Season 3, Episode 7: Boston Dreams: A Beginning, Middle and End
Guest: Roberto Rodriguez
Air Date: April 14, 2022
Host: Raney Bench
Host Raney Bench chats with Roberto Rodriguez about the Boston Automobile Company, a short-lived enterprise that manufactured steam automobiles in Bar Harbor. What caused its demise? Location? Type of vehicle? The auto wars?
Season Three of Chebacco Chats explores the theme of this year's Chebacco, Volume XXIII: Imagining What If...?
What if the Boston Automobile Company had been successful and still manufactured automobiles on West Street in Bar Harbor?
About Our Guest
Roberto M. Rodriguez makes his home in Windsor, VT, and currently serves as a member of the Board of Directors of the Seal Cove Auto Museum. From 2009 to 2011, he was the Executive Director of the Seal Cove Auto Museum and was the Revelstoke Railway Museum’s Executive Director in British Columbia before that. Prior, he was the Manager of the Precision Valley Corvette Museum in Springfield, VT. He also served as the Executive Director of the Fort at No. 4 Living History Museum in Charlestown, NH; Executive Director of Park-McCullough House in North Bennington, VT; and Executive Director of the American Precision Museum in Windsor, VT. He started his museum career at the National Museums of Canada, ending as a Deputy Director at the Canadian Museum of Civilization (Canadian Museum of History) before settling in the United States.
Chebacco articles by Roberto Rodriguez:
Sing Us a Song, Jimmy: The Story Behind a 1913 Peugeot at the Seal Cove Auto Museum, 2018
Previous Chebacco Chat appearances:
No. 38: Sing Us a Song, Jimmy: The Story Behind a 1913 Peugeot