chance to see fresh nuances in early twentieth-century land management, rural life, and urban development.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:#C00000">RSVP required.</span></b><span style="color:#C00000">
</span>To respond, reply to this email, email <a href="mailto:seminars@masshist.org" target="_blank" title="mailto:seminars@masshist.org">
seminars@masshist.org</a>, or call 617-646-0579.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Unless stated, all seminars take place at the Society, 1154 Boylston St., Boston, and commence at 5:15 PM. After each session the Society will provide a light buffet supper. In case of inclement weather, phone 617-536-1608 for information.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">As in the past, the essays are available to subscribers as PDFs through the seminar’s webpage,
<a href="https://www.masshist.org/2012/calendar/seminars/environmental-history">https://www.masshist.org/2012/calendar/seminars/environmental-history</a>. Subscribe to the 2017-2018 series online via this page. A $25 subscription allows access to the full series
of papers for the year, as well as the papers for the Boston Area Early American History Seminar and the Modern American Society and Culture Seminar. Papers are posted a few weeks before the session; the Jan. 16 paper is now online.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Questions? Email <a href="mailto:seminars@masshist.org" target="_blank">
seminars@masshist.org</a>.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">We look forward to seeing you at the seminar!<o:p></o:p></p>
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<i>Yankees in the West</i> is on display at the MHS Monday through Saturday from 10 AM to 4 PM through 6 April, 2018. More information is available at www.masshist.org..<br>
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Alexis Buckley, Research Coordinator & Book Review Editor<br>
Massachusetts Historical Society<br>
1154 Boylston Street, Boston, MA 02215<br>
Phone: 617-646-0577, Fax: 617-859-0074<br>
Email: abuckley@masshist.org<br>
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