• The Early Voyages of Augustine Heard

    Ipswich Museum 54 South Main Street, Ipswich, MA, United States

    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 during 1805-1830, from ship “Eliza” to Leghorn from Eben Francis through barque “Lintin to Canton with Bennet Forbes.  This talk provides an illustrated embellishment of […]

  • Stop and Smell the Thyme at the Whipple House 17th Century Housewife’s Garden

    Ipswich Museum 54 South Main Street, Ipswich, MA, United States

    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 […]

  • “Who’s Who? An Ipswich History in Portraits”

    Ipswich Museum 54 South Main Street, Ipswich, MA, United States

    Visit our Spring Exhibit “Who’s Who? An Ipswich History in Portraits.” Join the fun as we match the history behind each work of art with its corresponding portrait! This exhibit runs through April on Saturdays and Sundays 1-4PM.

  • “Who’s Who? An Ipswich History in Portraits”

    Ipswich Museum 54 South Main Street, Ipswich, MA, United States

    Visit our Spring Exhibit “Who’s Who? An Ipswich History in Portraits.” Join the fun as we match the history behind each work of art with its corresponding portrait! This exhibit runs through April on Saturdays and Sundays 1-4PM.

  • Women in Ipswich History

    Ipswich Museum 54 South Main Street, Ipswich, MA, United States

    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 […]

  • “Who’s Who? An Ipswich History in Portraits”

    Ipswich Museum 54 South Main Street, Ipswich, MA, United States

    Visit our Spring Exhibit “Who’s Who? An Ipswich History in Portraits.” Join the fun as we match the history behind each work of art with its corresponding portrait! This exhibit runs […]

  • “Who’s Who? An Ipswich History in Portraits”

    Ipswich Museum 54 South Main Street, Ipswich, MA, United States

    Visit our Spring Exhibit “Who’s Who? An Ipswich History in Portraits.” Join the fun as we match the history behind each work of art with its corresponding portrait! This exhibit runs […]

  • “Who’s Who? An Ipswich History in Portraits”

    Ipswich Museum 54 South Main Street, Ipswich, MA, United States

    Visit our Spring Exhibit “Who’s Who? An Ipswich History in Portraits.” Join the fun as we match the history behind each work of art with its corresponding portrait! This exhibit runs […]

  • “Who’s Who? An Ipswich History in Portraits”

    Ipswich Museum 54 South Main Street, Ipswich, MA, United States

    Visit our Spring Exhibit “Who’s Who? An Ipswich History in Portraits.” Join the fun as we match the history behind each work of art with its corresponding portrait! This exhibit runs […]

  • The Life and Work of Arthur Wesley Dow Sunday Stroll

    Ipswich Museum 54 South Main Street, Ipswich, MA, United States

    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 […]

  • “Who’s Who? An Ipswich History in Portraits”

    Ipswich Museum 54 South Main Street, Ipswich, MA, United States

    Visit our Spring Exhibit “Who’s Who? An Ipswich History in Portraits.” Join the fun as we match the history behind each work of art with its corresponding portrait! This exhibit runs […]