Birds at Rest
Peabody Essex Museum
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
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Newburyport’s Road to Independence, Part I: The Long, Dark Winter of 1776
St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Newburyport
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
Newburyport’s Road to Independence, Part II: QUÉBEC 1775-1776: The Last Siege
St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Newburyport
Join us for the Canadian perspective on the Arnold Expedition and the last siege of Québec in 1775-1776. During the first months of the War of Independence, the Continental Army...
Free – $10
Pickering Lecture Series: Pickering’s Salem in the 18th Century
Pickering House
Discover 18th-century Salem through the lives of the Pickering Family, as their home witnessed a century of transformation. This lecture explores how Salem evolved from a provincial port town into...
$25
Drunk Black History
The Rockwell
The critically acclaimed Drunk Black History show returns to Boston to close out Black History Month! Comedian Brandon Collins (New York Comedy Festival) hosts this event where you’ll hear from...
$15
Fashioning for Freedom: Layers of Liberty
Hamilton Hall
Join History Alive and Hamilton Hall for a celebratory, historical runway of Black creativity and activism. Discover the stories of abolitionists, artists, and entrepreneurs (including members of the Remond family,...
Profoundly Vulnerable: The Story of Four Witchcraft Accusations
Virtual MA, United StatesVirtual
Join us on March 5th for our first virtual lecture of 2026, “Profoundly Vulnerable: The Story of Four Witchcraft Accusations,” presented in celebration of the 39th annual Women’s History Month....
Free
Profoundly Vulnerable: The Story of Four Witchcraft Accusations
Virtual MA, United StatesVirtual
Join us on March 5th for our first virtual lecture of 2026, “Profoundly Vulnerable: The Story of Four Witchcraft Accusations,” presented in celebration of the 39th annual Women’s History Month....
Free
Newburyport’s Road to Independence III: Loyalists, Prisoners, and the Homefront
St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Newburyport
Step into wartime Newburyport with Alex Cain as loyalists face persecution, prices soar, and fear hangs heavy as we move to independence. In 1776, as war raged across the American...
Free – $10
Women of Agriculture Hike at Appleton Farms
Appleton Farms
Join us to celebrate International Women’s Day at Appleton Farms! Women have shaped Appleton Farms for centuries: from Indigenous women who were the primary farmers and preservers of food, to...
$25
Revolutionary Privateers at Sea Symposium: Newburyport and the Wider World
Firehouse Center for the Arts
Join experts from around the world for a one-day symposium on Revolutionary War privateers and Newburyport’s Atlantic impact! From Newburyport wharves, privateers surged into the Atlantic with a single mission:...
$20 – $75
Newburyport’s Road to Independence IV: American Rebels: Hancock, Quincy, Adams
St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Newburyport
American Rebels: The Hancock, Adams, and Quincy Families Fanned the Flames of Revolution...in Newburyport and Beyond. Newburyport's Offin Boardman carried secret letters for John Adams, who argued court cases in...
Free – $10
