Public History Projects

Rediscover Mapledale: African Americans and Golf, A History February 8, 2024

Historical Consultant, Rediscover Mapledale, Stow, MA (2022-present)

Providing consultation for the development of Mapledale Acres, in Stow, MA, the first Black owned, designed, and operated 9-hole golf course in the northeastern United States.

Historian/Researcher for Lexington Historical Society Black History Project, 2021-2022

I researched the history of black people in slavery and freedom in Lexington, Massachusetts from the 1690s to the 1820s. The information is being used in the interpretation of the town’s historical sites, developing a black history tour in the town, and to add to the understanding of the town’s history.

Historian, Consultant. Middleton Place, Charleston, South Carolina (2021-present)

As a historian and a descendant, I work with the staff at Middleton Place to examine ways to update and expand the interpretation of the specific sites on the grounds. I also serve on the Middleton Place DEI advisory council.

View of Middleton Place

Emancipation Day, Middleton Place February 23, 2024

Past Public History Project

What’s in A Name? The Voyage of Discovery!

African American Historical and Genealogical Society 29th National Conference hosted by the New England Chapter. Organized and carried out pre-conference tours of African American history sites and repositories in Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island. (October 2007)

Centennial Celebration of the Saint-Gaudens Monument to Robert Gould Shaw and the Fifty-fourth Massachusetts Regiment, member of the symposium planning committee, Boston, MA (February 1996 - June 1997)

Cambridge African American History Trail, member of the planning committee, Cambridge, MA (1991-1994)

Roxbury Heritage State Park, member of the Advisory Planning Committee, Roxbury, MA (May 1988 - January 1989)

Students with architect inside the Dillaway-Thomas House