Our Home: An Eastie Community Archiving Project, was a 2019 collaboration between East Boston residents, the ICA, Artist Anthony Romero, Northeastern’s NULawLab, and area nonprofits, aims to activate East Boston’s activist past by hosting history capturing and storytelling events for residents and making the material available for research as part of Northeastern University’s University Archives and Special Collections.
[More]East Boston Memoir Project (2020-2022)
Founded in 1918, East Boston Social Centers, Inc. is a multi-service agency, serving culturally diverse families and individuals of all ages in East Boston and throughout Greater Boston. • In 2019, the Social Centers donated their records to the Northeastern Archives & Special Collections. The records consist of administrative reports, building plans, scrapbooks, newspapers, photographs and other materials pertaining to programs, events, and the organization’s administration. In 2020, the Social Centers approached the Boston Research Center for support in developing a memoir project to preserve the memories of older adults in the community. Through generous funding by the Boston Public Library, GrubStreet, a Boston-based creative writing center, is providing 16 weeks of memory-making and memory-capturing lessons to participants via Zoom. At the conclusion of their writing course, memoirists will have the option to share their stories via oral history, to be made publicly accessible via a web portal.