The Forbes House Museum invites you to join them for The Keechong Dinner, an elegant tradition to benefit the Forbes House Museum featuring speaker Eric Jay Dolin at The Union Club, Boston.
The event takes place on Thursday Evening, April 4th, 2013 and will provide an open bar from 6:30-7:15 p.m. and a three course dinner beginning at 7:30 p.m.
Tickets are $250.00 per person or $2,500.00 to sponsor a table of ten
For more information or to purchase tickets contact Rebecca Wright at the Forbes House Museum at
617.696.1815 or by e-mail at info@forbeshousemuseum.org.
Reservations are required.
About the Keechong Dinner:
The annual Keechong Dinner tradition began in 1879, established by the partners of Russell & Company in China to celebrate each year of successful trade. The elegant dinner was attended by noteworthy shareholders including Messrs. Robert Bennet and John Murray Forbes. Distinguished guests were also invited, such as Stanley Paterson and Carl Seaburg, descendants of Thomas Handasyd Perkins and authors of the book, The Merchant Prince of Boston. For several decades,
the Keechong Dinner tradition was lost, until 1969, when Dr. H. A. Crosby Forbes, founder of the Museum of the American China Trade, reinstituted the celebration. Today, the Keechong Dinner, which serves as the Forbes House Museum signature annual fundraising event, recognizes the entrepreneurial leadership of the Forbes family through celebration in this most honored tradition.
About the Speaker:
The guest speaker is nationally acclaimed author, Eric Jay Dolin, who will give a presentation on his newly published book, When America First Met China, (W. W. Norton 2012). Dolin is the author of the national bestseller, Fur, Fortune, and Empire: the Epic History of the Fur Trade in America, (W. W. Norton 2010) which won the New England Historical Association 2011 James P. Hanlan Book Award. Dolin has published more than 60 articles for magazines, newspapers, and professional journals.
Dolin earned a B.A. and B.S. from Brown University in biology and environmental studies; a Masters of Environmental Management from the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies; and a Ph.D. in environmental policy and planning from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Eric, originally from Queens, New York, lives in Marblehead, Massachusetts, with his wife Jennifer and their two children.