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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171209T140000
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SUMMARY:Special Performance: Anne Barrett as Victoria Yule
DESCRIPTION:Travel back in time to Christmas 1895 with Victoria Yule as your hostess. \nVictoria Yule will welcome you into her parlor\, complete with an antique chair\, table and props\, and share her plans for the upcoming Christmas festivities. Learn the history of many Christmas traditions from stories passed down to her from “Grandmama and Grandpapa”. She’ll read Dickens\, display toys and handmade gifts her family will be exchanging around the Christmas tree\, and in her clear soprano\, sing carols of the season. Travel back in time to Christmas 1895 with this fun\, creative and engaging performance.
URL:https://museumsonthegreen.org/event/special-performance-anne-barrett-as-victoria-yule/
LOCATION:Cultural Center\, 55 Palmer Avenue\, Falmouth\, MA\, United States
CATEGORIES:2017 Lecture Series,2017 Programs
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171115T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171115T200000
DTSTAMP:20170714T115415Z
CREATED:20170714T115415Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170714T115415Z
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SUMMARY:Joseph Williams\, "The Sunken Gold: A Story of World War One\, Espionage\, and the Greatest Treasure Salvage in History"
DESCRIPTION:“The Sunken Gold” is the story of how a British ship\, HMS Laurentic\, laden with forty-four tons of Allied gold bound for the United States\, was sunk off the coast of Ireland by Germany and the epic struggle by divers from the British Navy to recover the treasure. The book also describes the underwater spywork conducted by the divers by breaking into sunken U-boats looking for codes\, ciphers\, and other secret documents. Their mission to recover the gold was highly successful and the divers recovered 99% of the treasure. However\, there are still twenty bars of gold left in the wreck\, waiting to be discovered.
URL:https://museumsonthegreen.org/event/joseph-williams-the-sunken-gold-a-story-of-world-war-one-espionage-and-the-greatest-treasure-salvage-in-history/
LOCATION:Cultural Center\, 55 Palmer Avenue\, Falmouth\, MA\, United States
CATEGORIES:2017 Lecture Series,2017 Programs
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171110T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171110T150000
DTSTAMP:20170714T115641Z
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SUMMARY:Leonid Kondratiuk\, "Massachusetts Goes to War: The 26th Yankee Division in World War One"
DESCRIPTION:The 26th “Yankee” Division\, composed of units from the National Guards of the New England states\, was the first full US Army division to arrive in France in 1917. Approximately\, 15\,000 Massachusetts men served in the 26th making it the largest unit the state sent to the war. Virtually\, every town had men serving in the 26th. General Kondratiuk will speak about the Yankee Division’s role in World War I.
URL:https://museumsonthegreen.org/event/leonid-kondratiuk-massachusetts-goes-to-war-the-26th-yankee-division-in-world-war-one/
LOCATION:Cultural Center\, 55 Palmer Avenue\, Falmouth\, MA\, United States
CATEGORIES:2017 Lecture Series,2017 Programs
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171101T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171101T200000
DTSTAMP:20170714T115810Z
CREATED:20170714T115810Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170714T115810Z
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SUMMARY:James McGrath Morris\, "The Ambulance Drivers: Hemingway\, Dos Passos\, and a Friendship Made & Lost in War"
DESCRIPTION:After meeting for the first time on the front lines of World War I\, two aspiring writers forge an intense twenty-year friendship and write some of America’s greatest novels\, giving voice to a “lost generation” shaken by war. \nEager to find his way in life and words\, John Dos Passos first witnessed the horror of trench warfare in France as a volunteer ambulance driver retrieving the dead and seriously wounded from the front line. Later in the war\, he briefly met another young writer\, Ernest Hemingway\, who was just arriving for his service in the ambulance corps. When the war was over\, both men knew they had to write about it; they had to give voice to what they felt about war and life. \nTheir friendship and collaboration developed through the peace of the 1920s and 1930s\, as Hemingway’s novels soared to success while Dos Passos penned the greatest antiwar novel of his generation\, Three Soldiers. In war\, Hemingway found adventure\, women\, and a cause. Dos Passos saw only oppression and futility. Their different visions eventually turned their private friendship into a bitter public fight\, fueled by money\, jealousy\, and lust. \nRich in evocative detail–from Paris cafes to the Austrian Alps\, from the streets of Pamplona to the waters of Key West–The Ambulance Drivers is a biography of a turbulent friendship between two of the century’s greatest writers\, and an illustration of how war both inspires and destroys\, unites and divides.
URL:https://museumsonthegreen.org/event/james-mcgrath-morris-the-ambulance-drivers-hemingway-dos-passos-and-a-friendship-made-lost-in-war/
LOCATION:Cultural Center\, 55 Palmer Avenue\, Falmouth\, MA\, United States
CATEGORIES:2017 Lecture Series,2017 Programs
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171021T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171021T170000
DTSTAMP:20171003T161533Z
CREATED:20170726T160152Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171003T161533Z
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SUMMARY:Sean McMeekin\, "The Russian Revolution: A New History"
DESCRIPTION:Acclaimed historian Sean McMeekin traces the events which ended Romanov rule\, ushered the Bolsheviks into power\, and introduced Communism to the world. Between 1917 and 1922\, Russia underwent a complete and irreversible transformation. Taking advantage of the collapse of the Tsarist regime in the middle of World War I\, the Bolsheviks staged a hostile takeover of the Russian Imperial Army\, promoting mutinies and mass desertions of men in order to fulfill Lenin’s program of turning the “imperialist war” into civil war. By the time the Bolsheviks had snuffed out the last resistance five years later\, over 20 million people had died\, and the Russian economy had collapsed so completely that Communism had to be temporarily abandoned. Still\, Bolshevik rule was secure\, owing to the new regime’s monopoly on force\, enabled by illicit arms deals signed with capitalist neighbors such as Germany and Sweden who sought to benefit-politically and economically-from the revolutionary chaos in Russia. \nDrawing on scores of previously untapped files from Russian archives and a range of other repositories in Europe\, Turkey\, and the United States\, McMeekin delivers exciting\, groundbreaking research about this turbulent era. The first comprehensive history of these momentous events in two decades\, The Russian Revolution combines cutting-edge scholarship and a fast-paced narrative to shed new light on one of the most significant turning points of the twentieth century.
URL:https://museumsonthegreen.org/event/sean-mcmeekin-the-russian-revolution-a-new-history/
LOCATION:Cultural Center\, 55 Palmer Avenue\, Falmouth\, MA\, United States
CATEGORIES:2017 Lecture Series,2017 Programs
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171017T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171017T203000
DTSTAMP:20170726T162204Z
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SUMMARY:William Taubman\, "Gorbachev: His Life and Times" (To be held at Falmouth Academy)
DESCRIPTION:The definitive biography of the transformational world leader by the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Khrushchev. \nWhen Mikhail Gorbachev became the leader of the Soviet Union in 1985\, the USSR. was one of the world’s two superpowers. By 1989\, his liberal policies of perestroika and glasnost had permanently transformed Soviet Communism\, and had made enemies of radicals on the right and left. By 1990 he\, more than anyone else\, had ended the Cold War\, and in 1991\, after barely escaping from a coup attempt\, he unintentionally presided over the collapse of the Soviet Union he had tried to save. In the first comprehensive biography of the final Soviet leader\, William Taubman shows how a peasant boy became the Soviet system’s gravedigger\, how he clambered to the top of a system designed to keep people like him down\, how he found common ground with America’s arch-conservative president Ronald Reagan\, and how he permitted the USSR and its East European empire to break apart without using force to preserve them. Throughout\, Taubman portrays the many sides of Gorbachev’s unique character that\, by Gorbachev’s own admission\, make him “difficult to understand.” Was he in fact a truly great leader\, or was he brought low in the end by his own shortcomings\, as well as by the unyielding forces he faced? \nDrawing on interviews with Gorbachev himself\, transcripts and documents from the Russian archives\, and interviews with Kremlin aides and adversaries\, as well as foreign leaders\, Taubman’s intensely personal portrait extends to Gorbachev’s remarkable marriage to a woman he deeply loved\, and to the family that they raised together. Nuanced and poignant\, yet unsparing and honest\, this sweeping account has all the amplitude of a great Russian novel.
URL:https://museumsonthegreen.org/event/william-taubman-gorbachev-his-life-and-times-to-be-held-at-falmouth-academy/
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:2017 Lecture Series,2017 Programs
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171012T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171012T203000
DTSTAMP:20170726T155909Z
CREATED:20170726T155909Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170726T155909Z
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SUMMARY:Tom Schachtman\, "How the French Saved America"
DESCRIPTION:Americans today have a love/hate relationship with France\, but in How the French Saved America Tom Shachtman shows that without France\, there might not be a United States of America. \nTo the rebelling colonies\, French assistance made the difference between looming defeat and eventual triumph. Even before the Declaration of Independence was issued\, King Louis XVI and French foreign minister Vergennes were aiding the rebels. After the Declaration\, that assistance broadened to include wages for our troops; guns\, cannon\, and ammunition; engineering expertise that enabled victories and prevented defeats; diplomatic recognition; safe havens for privateers; battlefield leadership by veteran officers; and the army and fleet that made possible the Franco-American victory at Yorktown. \nNearly ten percent of those who fought and died for the American cause were French. Those who fought and survived\, in addition to the well-known Lafayette and Rochambeau\, include François de Fleury\, who won a Congressional Medal for valor\, Louis Duportail\, who founded the Army Corps of Engineers\, and Admiral de Grasse\, whose sea victory sealed the fate of Yorktown. \nThis illuminating narrative history vividly captures the outsize characters of our European brothers\, their battlefield and diplomatic bonds and clashes with Americans\, and the monumental role they played in America’s fight for independence and democracy.
URL:https://museumsonthegreen.org/event/tom-schachtman-how-the-french-saved-america/
LOCATION:Cultural Center\, 55 Palmer Avenue\, Falmouth\, MA\, United States
CATEGORIES:2017 Lecture Series,2017 Programs
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171007T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171007T150000
DTSTAMP:20170714T121403Z
CREATED:20170714T121403Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170714T121403Z
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SUMMARY:Noah Isenberg\, "We'll Always Have Casablanca: The Life\, Legend and Afterlife of America's Most Beloved Movie"
DESCRIPTION:Casablanca was first released in 1942\, just two weeks after the city of Casablanca itself surrendered to American troops led by General Patton. Featuring a pitch-perfect screenplay\, a classic soundtrack\, and unforgettable performances by Humphrey Bogart\, Ingrid Bergman\, and a deep supporting cast\, Casablanca was hailed in the New York Times as “a picture that makes the spine tingle and the heart take a leap.” The film won Oscars for best picture\, best director\, and best screenplay\, and would go on to enjoy more revival screenings than any other movie in history. It became so firmly ensconced in the cultural imagination that\, as Umberto Eco once said\, Casablanca is “not one movie; it is ‘movies.’ ” \nWe’ll Always Have Casablanca is celebrated film historian Noah Isenberg’s rich account of this most beloved movie’s origins. Through extensive research and interviews with filmmakers\, film critics\, family members of the cast and crew\, and diehard fans\, Isenberg reveals the myths and realities behind Casablanca’s production\, exploring the transformation of the unproduced stage play into the classic screenplay\, the controversial casting decisions\, the battles with Production Code censors\, and the effect of the war’s progress on the movie’s reception. Isenberg particularly focuses on the central role refugees from Hitler’s Europe played in the production (nearly all of the actors and actresses cast in Casablanca were immigrants). \nFinally\, Isenberg turns to Casablanca’s long afterlife and the reasons it remains so revered. From the Marx Brothers’ 1946 spoof hit\, A Night in Casablanca\, to loving parodies in New Yorker cartoons\, Saturday Night Live skits\, and Simpsons episodes\, Isenberg delves into the ways the movie has lodged itself in the American psyche. \nFilled with fresh insights into Casablanca’s creation\, production\, and legacy\, We’ll Always Have Casablanca is a magnificent account of what made the movie so popular and why it continues to dazzle audiences seventy-five years after its release.
URL:https://museumsonthegreen.org/event/noah-isenberg-well-always-have-casablanca-the-life-legend-and-afterlife-of-americas-most-beloved-movie/
LOCATION:Cultural Center\, 55 Palmer Avenue\, Falmouth\, MA\, United States
CATEGORIES:2017 Lecture Series,2017 Programs
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171005T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171005T200000
DTSTAMP:20170714T121522Z
CREATED:20170714T121513Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170714T121522Z
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SUMMARY:William J. Mann\, "The War of the Roosevelts: The Ruthless Rise of America's Greatest Political Family"
DESCRIPTION:The award-winning author presents a provocative\, thoroughly modern revisionist biographical history of one of America’s greatest and most influential families—the Roosevelts—exposing heretofore unknown family secrets and detailing complex family rivalries with his signature cinematic flair. \nDrawing on previously hidden historical documents and interviews with the long-silent “illegitimate” branch of the family\, William J. Mann paints an elegant\, meticulously researched\, and groundbreaking group portrait of this legendary family. Mann argues that the Roosevelts’ rise to power and prestige was actually driven by a series of intense personal contest that at times devolved into blood sport. His compelling and eye-opening masterwork is the story of a family at war with itself\, of social Darwinism at its most ruthless—in which the strong devoured the weak and repudiated the inconvenient. \nMann focuses on Eleanor Roosevelt\, who\, he argues\, experienced this brutality firsthand\, witnessing her Uncle Theodore cruelly destroy her father\, Elliott—his brother and bitter rival—for political expediency. Mann presents a fascinating alternate picture of Eleanor\, contending that this “worshipful niece” in fact bore a grudge against TR for the rest of her life\, and dares to tell the truth about her intimate relationships without obfuscations\, explanations\, or labels. \nMann also brings into focus Eleanor’s cousins\, TR’s children\, whose stories propelled the family rivalry but have never before been fully chronicled\, as well as her illegitimate half-brother\, Elliott Roosevelt Mann\, who inherited his family’s ambition and skill without their name and privilege. Growing up in poverty just miles from his wealthy relatives\, Elliott Mann embodied the American Dream\, rising to middle-class prosperity and enjoying one of the very few happy\, long-term marriages in the Roosevelt saga. For the first time\, The Wars of the Roosevelts also includes the stories of Elliott’s daughter and grandchildren\, and never-before-seen photographs from their archives.
URL:https://museumsonthegreen.org/event/william-j-mann-the-war-of-the-roosevelts-the-ruthless-rise-of-americas-greatest-political-family/
LOCATION:Cultural Center\, 55 Palmer Avenue\, Falmouth\, MA\, United States
CATEGORIES:2017 Lecture Series,2017 Programs
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171003T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171003T203000
DTSTAMP:20170918T153821Z
CREATED:20170726T161749Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170918T153821Z
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SUMMARY:Casey Sherman\, "The Ice Bucket Challenge" (to be held at First Congregational Church\, 68 Main Street\, Falmouth)
DESCRIPTION:While everyone knows of the Ice Bucket Challenge\, the viral craze that swept the nation in summer 2014\, too few know the truly inspirational story behind it. Pete Frates was a man at war with his own body. A man whose love for others was unshakable. A man who refused to fight alone\, and in so doing mobilized a global army to combat one of the most devastating diseases on earth: ALS\, or Lou Gehrig’s disease. When disease crippled Frates\, the former Boston College baseball star turned tragedy into inspiration. Pete’s story is a testament to the power of love\, the steadfastness of family\, the generosity of strangers\, and the compassion of crowds.
URL:https://museumsonthegreen.org/event/casey-sherman-the-ice-bucket-challenge/
LOCATION:Cultural Center\, 55 Palmer Avenue\, Falmouth\, MA\, United States
CATEGORIES:2017 Lecture Series,2017 Programs
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170928T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170928T200000
DTSTAMP:20170714T185422Z
CREATED:20170714T185422Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170714T185422Z
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SUMMARY:Fred Morin & John Galluzzo\, "A History of Massachusetts Aviation"
DESCRIPTION:Explore the Bay State’s Aviation History \nShortly after the Wright brothers took to the air\, aviation fever gripped Massachusetts. The biggest names in the industry\, including Wilbur Wright\, Glenn Curtiss\, and Claude Graham-White\, among others\, flew in for the first major air shows\, further exciting the people of the Bay State about the potential of manned flight in the realms of military tactics\, the expansion of commerce\, and even personal transportation. By the 1920s\, Massachusetts had become home to the first Naval Air Reserve Base\, in Quincy; one of the first Coast Guard Air Stations\, in Gloucester; and the Boston Airfield\, which would become the largest international airport in New England. Within a few decades\, individuals like Edward Lawrence Logan\, Frank Otis\, Oscar Westover\, and Laurence G. Hanscomb would permanently leave their names on the Massachusetts landscape in connection with the airports and airfields still used today. \nOur September lectures are sponsored by Cape Cod Five Savings 
URL:https://museumsonthegreen.org/event/fred-morin-john-galluzzo-a-history-of-massachusetts-aviation/
LOCATION:Cultural Center\, 55 Palmer Avenue\, Falmouth\, MA\, United States
CATEGORIES:2017 Lecture Series,2017 Programs
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170923T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170923T150000
DTSTAMP:20170918T153719Z
CREATED:20170726T160757Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170918T153719Z
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SUMMARY:Kevin Doyle\, "Tales of the Old Stone Dock"
DESCRIPTION:As Falmouth’s Old Stone Dock–the early center of commerce in the town–commemorates its Bicentennial\, Old Stone Dock Association President Kevin Doyle will be at the Historical Society to discuss past exploits from the region and how the dock was involved.
URL:https://museumsonthegreen.org/event/kevin-doyle-tales-from-the-old-stone-dock/
LOCATION:Cultural Center\, 55 Palmer Avenue\, Falmouth\, MA\, United States
CATEGORIES:2017 Lecture Series,2017 Programs
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170923T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170923T120000
DTSTAMP:20170831T163529Z
CREATED:20170831T163529Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170831T163529Z
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SUMMARY:Debra Levy: The Process of Writing a Memoir (free lecture)
DESCRIPTION:Nate Dondis and memoirist Debra Levy discuss Nate’s memoir A Very Rich Man and the process of writing a memoir. \n \nLongtime Falmouth resident Nate Dondis and his memoirist Debra Levy discuss the process of writing Nate’s life story\, which resulted in a 150-page book for his family. In his book A Very Rich Man\, Nate discusses his ancestors’ escape from the pogroms in Russia\, growing up in Fall River\, learning the retail business from his father\, running the Empire Men’s Shop\, and raising a family with his wife Edie. The two will discuss the process of writing and producing the book\, the reasons for doing it\, and the unanticipated benefits. \nResearch shows that there is a natural desire to reminisce later in life—a time of recapitulation\, resolution\, and review.  It is a time when people think about writing their life stories out of a desire to give back – to family\, friends\, and society. Have you ever wished that you knew more about your ancestors other than their names and birthplaces? What will future generations of your family know about you? This discussion is an opportunity to learn about the process of preserving your life stories—and a chance to hear Nate tell some of his. According to the 92-year-old Nate\, his sequel is already in the works.
URL:https://museumsonthegreen.org/event/debra-levy-the-process-of-writing-a-memoir-free-lecture/
LOCATION:Cultural Center\, 55 Palmer Avenue\, Falmouth\, MA\, United States
CATEGORIES:2017 Lecture Series,2017 Programs
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170920T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170920T200000
DTSTAMP:20170919T134834Z
CREATED:20170714T185704Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170919T134834Z
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SUMMARY:Glenn Frankel\, "High Noon: The Hollywood Blacklist and the Making of An American Classic" (THIS PROGRAM CANCELLED DUE TO WEATHER)
DESCRIPTION:It’s one of the most revered movies of Hollywood’s golden era. Starring screen legend Gary Cooper and Grace Kelly in her first significant film role\, High Noon was shot on a lean budget over just thirty-two days but achieved instant box-office and critical success. It won four Academy Awards in 1953\, including a best actor win for Cooper. And it became a cultural touchstone\, often cited by politicians as a favorite film\, celebrating moral fortitude. \nYet what has been often overlooked is that High Noon was made during the height of the Hollywood blacklist\, a time of political inquisition and personal betrayal. In the middle of the film shoot\, screenwriter Carl Foreman was forced to testify before the House Committee on Un-American Activities about his former membership in the Communist Party. Refusing to name names\, he was eventually blacklisted and fled the United States. (His co-authored screenplay for another classic\, The Bridge on the River Kwai\, went uncredited in 1957.) Examined in light of Foreman’s testimony\, High Noon‘s emphasis on courage and loyalty takes on deeper meaning and importance. \nIn this book\, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Glenn Frankel tells the story of the making of a great American Western\, exploring how Carl Foreman’s concept of High Noon evolved from idea to first draft to final script\, taking on allegorical weight. Both the classic film and its turbulent political times emerge newly illuminated \nOur September lectures are sponsored by Cape Cod Five
URL:https://museumsonthegreen.org/event/glenn-frankel-high-noon-the-hollywood-blacklist-and-the-making-of-an-american-classic/
LOCATION:Cultural Center\, 55 Palmer Avenue\, Falmouth\, MA\, United States
CATEGORIES:2017 Lecture Series,2017 Programs
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170913T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170913T200000
DTSTAMP:20170714T190048Z
CREATED:20170714T190048Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170714T190048Z
UID:3440-1505329200-1505332800@museumsonthegreen.org
SUMMARY:Michael McNaught: "Britain's Calvary: The Battle of the Somme\, 1916"
DESCRIPTION:The Battle of the Somme\, also known as the Somme Offensive\, was one of the largest battles of the First World War. Fought between July 1 and November 1\, 1916 near the Somme River in France\, it was also one of the bloodiest military battles in history. On the first day alone\, the British suffered more than 57\,000 casualties\, and by the end of the campaign the Allies and Central Powers would lose more than 1.5 million men. \nThe Somme campaign in 1916 was the first great offensive of World War I for the British\, and it produced a more critical British attitude toward the war. During and after the Somme\, the British army started a real improvement in tactics. Also\, the French attacked at the Somme and achieved greater advances on July 1 than the British did\, with far fewer casualties. But it is the losses that are most remembered. The first day of the Somme offensive\, July 1\, 1916\, resulted in 57\,470 British casualties\, greater than the total combined British casualties in the Crimean\, Boer\, and Korean wars. In contrast\, the French\, with fewer divisions\, suffered only around 2\,000 casualties. By the time the offensive ended in November\, the British had suffered around 420\,000 casualties\, and the French about 200\,000. German casualty numbers are controversial\, but may be about 465\,000. \nOur September lectures are sponsored by Cape Cod Five Savings
URL:https://museumsonthegreen.org/event/michael-mcnaught-britains-calvary-the-battle-of-the-somme-1916/
LOCATION:Cultural Center\, 55 Palmer Avenue\, Falmouth\, MA\, United States
CATEGORIES:2017 Lecture Series,2017 Programs
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170912T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170912T203000
DTSTAMP:20170726T153509Z
CREATED:20170726T153509Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170726T153509Z
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SUMMARY:William M. Fowler\, Jr\, "Steam Titans"
DESCRIPTION:Steam Titans tells the story of a transatlantic fight between 1815 and the American Civil War to wrest control of the globe’s most lucrative trade route. Two shipping magnates—Samuel Cunard and Edward Knight Collins—and two nations wielded the tools of technology\, finance\, and politics to compete for control of a commercial lifeline that spanned the North Atlantic. The world watched carefully to see which would win. Each competitor sent to sea the fastest\, biggest\, and most elegant ships in the world\, hoping to earn the distinction of being known as “the only way to cross.”\nHistorian William M. Fowler brings to life the spectacle of this generation-long struggle for supremacy\, during which New York rose to take her place among the greatest ports and cities of the world\, and recounts the tale of a competition that was the opening act in the drama of economic globalization\, still unfolding today.
URL:https://museumsonthegreen.org/event/william-m-fowler-jr-steam-titans/
LOCATION:Cultural Center\, 55 Palmer Avenue\, Falmouth\, MA\, United States
CATEGORIES:2017 Lecture Series,2017 Programs
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170906T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170906T200000
DTSTAMP:20170726T152709Z
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SUMMARY:Leigh Montville\, "Sting Like a Bee: Muhammad Ali vs. the United States of America\, 1966-1971
DESCRIPTION:With the death of Muhammad Ali in June\, 2016\, the media and America in general have remembered a hero\, a heavyweight champion\, an Olympic gold medalist\, an icon\, and a man who represents the sheer greatness of America. New York Times bestselling author Leigh Montville goes deeper\, with a fascinating chronicle of a story that has been largely untold. Muhammad Ali\, in the late 1960s\, was young\, successful\, brash\, and hugely admired—but with some reservations. He was bombastic and cocky in a way that captured the imagination of America\, but also drew its detractors. He was a bold young African American in an era when few people were as outspoken. He renounced his name—Cassius Clay—as being his ‘slave name\,’ and joined the Nation of Islam\, renaming himself Muhammad Ali. And finally in 1966\, after being drafted\, he refused to join the military for religious and conscientious reasons\, triggering a fight that was larger than any of his bouts in the ring. What followed was a period of legal battles\, of cultural obsession\, and in some ways of being the very embodiment of the civil rights movement located in the heart of one man. Muhammad Ali was the tip of the arrow\, and Leigh Montville brilliantly assembles all the boxing\, the charisma\, the cultural and political shifting tides\, and ultimately the enormous waft of entertainment that always surrounded Ali. Muhammed Ali vs. the United States of America is an important and incredibly engaging book. \nOur September lectures are sponsored by Cape Cod Five Savings
URL:https://museumsonthegreen.org/event/leigh-montville-sting-like-a-bee-muhammad-ali-vs-the-united-states-of-america-1966-1971/
LOCATION:Cultural Center\, 55 Palmer Avenue\, Falmouth\, MA\, United States
CATEGORIES:2017 Lecture Series,2017 Programs
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SUMMARY:Melinda Ponder\, "Katharine Lee Bates: From Sea to Shining Sea"
DESCRIPTION:On August 12\, the birthday of Katharine Lee Bates (1859-1929)\, poet of “America the Beautiful\,” biographer Melinda M. Ponder will talk about her new book\, Katharine Lee Bates: From Sea to Shining Sea. \n It tells the story of this brilliant trail-blazing woman—poet\, teacher\, community builder\, and patriot—who challenged Americans to make their country the best it could become in its values and literature. \nDrawing on extensive research in Bates family diaries\, letters\, and memoirs\, this biography brings Katharine to life in her journeys from her childhood in Falmouth\, where she felt she had been “rock’d in a clamshell\,” to Wellesley College\, Boston\, Oxford\, Spain and Egypt. Although her passion was poetry\, Katharine’s three alluring suitors (two men and a woman) pulled her into major reform movements in a changing America. She was a dynamic woman with public triumphs\, an anti-war activist poet during America’s tumultuous growth into a world power\, who suffered personal heartaches as a single woman faced with choosing between marriage and a career. She refused to let an impoverished childhood in a Cape Cod village or the closed doors of the male-only bastions of the ministry\, graduate schools\, or the Yankee literary establishment prevent her from creating an inspiring life. This book is for those who love her song and those who root for the unlikely triumph of a complicated women “from sea to shining sea.” \nOur August lectures sponsored by Martha’s Vineyard Savings Bank
URL:https://museumsonthegreen.org/event/melinda-ponder-katharine-lee-bates-from-sea-to-shining-sea/
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:2017 Lecture Series,2017 Programs
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SUMMARY:Martha Hall Kelly\, "Lilac Girls". 4 pm: TO BE HELD AT ST. BARNABAS CHURCH
DESCRIPTION:New York socialite Caroline Ferriday has her hands full with her post at the French consulate and a new love on the horizon. But Caroline’s world is forever changed when Hitler’s army invades Poland in September 1939—and then sets its sights on France. \nAn ocean away from Caroline\, Kasia Kuzmerick\, a Polish teenager\, senses her carefree youth disappearing as she is drawn deeper into her role as courier for the underground resistance movement. In a tense atmosphere of watchful eyes and suspecting neighbors\, one false move can have dire consequences. \nFor the ambitious young German doctor\, Herta Oberheuser\, an ad for a government medical position seems her ticket out of a desolate life. Once hired\, though\, she finds herself trapped in a male-dominated realm of Nazi secrets and power. \nThe lives of these three women are set on a collision course when the unthinkable happens and Kasia is sent to Ravensbrück\, the notorious Nazi concentration camp for women. Their stories cross continents—from New York to Paris\, Germany\, and Poland—as Caroline and Kasia strive to bring justice to those whom history has forgotten. \nOur August lectures are sponsored by Martha’s Vineyard Savings Bank
URL:https://museumsonthegreen.org/event/martha-hall-kelly-lilac-girls/
LOCATION:Cultural Center\, 55 Palmer Avenue\, Falmouth\, MA\, United States
CATEGORIES:2017 Lecture Series,2017 Programs
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