Season 4, Bonus Episode: A Walk Through the Back Bay

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In the first episode of Season 4 of The Object of History, we briefly discussed the filling in of the Charles River bay when we introduced listeners to the Historical Society's building at 1154 Boylston Street. On this bonus episode, we invited one of our 2025 Dean W. Eastman Undergraduate Library Residents, Vivienne Charpentier, to dive deeper into history of the Back Bay. Vivienne tells us more about the Back Bay and then joins Chief Historian Peter Drummey on a walking tour of the neighborhood.

Listen to "1154 Boylston Street".

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Episode transcript

Episode Special Guest:

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Vivienne Charpentier was a Dean W. Eastman Undergraduate Library Resident in the 2025 Academic Year. They will begin their master's program in Library & Information Studies at the University of Rhode Island in the fall of 2025.

This episode uses materials from:
 

Canoe by Podington Bear (Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 International)       
Psychic by Dominic Giam of Ketsa Music (licensed under a commercial non-exclusive license by the Massachusetts Historical Society through Ketsa.uk)       
Curious Nature by Dominic Giam of Ketsa Music (licensed under a commercial non-exclusive license by the Massachusetts Historical Society through Ketsa.uk)

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