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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 310 Argilla Road, Ipswich, MA, United States
    The Crane Estate 310 Argilla Road, Ipswich, MA, United States

    The Crane Estate  

    The Crane Estate 310 Argilla Road, Ipswich, MA

    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 61 Main Street, Gloucester, M, United States
    The Bookstore of Gloucester 61 Main Street, Gloucester, M, United States

    The Bookstore of Gloucester  

    The Bookstore of Gloucester 61 Main Street, Gloucester, M

    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

    • 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...

    Medium Lauren Robbins

    Off Cabot Comedy & Events 9 Wallis Street, Beverly, MA, United States
    Off Cabot Comedy & Events 9 Wallis Street, Beverly, MA, United States

    Off Cabot Comedy & Events  

    Off Cabot Comedy & Events 9 Wallis Street, Beverly, MA

    AFTERLIFE MEDIUM EVENT Enjoy an intimate evening of mediumship messages with Endorsed Afterlife Medium Lauren Robbins, featured on The List TV, Married at First Sight TV Show (Boston), The Lady of the Dunes Documentary, and more. Lauren will walk around the room to deliver messages from those who wish to come through with evidential information...

    $54

    • Preserving Scenic Beauty in Charles Eliot’s Museum of Landscapes

    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

    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 a reception with light refreshments. The series, Celebrating the American Landscape: In Art and In Nature, includes: Oct. 1st – Preserving Scenic Beauty in Charles...

    $28 – $35

    Hockney Reproduction(s): Film screening of “Secret Knowledge” followed by a Q&A

    Sawyer Free Library 21 Main Street, Gloucester, MA, United States
    Sawyer Free Library 21 Main Street, Gloucester, MA, United States

    Sawyer Free Library  

    Sawyer Free Library 21 Main Street, Gloucester, MA

    Join us for a screening of the 2001 BBC documentary, “Secret Knowledge,” a film based on a thought-provoking art history book by David Hockney that argues great Old Masters used optical devices like concave mirrors and lenses to achieve hyperrealistic detail and perspective centuries before photography. Followed by a Q&A with Manship Artist and close...

    Free

    Growing Together: Fall Planting & Garden Cleanup

    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

    Prepare your garden for winter while setting the stage for a healthier, more productive spring. This lesson explores what to cut back, what to leave standing for wildlife, what, how and when to plant in fall, and simple ways to protect your soil and perennial plants through the colder months. Participants will also learn how...

    $24 – $30

    Cold Coast: Massachusetts’ Dark History & Mysteries With Anngelle Wood

    Off Cabot Comedy & Events 9 Wallis Street, Beverly, MA, United States
    Off Cabot Comedy & Events 9 Wallis Street, Beverly, MA, United States

    Off Cabot Comedy & Events  

    Off Cabot Comedy & Events 9 Wallis Street, Beverly, MA

    A live podcast event with Anngelle Wood, host of Crime of the Truest Kind Crime of the Truest Kind host Anngelle Wood traverses the dusky history of the North Shore’s rocky coast – and what lies beyond its shoreline. Through local lore, ghost ships, sunken vessels, disappearances, unresolved crimes, and the stories of those who...

    $26.00

    Rocky Neck Art Colony Presents “YES!” Gallery Talk Featuring Six Exhibiting

    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

    Friday, October 23, 2026 | 4–6 PM Cultural Center at Rocky Neck | 6 Wonson Street, Gloucester, MA GLOUCESTER, MA — Rocky Neck Art Colony (RNAC) invites the public to a special Gallery Talk on Friday, October 23, from 4 to 6 PM at the Cultural Center at Rocky Neck, celebrating YES!, the organization’s much-anticipated...

    Free

    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 work of the same name and modeled in 1941. Shure will reflect on his past work with Weems, the artistic dialogue that emerged between their...

    $30

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