Chat With a Curator — And Bind Your Own Booklet!

Get up close to letters, diaries, newspapers, and books that children wrote and produced in the nineteenth century. Chat with AAS curators about these materials and hear stories about how imaginative young writers recorded their daily lives, wrote stories and poetry, expressed their beliefs, and commented on serious issues of their time. Then try your hand at binding your own booklet or diary with the help of a conservator. This program is held in conjunction with the Historic Children’s Voices project, funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. As a result of this project, hundreds of scanned materials written and created by children in the 1800s are now freely available on the AAS website. 

Held in Antiquarian Hall, 185 Salisbury Street, Worcester, Chat with a Curator is free and open to all ages on a drop-in basis.

Advanced registration is not required unless you plan to make a booklet.