2025 Speaker Series
Get ready for summer with our soirée at Sharksmouth.
Summer Soirée at Sharksmouth Estate
The annual summer soirée at Sharksmouth Estate returns this year, and we invite you to join the Museum for splendorous evening. This is an important fundraiser, and all proceeds benefit the Museum.
Location: Sharksmouth Estate, 305 Summer St., MBTS
Date: Thursday, June 19
Time: 6 – 8 PM
Doors open at 6 PM for socializing and refreshments
Be an Angel — $200
Members — $75
Non-Members — $100
Past Talks
Furniture-Making in Manchester: A Surprising Story (5/14/25)
Brock Jobe, Professor Emeritus of the Winterthur Museum in Delaware, delves into Manchester's hey-day as a furniture-making center in the early-to-mid nineteenth-century.
Murder in Rockport, Massachusetts: Terror in a Small Town (4/24/25)
Delving into a cold-case murder from 1930s Rockport, Massachusetts, local authors Robert Fitzgibbon and Wayne Soini launch their book in which they reveal long-lost details about the crime, the investigation and a surprise suspect from the state police archives.
Garden Herbs: Their Cultivation, Cookery, and Caveats (3/20/25)
Judith Sumner, botanist, presents a slide illustrated lecture that traces the European herbal tradition among plants carried by early settlers to the New World — used today in ancient traditions, gourmet cookery, military history, and modern medicine.
Anna Coleman Ladd: Sculptor of War (11/21/24)
