Congratulations to our board president, Marla R. Miller, for receiving the 2025 Distinguished Artist Award from the St. Botolph Club Foundation!
Each year the foundation presents this award to an outstanding practitioner in the field of music, literature, or the visual arts, on a rotating basis. All recipients are New England–based artists who in their careers have produced significant bodies of work and performed effectively as teachers, mentors, and/or activists in their fields.
The club honored Marla Miller as author of Betsy Ross and the Making of America and other “historical nonfiction literature” such as Entangled Lives: Labor, Livelihood, and Landscapes of Change in Rural Massachusetts and The Needle’s Eye: Women and Work in the Age of Revolution.
The St. Botolph Club also noted Marla’s work as an educator: Distinguished Professor of History at UMass Amherst, for twenty years Director of the university’s Public History Program, and now Associate Dean for Strategic Initiatives.
Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife 