Publications

AgathaO. AgathaO.Com. Photography and essays: nature, history, philosophy, and the art of seeing. 2015-

Pleun Bouricius. “Dowsing for history.” Earthcare Catalog. David Perkins, ed. Hilltown Chautauqua, 2017. Essay and photos.

Pleun Bouricius. “Of time on the river.” Stone Walls II (Summer, 2017). Essay and photograph.

 Bog. Swift River Press (Plainfield, MA), 2017. Essays and photographs

The Public Humanist (blog), Valley Advocate, Northampton, MA. Event reports and contributions on history and family history, 2008-2013: “The Mullahs are Not My Audience” (October 24, 2013); Dusting Off Our Collective Memories: Confronting Lewis Hine’s Photographs of Child Laborers (April 24, 2012); “History in the First Person” (March 7, 2011); Attie’s Music (June 2, 2010); “The Meaning of the Fourth of July: Abolition in Massachusetts” (July 2, 2009); Memorial Day in Plainfield: Up with a Twist (June 1, 2009); “The Uses of Historical Comparison” (June 5, 2008)“The Economics of Slavery in New England” (May 26, 2008), “Suspending the Rules of Civility” (March 10, 2008); “Learning Place, Reading the Rural Landscape” (January 23 , 2008).The blog was discontinued by the Valley Advocate and migrated to the Mass Humanities website.

New England barns writing editing and photography swift river press
Plainfield Barns, 2010, back page

Mass Humanities (Mass Humanities’ print newsletter):

“The Truth Sleuth” (interview with historian Ray Raphael), Spring, 2013.
“Uncivil Action? A Consideration of the Legitimacy of Violence “(with Lucia Knoles), Winter, 2010.
     “The Meaning of the Fourth of July for the Negro”: Reading Frederick Douglass during the presidency of Barack Obama.” Spring 2009.

Bouricius, Pleun and Dario Coletta. Plainfield Barns 2010, interpretive fundraising calendar, Plainfield Historical Society, 2009. Research, text, layout.

Bouricius, Pleun and Dario Coletta. Capes of Plainfield to 1810.  Interpretive fundraising calendar (2008), Plainfield Historical Society, 2007. Research and text.

Hidden Walls, Hidden Mills: Exploring the Plainfield Landscape. Five self-guided, interactive and interdisciplinary landscape tour brochures (plainfieldmahistory.org/hidden-walls-hidden-mills). 2007-2012. Concept and principal project architect, project management, historian, and author.

Women, Enterprise, and Society: A Guide to Resources in the Business Manuscript Collections at Baker Library (www.library.hbs.edu/hc/wes/), 2002. Managing editor, production editor, and contributing researcher and author.