History Camp Boston: Literature, Life, and Love at The Waterside Museum at Suffolk University Law Building

Mrs. Annie Adams Fields has incredible influence on literary decisions at Ticknor & Fields Publishing House (forerunner to Houghton Mifflin). Counting amongst her friends: Nathaniel Hawthorne, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Annie witnessed Victorian revelry at the height of Transcendentalism, along with a nation’s despair, during the onslaught of Civil War–all from her home; The Waterside Museum at 148 Charles Street, Beacon Hill, Boston. Now Mrs. Fields offers her guests intimate secrets and extraordinary observations, including her years with Sarah Orne Jewett in a Boston Marriage. Join Mrs. Fields! She is a consummate hostess. There will be laughter, disbelief, awe, and even blushing cheeks, as you hear the tantalizing tales of this preeminent literary scout and accomplished writer! (Based on Authors and Friends (1896) and Memories of a Hostess (1922).)

************************************************************************************ Judith Kalaora founded History At Play, LLC (HAP) in 2010 to chronicle the lives of influential and often forgotten figures. Kalaora is a professional educator, award-winning playwright, and living historian. Graduating Syracuse University Magna cum Laude, Kalaora completed the Globe Education Program, at Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre of London, UK.

Kalaora is internationally acclaimed for portrayals of Revolutionary War Heroine Deborah Sampson, Technological Phenom Hedy Lamarr, and Teacher in Space Christa McAuliffe.

Kalaora is a New England Foundation for the Arts Touring Artist; a recipient of MA Cultural Council awards; the 2019 recipient of the Dr. Bobby Gilmer Moss Lectureship Series Award, granted by the National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution; and the 2021 winner of the Women in the Arts Award, granted by the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution.