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 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 […]

Swamp Yankee Adventures Chronicle of a Journalist in Low Orbit Around the World

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 affairs for public radio, TV and for the Boston Globe, World Times, The World Paper, was editor in chief of World Times and the World […]

Eido Period Block Prints, Snapshots and a Mysterious Table

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.

After the Party

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), […]

Meet Abigail Adams, America’s First Second Lady

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 […]

Play Readings by Boston Reads

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 […]