BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID;X-RICAL-TZSOURCE=TZINFO:-//com.denhaven2/NONSGML ri_cal gem//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN VERSION:2.0 BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:The House Museum Alliance of Downtown Boston presents its sp ring 2012 tour series\, "Letters from Home: Boston Families Correspo nd\," featuring correspondence from Boston's five downtown house mus eums. For these special tours\, each museum will draw on their rich collections of personal and business correspondence to illuminate li fe in the 18th\, 19th\, and 20th centuries and exhibit materials rarely seen by the public. The Paul Revere House\, 19 North Square in Bosto n's Italian North End\, is pleased to display three documents writte n and signed by the patriot. Copies and information about them will be provided by the Curator. A self-guided tour of the Revere House i s included. \; \;\nThe Otis House Museum\, 141 Cambridge Stre et in Boston's Beacon Hill\, will highlight correspondence between H arrison Gray Otis and his wife\, Sally during the period 1797-1801. Also featured will be decorative arts from the Federal period relate d to the art of letter writing\, such as an early 19th \;century c opying box\, the equivalent of today's Xerox.\nThe Nichols House Museum\ , 55 Mount Vernon Street\, Beacon Hill\, will exhibit beautifully cr afted letters and postcards used by members of the Nichols family to share their experiences with friends and relatives. Whether describ ing the Grand Tour of Europe\, afternoon tea\, elegant soiré\; es or the suffragist movement\, their correspondence reflected Gilde d Age sensibilities.\nThe Prescott House - 55 Beacon Street - will p rovide a tour showing how the mundane correspondence of the Prescott family regarding the major 1845 renovation has provided a rich source of detail for interpreting and enlivening the house for the modern visitor.  \;The tour will give people a chance to listen in\, th rough the text of some of these letters\, and hear what setting up a household in mid-nineteenth century Beacon Hill was like.\nThe Gibs on House Museum\, at 137 Beacon Street in Boston's Back Bay\, will show a range of 19th century correspondence\, including wedding and party inv itations\, calling cards\, and other materials illustrating the soci al life of a Back Bay family in the late 1800s.\n$20 per person. Tic ket provides one admission to each house museum that may be used on any of the three Fridays.\nTickets may be purchased at the Gibson House Muse um or the Nichols House Museum starting April 3\, 2012.  \;\nOnline tickets may be purchased at www.thegibsonhouse.org URL:http://backbay.patch.com/events/downtown-museums-collaborate-to-offer -letters-from-home-boston-families-correspond-89a4d45c SUMMARY:Downtown Museums Collaborate to Offer "\;Letters from Home: B oston Families Correspond"\; LOCATION:55 Mount Vernon St\, Boston\, MA 02108: 55 Mount Vernon St\, Bos ton\, MA END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR