Programs
Campus Tours at the Museums
Open June 5th – October 16th, 2026
Monday 10-2pm, Tuesday 10-2pm, Friday 10-2pm, Saturday 10-4pm
We also host historical walking tours year round. Click here for the current schedule of historical walking tours.
For special events, see below.
2017 Lecture Series
Events
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Leigh Montville, “Sting Like a Bee: Muhammad Ali vs. the United States of America, 1966-1971
Cultural Center 55 Palmer Avenue, Falmouth, MA, United StatesWith 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 […]
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William M. Fowler, Jr, “Steam Titans”
Cultural Center 55 Palmer Avenue, Falmouth, MA, United StatesSteam 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 […]
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Michael McNaught: “Britain’s Calvary: The Battle of the Somme, 1916”
Cultural Center 55 Palmer Avenue, Falmouth, MA, United StatesThe 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 […]
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Glenn Frankel, “High Noon: The Hollywood Blacklist and the Making of An American Classic” (THIS PROGRAM CANCELLED DUE TO WEATHER)
Cultural Center 55 Palmer Avenue, Falmouth, MA, United StatesIt'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 […]
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Debra Levy: The Process of Writing a Memoir (free lecture)
Cultural Center 55 Palmer Avenue, Falmouth, MA, United StatesNate Dondis and memoirist Debra Levy discuss Nate’s memoir A Very Rich Man and the process of writing a memoir. Longtime Falmouth resident Nate Dondis and his memoirist Debra Levy […]
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Kevin Doyle, “Tales of the Old Stone Dock”
Cultural Center 55 Palmer Avenue, Falmouth, MA, United StatesAs 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 […]
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Fred Morin & John Galluzzo, “A History of Massachusetts Aviation”
Cultural Center 55 Palmer Avenue, Falmouth, MA, United StatesExplore the Bay State’s Aviation History Shortly after the Wright brothers took to the air, aviation fever gripped Massachusetts. The biggest names in the industry, including Wilbur Wright, Glenn Curtiss, […]
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Casey Sherman, “The Ice Bucket Challenge” (to be held at First Congregational Church, 68 Main Street, Falmouth)
Cultural Center 55 Palmer Avenue, Falmouth, MA, United StatesWhile 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 […]
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William J. Mann, “The War of the Roosevelts: The Ruthless Rise of America’s Greatest Political Family”
Cultural Center 55 Palmer Avenue, Falmouth, MA, United StatesThe 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 […]
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Noah Isenberg, “We’ll Always Have Casablanca: The Life, Legend and Afterlife of America’s Most Beloved Movie”
Cultural Center 55 Palmer Avenue, Falmouth, MA, United StatesCasablanca 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 […]
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Tom Schachtman, “How the French Saved America”
Cultural Center 55 Palmer Avenue, Falmouth, MA, United StatesAmericans 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. […]
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William Taubman, “Gorbachev: His Life and Times” (To be held at Falmouth Academy)
The definitive biography of the transformational world leader by the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Khrushchev. When Mikhail Gorbachev became the leader of the Soviet Union in 1985, the USSR. was […]
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Sean McMeekin, “The Russian Revolution: A New History”
Cultural Center 55 Palmer Avenue, Falmouth, MA, United StatesAcclaimed 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 […]
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James McGrath Morris, “The Ambulance Drivers: Hemingway, Dos Passos, and a Friendship Made & Lost in War”
Cultural Center 55 Palmer Avenue, Falmouth, MA, United StatesAfter 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 […]
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Leonid Kondratiuk, “Massachusetts Goes to War: The 26th Yankee Division in World War One”
Cultural Center 55 Palmer Avenue, Falmouth, MA, United StatesThe 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, […]
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Joseph Williams, “The Sunken Gold: A Story of World War One, Espionage, and the Greatest Treasure Salvage in History”
Cultural Center 55 Palmer Avenue, Falmouth, MA, United States"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 […]
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Special Performance: Anne Barrett as Victoria Yule
Cultural Center 55 Palmer Avenue, Falmouth, MA, United StatesTravel back in time to Christmas 1895 with Victoria Yule as your hostess. Victoria Yule will welcome you into her parlor, complete with an antique chair, table and props, and […]
