Erin Mackey Nellie Forbush in the 2014 Paper Mill Playhouse production of "South Pacific". She starred as Mary Catlett in the world premiere of the musical, "Amazing Grace" from October to November 2014 playing a role she would later reprise on Broadway. From November 2016 through April 2017, Mackey starred on Broadway in the a cappella musical "In Transit". She is playing Dot in the Guthrie Theater's 2017 production of "Sunday in the Park with George". After her freshman year of college, Mackey auditioned for the musical "Wicked" and was offered a role as a swing on the national touring production. After
Edward Howe Forbush was appointed Curator of Ornithology of the Society's museum. When he was nineteen, he mounted an expedition to Florida — this would be the first of many trips he took around the United States to study birds. In 1893, Forbush was appointed Ornithologist to the Massachusetts State Board of Agriculture. His primary studies at this time were "economic ornithology" — that is, determining whether a given species of bird was beneficial or detrimental to agriculture. In 1908 he became the Massachusetts State Ornithologist. He was a founder of the Massachusetts Audubon Society. He was also first president of the Northeastern