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." 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 […]