Bonnie Hurd Smith
bonnie@hurdsmith.com
Bonnie Hurd Smith joined the board in 1997 while she was directing the State House Project to Honor Women for the state Humanities Foundation. She helped research, write, and design BWHT's guidebook. In 1999, she became BWHT executive director where she developed collaborative programs, expanded membership, helped create BWHT's web site, published research findings, and other methods to promote the trail. At the end of 2000, Bonnie became a consultant to the BWHT. She designed the trail's first color brochure, and remains involved in special projects.
Bonnie's recent women's history initiatives include creating a women's heritage trail in Salem, Mass., writing and designing its guidebook, contributing a chapter to Her Past Around Us on reinterpretting house museums, and contributing a chapter on the eighteenth century women's rights advocate Judith Sargent Murray to Her Past Around Us. Bonnie is an expert on Murray's life, and has published and spoken widely on her.