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  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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." […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 a cornerstone of this community.  Today, we will explore how education in Ipswich has grown and transformed over the centuries, and we’ll take a look […]

  • 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 coast. In the early 20th century coal schooners sailed up the river to town wharf, and sand schooners became stranded on the beaches, but Ipswich […]

  • Stop and Smell the Thyme at the Whipple House 17th Century Housewife’s Garden

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

    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 Ann Leighton), author of Early American Gardens, provided leadership to make the garden historically accurate with authentic medicinal and culinary herbs known to have been […]