Meet Joe Bagley, Boston’s City Archaeologist

by Jules Thomson

Joe Bagley’s headquarters at the Boston City Archaeology program consists of a few rooms jam-packed with the material history of the area. Native artefacts from thousands of years before European colonization lie bagged in boxes alongside 20th …

Meet Samuel Smallidge, Archivist at Converse

by Maggie Hoffman

“What do you know about the history of Converse?”

When Samuel Smallidge read the words on the questionnaire, he felt uniquely qualified to answer. Though he holds two Master’s degrees, it was knowledge recalled from a fifth …