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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"">Boston Environmental History Seminar</span><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"">Andrew Robichaud, Boston University<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"">The Ice Trade: Frederic Tudor’s “Slippery Speculation”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="otherguest">David Spanagel, Worcester Polytechnic Institute</span></span><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"">This paper reexamines the emergence and development of the ice trade in Boston and North America, described in 1806 by the Boston Gazette as a “slippery speculation.” What can the ice
trade tell us about environmental, economic, political, and spatial change in nineteenth-century Boston and North America?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:#C00000">RSVP required</span><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"">.</span><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif""> To respond, email seminars@masshist.org
or call 617-646-0579.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"">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></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"">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" target="_blank">
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 Apr. 10 paper is now online.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"">Questions? Email seminars@masshist.org.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"">We look forward to seeing you at the seminar!<o:p></o:p></span></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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