The program included a report from Bill Griffeth, the Society’s treasurer, and Jonathan “Dutch” Treat of the Nominating Committee provided a slate of new trustee and council nominees on whom the meeting voted. Burnham opened the 2013 Annual Meeting at the Leslie Lindsey Memorial Chapel at 15 Newbury Street at 9:30 a.m. This morning, NEHGS board chairman David H. Goodwin was given a hand bound copy of a genealogy commissioned by the Society and compiled by Chris Child and David Allen Lambert, and she spoke to the group about “Everlasting Legacies” her address had the epigraph “The people we love will live on so long as we pledge to tell and retell the stories of their lives.” Friday was devoted to committee and other meetings for the board and council, culminating in a gala dinner where presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin received the Society’s Lifetime Achievement Award for American History and Biography. This year, the program began on Thursday with a lunch for board members, councilors, and other out-of-town guests, followed by tours of the Society’s new building at 97 Newbury Street and the new conservation laboratory at 99–101 Newbury Street. Every year at this time, the New England Historic Genealogical Society holds its annual meeting here in Boston.
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