Evening Lecture Series: Step into the Arctic
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 […]
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Ipswich Museum 54 South Main Street, Ipswich, MA, United States
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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." 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 […]
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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 left Queen Victoria's England alone, as teens, 30 years apart, seeking unknown opportunity in America. Subtitled "The Sparkling Life of the Lupine Lady and the […]
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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: Free | Non-members: $10
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The History of Ipswich Education
Ipswich Museum 54 South Main Street, Ipswich, MA, United StatesScott 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 […]
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Ships and Shipwrecks of Ipswich Bay
Ipswich Museum 54 South Main Street, Ipswich, MA, United StatesJoin 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 […]
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Stop and Smell the Thyme at the Whipple House 17th Century Housewife’s Garden
Ipswich Museum 54 South Main Street, Ipswich, MA, United StatesJoe 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 […]
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Swamp Yankee Adventures Chronicle of a Journalist in Low Orbit Around the World
Ipswich Museum 54 South Main Street, Ipswich, MA, United StatesJoin 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 […]
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Meet Abigail Adams, America’s First Second Lady
Ipswich Museum 54 South Main Street, Ipswich, MA, United StatesSince 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 […]
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After the Party
Ipswich Museum 54 South Main Street, Ipswich, MA, United StatesIpswich’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), […]
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Eido Period Block Prints, Snapshots and a Mysterious Table
Ipswich Museum 54 South Main Street, Ipswich, MA, United StatesJoin 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 […]
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Play Readings by Boston Reads
Ipswich Museum 54 South Main Street, Ipswich, MA, United StatesThese 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 […]