Preliminary Schedule
Monday and Tuesday, 13th-14th July
Arrivals at Eliot & Pickett Houses (behind UUA headquarters 25 Beacon St.)
Wednesday, 15th July
Afternoon - Late arrivals at Eliot & Pickett Houses
- Optional DUCK tour of Boston by land and water
6:00 -7:00 Tour of UUA, 25 Beacon Street, and William Ellery Channing House (Beacon Hill)
7:00-9:30 Evening meal; presentation on Boston and Martineaus; social (Eliot & Pickett Houses)
Thursday, 16th July
9:00-11:30 two scholarly sessions (4 papers) and coffee break between (Eliot & Pickett Houses)
12:00-1:00 catered lunch (Eliot & Pickett Houses)
1:30-4:30 Walking tour of central Boston of sites significant to the Martineaus: HM and reform and Abolitionism, JM and American Unitarian and mutual influences; site of BFAAS meeting with HM, Hollis St. [or Asylum for Blind]; tea and talk at Arlington Street Church
7:00-9:00 Evening meal and social (Eliot & Pickett Houses)
Friday, 17th July
9:00-11:30 two scholarly sessions (4 papers) and coffee break between (Eliot & Pickett Houses)
12:00-12:45 catered lunch (Eliot & Pickett Houses)
1:00-5:30 Bus tour archives/libraries (Boston Pub Lib, Mass Hist Soc, Schlesinger Lib Harvard; tea at First Church, Harvard Square; walking tour of Harvard Yard)
7:00-9:00 Evening meal and social (Eliot & Pickett Houses)
Saturday, 18th July
9:00-11:30 two scholarly sessions (4 papers) and coffee break between (Eliot & Pickett Houses)
12:00-12:45 catered lunch (Eliot & Pickett Houses)
1:00-6:00 Bus driving tour to Concord (Old Manse, Emerson House, Alcott House; Walden Pond; tea and talk at Follen Church, East Lexington)
7:00-9:30 Banquet and entertainment (Eliot & Pickett Houses)
Sunday, 19th July
9:00-10:00 one scholarly session (2 papers)(Eliot & Pickett Houses)
11:00-12:00 Stroll in Common and Public Garden; or optional church service (e.g., First Church, Arlington Street Church, King’s Chapel)
1:00-2:00 farewell luncheon (Eliot & Pickett Houses)
Afternoon – Departures (or remain to enjoy more of Boston)