• Artist Talk: Fiona Sinéad Brehony

    The Cultural Center at Rocky Neck 6 Wonson Street, Gloucester, M, United States
    The Cultural Center at Rocky Neck 6 Wonson Street, Gloucester, M, United States

    The Cultural Center at Rocky Neck  

    The Cultural Center at Rocky Neck 6 Wonson Street, Gloucester, M

    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
    virtual program

    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 132 Main St., Route 1A, Wenham, MA, United States
    Wenham Museum 132 Main St., Route 1A, Wenham, MA, United States

    Wenham Museum  

    Wenham Museum 132 Main St., Route 1A, Wenham, MA

    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 153 Chickering Road, North Andover, MA, United States
    Stevens-Coolidge House & Gardens 153 Chickering Road, North Andover, MA, United States

    Stevens-Coolidge House & Gardens  

    Stevens-Coolidge House & Gardens 153 Chickering Road, North Andover, MA

    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

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

    Hammond Castle Museum 80 Hesperus Avenue, Gloucester, MA, United States
    Hammond Castle Museum 80 Hesperus Avenue, Gloucester, MA, United States

    Hammond Castle Museum  

    Hammond Castle Museum 80 Hesperus Avenue, Gloucester, MA

    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 refreshments will be served. One hundred years ago, John Hays Hammond Jr. embarked on one of the most ambitious projects of his life: building Hammond...

    $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