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  • Evening Lecture Series- The Story of Argilla Farm

    Ipswich Museum 54 South Main Street, Ipswich, MA, United States

    Pege and John Verani have owned and occupied Argilla Farm since 1974. They will share their research and stories about the property.  Join them on this fascinating journey and come […]

  • Evening Lecture Series- The Fed, love it or hate it?

    Ipswich Museum 54 South Main Street, Ipswich, MA, United States

    Managing a modern economy is still full of mysteries.  Is the Fed playing a constructive role?  Why is it so controversial?  Carroll Perry will discuss important questions related to the […]

  • Evening Lecture Series- Ipswich in the American Revolution

    Ipswich Museum 54 South Main Street, Ipswich, MA, United States

    Join Scott Jewell, middle school technology engineering teacher, lover of history and board of trustee member who will do an enthusiastic talk and presentation on the role that Ipswich played during the American Revolution. Scott’s love of history will come alive in this lecture.  

  • Evening Lecture Series: Contention in the Commons

    Ipswich Museum 54 South Main Street, Ipswich, MA, United States

    Speaker: Gordon Harris, Ipswich Town Historian In the commons, the early Massachusetts town adopted English institutions of land management that often predated their own experience in the mother country, reproducing medieval systems whose roots dated back several centuries, but the communal system quickly failed. Disagreements over the division and usage of the common lands resulted […]

  • Evening Lecture Series: Schlitz on Mt. Washington and Ski America First

    Ipswich Museum 54 South Main Street, Ipswich, MA, United States

    Speaker: Tom Blake Blake presents Christopher Young's classic 1937 movie about the misadventures of the eccentric Dr. Wolfgang Schlitz on holiday at Mt. Washington, considered to be the first American […]

  • Evening Lecture Series: Step into the Arctic

    Ipswich Museum 54 South Main Street, Ipswich, MA, United States

    Speaker: John Wigglesworth Join John Wigglesworth to hear the story of his recent trip to the North Pole. He joined the team from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) on a 2 month research cruise aboard the USCG Cutter Healy. Through pictures, John will share his experience with the science, the ship operations, the ice […]

  • Evening Lecture Series: The American Dream

    Ipswich Museum 54 South Main Street, Ipswich, MA, United States

    Speaker: David Scudder The American Dream, in the words of historian James Truslow Adams, is a dream "of a better, richer and happier life for all citizens of every rank." He regarded it as "the greatest contribution we have as yet made to the thought and welfare of the world." While the American Dream has […]

  • Evening Lecture Series: Harry and Hilda: Letters Home

    Ipswich Museum 54 South Main Street, Ipswich, MA, United States

    Speaker: Jennifer Hamlin Church Church will read excerpts from her new book and discuss the lively research that went into it .The book is a biography of two people who left Queen Victoria's England alone, as teens, 30 years apart, seeking unknown opportunity in America. Subtitled "The Sparkling Life of the Lupine Lady and the […]

  • The History of Ipswich Education

    Ipswich Museum 54 South Main Street, Ipswich, MA, United States

    Scott Jewel, board member and teacher will talk about Ipswich’s rich history and at the heart of that story is education. From the earliest colonial days, learning has always been […]

  • Ships and Shipwrecks of Ipswich Bay

    Ipswich Museum 54 South Main Street, Ipswich, MA, United States

    Join town historian, Gordon Harris, who will talk about the long history of tragic shipwrecks due to dangerous storms and limited navigation. There were over 3,000 shipwrecks off the Massachusetts […]