OUr board


“It was an eye-opener.”

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Our board

Sid Levitsky, president, is is the David W. and David Cheever Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School and senior vice-chair, department of surgery, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.

Sarah Stewart, vice-president, is a communications professional with experience in the UK and US. She is author of many articles and reports and co-author of two books. 

John Morrison, treasurer, is a consultant and is active in the Waltham Historical Society.

Ralph Belmonte graduated from Boston College and Lesley College. He was a senior collector at Hanscom Federal Credit Union.

John Benson is a Charlestown-based architect, active in historic preservation in Boston since 1973. 

Will Holton, president emeritus, is former professor of sociology at Northeastern University and a frequent visitor to Lincolnshire, UK.

Stephen Kenney has a PhD from Boston University and is director of the Commonwealth Museum, the Massachusetts state history museum.

Fred Meyer has worked in advertising and real estate and attended Harvard Divinity School. A former president of the Massachusetts Realtors’ Association, he’s also a trustee for a number of nonprofits. 

Roxanne Reddington-Wilde researches early modern Scotland and teaches at Cambridge College in Boston, MA.

Lori Rogers-Stokes is an independent scholar and author of Records of Trial from Thomas Shepard’s Church in Cambridge, 1638-1629, Heroic Souls. She is working on a new book on Indigenous Congregationalism in Woodland New England.

Neil Wright is the author of numerous books and articles on the history of Boston, UK, and Lincolnshire, and has given many talk on these subjects, including some in Boston, MA. He is currently writing a book about Boston, Lincolnshire, in the Georgian period. He is a former chair of the Society for Lincolnshire History and Archaeology. 

Rose Doherty, president emerita, led the Partnership from 2014-2017. She is a fellow of the Massachusetts Historical Society, a member of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts, and a founding board member of the Pursuit of History. She is also author of Katharine Gibbs: Beyond White Gloves.

 

Our advisors

Robert Allison, professor of history, Suffolk University, and vice-chair of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts

Francis J. Bremer, emeritus professor of history, Millersville University

Eve LaPlante, award-winning author

Nathaniel Sheidley, president and CEO, Revolutionary Spaces

Nina Zannieri, executive director, Paul Revere Memorial Association


OUR PARTNERS

Winthrop Society

Historic Beverly

Historical Society of Watertown

Plimouth Patuxet Museum

Revolutionary Spaces

Tomaquag Museum

We are grateful to Mass Humanities for its support for our live-streaming of presentations in 2023 and 2024.