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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March 2021
VIRTUAL TALK: “The Hunt for History” with Nathan Raab
On The Trails of the World's Lost Treasures--from the letters of Lincoln, Churchill, and Einstein to the Secret Recordings Onboard JFK's Air Force One
Find out more »VIRTUAL TALK: “Ghosts of Martha’s Vineyard” with Thomas Dresser
Thomas Dresser never saw a ghost or thought they existed—until he sat down to write this book. So what changed the local historian’s mind? Too many eerie tales that have stood the test of time.
Find out more »VIRTUAL TALK: “The Romanov Sisters” with Helen Rappaport
Olga. Tatiana. Maria. Anastasia. The Russian Grand Duchesses were among the most photographed and talked about young royals of the early twentieth century. Yet, over the years, most only remember their tragic end in a basement at Ekaterinburg in 1918.
Find out more »VIRTUAL TALK: “The Ice at the End of the World”with Jon Gertner
Greenland. Population 56,000. Five times the size of California. It’s covered in an ice sheet 700 miles wide and 1,500 miles long. That’s nearly three quadrillion tons of bone-chilling ice. For the last 150 years, explorers and scientists have sought to understand this remote and mysterious island.
Find out more »VIRTUAL TALK: “The Indomitable Florence Finch” with Robert Mrazek
Florence Finch was an unlikely warrior. Her mother was Filipino; her father was an American serviceman. As World War II drew close to the Philippines, Florence fell in love with a dashing American naval intelligence agent, Charles “Bing” Smith, stationed in Manila. When Bing was killed in battle, the mild-mannered housewife became a fervent resistance fighter.
Find out more »VIRTUAL TALK: “Eleanor and Hick” with Susan Quinn
They couldn't have been more different. Eleanor came from one of the nation’s most powerful political families; her marriage to her distant cousin Franklin Roosevelt took her straight to the White House. Lorena Hickok, known as Hick, grew up in rural South Dakota and worked as a servant girl after escaping from an abusive home. At different points, they were lovers, confidantes, professional advisors, and caring friends. Together, they played significant roles in one of the most tumultuous periods in American history.
Find out more »VIRTUAL TALK: “On Account of Race” with Lawrence Goldstone
By the end of Reconstruction, more than 500,000 African Americans had registered to vote across the South. The vast majority were former slaves. By 1906, less than ten percent remained. Beginning in 1876, the Court systematically dismantled both the equal protection guarantees of the Fourteenth Amendment, at least for African Americans, and what seemed to be the guarantee of the right to vote in the Fifteenth.
Find out more »VIRTUAL TALK: “Chicago’s Great Fire” with Carl S. Smith
Almost 150 years ago, most of Chicago burned to the ground. The fire started in Catherine and Patrick O’Leary’s barn on October 8, 1871 and grew out of control quickly by jumping branches of the Chicago River twice on its relentless northeastward path through the city’s three divisions.
Find out more »VIRTUAL TALK: “Sermons in Stone: The Stone Walls of New England” with Susan Allport
In 1871 there were 252,539 miles of stone walls in New England and New York―enough to circle the earth ten times. But what do we actually know about them? Who built them, and why?
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!
VIRTUAL TALK: “Men on Horseback” with David A. Bell
George Washington. Napoleon Bonaparte. Toussaint Louverture. Simon Bolivar. If the revolutionary world wanted to do without kings and queens, who would lead? Without divine right, what would give leaders their authority? Military valor? The consent of the people? Their own Godlike qualities? These four “men on horseback” all struggled with this question.
Find out more »August 2021
VIRTUAL EVENT: Katharine Lee Bates Poetry Contest
KATHARINE LEE BATES POETRY CONTEST READINGS Join our first-ever Virtual Poetry Fest! This year, 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.”…
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