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    • Resilient Coasts: Using Local Phenomena to Understand Climate Solutions

    Resilient Coasts: Using Local Phenomena to Understand Climate Solutions

    The Crane Estate  

    3-Day Summer Professional Development Institute for Grades 6-12 Educators Join us for a place-based professional learning experience that integrates coastal science and conservation at Crane Beach. This multi-day summer program invites you and peer educators to explore active restoration and conservation projects through hands-on field experiences and direct collaboration with scientists. Participating educators will engage...

    $375

    • Elizabeth Winthrop at The Bookstore of Gloucester

    The Bookstore of Gloucester  

    We are excited to welcome North Shore author Elizabeth Winthrop to The Bookstore on Thursday August 6th from 6:30pm-8pm! She’ll be discussing & signing copies of her new novel CONVICTION. Books can be found at The Bookstore before & during the event. No registration is required!

    Free

    Falconry & the Medieval World: A Live Bird Presentation

    Hammond Castle Museum  

    Wingmasters’ Birds of Prey returns to the Hammond Castle Museum! Falconry is the sport of hunting with a trained bird of prey. It is also the demanding art of training...

    $10.00 – $20.00

    The Silver Crisis: Art vs. Industry

    Marblehead Arts Association  

    Join GIA Graduate Gemologist Graham Henderson of Marblehead Custom Jewelry for an engaging and informative lecture that will explore the evolving story of silver through multiple lenses: its historical role...

    $10 – $15

    • Artist Talk: Fiona Sinéad Brehony

    The Cultural Center at Rocky Neck  

    Join Manchester-based artist, Fiona Sinéad Brehony at her Artist Talk to learn about her process and technique in her residency in collaboration with Ocean Alliance, made possible through the Goetemann Artist Residency program. The residency offers Brehony an opportunity to explore Gloucester Harbor through Richard White's concept of the organic machine, simultaneously a natural system...

    Free

    Our Founding Mothers and Fathers: More Revolutionary War Connections to the Salem Witch Trials

    virtual program  

    Each year we meet hundreds, if not thousands, of individuals who can trace their family line back to the Salem witch trials. We often tell visitors that the English colonists of 1692 were the founding fathers and mothers of our country. They were themselves descended from the earliest settlers, who were establishing a new country...

    Free

    Adult Lecture Series: Laying their Hands to the Spindle: Women’s Spinning Protests, 1768-1770

    Wenham Museum  

    Women, Spinning, and Resistance: Stacey Fraser In the years leading up to the American Revolution, New England women played an important role in resisting British policies through their everyday lives and work. On August 31, 1769, forty-five women in Lexington, Massachusetts, gathered for a spinning protest—one of more than sixty such demonstrations held throughout New...

    Behind the Scenes: A New England Servant Life Guided Tour

    Stevens-Coolidge House & Gardens  

    Step beyond the formal rooms and into the working heart of the home for a guided house tour focused on servant life at Stevens-Coolidge House & Gardens. Once transformed from...

    $6 – $20

    Olana: Frederic Church’s Vision of Art & Landscape

    Castle Hill on the Crane Estate  

    In honor of America’s 250th and the Frederic Church 200, The Trustees will present a series of two lectures to honor the American landscape. Each lecture will be followed by...

    $28 – $35

    1926: A Year in the Life of Hammond and His Castle

    Hammond Castle Museum  

    1926: A Year in the Life of Hammond and His Castle Wednesday, September 30th 5:30 pm–7:30 pm Evening program: 5:30 pm–6:00 pm Networking 6:00 pm–7:30 pm Presentation & Discussion Light...

    $15

    • CAM Talk: From Clay to Bronze, The Making of the Seated Cat, by Robert Shure

    Cape Ann Museum 27 Pleasant Street, Gloucester, United States
    Cape Ann Museum 27 Pleasant Street, Gloucester, United States

    Cape Ann Museum  

    Cape Ann Museum 27 Pleasant Street, Gloucester

    CAM welcomes sculptor Robert Shure for an engaging gallery talk on the Seated Cat, his newly installed bronze in the Museum’s renovated courtyard, an enlargement of Katherine Lane Weems’ iconic...

    $30

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