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2025 Speaker Series

Thank you for a successful spring!  We look forward to seeing you in the Fall for the next series.

Past Talks

Charles S. Hopkinson (6/19/25)

At our summer Sharksmouth soirée, Martha Oaks, Henrietta Gates and Heaton Robertson Chief Curator at the Cape Ann Museum, speaks on local and internationally-known artist Charles S. Hopkinson in memory of his recently departed grandson, Charles Shurcliff.

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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)
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Manchester vs. the Trolley (9/26/24)
Curtis Sisters: Golfing Pioneers and Women Athletes of the Century, at Sharksmouth (6/26/24)
Summers by the Sea: Masconomo House & the Resort Era (5/30/24) 
America’s First Millionaires: The China Traders of Essex County (4/25/24) 
Graverobbing, Harvard's Medical School, and Chebacco Parish (3/28/24) 
Mushrooms of the 1661 Cemetery:
From Death to Life (2/29/24)
Abigail Hooper Trask 1788-1885: Manchester's Business Leader (03/22/23)
Manchester 1772: A Small Fishing Town On The Eve Of Revolution (11/08/22)
Nabby Hooper: A Girl Like No Other (10/19/22)

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