Past Events
May
Sun., May 16, 2 pm Annual meeting; slide show: Diverse Dorchester by Robert Severy and new exhibits
April
Sun., Apr. 18, 2010
Antique Appraisal Day with Mary Westcott of Kaminski Auction House.
March
Sun., Mar. 21, 2010
The forfitication of Dorchester Heights, illustrated lecture by Earl Taylor
February
Sun., Feb. 21, 2 pm
Great Chocolate Cook-Off Extravaganza 2010andAnthony M. Sammarco author event
Winners of the Cook-Off
From left: Earl Taylor, President of the Society; Jessie Zuberek, Kelley Ready, Jack Dennerlein.
Kelley Ready won the Dorchester Historical Society's Cook-Off and a gift certificate to Phillps Candy House with her entry Countess Toulouse-Lautrec's French Chocolate Cake. Honorable mentions were awarded to Jack Dennerlein for his Semi-Spicy Chocolate Peanut Butter Truffles and to Jessie Zuberek for her Espresso Brownies.
Countess Toulouse-Lautrec French Chocolate Cake
Chocolate! That creamy, rich, delicious confection we adore is something that few can resist, refuse, or deny themselves. Yet this sweet and decadent delicacy is far different than what was enjoyed just a few centuries ago when it was a delicious and flavorful drink referred to as the "Food of the Gods." Anthony M. Sammarco's new bestselling book The Baker Chocolate Company: A Sweet History chronicles the history and development of this venerable and delicious industry. In his illustrated lecture Sammarco outlines chocolate from its evolution from chocolatle to cocoa. Mr. Sammarco is a past president of the Dorchester Historical Society, and this is his fifty-seventh book.Copies of his new bestselling book will be available at $21.99
Sun., Jan. 17, 2 pm History of Field's Corner
Jeffrey Gonyeau of Historic Boston Incorporated, who is a Director of the Dorchester Historical Society, presented a slide program on the historyof Fields Corner featuring new material
discovered through its Historic Neighborhood Centers program, a collaborative project of Historic Boston, Field'sCorner Main Street, and Viet-AID.Together thesegroups are constructing a vision for the futureofFields Corner,concentrating on the rehabilitationand re-use of historic buildings and the preservationof the district's unique architectural character.
December: Holiday Party
2009 November 15--TheSociety opened its barn for the first ever public viewing.
The New England Barn and Its Restoration.
Rick Detwiller, architect and President of the Georgetown Historical Society, presentedan illustrated lecture on New England barns and how the Clapp Family barn fits into the tradition of barn-building beginning at 2 pm.The Clapp family is famous for hybridizing many varieties of pears including the Clap's Favorite, but the family farm has much more to offer as a full working farm from over one hundred years ago.
Following the lecture, EarthWorksdemonstrated apple pressing for the making of cider, and the
buildings were open for exploration. The early nineteenth-century basement kitchen of the William Clapp House is filled with objects relating to cooking and laundry. The Lemuel Clap House has artifacts used in the linen-making process and examples of needlework from the first half of the nineteenth century. Along with its animal stalls, the barn is filled with agricultural tools, carpenter's tools and more including plows, buggy, sleigh, enormous sled, harrows, clamps, hay forks, iron and wooden shovels to point out just a few.
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