History, Tourism & Greater Boston's Development

The Boston History Collaborative, established in mid-1997, is a not-for-profit alliance of five groups:

• Senior historians from area universities
• Museums, historic sites and libraries
• The Greater Boston tourism industry, including the Greater Boston Convention and Visitors Bureau and Legal Sea Foods
• City, state and federal government agencies, including the Massachusetts Office of Travel and Tourism
• Downtown businesses including Liberty Mutual Group and State Street Bank and Trust.

Mission

• To position Greater Boston as one of the world's primary destinations for historical tourism by offering visitors and residents programs which are both educational and entertaining over a ten year period.
• To develop these programs in collaboration with historical institutions, the visitor industry, government, academia, schools, and businesses.
• To serve as an example for exciting and authentic history in the midst of a major city.

Staff

• Maureen A. Taylor, Family History Website Project Manager
• Michael P. Quinlin, Family and Immigrant History Project Manager
• Dr. Robert M. Krim, Executive Director & Founder
• Lisa Simpson, Director, Literary Trail of Greater Boston
• Kathy Kuy, Development Director
• Jane Schwerdtfeger, Educational Consultant
• Jennifer Green, Project Researcher
• Andrea Catalano, Project Researcher
• Darren W. Linder, Operations Coordinator
  

Contributors/Consultants

• Angel Amy Moreno, Roxbury Community College
• Jerome E. Anderson, New England Historic Genealogical Society
• Ethan Beeler, National Park Service
• James Campano, West End Historical Association
• Van Christo, Frosina Information Network
• Hiep Chu, Project Director of the National Asian Family/School Partnership Project
• James Cooke, Dorchester Historical Society
• Stephanie Fan, Chinese Historical Society of New England
• David Hackett Fischer, Brandeis University
• Susan Groganian, Bostonian Society
• Nancy Hannan, Hyde Park Historical Society
• June Hatfield, Consultant to Northeastern University
• Mark Johnson, Northeastern University
• David Kunze, Roslindale Historical Society
• Henry Lee, Chairman of the Board, Massachusetts Historical Society
• Lynn Public Library
• Very Reverend Arthur Evans Liolin, Chancellor Albanian Orthodox Archdiocese in America
• Dr. William Marchione, Brighton Allston Historical Society
• Dr. Felix V. Matos Rodriguez, Northeastern University
• Marcia Melnyk, Italian American Genealogical Society
• Evelyn Menconi, St. George's Church
• Frank Middleton, African Meeting House
• Dr. Thomas O'Connor, Boston College
• Dr. William Reid, South Boston Historical Society
• Rep. Byron Rushing
• Ellen Smith, American Jewish Historical Society
• Dr. Alexander Von Hoffman, Harvard University
• Bryn Upton, Boston History Collaborative
  

Contact Information

Boston History Collaborative
175 Berkeley Street
Boston, MA 02117
Phone: (617) 574-5950
Fax: (617) 574-6689
Website: www.lit-trail.org

Board of Directors

• Gary Countryman, Board Chair, Liberty Mutual Group & Collaborative
• Roger Berkowitz, CEO, Legal Sea Foods
• James Darr, State Street Bank
• David Hackett Fischer, Professor, Brandeis University
• Richard Freeland, President, Northeastern University
• Bink Garrison, HMEI
• Don Law, President, Don Law Company
• Henry Lee, Chairman of the Board, Massachusetts Historical Society
• Jill Lepore, Professor, Boston University
• Linda McConchie, Executive Director, Freedom Trail Foundation
• Jamie McCourt, The McCourt Company
• Patrick B. Moscaritolo, President, Greater Boston Convention & Visitors Bureau
• Sylvia Watts McKinney, Director, Museum of Afro American History
• Andrew Wilson, President, Boston Duck Tours
• Robert M. Krim, Executive Director, Boston History Collaborative

Boston History Collaborative Advisory Council

• Katherine Abbott, Executive Director, Island Alliance
• Eugenie Beal, President, Boston Natural Areas Fund
• Janey Bishoff, Principal, Bishoff-Solomon
• Martin Blatt, Boston National Historical Park
• John Bok, Chair of the Board, Mass Horticultural Society, Board member Island Alliance, Partner, Foley, Hoag & Eliot
• John Brooke, Tufts University
• John Burchill, Superintendent, Boston National Historical Park
• Louis Casagrande, President, Children’s Museum
• Dr. Robert W. Consalvo, Director of Research, Boston Redevelopment Authority
• Karilyn Crockett, Co-Director, MYTOWN
• Lawrence DiCara, Senior Partner, Real Estate, Peabody & Brown
• David Dixon, Principal, Goody/Clancy
• Barry Dym, Principal, Workwise
• Prof. Michael Dukakis, Professor, Northeastern University
• Westy Egmont, Executive Director, International Institute of Boston
• David Ellis, Director, The Science Museum
• Shawn Ford, Boston Old Town Trolley Tours, VP Historic Tours of America
• Dr. William Fowler, Director, Massachusetts Historical Society
• Terence Heagney, Senior Vice President/External Relations, Houghton Mifflin
• Hubie Jones, University of Massachusetts/Boston
• Christopher Kenneally, Author/Writer (Author of The Massachusetts Legacy)
• H. Gregory Ketchen, Chief of Operations, New England Aquarium
• Jon Lipsky, Professor, BU/Theatre Arts
• Bernard Margolis, President, Boston Public Library
• Douglas McDonald, Executive Director, Massachusetts Water Resource Authority
• Mary Jane McKenna, Executive Director, Mass. Office of Travel & Tourism, Commonwealth of Mass.
• Nancy Nelson, Superintendent of the Minuteman National Historical Park
• Bill Nigreen, Vice President/Quality Improvement, Fidelity Investments
• Sarah Peskin, National Park Service, Regional Office - Boston
• Michael Quinlin, Irish Famine Memorial Committee
• Rep. Byron Rushing, historian and State Representative
• Pamela Swain, New England Historic Genealogical Society
• William Tramposch, Vice President, Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities
• Robert F. Walsh, President, RF Walsh Co
• James White, Board of Directors, Bostonian Society & ELAW
• Susan Wilson, author/photographer: Boston: Sites and Insights, former Globe columnist, author/photographer.

Family History Website Advisory Council

• Steve Kyner, vice president, GENTECH and editor of The Computer Genealogist
• John McClogan, Boston City Archives
• Mary Frances O'Brien, Boston Public Library
• Pamela Swain, New England Historic Genealogical Society

Credits

The Boston History Collaborative would like to thank the following:

• Photodisc© copyright, Inc. 2000
• Jane Schwerdtfeger