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Needham History Center Annual Meeting & Dinner
September 6 @ 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm
The NHCM Annual Meeting & Dinner
with Guest Stephen Kenney, Director of the Commonwealth Museum
September 6, 2023 from 6 – 9 pm, at the MIT Endicott House, 80 Haven Street in Dedham.
Tickets are no longer available for this event
Join us! to meet friends and fellow members as you enjoy a delicious 4-course dinner at the elegant MIT Endicott House. Share some social time, learn about the History Center, and celebrate all that you do for us throughout the year.
The Commonwealth Museum is the state’s repository of historical treasures, and holds some of the most important and iconic artifacts of our history – including the MA Bay Royal Charter and the MA Constitution. The Museum also has exhibits that trace the Massachusetts experience through the colonial, revolutionary, federal, and nineteenth century reform periods, and includes the stories Massachusetts families of Native American, English, African-American and Irish heritage.
Dr. Stephen Kenney has been Director of the Commonwealth Museum, the Massachusetts state history museum, since 2002. He has a Ph.D. from Boston University and has been a faculty member and administrator at several colleges including service as Interim President at Quincy College. He has been curator for several exhibits at the Commonwealth Museum, including Civil War Massachusetts, Sacco and Vanzetti, Road to Revolution: the Stamp Tax Crisis of 1765, and Freedom’s Agenda: African-American Petitions to the Massachusetts Government.