Haunted House
Enter if you dare! Our Haunted House is open Saturdays in October from 7-9pm. Entry is free but donations are gladly accepted.
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Evening Lecture Series- The Fed, love it or hate it?
Ipswich Museum 54 South Main Street, Ipswich, MA, United StatesManaging a modern economy is still full of mysteries. Is the Fed playing a constructive role? Why is it so controversial? Carroll Perry will discuss important questions related to the Fed and to our lives. Carroll taught economics at Philips Andover for the last 12 years of his career. Prior to that he spent 25 […]
Haunted House
Ipswich Museum 54 South Main Street, Ipswich, MA, United StatesEnter if you dare! Our Haunted House is open Saturdays in October from 7-9pm. Entry is free but donations are gladly accepted.
Haunted House
Ipswich Museum 54 South Main Street, Ipswich, MA, United StatesEnter if you dare! Our Haunted House is open Saturdays in October from 7-9pm. Entry is free but donations are gladly accepted.
Bag Lunch Series- From Plant to Fiber
Ipswich Museum 54 South Main Street, Ipswich, MA, United StatesSpeakers: Katherine Chaison, curator, and Susan Landry, textile specialist, will conduct a museum experiment of growing and processing flax. This will be fascinating. Ipswich Seniors and Members: free Non-Members: $5
Evening Lecture Series- Ipswich in the American Revolution
Ipswich Museum 54 South Main Street, Ipswich, MA, United StatesJoin Scott Jewell, middle school technology engineering teacher, lover of history and board of trustee member who will do an enthusiastic talk and presentation on the role that Ipswich played during the American Revolution. Scott’s love of history will come alive in this lecture.
Evening Lecture Series: Contention in the Commons
Ipswich Museum 54 South Main Street, Ipswich, MA, United StatesSpeaker: 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 medieval systems whose roots dated back several centuries, but the communal system quickly failed. Disagreements over the division and usage of the common lands resulted […]
Bag Lunch Series: Letters Home from the Ipswich Female Seminary 1830-1837
Ipswich Museum 54 South Main Street, Ipswich, MA, United StatesAnn Brown, historian, has found some very interesting letters in Mount Holyoke's archives, written by three seminary students: Harriet Johnson, Maria Cowles and Austa Winchell. Together they provide some interesting […]
Evening Lecture Series: Schlitz on Mt. Washington and Ski America First
Ipswich Museum 54 South Main Street, Ipswich, MA, United StatesSpeaker: 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 […]
Bag Lunch Series: Saving the Rooster
Ipswich Museum 54 South Main Street, Ipswich, MA, United StatesGordon Harris, Ipswich Town Historian The gilded weathercock at the First Church in Ipswich has graced the steeple of every church at that location since the middle of the 18th […]
Evening Lecture Series: Walking Castle Neck (Crane Beach) in the Footsteps of Ipswich Naturalist Charles Wendell Townsend MD
Ipswich Museum 54 South Main Street, Ipswich, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Joseph Carlin Throughout 2023 Joe Carlin, food historian and nutritionist, walked the beach photographing and documenting observations Townsend made about his beloved Ipswich in his book, "Sand Dunes and […]
Bag Lunch Series: Through All Her Wealth of Woods and Waters: The Ipswich Wednesday Walkers
Ipswich Museum 54 South Main Street, Ipswich, MA, United StatesA panel of Wednesday Walkers, Kay Evans and friends, with many years together and separately of exploring the rich trail resources in the Ipswich landscape, will share some of their […]