The Final Voyage of Dr. Susan Dimock, 1875

When:
Sunday, May 05, 2019 2:00p -
3:00p

Where:
Forsyth Chapel at Forest Hills Cemetery
95 Forest Hills Avenue
Jamaica Plain, MA 02130

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Admission:
$10.00

Categories:
< 21, Lectures & Conferences

Event website:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-final-voyage-of-dr-susan-dimock-1875-tickets-58327528207

In May of 1875, the citizens of Boston were shocked when a shipwreck off the coast of Cornwall, England, took the life of one of their youngest and most beloved surgeons, Dr. Susan Dimock.


Though Dr. Dimock is the namesake of Roxbury's Dimock Street and the innovative Dimock Center, few today know her story. In this illustrated lecture, author and photographer Susan Wilson shares images and tales from Susan Dimock’s life and final days, intertwining stories from her own 2018 research trip to the Isles of Scilly, where the disaster occurred, with new discoveries about Dr. Dimock and the heartbreaking shipwreck of 1875.


Following the lecture, guests are invited to walk with Susan Wilson to Dr. Dimock’s gravesite at Forest Hills. Dimock shares a hillside lot with Dr. Marie Zakrzewska, who founded the New England Hospital for Women and Children in 1862 (reincarnated as Dimock Community Health Center in 1969).


Admission: $12 day of tour or $10 Advance Tickets at
www.foresthillscemetery.eventbrite.com

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