Evening Lecture Series- The Fed, love it or hate it?
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 […]
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Wednesday Evening Lecture
Evening Lecture Series- Ipswich in the American Revolution
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 […]
Evening Lecture Series: Contention in the Commons
Ipswich Museum 54 South Main Street, Ipswich, MA, United StatesSpeaker: 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 […]
Evening Lecture Series: Schlitz on Mt. Washington and Ski America First
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: Walking Castle Neck (Crane Beach) in the Footsteps of Ipswich Naturalist Charles Wendell Townsend MD
Ipswich Museum 54 South Main Street, Ipswich, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Joseph Carlin Throughout 2023 Joe Carlin, food historian and nutritionist, walked the beach photographing and documenting observations Townsend made about his beloved Ipswich in his book, "Sand Dunes and […]
Evening Lecture Series: Step into the Arctic
Ipswich Museum 54 South Main Street, Ipswich, MA, United StatesSpeaker: 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 […]
Evening Lecture Series: The American Dream
Ipswich Museum 54 South Main Street, Ipswich, MA, United StatesSpeaker: 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." […]
Evening Lecture Series: Harry and Hilda: Letters Home
Ipswich Museum 54 South Main Street, Ipswich, MA, United StatesSpeaker: 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 […]
Evening Lecture Series: Queen Elizabeth II *This Presentation will take place at Boone Hall in Ascension Church*
Ascencion Church 31 County St., Ipswich, MA, United StatesFeaturing: Sheryl Faye, actor Back again by popular demand is Sheryl Faye and this year she has a new presentation: Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II. This will be terrific. Members: […]
The History of Ipswich Education
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
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 […]
Stop and Smell the Thyme at the Whipple House 17th Century Housewife’s Garden
Joe Carlin, Food historian, will review the contributions of landscape architects Arthur and Sidney Shurcliff who designed in 1955 the original Whipple House Garden. In the 1960s Isadore Smith (pseudonym […]