Mary Beaudry’s Legacy: A View from Historic St. Mary’s City

Summary

This is an abstract from the session entitled "“Historical Archaeology with Canon on the Side, Please”: In Honor of Mary C. Beaudry (1950-2020)" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.

This paper traces Mary Beaudry’s legacy in two intertwined narratives: one that follows Mary’s time (1997-2005) as a commissioner of the Historic St. Mary’s City Commission (HSMCC) and one that examines the current research trajectory of the Historic St. Mary’s City Department of Research and Collections. Mary’s tenure as a commissioner of the HSMCC came during a period of rapid expansion for the museum when historical stories were being teased from major archaeological projects that led to dynamic exhibits housed in reconstructed colonial buildings. Mary’s influence was felt as much then as it is today as the museum reexamines, reworks, and rewrites the stories that we tell to encompass a more inclusive, more personal, and still rigorously researched Maryland history. Mary would demand nothing less.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• “Historical Archaeology with Canon on the Side, Please”: In Honor of Mary C. Beaudry (1950-2020)   •
• Society for Historical Archaeology 2022

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