Marta Crilly News Today

On Saturday, Sept. 30 from 1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. community members are invited to join members of the Mary Eliza Project at the Lower Mills Branch of the Boston Public Library to learn about the ongoing transcription of general registers of women voters in Boston in 1920. The Mary Eliza Project began in 2021 as a collaboration between the Boston City Archives and Simmons

Aug. 18 marks 103 years since women were legally allowed to vote nationwide. In Boston, women lined up from all neighborhoods to exercise that right. Now those records from that 1920 presidential election are being digitized in a searchable database. We learn more about the Mary Eliza Mahoney Project, including about some of the women who cast their ballots.

The materials and mementos people dropped off are preserved for posterity, but the public is staying away.

Researchers from the Boston Archives and Simmons College presented their growing database of women in Boston who registered to vote in 1920.

After 28 years, Boston city archivist John McColgan is history.

Three years ago today, Massachusetts logged its first case of the coronavirus. We reflect back on the last three years of this pandemic with Marta Crilly, an archivist with the city of Boston.