Longyear Museum & Exhibits
Longyear Museum, conveniently located just outside Boston and easily accessible by public transportation, offers exhibits, publications, and programs about the life of Mary Baker Eddy, one of America’s most noted women, as well as tours of several houses where she once lived. Mrs. Eddy discovered Christian Science in 1866 and spent over 40 years making her discovery known through healing, writing, and teaching. The Longyear Museum collections - including paper documents, photographs, art, and artifacts, ranging from the smallest tintype photo to the largest house - serve as evidence of Mrs. Eddy’s life and work for current and future generations
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Imparting a Fresh Impulse: Mary Baker Eddy's Class of 1898
September 21, 2009
This Image Gallery (September 2009) tells the story of Mary Baker Eddy’s 1898 class. She said that her work with that class “changed the character of the entire Field.” The picture-story includes portraits, documents, photographs, and artifacts from Longyear’s collection that are on display in the Museum’s exhibit: Imparting a Fresh Impulse – Mary Baker Eddy Teaches the Class of 1898.
Pioneer Portraits: Christian Science Pioneers in the American Midwest
January 18, 2010
Through this gallery of images from Longyear's collection of portraits and historic photographs you'll meet a pioneering group of Christian Scientists in the American Midwest. These images represent a blend of spiritual conviction, rugged individualism, and courage that enabled them to introduce Christian Science along the American frontier in the 1880s. The stories of these and other courageous Christian Science pioneers are told in this Image Gallery and also in Longyear's documentary film, "The Onward and Upward Chain."
Rumney, N. H.: A Higher, Wider View
June 17, 2009
Situated on a sunny knoll not far from the Rumney town center, this house represented an improved outlook for the future Mary Baker Eddy. Living here from 1860 to mid-1862, she resumed her writing, mainly poetry, as she continued to seek health.