Polly Welts Kaufman
kaufmain@gwi.net
Polly Welts Kaufman, advisory board member, is one of the founders of the Boston Women's Heritage Trail and the former program director of elementary and middle school libraries for the Boston Public Schools. She now lives in Maine where she teaches history at the University of Southern Maine, and has developed women's history trails in Portland and Brunswick. During her recent year as a Fulbright lecturer in American studies in Norway, she developed a walking trail to statues of named women in Oslo, printed in both Norwegian and English. She is co-editor of a new book: Her Past Around Us: Interpreting Sites for Women's History. She is also the author of National Parks and the Woman's Voice: A History; Boston women and City School Politics, 1872-1905; and Women Teachers on the Frontier.