Rose Remedies: Medicine in Early Massachusetts

Charter Street Cemetery Welcome Center 45 Charter Street

Known for centuries as a symbol of love, roses have become permanently entwined with Valentine's Day.  However, in Colonial America this flower could just as well have been given to cure disease as to convey affection.

Join historian Dan Marshall as he explores the wide variety of medicinal uses of roses recorded in seventeenth-century American and European sources.   Lend a hand as Dan makes some of the medicinal vinegars, oils, teas, waters, and conserves used in the past.  They say love conquers all, but did rose cure all? 

Dan Marshall has shared his love of history with the public for over 20 years. He is currently a Salem Historical Society Board Member and the Director of Education & Interpretation with the Lexington Historical Society.