Join Kathy at upcoming events or invite her to speak at your institution, museum, library, historical society, or collector group.
Sept 15-16, 2026 from 10 am to 5 pm
Boxboro Regency Hotel & Conference Center
242 Adams Place,Boxboro, MA 01719
Sept 19, 2026 at 11 am
Spellman Museum
241 Wellesley Street,Weston, MA 02493
West End Museum, Suite 7 (entrance on Lomasney Way)
150 Staniford Street, Boston, MA
Boston Convention Center (Seaport), Room 160B, Level 1
415 Summer Street, Boston, MA
May 23-25, 2026 from 10 am to 6 pm
Boston Convention Center (Seaport), Room 151B, Level 1
415 Summer Street, Boston, MA
Kathy enjoys engaging with people who are curious about postcards. She often gives presentations on postcard history, women’s ephemera, Boston’s vanished neighborhoods, and the art of collecting. Perfect for historical societies, libraries, museums, and collector groups.
How postcards reveal women’s suffrage activism, club movements, and social networks often absent from traditional archives.
Visual narratives of the West End and other Boston communities transformed or erased by urban renewal.
Building a research collection: methodology, ethics, preservation, and the journey from private passion to institutional archive.
From hand-tinted images to mass production—understanding postcards as commercial, aesthetic, and social objects.
How to interpret postcard content, decode messages, and understand the social practices of postcard exchange.
Humorous and satirical postcards that reveal cultural anxieties about courtship, marriage, and gender roles.
Custom topics and presentations can be developed to suit your audience and programming needs.
