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I started restoring urban maps, after a 30-year career in health care, to follow up on my earlier interest in design and urban history by establishing Community Heritage Maps. I graduated in 1968 from Boston University with a history degree in. While at Boston University I wrote my senior paper on the “ Legal implications of the Great London Fire of 1666.” After graduating I had a very short teaching career at a 766 school, While teaching I developed a course outline on "History as Therapy" - which was directed toward integrating history with family biography and helping students explore their physical world. I spent the next couple of years working at a social action agency and managing a weekly film program. In 1972 I went back to school and got an MBA from Boston University with a concentration in finance and health care. I took advantage of an early retirement program a couple of years ago and started Community Heritage Maps . More than ever before in order for our lives to have meaning it is important that we celebrate the history of our homes and communities. I had for a long time been aware of the wonderful city atlas maps that were printed from 1860 to 1930 and felt that I could satisfy a desire to connect with our communities by providing faithful replicas of these beautiful maps. The replica maps are printed to fine arts textured paper to maintain their original tones. Outside of my work I am active in open space conservation , having served as the a past president of the Newton Conservators a local land trust (about 3/4 an acre) and the past president of a Friends of Nahanton Park friends group and am now an alternate member of Newton’s Parks and Recreation Commission and the Mayor’s Advisory Committee for Comprehensive Planning. I have been married for over 25 years we have two sons. My wife works a nurse in an adult day care program. Our older son the Director of Major gifts for a foundation that raises funds for the Inner City Scholarship Program for Manhattan New York City . |