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Year-End IRA Donations

November 13, 2024

Since 2006, individuals who are required to take an annual distribution from their retirement funds have been able to donate to charities directly from individual retirement accounts (IRAs) in lieu of part or all of their required distribution. For the 2024 tax year, individuals over 70½ can make tax-free qualified charitable distributions (QCDs) up to…

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A Gift to Longyear

September 30, 2024

In late summer, Longyear Museum took possession of a rare antiquity—a reconstructed 2,000-year-old jar from the famed caves of Qumran, where the Dead Sea Scrolls were first discovered in 1947.1 Now on display in the Museum’s Daycroft Library, the jar was donated to Longyear by longtime supporters of the Endowment for Biblical Research (EBR), Boston. The EBR…

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A Fountain Flows Again

August 28, 2024

  There’s something quite refreshing about the sight and sound of a fountain, the splish-splash of cool water on stone, don’t you agree? Mary Baker Eddy certainly enjoyed an occasional respite by the burbling fountain on the grounds of Pleasant View, her home near Concord, New Hampshire.1 And, just steps from their desks and offices…

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Award for "A Home for Spike"

August 27, 2024

A Home for Spike, Longyear Museum’s first illustrated book targeting young readers, recently received an Honorable Mention in the New England Museum Association’s 2024 Publication Award Competition. Spike was one of only two entries to be named in the “books” category, with first place going to Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts for its coffee table-style…

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Longyear’s Gift Books Tradition Continues to Bless

July 30, 2024

On her extensive travels—mainly to Europe as well as one around-the-world voyage—Museum founder Mary Beecher Longyear readily shared information about Christian Science and its teachings.1 One way she did this was by distributing copies of the Christian Science textbook, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy, to those she met…

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Portrait from the First Reading Room
Portrait from the First Reading Room

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Household at Pleasant View (1892-1908)
Household at Pleasant View (1892-1908)

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First Branch Church was in Wisconsin (1886)
First Branch Church was in Wisconsin (1886)

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Bradford Sherman: Painter and Practitioner
Bradford Sherman: Painter and Practitioner

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Christian Values in Victorian Décor
Christian Values in Victorian Décor

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Paths of Pioneer Christian Scientists
Paths of Pioneer Christian Scientists

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San Francisco Earthquake (1906)
San Francisco Earthquake (1906)

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Landmark Years for Christian Science: 1868 and 1876
Landmark Years for Christian Science: 1868 and 1876

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J. Robert Atkinson: Benefactor of the Blind
J. Robert Atkinson: Benefactor of the Blind

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Tour the Mary Baker Eddy Historic Houses

Get to know more about her life and work by visiting the eight historic houses in Longyear’s collection

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