Gibson House Museum

Gibson House Museum, 137 Beacon St · Back Bay, Boston · thegibsonhouse.org

2 upcoming lectures and talks from Gibson House Museum, with dates, venues and ticket links taken from the organization’s own pages and refreshed weekly. All lectures in Greater Boston →

Sat Oct 10 · 5:00pm

Victorian Hair Jewelry Lecture & Workshop

Gibson House Museum · Gibson House Museum · 137 Beacon Street · Boston · MA 02116 · Back Bay · Boston

Dr. Nora Carleson, Historic New England's Curator of Fashion and Decorative Arts, lectures on Victorian hair jewelry: the earrings, brooches, bracelets and necklaces made of human hair that were once commonplace across the United States. She covers the craft's history in New England, how the pieces were made and why they were popular, and artists who have taken it up again. Afterward participants make their own, with supplies and artificial hair provided.

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Thu Nov 12 · 6:00pm

Anesthesia, Addiction, and Asylums: The Private Life of Dr. Freeman Allen

Gibson House Museum · Gibson House Museum · 137 Beacon St · Boston · MA · Back Bay · Boston

Gibson House Museum curator Hailey Robbins lectures on Dr. Freeman Allen, Massachusetts General Hospital's first staff anesthetist and husband of Mary Ethel Gibson. A prominent Boston doctor, Allen struggled privately with morphine addiction and spent his last years in and out of mental health facilities, with Ethel as his confidant and support. The lecture carries a content warning for discussion of mental illness, opiate addiction, alcoholism, suicide and grief.

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