FBHI Past Events

Annual New Year's Day trip

FBHI sponsored the 2025 New Year's Day The trip to Cathleen Stone Island (formerly known as Thompson Island). Below are some of the photos taken by participants.

FBHI 2024 Annual Meeting Took place on Deer Island

October 20, 2024 — The FBHI Annual Meeting was held in the Historic Pump Station at the MWRA Deer Island Wastewater Treatment Plant from 2:00-4:00pm. There was social time, a brief business meeting and the election of Board members. The guest speaker was Cyrus Marion, whose currently teaching "On the Edge of the World: An Archaeological History of the Boston Harbor Islands" for the UMass Boston Osher Lifelong Learning Institute.

The MWRA staff offered elevator tours up to the top of the digesters before the meeting.

A VOYAGE BACK IN TIME TO GREAT BREWSTER ISLAND

July 20, 2024 – FBHI author volunteers presented a program onboard the MV Columbia Point about "A Boston Harbor Islands Adventure - The Great Brewster Journal of 1891." The book highlights a remarkable tale of four women who sojourn on Great Brewster in 1891. The tour had views of Long Island Head Light, Deer Island (aid-to-navigation), historic day-marker, Nixes Mate, Boston Light and Graves Light. Low tide also enabled views of the nearly 1.5 mile sandspit extending from Great Brewster Island.

Copies of the book are available online from History Press.

MV Columbia Point docking following the trip to Great Brewster Island.

2021 ANNUAL MEETING OF FBHI

The 2021 Annual Meeting was held virtually on October 23, 2021. Click on the title screen below to watch the video of that meeting.

The meeting included a conversation with authors Pavala Simkova and Stephanie Schorow followed a short business meeting with short presentations by Chairman Walter Hope, Founder Suzanne Gall Marsh and Volunteer Coordinator Carol Fithian, and election of FBHI Board of Directors.

Urban Archipelago - An Environmental History of the Boston Harbor Islands a 2021 publication from the University of Massachusetts Press is available.