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Panama Cruise Image Gallery
March 22, 2010
A photographic tour of the 2010 Longyear on Board trip to the Panama Canal, with stops at five tropical ports: Aruba, Colombia, Panama, Costa Rica, and Jamaica.
Members’ Night Features First Phase of Lynn House Restoration
March 16, 2010
With the exterior restoration work about to begin on the Mary Baker Eddy Historic House in Lynn, members of the Longyear Museum Historic House team recently shared what they have learned thus far from their three-year examination of the house where Mrs. Eddy lived from 1875 to 1882.
Two Emmas
March 2, 2010
In observance of March as National Women's History Month, we are sharing brief sketches of two early workers in the Christian Science movement - Emma Easton Newman and Emma C. Shipman. Both students of Mary Baker Eddy, these women would become devoted to the Cause of Christian Science in their youth, and spend the rest of their lives supporting and pioneering the movement with their teaching and healing practices. These articles first appeared in the Longyear Historical Review, vol. 38, no. 2.
2010 Fall Tour: Explore the Trail of Mary Baker Eddy’s Life Journey
March 1, 2010
Enjoy autumn in New England as you explore Mary Baker Eddy’s life journey and discover and rediscover important sites in the history of the Christian Science movement. Longyear’s annual Fall Tour, from September 23-26, 2010, will guide travelers through historic houses and other places of significance in the life of Mary Baker Eddy.
Members' Vault: Asa Gilbert Eddy
March 1, 2010
Who is Asa Gilbert Eddy? Mary Baker Glover and Asa Gilbert Eddy were only married for five and one-half years, yet during that brief period, before his untimely death, Asa proved to be a great support to his wife and the cause of Christian Science she was working to establish.
Longyear President Gives Keynote Address at National Leadership Council Retreat
February 22, 2010
Longyear Museum President and Executive Director, Anne McCauley, was the keynote speaker for the National Leadership Council class retreat at the Adventure Unlimited Camp in Buena Vista, Colorado, on February 13. The theme for the weekend was "Honest Seekers for Truth," and the title of Anne's presentation was "Mary Baker Eddy: Seeker for Truth."
Book Program Enhances High School, College Students’ Libraries
February 11, 2010
The Longyear Foundation’s annual gift book program is again providing copies of Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy, Mrs. Eddy’s other writings, the Bible, and the Christian Science Hymnal to new students at Principia Upper School in Saint Louis, Missouri, and Principia College in Elsah, Illinois.
Victorian-Style Valentine Card Making
February 9, 2010
Longyear welcomed twenty visitors from throughout Massachusetts for a workshop in Victorian-style valentine card making on February 6 in the Museum’s Garden Room.
Vault Offering: The House at Bow
January 20, 2010
When Longyear Museum undertook to put together the most complete picture possible of the Baker family homestead at Bow, New Hampshire, where Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, spent her early years, it confronted a major challenge: Most of the house had been moved from its original site about 1907 and a few years later was destroyed by fire. All that remained were the house's foundation, references in Baker family letters and diaries, archived historical records, a photograph of the house and outbuildings taken many years after the family had moved away, and an artistic rendering by a cousin of Mrs. Eddy, also done after the fact.
Pioneer Portraits: Christian Science Pioneers in the American Midwest
January 18, 2010
In the Image Gallery for January, portraits and historic photos from Longyear's collection bring you face-to-face with some inspiring Christian Science pioneers. Their histories tell how spiritual conviction, rugged individualism, and courage enabled them — and others like them — to introduce Christian Science along the American frontier in the 1880s.
