Featured Program
Author Chris Klein, will speak at the WHS Lecture and Annual Meeting on October 27th.
Featured Exhibits
Our newest exhibit, “Remaking Weston: The Creation of the Town Common,” will be at the Library through October 15, 2010 and then will move to the Town Hall.
Our prior exhibit on the Sears Estate, “Haleiwa,” on Boston Post Road will be at the Town Hall until October 15th, 2010. The house was demolished after World War II.
Featured Program
Weston Historical Society Lecture and Annual Meeting
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Community Room, Weston Public Library
Free and open to the public
7:00 pm Refreshments
7:15 pm Annual Meeting
7:30 pm Lecture “Discovering the Boston Harbor Islands”
by Christopher Klein, author of Boston Harbor Islands:
A Guide to the City's Hidden Shore
The blockbuster movie Shutter Island was set on a fictitious island in
Boston Harbor, but the true stories of the Boston Harbor Islands are even stranger than fiction.
Join author Christopher Klein as he takes you on a virtual tour through the colorful history and
natural beauty of one of our best-kept local secrets: the Boston Harbor Islands national park area.
Hear tales of ghosts, shipwrecks, prisoners of war, and Revolutionary War battles that took place on
“the real Shutter Islands” and get inspired to leave port and visit this urban oasis.
Christopher Klein is a Boston-based author and freelance writer specializing in travel, sports, and
history subjects. His most recent book is The Die-Hard Sports Fan's Guide to Boston
(Union Park Press, 2009), the ultimate handbook to spectator sporting events in and around Boston.
Discovering the Boston Harbor Islands: A Guide to the City's Hidden Shores was published by Union
Park Press in 2008. Klein is an entertaining speaker whose photographs capture the beauty of the
34 islands. His book will be available for purchase and signing.