Virtual Programs
Due to the pandemic, the Museums on the Green is currently closed to the public. However, we have created a dynamic new virtual series of talks with authors and historians (see what’s planned below), and new virtual exhibits featuring items from the archives. You can also read the latest issue of “Untold Tales of Falmouth” and catch up with previously published Tales here. Plus…there’s more to come!
The Museums on the Green is also seeking submissions for its “Covid-19 Archives”. Individuals, businesses and groups are invited to submit journals, essays, poems, photographs, songs, videos and other items that illustrate what life has been like in Falmouth during the 2020 pandemic. Later, we’ll share these stories and artifacts with you–and preserve them for generations to come in our new archives collection. MORE INFO
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December 2020
Historical Walking Tours of Falmouth: Winter/Spring 2021
HISTORICAL WALKING TOURS OF FALMOUTH WINTER/SPRING 2021 The Museums on the Green is offering historical walking tours of Falmouth now through May on the first and third Friday of every month. The tour will take off–weather permitting–at 10:00 am. Please be at the Hallett Barn Visitor Center by 9:45. Reservations are not required but are requested. Call 508.548.4857 ext. 14 or email [email protected] Adult admission $5. TOUR DATES January 1, 2021 January 15, 2021 February 5, 2021 February 19, 2021…
Find out more »April 2021
VIRTUAL TALK: “Shipwrecks of Cape Cod” with Don Wilding
The Castagna. The Francis. The Montclair. The Jason. The Portland. The Peruvian. The Onondaga. The Eldia. For centuries, the Outer Beach of Cape Cod has seen great shipwrecks and even greater rescues.
Find out more »Historical Walking Tour of Falmouth
HISTORICAL WALKING TOURS OF FALMOUTH WINTER/SPRING 2021 The Museums on the Green is offering historical walking tours of Falmouth now through May on the first and third Friday of every month. The tour will take off–weather permitting–at 10:00 am. Please be at the Hallett Barn Visitor Center by 9:45. Reservations are not required but are requested. Call 508.548.4857 ext. 14 or email [email protected] Adult admission $5. TOUR DATES January 1, 2021 January 15, 2021 February 5, 2021 February 19, 2021…
Find out more »VIRTUAL TALK: “The Last Days of John Lennon” with Casey Sherman
What happens when a bestselling novelist hooks up with a hard-hitting Boston-based true crime writing team? An explosive new book about the last days of a music legend: John Lennon. “We were the best bloody band there was,” the former Beatle said. “There was nobody to touch us.” Nobody except the nowhere man.
Find out more »VIRTUAL TALK: “No Man’s Land” with Wendy Moore
It took a global war and a pandemic to blaze this trail. A month after war broke out in 1914, doctors Flora Murray and Louisa Garrett Anderson set out for Paris. They opened a hospital in a luxury hotel and treated hundreds of casualties plucked from France's battlefields.
Find out more »VIRTUAL TALK: “Hidden Valley Road” with Robert Kolker
Don and Mimi Galvin seemed to be living the American dream. The established script for a family like this was: work hard, set goals, move up, be happy. But there was another story behind the scenes: psychological breakdown, shocking violence, hidden abuse. By the mid-1970s, six of the ten Galvin boys were diagnosed as schizophrenic. How could all this happen to one family?
Find out more »VIRTUAL TALK: “The Second Most Powerful Man in the World” with Phillips Payson O’Brien
The second most powerful man in the world was Admiral William D. Leahy. Aside from FDR, no American did more to shape World War II. Not Douglas MacArthur. Not Dwight Eisenhower. Not even the legendary George Marshall.
Find out more »FREE VIRTUAL TALK: “The Witches: Salem 1692” with Stacy Schiff
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the national bestseller "Cleopatra" unpacks the mystery of the Salem Witch Trials.
Find out more »May 2021
“The First Thanksgiving-1621” with Karen Rinaldo
“The First Thanksgiving-1621” by Karen Rinaldo is the inaugural exhibit in the new gallery at the Dr. Francis Wicks House. Since the painting will be returned to its owner in Wisconsin later this year, this is a rare opportunity to view the work and meet the artist at the same time.
Find out more »VIRTUAL TALK: “Hitler’s First 100 Days” with Peter Fritzsche
When Germans Embraced the Third Reich
This is the chilling story of the beginning of the end. In the early 1930s, Germans were ravaged by the economic depression and pulled to political extremes both left and right. Then, in the spring of 1933, the country turned itself inside out. The deeply divided fractured republic gave way to a one-party dictatorship. The rise of Hitler.
VIRTUAL TALK: “Jefferson’s Daughters” with Catherine Kerrison
Three Sisters, White and Black, in a Young America
Thomas Jefferson had three daughters. The similarities end there. Two were white and free; one was black and enslaved.
VIRTUAL TALK: “Agent Jack” with Robert Hutton
The True Story of MI5's Secret Nazi Hunter
Eric Roberts was a balding, seemingly inconsequential bank clerk from Cornwall, England. But, he had a winning smile and an uncanny ability to make people trust him. He also had an extraordinary amount of nerve—something you needed when you were a British spy. His code name was Agent Jack. Posing as Jack King, he helped uncover and neutralize the threat of fascism on British shores during WWII—which wasn’t as invisible as people thought at the time.
Historical Walking Tour of Falmouth
HISTORICAL WALKING TOURS OF FALMOUTH WINTER/SPRING 2021 The Museums on the Green is offering historical walking tours of Falmouth now through May on the first and third Friday of every month. The tour will take off–weather permitting–at 10:00 am. Please be at the Hallett Barn Visitor Center by 9:45. Reservations are not required but are requested. Call 508.548.4857 ext. 14 or email [email protected] Adult admission $5. TOUR DATES January 1, 2021 January 15, 2021 February 5, 2021 February 19, 2021…
Find out more »“The First Thanksgiving-1621” with Karen Rinaldo
“The First Thanksgiving-1621” by Karen Rinaldo is the inaugural exhibit in the new gallery at the Dr. Francis Wicks House. Since the painting will be returned to its owner in Wisconsin later this year, this is a rare opportunity to view the work and meet the artist at the same time.
Find out more »VIRTUAL TALK: “War Fever” with Randy Roberts
Boston 1918. The deadly Spanish flu spread. The streets emptied. The war raged on. The enemy seemed to be lurking everywhere: prowling in submarines off the coast of Cape Cod, arriving on passenger ships in the harbor. Anyone who looked or sounded German was suspect. A fever gripped the city and wouldn’t let go.
Find out more »VIRTUAL TALK: “In the Cauldron” with Lew Paper
Terror, Tension, and the American Ambassador's Struggle to Avoid Pearl Harbor
In the second half of 1941, America was tightening its noose around Japan’s neck. President Roosevelt’s economic sanctions were crippling the country, but its leaders refused to yield to American demands. Roosevelt thought it was just a matter of time. Joseph Grew, America’s ambassador to Japan, knew time had nothing to do with it.
Find out more »VIRTUAL TALK: “Cross of Snow: The Life of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow” with Nicholas Basbanes
This is the first major literary biography of America’s most beloved nineteenth century poet in more than 50 years. It’s time to remember the life, the times, the works--the soul--of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
Find out more »VIRTUAL TALK: “The Barbizon” with Paulina Bren
The Hotel That Set Women Free
Sure, Manhattan’s got the Plaza, the Algonquin and the Waldorf Astoria. But young women with a suitcase and a dream checked into The Barbizon. The iconic hotel was built on 140 East 63rd Street in Manhattan in 1927 at the height of the Roaring Twenties. It was intended to be a haven for “modern women” seeking careers in the arts. It became a magnet for ambitious young women who wanted adventure, independence and big-city careers. Not to mention fame and fortune, too.
“The First Thanksgiving-1621” with Karen Rinaldo
“The First Thanksgiving-1621” by Karen Rinaldo is the inaugural exhibit in the new gallery at the Dr. Francis Wicks House. Since the painting will be returned to its owner in Wisconsin later this year, this is a rare opportunity to view the work and meet the artist at the same time.
Find out more »VIRTUAL TALK: “Goring’s Man in Paris” with Jonathan Petropoulos
Bruno Lohse was a charismatic art dealer in Berlin. He was also an SS officer and one of the most notorious art plunderers in history. Hermann Göring appointed him to Hitler’s art looting agency in Paris. There, he helped supervise the systematic theft and distribution of more than 30,000 artworks, taken largely from French Jews. He also helped the Nazi leader amass an invaluable private collection of plundered works—and apparently helped himself to some pieces he admired, too.
Find out more »VIRTUAL TALK: “Olive the Lionheart” with Brad Ricca
In 1910, Olive MacLeod received word that her fiancé, the famous naturalist Boyd Alexander, was missing in Africa. So, she did what any Scottish aristocrat in the early twentieth century would do. She went to find him.
Find out more »Historical Walking Tour of Falmouth
HISTORICAL WALKING TOURS OF FALMOUTH WINTER/SPRING 2021 The Museums on the Green is offering historical walking tours of Falmouth now through May on the first and third Friday of every month. The tour will take off–weather permitting–at 10:00 am. Please be at the Hallett Barn Visitor Center by 9:45. Reservations are not required but are requested. Call 508.548.4857 ext. 14 or email [email protected] Adult admission $5. TOUR DATES January 1, 2021 January 15, 2021 February 5, 2021 February 19, 2021…
Find out more »“The First Thanksgiving-1621” with Karen Rinaldo
“The First Thanksgiving-1621” by Karen Rinaldo is the inaugural exhibit in the new gallery at the Dr. Francis Wicks House. Since the painting will be returned to its owner in Wisconsin later this year, this is a rare opportunity to view the work and meet the artist at the same time.
Find out more »VIRTUAL TALK: “Without Precedent” with Joel Richard Paul
He was born in Virginia in 1755. Although the rough-cut frontiersman had little formal education, he became one of the nation’s preeminent lawyers and politicians. Meet John Marshall. He was at the center of every political battle—from the nation’s founding in 1776 for the next 40 years.
Find out more »VIRTUAL TALK: “Becoming Dr. Seuss” with Brian Jay Jones
The definitive, fascinating, all-reaching biography of Dr. Seuss
Dr. Seuss made our childhood’s whimsical and wonderful, magical and musical. A green Grinch who stole Christmas, a mischievous cat with a funny striped hat, and an elephant on a mission to rescue a tiny village of Whos. What would he dream up next?
Find out more »VIRTUAL TALK: “The Ravenmaster” with Christopher Skaife
It is said that if the Tower of London’s ravens should ever leave, the Crown will fall and Britain with it. That puts more than a little pressure on the Ravenmaster which, surprisingly, is a serious title indeed. Get a behind-the-scenes account of life with the legendary ravens at the world’s eeriest monument.
Find out more »“The First Thanksgiving-1621” with Karen Rinaldo
“The First Thanksgiving-1621” by Karen Rinaldo is the inaugural exhibit in the new gallery at the Dr. Francis Wicks House. Since the painting will be returned to its owner in Wisconsin later this year, this is a rare opportunity to view the work and meet the artist at the same time.
Find out more »August 2021
VIRTUAL EVENT: Katharine Lee Bates Poetry Contest
KATHARINE LEE BATES POETRY CONTEST READINGS Join our second Virtual Poetry Fest! Once again, we will celebrate everyone--six year olds to seniors-- who submitted original, unpublished poems. Many of the poets will read their own works; family members and friends will read others. This annual event is free and open to all. It was established over two decades ago to celebrate literacy, originality and creativity and to remember the Falmouth-born poet who wrote, among many other works, “America the Beautiful.”…
Find out more »VIRTUAL TALK: “Victory for the Vote” with Doris Weatherford:
The Fight for Women's Suffrage and the Century that Followed
Nancy Pelosi’s forward to Victory for the Vote reminds us “that the trailblazing suffragists did not wait for change, they worked for change!” And work they did!