Wednesday Evening Lecture

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 […]

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 […]

Join Crocker Snow Jr., journalist, author, as he takes you on a personal  journey where he chronicles his life both nationally, internationally and locally.  His focus has been on international […]

Join Stephen Miles as we follow Arthur Wesley Dow’s journey from Ipswich, MA to the Ecole Julien in Paris, the artist community at Pont-Aven, Brittany, working as assistant to Fenellosa at the MFA Boston and subsequent tour of Japan in 1903 with findings represented in the collection of the Ipswich Museum.

Ipswich’s Bob Waite, Professor, Seneca Polytechnic College  and author brings his wit to the topic of politics, drawn on his experience serving as Press Secretary to Senator Ed Brooke (R-MA), Senator Bob Dole (R-KS), as a member of the Reagan Administration, and including his long-time bipartisan friendship with Democrats George McGovern and Michael J. Harrington.

Since 2003, Sheryl Faye, actor has been presenting Historical Women to inspire adults and children about history.  Her one man show will leave you spell-bound and inspired. Her performances are […]

These readings of four or five ten minute plays will be performed by award winning professional actors M. Lynda Robinson and Richard McElvain.  Lynda has been working on Boston theatre […]