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Alan Seaburg was Librarian of Crane Theological School, Tufts University; Co-minister with Kenneth Patton of the Charles Street Meeting House in Boston; and Curator of Manuscripts for 25 years at the Andover-Harvard Theological Library, Harvard Divinity School. When he retired in 1995 the school made him Curator of Manuscripts, Emeritus. In 1999 the Meadville/Lombard Theological School in Chicago gave him an honorary D.D. He was for many years Poetry Editor of Snowy Egret. His poetry has been issued as Thoreau Collage (1978), The City of Love (1990), On My Own (1992), 52 Tavistock Square (1994), and Affectionately Yours, Paris (in the Anne Miniver Reader, 2008). With his brother Carl Seaburg he wrote Medford on the Mystic (1980), a town history in photographs and text, and The Incredible Ditch (1997), a history of the Middlesex Canal. He has edited Carl Seaburg and Stanley Paterson, The Ice King: Frederic Tudor and His Circle (2003), written the ebook, Botega a Roma: Tom Dahill at the American Academy (2007), and contributed "The Evolution of Religion in Twentieth-Century Cambridge" to Cambridge in the Twentieth Century (2007). Alan Seaburg's other works include Cambridge on the Charles (2001), a history of Cambridge, Massachusetts, and At the Fair (1990), a study of the Boston immigrant experience. His writings appear in many magazines and newspapers, including The New York Times, Amherst Review, Hawaii Review, and Commonweal. His "A Visit to Crane Theological School" is in the Unitarian Universalist Christian (2005).
Articles:
Horatio Alger
Johannes A.C.F. Auer
P. T. Barnum
Paul Carnes
Alfred S. Cole
John Cousens
Albert Dieffenbach
John Dietrich
Richard Eddy
Frederick May Eliot
Roger Etz
Victor A. Friend
Dana McLean Greeley
Robert Edward Green
Alice Harrison
John Holmes
Andrew Kuroda
The Larger Hope
Charles Lyttle
Jean Mayer
Lee Sullivan McCollester
Arthur Peacock
Leslie Pennington
Thomas Handasyd Perkins
Richard Pierce
John Moses Ratcliff
Curtis Williford Reese
William Rice
Caroline Soule
Charles Vickery
Earl Morse Wilbur
Rhys Williams