{"id":4808,"date":"2018-05-02T10:16:27","date_gmt":"2018-05-02T14:16:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lizzieborden.org\/CuratorsCorner\/?p=4808"},"modified":"2018-05-14T10:12:45","modified_gmt":"2018-05-14T14:12:45","slug":"discourses-on-history-series-number-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fallriverhistorical.org\/CuratorsCorner\/2018\/05\/02\/discourses-on-history-series-number-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Discourses on History Series, No. 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">We are currently selecting images to illustrate the soon-to-be-released second volume in the Discourses on History Series, published by the FRHS Press \u2013 a fascinating process. <em>Main Street in the Eighteen Seventies and Eighties<\/em> was written by Fall River businessman Thomas Richmond Burrell (1861-1953) and originally delivered as a lecture at a meeting of the FRHS on February 17, 1936.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In it, the author vividly recounted his memories of downtown Fall River in its heyday by conjuring up \u201ca flood of memories \u2026 out of the distant past \u2026 about those persons who carried on business\u201d in the center of the city\u2019s thriving main business district. The text is peppered with charming anecdotes and recollections about a varied cast, among them a number of individuals described by the author as \u201cpeculiar characters,\u201d for very good reason.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">This photograph, inscribed on the reverse: \u201cView North on South Main Street from Columbia Street, taken A.D. 1886,\u201d is one of the many images chosen from the FRHS collection that will appear in the volume; it was donated to the society in 1936.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Stay tuned.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are currently selecting images to illustrate the soon-to-be-released second volume in the Discourses on History Series, published by the FRHS Press \u2013 a fascinating process. Main Street in the Eighteen Seventies and Eighties was written by Fall River businessman Thomas Richmond Burrell (1861-1953) and originally delivered as a lecture at a meeting of the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4809,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[38,35,37,36],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallriverhistorical.org\/CuratorsCorner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4808"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallriverhistorical.org\/CuratorsCorner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallriverhistorical.org\/CuratorsCorner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallriverhistorical.org\/CuratorsCorner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallriverhistorical.org\/CuratorsCorner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4808"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/fallriverhistorical.org\/CuratorsCorner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4861,"href":"https:\/\/fallriverhistorical.org\/CuratorsCorner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4808\/revisions\/4861"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallriverhistorical.org\/CuratorsCorner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallriverhistorical.org\/CuratorsCorner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallriverhistorical.org\/CuratorsCorner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallriverhistorical.org\/CuratorsCorner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}