Who Started the American Revolution? (It’s Not Who You Think!)
Scottish Rite Masonic Museum & Library
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250th Anniversary
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For the Defense and Safety of the Province: Essex County Prepares for War
Meredith Farm
****THIS EVENT IS SOLD OUT**** Join us for a lecture by Historian Alex Cain, followed by drilling demonstrations performed by reenactors from Danvers & Lexington. In October 1774, the Massachusetts Provincial Congress ordered the towns across the colony to prepare for war with England. In response, Essex County entered a wartime phase that included creating...
pay-what-you-can
Wood Type Use, History, and Identification with James Grieshaber
Museum of Printing
Title: Wood Type Use, History, and Identification lecture and workshop, 1 pm Event leader: James Grieshaber Cost: Free with Museum admission Date: Saturday March 15 Start time: 1 pm This...
Newburyport’s Road to Revolution Part II: Nbpt Braces for Attack by Sea
Custom House Maritime Museum
Boston is occupied, Portsmouth blockaded. A wild rumor flies that Ipswich has been attacked by sea and her inhabitants killed. A British scouting party sneaks into Newburyport Harbor under the...
Rebels At Sea: Privateering in the American Revolution talk by Eric Jay Dolin
Andover Center for History and Culture
Join us to hear Author Eric Jay Dolin talk about his book, Rebels At Sea: Privateering in the American Revolution. More information coming soon Andover Center for History &...
REBELS at SEA: PRIVATEERING in the AMERICAN REVOLUTION
The best-selling author of Black Flags, Blue Waters reclaims the daring freelance sailors who proved essential to the winning of the Revolutionary War. The heroic story of the founding of...
$10
Newburyport’s Road to Revolution, Part III – The First Tea Party
Museum of Old Newbury
Join us for a special Sunday afternoon tea party at the Museum of Old Newbury to explore a tea mystery. For generations, Newburyporters claimed to have been the first to protest onerous British tariffs by destroying tea imported from British India. Before Sam Adams’s band dunked that tea in Boston harbor, as the Clipper City’s claim goes, a sturdy shipwright sparked...
“Heads of Families and Men of Substance” The Rise of the Merrimack Valley Minute Men
The Stevens Center on the Common
In October 1774, the Massachusetts Provincial Congress instructed towns throughout the colony to prepare for imminent conflict with England. In response, the Merrimack Valley, in particular, shifted into a wartime stance, forming minute companies, stockpiling weapons, ammunition, and supplies, and setting up a defense network ready to mobilize if British forces advanced from Boston. Join...
$10
North Andover Revolutionaries in the First and Second Burial Grounds
The Stevens Center on the Common
Join us as we approach the 250th anniversary of the American Revolution by learning about our local revolutionary heroes buried in North Andover’s First and Second Burial Ground. Who were...
$10
Revolutionary War Graves in the First and Second Burial Grounds, North Andover
North Andover Historical Society
Many of North Andover’s Revolutionary War heroes rest in the town’s First and Second Burial Grounds. Join us as David Blauvelt, North Andover Historical Society Coordinator of Education, explores their...
$10
Marblehead’s Mysterious Revolutionary
Marblehead Museum
On May 10, 1775, the once formidable life of Colonel Jeremiah Lee of Marblehead came to an abrupt end, due to his covert acts on behalf of independence. Judy Anderson...
$15
Lunch Time History Films-Massachusetts Community Militias
Tapley Memorial Hall
Lunchtime History Films, bring your lunch! Massachusetts Community Militias A casual discussion and a 20-30 minute film. Presented by Heritage Films, Dan Tremblay, a volunteer and member of DHS. Free...
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