On Tuesday, March 5, Katheryn Viens will present her paper “Farm, Factory, and Mine: Worcester Coal and the Role of Extractive Industries in Early 19th-Century New England” as part of the Massachusetts Historical Society’s Environmental History Seminar series.
Kate Viens has been metaphorically toiling in the mines herself as our treasurer, shoring up the Dublin Seminar’s legal and financial footing.
Her essay will focus on the Worcester Coal Company (founded 1828) and how its founder, William Elijah Greene, doggedly pursued the knowledge, capital, markets, and transportation necessary to exploit his Massachusetts landholdings. Brian C. Black of Penn State will comment on the paper.
This event begins at the M.H.S. with a reception at 4:30 PM, and the seminar will start both in-person and online at 5:00. To register to attend either in-person or virtually, visit the M.H.S. at this link: https://www.masshist.org/events/farm-factory-mine
Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife 