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 […]
Come investigate our new portrait exhibition, “Who’s Who?” at the Ipswich Museum. We’ll learn about some of the past citizens of our town and look at some of the elements […]
Join Ipswich Museum’s Dow Curator, Stephanie Gaskins, for an intimate look at the archives of artist Arthur Wesley Dow. Participants will have the rare opportunity to get close with Dow’s […]
Join Robert Gray, Heard descendant as he talks about his recent research on his family. During the late 1830s Augustine Heard of Ipswich composed a list of his early voyages […]
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 […]
Gordon Harris, town historian will share stories of women in Ipswich from the first settlement to the present century. Learn about Ann Dudley Bradstreet, the first published poet, Emma Jane […]
Join Ipswich Museum’s Dow Curator, Stephanie Gaskins, for a tour of some locations in town related to Dow’s career as one of Ipswich’s most prolific and celebrated painters of the […]
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 […]
Who knew that Ipswich was in the epicenter of the American Revolution? Join Scott Jewell on a walk around town and learn about what happened here 250 years ago. When: […]
We use these bridges every day, but hardly give them a second thought as significant pieces of history. Join Scott Jewell for a walk around the town and learn about […]
Join Chef Sarah Naugler for ideas on how to eliminate kitchen nightmares and make cooking fun. She is a graduate of the Cambridge School of Culinary Arts and spent ten […]
Celebrate Mother’s Day with the stories of how women have shaped the town. From the wrongfully enslaved Jenny Slew to the visionaries of the Ipswich Female Seminary, Stephanie Gaskins will […]