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    • Trails & Sails

    Essex County, Massachusetts
    Essex County, Massachusetts

    Essex County, Massachusetts  

    Essex County

    Now in its 24th year, Trails & Sails is your ticket to adventure across Essex County, Massachusetts – a region recognized as a National Heritage Area for its rich history,...

    Free

    • ARTIST TALK: Does Art Have to be an Object? | Deborah Read, Goetemann Artist-in-Residence

    Cove Gallery 37 Rocky Neck Avenue, Gloucester, MA
    Cove Gallery 37 Rocky Neck Avenue, Gloucester, MA

    Cove Gallery  

    Cove Gallery 37 Rocky Neck Avenue, Gloucester

    Join Gloucester-based artist Deborah Read at her Artist Talk for an engaging conversation about her art, process, and experience as this year’s Goetemann Artist-in-Residence at Rocky Neck Art Colony. Read...

    Free

    Historic Burial Grounds of Marblehead

    Marblehead Museum 170 Washington Street, Marblehead, United States
    Marblehead Museum 170 Washington Street, Marblehead, United States

    Marblehead Museum  

    Marblehead Museum 170 Washington Street, Marblehead

    Join the Marblehead Historical Commission's Pam Peterson for a talk on her new book, A Guide to Historic Burial Grounds of Marblehead. Peterson profiles Marblehead's 13 cemeteries and the famous...

    $10 – $15

    Architectural Walking Tours: Newburyport’s Fashionable Old Houses

    Museum of Old Newbury 98 High Street, Newburyport, MA, United States
    Museum of Old Newbury 98 High Street, Newburyport, MA, United States

    Museum of Old Newbury  

    Museum of Old Newbury 98 High Street, Newburyport, MA

    Architectural styles, like clothing, come into fashion for functional, aesthetic, economic and social reasons. Over time homeowners renovate, enhance, and adapt to reflect changing times and fashions. Join us for...

    $10 – $20

    Bittersweet: Dessert and Dissent

    Old Town Hall 32 Derby Square, SALEM, MA, United States
    Old Town Hall 32 Derby Square, SALEM, MA, United States

    Old Town Hall  

    Old Town Hall 32 Derby Square, SALEM, MA

    This presentation explores how ordinary men and women expressed their resistance to slavery through the boycott of goods such as sugar, molasses, cocoa, coffee, and spices. Throughout the evening, guests...

    $30

    • Memento Mori Tour: Oddities from Old Newbury on All Hallows Day

    Museum of Old Newbury 98 High Street, Newburyport, MA, United States
    Museum of Old Newbury 98 High Street, Newburyport, MA, United States

    Museum of Old Newbury  

    Museum of Old Newbury 98 High Street, Newburyport, MA

    Memento Mori: Oddities from Old Newbury on All Hallows Day On All Hallows Day—a time set aside for remembering the dead—the Museum of Old Newbury invites you to a rare,...

    $15 – $25

    Secure the Shadow: Spirit & Post-mortem Photography in the 19th Century

    Museum of Old Newbury 98 High Street, Newburyport, MA, United States
    Museum of Old Newbury 98 High Street, Newburyport, MA, United States

    Museum of Old Newbury  

    Museum of Old Newbury 98 High Street, Newburyport, MA

    On November 1, known as All Hallows Day, when the veil between the living and the dead feels thin, the Museum of Old Newbury invites you to a night where...

    $10 – $20

    Secure the Shadow: Spirit & Post-mortem Photography in the 19th Century

    Museum of Old Newbury 98 High Street, Newburyport, MA, United States
    Museum of Old Newbury 98 High Street, Newburyport, MA, United States

    Museum of Old Newbury  

    Museum of Old Newbury 98 High Street, Newburyport, MA

    On November 1, known as All Hallows Day, when the veil between the living and the dead feels thin, the Museum of Old Newbury invites you to a night where...

    $10 – $20

    Enemies to Their Country Book Talk

    Marblehead Museum 170 Washington Street, Marblehead, United States
    Marblehead Museum 170 Washington Street, Marblehead, United States

    Marblehead Museum  

    Marblehead Museum 170 Washington Street, Marblehead

    The Marblehead Museum will host a book talk on Thursday, November 6 at 7pm with Nicholas Gentile, author of the new book Enemies to their Country: The Marblehead Addressers and...

    $10 – $15

    Crane Lecture: Native American Art & Exhibitions at The Trustees

    Castle Hill on the Crane Estate Argilla Road 290, Ipswich, M, United States
    Castle Hill on the Crane Estate Argilla Road 290, Ipswich, M, United States

    Castle Hill on the Crane Estate  

    Castle Hill on the Crane Estate Argilla Road 290, Ipswich, M

    November is Native American Heritage Month. Join us for a lecture with Tess Lukey, The Trustees Associate Curator of Native American Arts. Learn about The Trustees efforts to center Indigenous...

    $5 – $10

    • Birds at Rest

    Peabody Essex Museum East India Square, 161 Essex Street, Salem, MA, United States
    Peabody Essex Museum East India Square, 161 Essex Street, Salem, MA, United States

    Peabody Essex Museum  

    Peabody Essex Museum East India Square, 161 Essex Street, Salem, MA

    Birds need sleep as much as we do, and they have evolved some unique habits to match their intensely energetic lifestyles. Ornithologist and author Roger Pasquier discusses the evolution and...

    Free

    • Newburyport’s Road to Independence, Part I: The Long, Dark Winter of 1776

    St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Newburyport 166 High Street, Newburyport, MA, United States
    St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Newburyport 166 High Street, Newburyport, MA, United States

    St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Newburyport  

    St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Newburyport 166 High Street, Newburyport, MA

    Historian Alexander Cain returns to Newburyport to explore one of the most tense and transformative moments in American history in this engaging lecture on Massachusetts and Newburyport in early 1776....

    Free – $10

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