Waterworks Wednesday Book Group

Join the monthly Waterworks Wednesday Book Group for discussion of Boston’s Immigrants: 1840-1925 by authors Michael Price and Anthony Sammarco. Even if you have not read the selected book you are invited to join the group for lively conversation about Boston history. All you need to bring is your curiosity – and maybe your coffee!

The Waterworks Wednesday Book Group will meet Wednesday, March 4th, at 10:00 a.m. in the museum’s upstairs Overlook Gallery. There is no admission fee. Book group meetings occur on the first Wednesday of each month.

After the book group, you are welcome to explore the museum on your own or join a guided tour. You will be able to view massive steam engines, learning about the history of Industrialization and the immigrant workers who helped build Boston.

About the book:

Boston is a city rich in the history of residents from all walks of life, every country and every ethnicity imaginable. From 1840 to 1925, Boston’s diversity created a city with a thriving nexus of people who wove together a community that reflected their own unique heritage. In this lavishly illustrated book with over 200 thought-provoking and evocative photographs, Anthony Mitchell Sammarco and Michael Price have created an important book chronicling the determination, strength, and often manifold successes of immigrants who arrived in Boston. From the mid-nineteenth century when Boston’s burgeoning population included one out of every three as being foreign born, the immigrants’ arrival at the East Boston docks increased greatly between 1840 and 1925, where they were to pass into the New World, and a new life. In chapters that deal with the immigrants before their arrival, their first perceptions, to where they went, worked, and played, this book outlines the ancestors of many present-day Bostonians in the evolving process of Americanization.