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.
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)
