To Boston in the 1950s came a young photographer named Verner Reed. His collection of New England images—most of them taken for Life magazine—are heart-warming reminders of a lost world as near as your own childhood.
The Verner Reed collection, now maintained by the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities, is the subject of a new retrospective. Opening at the Museum of Our National Heritage in Lexington, Massachusetts, in September 2004, the show will tour select New England venues. A Changing World is a beautifully produced hardcover edition of the show catalog, printed in rich black-and-white duotones, with a foreword by SPNEA historian John Stomberg.
You will be a witness to events of the 1950s and 1960s, including:
John F. Kennedy’s run for the Senate
The vigil for Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
The aftermath of the Brinks robbery
A visit to Harvard by T. S. Eliot
A doll wedding at the home of Tasha Tudor
You will also enjoy dozens of New England scenes from a time gone by—a taffy pull, a country fair, headlines posted on chalkboards along Boston’s "Newspaper Row"—captured by the extraordinarily perceptive eye of Verner Reed.
