Writing

• Promotional materials (posters, fliers, ads)
• Event materials (invitations, programs, posters)
• Newsletters
• Websites
• News releases and pitch letters to media
• Fundraising letters, case statements, and collateral materials
• Speeches
• Grants
• Annual reports and other management documents
• Sensitive correspondence
• Magazine and newspaper articles
• History-related products: monographs, books, book chapters, exhibits

Selected examples:

Websites

EscapesNorth.com
Working with writer Kris Bierfelt, Bonnie Hurd Smith researched, wrote, and collected images for three themed trails to direct visitors to sites on Boston's North Shore. The themes: Art, Architecture, and Literature.



Ipswich Historical Society and Museum
While serving as executive director, Bonnie Hurd Smith researched and wrote the text for this new website, conducting new research along the way or compiling existing information into user-friendly text.

Recent promotional materials



Bonnie also wrote and designed promotional materials for the Ipswich Historical Society, everything from their newsletter to rack cards, posters, brochures, fliers, and event packages. This two-sided rack card (pictured here) promoted the 2006 exhibit "Arthur Wesley Dow of Ipswich," held in conjunction with the Peabody Essex Museum's exhibit "Painting Summer in New England." The one next to it promoted the Society's houses to tourists.

Recent fundraising materials



Bonnie wrote fundraising letters, events packages, and this Case Statement for the Ipswich Historical Society. She also designed the piece.

Magazine articles



Bonnie Hurd Smith has contributed articles to The Magazine of the Mary Baker Eddy Library in Boston ("From Historic House to Historic Home," Spring 2004) and to North Shore Living. Articles published in NSL include:

Autumn 2006:
• "Ipswich Lace: A Women's Story of Perseverance, Politics, and Patriotism"

Summer 2006:
• Cover story: "Ahoy! Sailing with the Thomas E. Lannon"
• "Genius Meets History, Color, and Composition: Henry Davis Sleeper's Beauport"

Winter 2005/06 issue:
• "Beyond Swags and Wreaths: 'Greening' Your Home with Imagination"
• "Tied to the Sea and its History: Marblehead Museum and Historical Society"

Spring 2005 issue:
• "An Intriguing Individual: Nina Vickers"

Winter 2004 issue:
• "An Intriguing Individual: Congressman John F. Tierney"
• "Finz Seafood Restaurant & Grill: Distinctive Taste Year-round"
• "Ipswich Shellfish Fish Market: Creating Memorable Holidays with Taste and Flair"
• "Gingerbread Adventures: From Books to Your Kitchen"

Summer 2004 issue:
• "Down to the Water's Edge"
• "Local Produce: Better Tasting, Better for Us, Better for Our Farmers"
• "At Beach Sales, the Difference is Service"
• "For Seafood Lovers, the Destination is Ipswich Shellfish Fish Market"

History-related publications, events, and exhibits



The Living Legacy of Ralph Waldo Emerson
Commissioned by the Emerson Bicentennial Committee of the Unitarian Universalist Association in Boston, this book is a companion piece to the exhibit of the same name that Bonnie Hurd Smith wrote and designed for 2003, the 200th anniversary of Emerson's birth.

Books



Bonnie Hurd Smith wrote the introduction for the 2006 book Ipswich Revisited, part of Arcadia Publishing's Images of America series.



"Mingling Souls Upon Paper," An Eighteenth-Century Love Story
Bonnie Hurd Smith's most recent book (2007) on the 18th-century essayist Judtih Sargent Murray documents the lovee story between Judith and her second husband, the Universalist preacher John Murray, through Judith's letters.



The Letters I Left Behind: The Judith Sargent Murray Papers, Letter Book 10
Bonnie Hurd Smith's book on Judith Sargent Murray's letter books (which she also designed) was published in December 2004. Containing copies of letters the essayist Judith Sargent Murray (1751-1820) created when she wrote to family, friends, and political figures during the years 1796 to 1799, Letter Book 10 is the first volume in a multi-year project to transcribe and publish each of the 20 letter books that Murray created. Bonnie is currently working on Letter Book 3, and a special volume of Judith Sargent Murray's love letters titled Mingling Souls Upon Paper.



Bonnie Hurd Smith contributed the chapter titled "Women's Voices: Reinterpreting Historic House Museums" in Her Past Around Us: Interpreting Sites for Women's History (Krieger Publishing Company, 2003).