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SUMMARY:FREE VIRTUAL TALK: "Red Comet" with Heather Clark
DESCRIPTION:RED COMET\nThe Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath \nThis highly anticipated biography of Sylvia Plath was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award in Biography. Writer Glennon Doyle called it “one of the most beautiful biographies I have ever read.”  Laura Freeman of The Times (London) said\, “I would not have wished it shorter.”  Heather Clark weaves what we know about Sylvia Plath with a wealth of never-before-accessed materials—including unpublished letters and manuscripts; court\, police\, and psychiatric records; and new interviews—to create an entirely new understanding of the poet’s world: her poetic ambition at a young age\, her early relationships and determination not to become a conventional woman and wife; her conflicted ties to her well-meaning\, widowed mother; her troubles at the hands of an unenlightened mental-health industry; and her Cambridge years and thunderclap meeting with Ted Hughes\, a marriage of true minds that would change the course of poetry in English.  Red Comet focuses on Plath’s remarkable literary and intellectual achievements\, restores the woman behind the long-held myths about her life and art\, and brings us closer than ever to the spirited woman and visionary artist who blazed a trail that still lights the way for women poets the world over. \nPURCHASE THIS BOOK ONLINE FROM EIGHT COUSINS BOOKSTORE \n\nREGISTER THROUGH EVENTBRITE\nFREE AND OPEN TO ALL \n  \nMANY THANKS TO OUR SPONSORS
URL:https://museumsonthegreen.org/event/virtual-talk-red-comet-with-heather-clark/
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:2021 Programs,2021 Talk Series
ORGANIZER;CN="Museums on the Green":MAILTO:info@museumsonthegreen.org
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SUMMARY:On-Campus Presentation: "The First Thanksgiving-1621" with Artist Karen Rinaldo
DESCRIPTION:LIMITED OPPORTUNITY\n“The First Thanksgiving-1621”\nPresentation with Falmouth Artist Karen Rinaldo \nSaturdays at 10 am: October 16\, 23\, 30 and November 6\, 20\nSaturdays at 11 am: November 6 & 20\nThe Wicks House Gallery\nAdults $15  | Pre-Registration is Required \nTo register\, email info@museumsonthegreen.org \n  \n“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. \nMs. Rinaldo will be in the gallery five Saturdays in October and November to talk about the painting—from its commission\, to its first brush stroke\, to its impressive exhibition history. Visitors can also watch a short video of the creative process. \nThe painting\, which is currently on loan to the Museums on the Green to commemorate the 400th anniversary of the Pilgrim’s landing in the New World\, is the first historically accurate painting of the famous gathering. \nPre-registration is required. Social distancing and safety protocols will be in effect. Masks are required. Include a stop in the Whaling Wives Gift Shop on your visit. Great selection. Great Stocking Stuffers. Many fun things for kids. \nTo get tickets: \n \n\n\n \n\n\n\n21: November 6 session\n\n\nOne Person $15.00 USDTwo People $30.00 USDThree People $45.00 USDFour People $60.00 USDFive People $75.00 USDSix People $90.00 USD\n\n\nName and Date of Attendees\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n \n \n\n\nABOUT THE PAINTING\nThe National Association of Christian Congregational Churches commissioned “The First Thanksgiving-1621” as “a Gift to the Nation.” The painting depicts the Mayflower survivors and the Wampanoags who joined them in a communal recognition of their friendship. \nMs. Rinaldo researched historical records and first-person accounts of the Pilgrims who were present. Except for the 91 braves who are unnamed in the historical account\, every figure portrayed is identified by name in an addendum provided for authentication. The painting includes Governor William Bradford\, Wampanoag leader Massasoit\, the English-speaking Squanto\, Priscilla Mullins (later Alden) holding Oceanus Hopkins\, and Peregrine White\, the first English child born in America. The scene depicts the mutual respect between the Native Americans and the recent arrivals at the time of the first Thanksgiving. \nThe painting was displayed at Pilgrim Hall Museum and Plimoth Plantation from 1995-2017.  It has appeared in numerous textbooks nationally and internationally.  It is currently on loan to the Museums on the Green to commemorate the 400th anniversary of the Pilgrim’s landing in the New World. \n  \n  \nMANY THANKS TO OUR SPONSORS
URL:https://museumsonthegreen.org/event/5653/
LOCATION:Dr. Francis Wicks House\, 55-65 Palmer Avenue\, Falmouth\, MA\, 02540
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SUMMARY:SOLD OUT! On Campus Presentation: "The First Thanksgiving-1621" with Artist Karen Rinaldo
DESCRIPTION:SOLD OUT!\nLIMITED OPPORTUNITY\n“The First Thanksgiving-1621”\nPresentation with Falmouth Artist Karen Rinaldo \nSaturdays at 10 am: October 16\, 23\, 30 and November 6\, 20\nSaturdays at 11 am: November 6 & 20\nThe Wicks House Gallery\nAdults $15  | Pre-Registration is Required \nTo register\, email info@museumsonthegreen.org \n  \n“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. \nMs. Rinaldo will be in the gallery five Saturdays in October and November to talk about the painting—from its commission\, to its first brush stroke\, to its impressive exhibition history. Visitors can also watch a short video of the creative process. \nThe painting\, which is currently on loan to the Museums on the Green to commemorate the 400th anniversary of the Pilgrim’s landing in the New World\, is the first historically accurate painting of the famous gathering. \nPre-registration is required. Social distancing and safety protocols will be in effect. Masks are required. Include a stop in the Whaling Wives Gift Shop on your visit. Great selection. Great Stocking Stuffers. Many fun things for kids. \nTo get tickets: \n \n\n\n \n\n\n\n21: November 6 session\n\n\nOne Person $15.00 USDTwo People $30.00 USDThree People $45.00 USDFour People $60.00 USDFive People $75.00 USDSix People $90.00 USD\n\n\nName and Date of Attendees\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n \n \n\n\nABOUT THE PAINTING\nThe National Association of Christian Congregational Churches commissioned “The First Thanksgiving-1621” as “a Gift to the Nation.” The painting depicts the Mayflower survivors and the Wampanoags who joined them in a communal recognition of their friendship. \nMs. Rinaldo researched historical records and first-person accounts of the Pilgrims who were present. Except for the 91 braves who are unnamed in the historical account\, every figure portrayed is identified by name in an addendum provided for authentication. The painting includes Governor William Bradford\, Wampanoag leader Massasoit\, the English-speaking Squanto\, Priscilla Mullins (later Alden) holding Oceanus Hopkins\, and Peregrine White\, the first English child born in America. The scene depicts the mutual respect between the Native Americans and the recent arrivals at the time of the first Thanksgiving. \nThe painting was displayed at Pilgrim Hall Museum and Plimoth Plantation from 1995-2017.  It has appeared in numerous textbooks nationally and internationally.  It is currently on loan to the Museums on the Green to commemorate the 400th anniversary of the Pilgrim’s landing in the New World. \n  \n  \nMANY THANKS TO OUR SPONSORS
URL:https://museumsonthegreen.org/event/on-campus-presentation-the-first-thanksgiving-1621-with-artist-karen-rinaldo/
LOCATION:Dr. Francis Wicks House\, 55-65 Palmer Avenue\, Falmouth\, MA\, 02540
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SUMMARY:RESCHEDULED: "Grave Undertakings: The Old Burying Ground Walking Tour"
DESCRIPTION:“Grave Undertakings: The Old Burying Ground Walking Tour”\nSaturday\, November 6\, 1-3 pm\nExplore Falmouth’s earliest and most mysterious burial ground on our new 45-minute guided walking tour. Hear the forgotten stories of the town’s first settlers\, discover the final resting places of many Revolutionary War soldiers\, and view the headstones of the unfortunate who were lost at sea\, killed by a whale\, struck by lightning\, or fell off a wharf and drowned. Your guide will also reveal the symbolic—and sometimes bizarre—meanings behind the epitaphs and engravings within. \n  \n\nMEETING PLACE: Old Burying Ground\, 8 Cemetery Lane (off Mill Road)\, Falmouth\nDEPARTURES: Tours depart every 15 minutes; Last tour leaves at 3 pm.\nPARKING: Parking is available at the Locust Street lot for the Shining Sea Bikeway\nCOST: $5/person (cash only)
URL:https://museumsonthegreen.org/event/grave-undertakings-the-old-burying-ground-walking-tour/
LOCATION:Old Burying Ground\, 10 Cemetery Lane\, Falmouth\, MA\, United States
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SUMMARY:FREE VIRTUAL TALK: "Thanksgiving Traditions in Boston" with Anthony Sammarco
DESCRIPTION:THANKSGIVING TRADITIONS IN BOSTON\nThanksgiving has been celebrated nationally on and off since 1789.  While Governors of Massachusetts had proclaimed a local holiday of Thanksgiving\, Sarah\, J. Hale\, the editor of Goey’s Lady’s Book\, promoted a National Day of Thanksgiving.  Thirty years later in 1863\, it became a federal holiday under the presidency of Abraham Lincoln—ironically\, during the Civil War. Flash forward to the late nineteenth century. Boston was now a thriving nexus of ethnic\, religious\, and racially diverse residents who adopted the holiday and brought different foods and traditions from their cultures to the holiday table and celebration\, broadening the meaning of Thanksgiving. In Thanksgiving Traditions in Boston\, best-selling author and noted historian Anthony Sammarco reminds us of these past and present traditions associated with the festive day. \nPURCHASE THIS BOOK ONLINE FROM EIGHT COUSINS BOOKSTORE \n  \nREGISTER THROUGH EVENTBRITE\nFREE AND OPEN TO ALL \n  \nMANY THANKS TO OUR SPONSORS
URL:https://museumsonthegreen.org/event/free-virtual-talk-thanksgiving-traditions-in-boston-with-anthony-sammarco/
LOCATION:MA\, United States
CATEGORIES:2021 Programs,2021 Talk Series
ORGANIZER;CN="Museums on the Green":MAILTO:info@museumsonthegreen.org
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211120T110000
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SUMMARY:On-Campus Presentation: "The First Thanksgiving-1621" with Artist Karen Rinaldo
DESCRIPTION:LIMITED OPPORTUNITY\n“The First Thanksgiving-1621”\nPresentation with Falmouth Artist Karen Rinaldo \nSaturdays at 10 am: October 16\, 23\, 30 and November 6\, 20\nSaturdays at 11 am: November 6 & 20\nThe Wicks House Gallery\nAdults $15  | Pre-Registration is Required \nTo register\, email info@museumsonthegreen.org \n  \n“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. \nMs. Rinaldo will be in the gallery five Saturdays in October and November to talk about the painting—from its commission\, to its first brush stroke\, to its impressive exhibition history. Visitors can also watch a short video of the creative process. \nThe painting\, which is currently on loan to the Museums on the Green to commemorate the 400th anniversary of the Pilgrim’s landing in the New World\, is the first historically accurate painting of the famous gathering. \nPre-registration is required. Social distancing and safety protocols will be in effect. Masks are required. Include a stop in the gift shop during your visit. Great selection. Great Stocking Stuffers. Many fun things for kids. \nTo get tickets: \n \n\n\n \n\n\n\n21: November 20 session\n\n\nOne Person $15.00 USDTwo People $30.00 USDThree People $45.00 USDFour People $60.00 USDFive People $75.00 USDSix People $90.00 USD\n\n\nName and Date of Attendees\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n \n \n\n\nABOUT THE PAINTING\nThe National Association of Christian Congregational Churches commissioned “The First Thanksgiving-1621” as “a Gift to the Nation.” The painting depicts the Mayflower survivors and the Wampanoags who joined them in a communal recognition of their friendship. \nMs. Rinaldo researched historical records and first-person accounts of the Pilgrims who were present. Except for the 91 braves who are unnamed in the historical account\, every figure portrayed is identified by name in an addendum provided for authentication. The painting includes Governor William Bradford\, Wampanoag leader Massasoit\, the English-speaking Squanto\, Priscilla Mullins (later Alden) holding Oceanus Hopkins\, and Peregrine White\, the first English child born in America. The scene depicts the mutual respect between the Native Americans and the recent arrivals at the time of the first Thanksgiving. \nThe painting was displayed at Pilgrim Hall Museum and Plimoth Plantation from 1995-2017.  It has appeared in numerous textbooks nationally and internationally.  It is currently on loan to the Museums on the Green to commemorate the 400th anniversary of the Pilgrim’s landing in the New World. \n  \n  \nMANY THANKS TO OUR SPONSORS
URL:https://museumsonthegreen.org/event/on-campus-presentation-the-first-thanksgiving-1621-with-artist-karen-rinaldo-2/
LOCATION:Dr. Francis Wicks House\, 55-65 Palmer Avenue\, Falmouth\, MA\, 02540
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211120T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211120T120000
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LAST-MODIFIED:20211015T140305Z
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SUMMARY:On-Campus Presentation: "The First Thanksgiving-1621" with Artist Karen Rinaldo
DESCRIPTION:LIMITED OPPORTUNITY\n“The First Thanksgiving-1621”\nPresentation with Falmouth Artist Karen Rinaldo \nSaturdays at 10 am: October 16\, 23\, 30 and November 6\, 20\nSaturdays at 11 am: November 6 & 20\nThe Wicks House Gallery\nAdults $15  | Pre-Registration is Required \nTo register\, email info@museumsonthegreen.org \n  \n“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. \nMs. Rinaldo will be in the gallery five Saturdays in October and November to talk about the painting—from its commission\, to its first brush stroke\, to its impressive exhibition history. Visitors can also watch a short video of the creative process. \nThe painting\, which is currently on loan to the Museums on the Green to commemorate the 400th anniversary of the Pilgrim’s landing in the New World\, is the first historically accurate painting of the famous gathering. \nPre-registration is required. Social distancing and safety protocols will be in effect. Masks are required. Include a stop in the gift shop during your visit. Great selection. Great Stocking Stuffers. Many fun things for kids. \nTo get tickets:  \n \n\n\n \n\n\n\n21: November 20 session\n\n\nOne Person $15.00 USDTwo People $30.00 USDThree People $45.00 USDFour People $60.00 USDFive People $75.00 USDSix People $90.00 USD\n\n\nName and Date of Attendees\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n \n \n\n  \n\nABOUT THE PAINTING\nThe National Association of Christian Congregational Churches commissioned “The First Thanksgiving-1621” as “a Gift to the Nation.” The painting depicts the Mayflower survivors and the Wampanoags who joined them in a communal recognition of their friendship. \nMs. Rinaldo researched historical records and first-person accounts of the Pilgrims who were present. Except for the 91 braves who are unnamed in the historical account\, every figure portrayed is identified by name in an addendum provided for authentication. The painting includes Governor William Bradford\, Wampanoag leader Massasoit\, the English-speaking Squanto\, Priscilla Mullins (later Alden) holding Oceanus Hopkins\, and Peregrine White\, the first English child born in America. The scene depicts the mutual respect between the Native Americans and the recent arrivals at the time of the first Thanksgiving. \nThe painting was displayed at Pilgrim Hall Museum and Plimoth Plantation from 1995-2017.  It has appeared in numerous textbooks nationally and internationally.  It is currently on loan to the Museums on the Green to commemorate the 400th anniversary of the Pilgrim’s landing in the New World. \n  \n  \nMANY THANKS TO OUR SPONSORS
URL:https://museumsonthegreen.org/event/on-campus-presentation-the-first-thanksgiing-1621-with-artist-karen-rinaldo-2/
LOCATION:Dr. Francis Wicks House\, 55-65 Palmer Avenue\, Falmouth\, MA\, 02540
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211129T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211129T170000
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SUMMARY:FREE HYBRID EVENT: "Travels with George: In Search of Washington and His Legacy" with Nathaniel Philbrick
DESCRIPTION:Two Ways To Attend\nATTEND IN PERSON\nFirst Congregational Church\n68 Main Street\, Falmouth\nREGISTER THROUGH EVENTBRITE\nThe Church Sanctuary can accommodate 350 attendees.  We will also set up an additional 125 chairs in the Fellowship Hall for additional attendees to view the livestream broadcast on a large screen.  Face masks are required. Copies of the book will be available for purchase and personalization. \nLIVESTREAM THE TALK FROM HOME\nGo to www.firstcongfalmouth.live\, then click on the “Livestream Service” link. The broadcast will begin around 3:55 pm\, five minutes before the scheduled 4 pm start of the event. \n\nAbout the Book\nTRAVELS WITH GEORGE\nIn Search of Washington and His Legacy\nWhen George Washington became president in 1789\, the United States of America was still a loose and quarrelsome confederation and a tentative political experiment. Washington undertook a tour of the ex-colonies to talk to ordinary citizens about his new government\, and to imbue in them the idea of being one thing–Americans. \nIn the fall of 2018\, Nathaniel Philbrick embarked on his own journey into what Washington called “the infant woody country” to see for himself what America had become in the 229 years since. Writing in a thoughtful first person about his own adventures with his wife Melissa and their dog Dora\, Philbrick follows Washington’s presidential excursions: from Mount Vernon to the new capital in New York; a month-long tour of Connecticut\, Massachusetts\, New Hampshire\, and Rhode Island; a venture onto Long Island and eventually across Georgia\, South Carolina\, and North Carolina. The narrative moves smoothly between the eighteenth and twenty-first centuries as we see the country through both Washington’s and Philbrick’s eyes. \nTravels with George grapples bluntly and honestly with Washington’s legacy as a man of the people\, a reluctant president\, and a plantation owner who held people in slavery. At historic houses and landmarks\, Philbrick reports on the reinterpretations at work as he meets reenactors\, tour guides\, and other keepers of history’s flame. He paints a picture of eighteenth century America as divided and fraught as it is today\, and he comes to understand how Washington compelled\, enticed\, stood up to\, and listened to the many different people he met along the way–and how his all-consuming belief in the Union helped to forge a nation. \n\nPURCHASE THIS BOOK ONLINE FROM EIGHT COUSINS BOOKSTORE \n\nMANY THANKS TO OUR SPONSORS
URL:https://museumsonthegreen.org/event/free-hybrid-event-travels-with-george-in-search-of-washington-and-his-legacy-with-nathaniel-philbrick/
LOCATION:First Congregational Church\, 68 Main Street\, Falmouth\, MA\, United States
CATEGORIES:2021 Programs,2021 Talk Series
ORGANIZER;CN="Museums on the Green":MAILTO:info@museumsonthegreen.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211130T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211130T200000
DTSTAMP:20260403T170328
CREATED:20211008T180806Z
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SUMMARY:FREE VIRTUAL TALK: "On Corruption in America" with Sarah Chayes
DESCRIPTION:ON CORRUPTION IN AMERICA\nAnd What Is At Stake\nAuthor Sarah Chayes thinks the United States resembles some of the most corrupt countries in the world. She says that corruption is an operating system of sophisticated networks in which government officials\, key private-sector interests\, and out-and-out criminals interweave. Their main objective: not to serve the public but to maximize returns for network members. \nCorruption isn’t new.  It’s thrived within our borders for a very long time: from the titans of America’s Gilded Age (Andrew Carnegie\, John D. Rockefeller\, and J.P. Morgan) to the collapse of the stock market in 1929. There’s proof everywhere: The Great Depression; FDR’s New Deal; Joe Kennedy’s years of banking\, bootlegging\, machine politics\, and pursuit of infinite wealth; and the deregulation of the Reagan Revolution. More recently\, she points to Clinton’s policies of political favors and personal enrichment and Trump’s hydra-headed network of corruption which aimed to systematically undo the Constitution and our laws. \nIn this unflinching exploration of corruption in America\, Chayes reveals how corrupt systems are organized\, how they enable bad actors to bend the rules so their crimes are covered legally\, how they overtly determine the shape of our government\, and how they affect all levels of society\, especially when the corruption is overlooked and downplayed by the rich and well-educated.  She also reveals what is at stake if we don’t stop it. \nPURCHASE THIS BOOK ONLINE FROM EIGHT COUSINS BOOKSTORE \n\nREGISTER THROUGH EVENTBRITE\nFREE AND OPEN TO ALL \n  \nMANY THANKS TO OUR SPONSORS
URL:https://museumsonthegreen.org/event/free-virtual-talk-on-corruption-in-america-with-sarah-chayes/
LOCATION:Cultural Center\, 55 Palmer Avenue\, Falmouth\, MA\, United States
CATEGORIES:2021 Programs,2021 Talk Series
ORGANIZER;CN="Museums on the Green":MAILTO:info@museumsonthegreen.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211207T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211207T130000
DTSTAMP:20260403T170328
CREATED:20211016T184225Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211016T185354Z
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL TALK: "The Howe Dynasty" with Julie Flavell
DESCRIPTION:THE HOWE DYNASTY\nThe Untold Story of a Military Family and the Women Behind Britain’s Wars for America\nIn December 1774\, Benjamin Franklin met Caroline Howe in a London drawing room for “half a dozen Games of Chess.” These meetings weren’t about board games. That was the cover story. Caroline’s brothers—British General Sir William Howe and Richard Admiral Lord Howe—were there. They were all part of a last-ditch attempt to forestall the outbreak of the American War of Independence. \nThe distinguished Howe family has been known for two things.  The military exploits of the men is one of them. In 1775\, Richard\, commanding the HMS Dunkirk\, fired the first shot signaling the beginning of the Seven Years’ War at sea; just three years later\, George won the devotion of the American fighters he commanded at Fort Ticonderoga; and youngest brother General William Howe\, his sympathies torn\, commanded his troops to a bitter Pyrrhic victory in the Battle of Bunker Hill\, only to be vilified for his failure as British commander-in-chief to subdue Washington’s Continental Army. \nThe family has also been known for its impenetrable and intensely private nature. Horace Walpole called them\, “brave and silent.” But author Julie Flavell found another way in to this dynasty: through the women.  Scrope Lord Howe didn’t shape his sons’ careers. The boys’ savvy aunt\, Mary Herbert Countess Pembroke\, gets the credit for maneuvering them to success. And\, when eldest sister Caroline came of age during the reign of King George III\, she also used her intimacy with the royal inner circle to promote her brothers\, moving smoothly between a straitlaced court and an increasingly scandalous London high life. \nPowerful men; powerful women. The Howe Dynasty provides a groundbreaking reinterpretation of one of England’s most famous military families across four wars. \n\nPURCHASE THIS BOOK ONLINE FROM EIGHT COUSINS BOOKSTORE \n\nREGISTER THROUGH EVENTBRITE\nNON-MEMBER $10/MEMBERS $5 \n  \nMANY THANKS TO OUR SPONSORS
URL:https://museumsonthegreen.org/event/virtual-talk-the-howe-dynasty-with-julie-flavell/
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:2021 Programs,2021 Talk Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211207T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211207T200000
DTSTAMP:20260403T170328
CREATED:20211023T172907Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211102T175706Z
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL TALK: "The Quiet Zone" with Stephen Kurczy
DESCRIPTION:THE QUIET ZONE\nUnraveling the Mystery of a Town Suspended in Silence\nThe last truly quiet town in America lies deep in the Appalachian Mountains: Green Bank\, West Virginia. While astronomers at the Green Bank Observatory use the latest technology to search the depths of the universe\, residents live device-free.  No WiFi. No iPads.  There is a ban on anything emanating radio frequencies that might interfere with the Observatory’s telescope.  When journalist Stephen Kurczy moved in\, he shopped at the town’s general store\, attended church services\, went target shooting with a seven-year-old\, square-danced with the locals\, and sampled their moonshine. But he soon discovered the Quiet Zone isn’t as idyllic as it seemed. Among the ordinary citizens seeking a simpler way of life\, there’s a tech buster patrolling the area for illegal radio waves; “electrosensitives” who claim that WiFi is deadly; a sheriff’s department with a string of unsolved murder cases dating back decades; and a camp of neo-Nazis plotting their resurgence from a nearby mountain hollow.  Contradictions led to questions: Is a less connected life desirable?  Is it even possible? Can the seemingly supernatural and quiet serve as a cover for something darker? \n\nPURCHASE THIS BOOK ONLINE FROM EIGHT COUSINS BOOKSTORE \n\nREGISTER THROUGH EVENTBRITE\nNON-MEMBER $10/MEMBERS $5 \n  \nMANY THANKS TO OUR SPONSORS
URL:https://museumsonthegreen.org/event/virtual-talk-the-quiet-zone-with-stephen-kurczy/
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:2021 Programs,2021 Talk Series
ORGANIZER;CN="Museums on the Green":MAILTO:info@museumsonthegreen.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211209T190000
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CREATED:20211025T153456Z
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UID:5611-1639076400-1639080000@museumsonthegreen.org
SUMMARY:IN-PERSON-ONLY EVENT: "I Keep Trying to Catch His Eye" with Ivan Maisel
DESCRIPTION:In-Person-Only Event\nJoin Us in The Cultural Center for This Talk! \nI KEEP TRYING TO CATCH HIS EYE\nA Memoir of Loss\, Grief\, and Love\nLongtime ESPN writer Ivan Maisel never thought he’d write a story like this.  In February 2015\, he received a call that would change his life forever: his son’s car had been found abandoned in a parking lot next to Lake Ontario. Two months later\, Max’s body was found in the lake. There wasn’t a note.  There wasn’t any obvious indication that Max wanted to harm himself. He’d signed up for a year-long subscription to a dating service; he’d spent the day he disappeared doing photography work for school. This uncertainty became part of Ivan’s grief. With grace\, depth\, and refinement\, Ivan explores the tragically transformative reality of losing a child. He also explores their relationship\, its complications\, and their struggle—as is the case for so many parents and their children—to connect.  In the process\, he began to see grief as love. \nPURCHASE THIS BOOK ONLINE FROM EIGHT COUSINS BOOKSTORE \n\nREGISTER THROUGH EVENTBRITE\nFREE AND OPEN TO ALL \n  \nMANY THANKS TO OUR SPONSORS
URL:https://museumsonthegreen.org/event/free-virtual-talk-i-keep-trying-to-catch-his-eye-with-ivan-maisel/
LOCATION:Cultural Center\, 55 Palmer Avenue\, Falmouth\, MA\, United States
CATEGORIES:2021 Programs,2021 Talk Series
ORGANIZER;CN="Museums on the Green":MAILTO:info@museumsonthegreen.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211213T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211213T200000
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CREATED:20211023T180354Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211105T205559Z
UID:5602-1639422000-1639425600@museumsonthegreen.org
SUMMARY:VIRTUAL TALK: "The Case of the Murderous Dr. Cream" with Dean Jobb
DESCRIPTION:THE CASE OF THE MURDEROUS DR. CREAM\nThe Hunt for a Victorian Era Serial Killer\nHis weapon of choice was poison. His victims were mostly women. In the span of 15 years\, he murdered as many as ten people in the United States\, Britain\, and Canada\, a death toll with almost no precedent in the late nineteen century. He was as brazen as Jack the Ripper. In fact\, many people claimed he was the notorious serial killer. In truth\, he was Thomas Neill Cream.  Dr. Thomas Neill Cream.  During one of his most baffling investigations\, Sherlock Homes observed\, “When a doctor does go wrong\, he is the first of criminals. He has nerve\, and he has knowledge.”  When Dr. Cream was finally brought to justice in 1892\, the murder trial exposed how he preyed on vulnerable and desperate women\, many of whom had turned to him for medical help. It also exposed the flawed detection methods\, bungled investigations\, corrupt officials\, and stifling morality of Victorian society that allowed Dr. Cream to remain undetected for so long. \n  \nPURCHASE THIS BOOK ONLINE FROM EIGHT COUSINS BOOKSTORE \n\nREGISTER THROUGH EVENTBRITE\nNON-MEMBER $10/MEMBERS $5 \n  \nMANY THANKS TO OUR SPONSORS
URL:https://museumsonthegreen.org/event/virtual-talk-the-case-of-the-murderous-dr-cream-with-dean-jobb/
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:2021 Programs,2021 Talk Series
ORGANIZER;CN="Museums on the Green":MAILTO:info@museumsonthegreen.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220106T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220106T200000
DTSTAMP:20260403T170328
CREATED:20211208T210006Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211208T232304Z
UID:5803-1641495600-1641499200@museumsonthegreen.org
SUMMARY:Free In-Person Event: "Martha's Vineyard in the American Revolution" with Thomas Dresser
DESCRIPTION:IN-PERSON ONLY EVENT!\nMARTHA’S VINEYARD IN THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION\nWar was imminent. Revolution. Martha’s Vineyard\, an isolated island outpost\, was right there as the action unfolded. At first\, residents feared severing ties with the mother country because events from Boston to London impacted the Island community. Yet\, British patrols along Vineyard Sound and incursions on the Elizabeth Islands threatened the tranquility of Island life. Well\, Vineyarders were a cagey lot. They sought safety first\, then independence. Although the majority tended toward independence\, because of the middle ground they chose\, Loyalists and Patriots both considered them neutral—at first. Follow this story as it unfolds—from pre-war debates over the Stamp Act in the 1760s and the desperate activities of the late 1770s to the real back-story of the Liberty Pole ladies and General Grey’s Raid. Join local author Tom Dresser as he reveals the British attack on the island and the unheralded heroes who protected their homeland in the War for Independence. \nPURCHASE THIS BOOK ONLINE FROM EIGHT COUSINS BOOKSTORE \n\nREGISTER THROUGH EVENTBRITE\nFREE AND OPEN TO ALL \n  \nMANY THANKS TO OUR SPONSORS
URL:https://museumsonthegreen.org/event/free-in-person-event-marthas-vineyard-in-the-american-revolution-with-thomas-dresser/
LOCATION:Cultural Center\, 55 Palmer Avenue\, Falmouth\, MA\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220112T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220112T200000
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CREATED:20211102T160134Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211105T211451Z
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL TALK: "America and Iran: A History" with John Ghazvinian
DESCRIPTION:AMERICA AND IRAN\nA History: 1720 to the Present\nThis complex story begins in the eighteenth century. America’s Founding Fathers Thomas Jefferson and John Quincy Adams had great respect for the Persian Empire. In turn\, Iranians saw America as an ideal to emulate for their own government.  So\, how did two countries that once had such heartfelt admiration for each other became such committed enemies?  Enter John Ghazvinian.  Drawing on years of archival research\, including access to Iranian government archives rarely available to Western scholars\, the Iranian-born\, Oxford-educated historian leads us through the four seasons of U.S.-Iran relations: the “spring” of mutual fascination; the “summer” of early interactions; the “autumn” of close strategic ties; and the long\, dark “winter” of mutual hatred. He makes it very clear where\, how\, and when it all went wrong. He also shows us how it didn’t have to turn out this way. \n  \nPURCHASE THIS BOOK ONLINE FROM EIGHT COUSINS BOOKSTORE \n\nREGISTER THROUGH EVENTBRITE\nNON-MEMBER $10/MEMBERS $5 \n  \nMANY THANKS TO OUR SPONSORS
URL:https://museumsonthegreen.org/event/virtual-talk-america-and-iran-a-history-with-john-ghazvinian/
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:2021 Programs,2021 Talk Series
ORGANIZER;CN="Museums on the Green":MAILTO:info@museumsonthegreen.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220118T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220118T200000
DTSTAMP:20260403T170328
CREATED:20210801T154036Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211102T160556Z
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL TALK: "The Surprising Stephen A. Douglas" with Reg Ankrom
DESCRIPTION:STEPHEN A. DOUGLAS\, WESTERN MAN\nThe Early Years in Congress\, 1844-1850\nThey called him the Little Giant.  But Illinois’ Stephen A. Douglas packed a lot of power and persuasion into his five-foot-four-inch frame. He was a U.S. senator\, leader of the Democratic Party\, and one of two Democratic Party nominees for president in the 1860 election. The debates he held with Abraham Lincoln are some of the most famous in American history.  Well\, we all know how that election turned out.  But Douglas never belonged where the history books put him: in Lincoln’s shadow. Douglas was among the very men and women who influenced Lincoln. And\, in the second of his three-volume biography about Douglas\, Reg Ankrom reveals several surprises he learned through his research  that  elevate Douglas’s importance as the 19th century politician who built the western half of a republic Lincoln fought a Civil War to keep. \nPURCHASE THIS BOOK ONLINE FROM EIGHT COUSINS BOOKSTORE \n\nREGISTER THROUGH EVENTBRITE\nNON-MEMBER $10/MEMBERS $5 \n  \nMANY THANKS TO OUR SPONSORS \n \n 
URL:https://museumsonthegreen.org/event/virtual-talk-the-surprising-stephen-a-douglas-with-reg-ankrom/
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:2021 Programs,2021 Talk Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220120T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220120T130000
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL TALK: "An Atlas of Extinct Countries" with Gideon Defoe
DESCRIPTION:AN ATLAS OF EXTINCT COUNTRIES\nGet ready for this irreverent look at the history of defunct nations and the larger-than-life personalities behind them…from one of the funniest writer’s around.  Here’s a sample: \nCountries die. Sometimes it’s murder\, sometimes it’s by accident\, and sometimes it’s because they were so ludicrous\, they didn’t deserve to exist in the first place. Occasionally they explode violently. A few slip away almost unnoticed. Often the cause of death is either “got too greedy” or “Napoleon turned up.” Now and then they just hold a referendum and vote themselves out of existence. \nThis is an atlas of 48 nations that fell off the map. The polite way of writing an obituary is: dwell on the good bits\, gloss over the embarrassing stuff. This book refuses to do so\, because these dead nations are so full of schemers\, racists\, and con men that it’s impossible to skip the embarrassing stuff. \nBecause of this – and because treating nation-states with too much reverence is the entire problem with pretty much everything – these accounts are not concerned with adding to the earnest flag saluting in the world\, however nice some of the flags might be. \n\nPURCHASE THIS BOOK ONLINE FROM EIGHT COUSINS BOOKSTORE \n\nREGISTER THROUGH EVENTBRITE\nNON-MEMBER $10/MEMBERS $5 \n\nMANY THANKS TO OUR SPONSORS
URL:https://museumsonthegreen.org/event/virtual-talk-an-atlas-of-extinct-countries-with-gideon-defoe/
LOCATION:Cultural Center\, 55 Palmer Avenue\, Falmouth\, MA\, United States
CATEGORIES:2022 Programs,2022 Talk Series
ORGANIZER;CN="Museums on the Green":MAILTO:info@museumsonthegreen.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220126T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220126T130000
DTSTAMP:20260403T170328
CREATED:20211102T162115Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220124T205727Z
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SUMMARY:CANCELLED-VIRTUAL TALK: "All the Frequent Trouble of Our Days" with Rebecca Donner
DESCRIPTION:ALL THE FREQUENT TROUBLES OF OUR DAYS\nThe True Story of The American Woman at the Heart of the German Resistance to Hitler\nIn 1932\, Mildred Harnack began holding secret meetings in her apartment.  Together\, this small band of political activists wrote leaflets that denounced Hitler and called for revolution. Under the cover of night\, they slipped the leaflets into mailboxes\, public restrooms\, and phone booths around Berlin. Mildred also began helping  Jews escape\, plotting acts of sabotage\, and recruiting more and more working class Germans to the cause.  By 1940\, hers was the largest underground resistance group in Berlin. When the first shots of the Second World War were fired\, Mildred became a spy\, couriering top-secret intelligence to the Allies. But\, on the eve of her escape to Sweden\, the Gestapo ambushed her. At a Nazi military court\, a panel of five judges sentenced her to six years at a prison camp\, but Hitler overruled the decision and ordered her execution. On February 16\, 1943\, she was strapped to a guillotine and beheaded.  Mildred Harnack was born and raised in Milwaukee.  At twenty-six\, she was enrolled in a PhD program in Germany and witnessed the meteoric rise of the Nazi party firsthand. Historians identify her as the only American in the leadership of the German resistance\, yet her remarkable story has remained almost unknown—until now.  Harnack’s great-great-niece Rebecca Donner draws on extensive archival research across four countries and brilliantly interweaves letters\, diary entries\, notes smuggled out of a Berlin prison\, survivors’ testimony\, and a trove of declassified intelligence documents into a powerful\, epic story of this courageous woman. \nPURCHASE THIS BOOK ONLINE FROM EIGHT COUSINS BOOKSTORE \n\nREGISTER THROUGH EVENTBRITE\nNON-MEMBER $10/MEMBERS $5 \n  \nMANY THANKS TO OUR SPONSORS
URL:https://museumsonthegreen.org/event/virtual-talk-all-the-frequent-trouble-of-our-days-with-rebecca-donner/
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:2022 Programs,2022 Talk Series
ORGANIZER;CN="Museums on the Green":MAILTO:info@museumsonthegreen.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220127T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220127T200000
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL TALK: "The Confidence Men" with Margalit Fox
DESCRIPTION:THE CONFIDENCE MEN\nHow Two Prisoners of War Engineered The Most Remarkable Escape in History\nA lawyer.  A mechanic. A Ouija board.  One of the greatest cons ever.  But Harry Jones and Cedric Hill weren’t your typical Confidence Men. They were British officers imprisoned in a remote Turkish POW camp during World War I.  Had it not been for “the Great War\,” they would never have met. Jones was the Oxford-educated son of a British lord and trained as a lawyer. Hill was a mechanic on an Australian sheep ranch and a brilliant magician. The two men had already survived a two-month forced march and a terrifying shootout in the desert. To stave off despair and boredom\, Jones took a handmade Ouija board and started faking elaborate séances for his fellow prisoners. Well\, word got around. One day an Ottoman official approached Jones with a query: Could he contact the spirit world to find a vast treasure rumored to be buried nearby? Why\, certainly! The prisoners used the Ouija board—and their keen understanding of the psychology of deception—to build a trap for their iron-fisted captors that ultimately led them to freedom.  Find out how. \n“Fox unspools Jones and Hill’s delightfully elaborate scheme in nail-biting episodes that advance like a narrative Rube Goldberg machine.”—The New York Times Book Review \n  \nPURCHASE THIS BOOK ONLINE FROM EIGHT COUSINS BOOKSTORE \n\nREGISTER THROUGH EVENTBRITE\nNON-MEMBER $10/MEMBERS $5 \n  \nMANY THANKS TO OUR SPONSORS
URL:https://museumsonthegreen.org/event/virtual-talk-the-confidence-men-with-margalit-fox/
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:2022 Programs,2022 Talk Series
ORGANIZER;CN="Museums on the Green":MAILTO:info@museumsonthegreen.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220201T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220201T130000
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LAST-MODIFIED:20220125T194813Z
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL TALK: "The Nine" with Gwen Strauss
DESCRIPTION:The Nine follows the true story of the author’s great aunt Hélène Podliasky\, who led a band of nine female resistance fighters as they escaped a German forced labor camp and made a ten-day journey across the front lines of WWII from Germany back to Paris. \nThe nine women were all under thirty when they joined the resistance. They smuggled arms through Europe\, harbored parachuting agents\, coordinated communications between regional sectors\, trekked escape routes to Spain and hid Jewish children in scattered apartments. They were arrested by French police\, interrogated and tortured by the Gestapo. They were subjected to a series of French prisons and deported to Germany. The group formed along the way\, meeting at different points\, in prison\, in transit\, and at Ravensbrück. By the time they were enslaved at the labor camp in Leipzig\, they were a close-knit group of friends. During the final days of the war\, forced onto a death march\, the nine chose their moment and made a daring escape. \nCLICK HERE TO REGISTER
URL:https://museumsonthegreen.org/event/virtual-talk-the-nine-with-gwen-strauss/
LOCATION:Cultural Center\, 55 Palmer Avenue\, Falmouth\, MA\, United States
CATEGORIES:2022 Programs,2022 Talk Series
ORGANIZER;CN="Museums on the Green":MAILTO:info@museumsonthegreen.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220203T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220203T200000
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL TALK: "Stampede" with Brian Castner
DESCRIPTION:In 1897\, the United States was mired in the worst economic depression that the country had yet endured. So when all the newspapers announced gold was to be found in wildly enriching quantities at the Klondike River region of the Yukon\, a mob of economically desperate Americans swarmed north. Within weeks tens of thousands of them were embarking from western ports to throw themselves at some of the harshest terrain on the planet–in winter yet–woefully unprepared\, with no experience at all in mining or mountaineering. It was a mass delusion that quickly proved deadly: avalanches\, shipwrecks\, starvation\, murder. \nUpon this stage\, author Brian Castner tells a relentlessly driving story of the gold rush through the individual experiences of the iconic characters who endured it. A young Jack London\, who would make his fortune but not in gold. Colonel Samuel Steele\, who tried to save the stampeders from themselves. The notorious gangster Soapy Smith\, goodtime girls and desperate miners\, Skookum Jim\, and the hotel entrepreneur Belinda Mulrooney. The unvarnished tale of this mass migration is always striking\, revealing the amazing truth of what people will do for a chance to be rich. \nCLICK HERE TO REGISTER
URL:https://museumsonthegreen.org/event/virtual-talk-stampede-with-brian-castner/
LOCATION:Cultural Center\, 55 Palmer Avenue\, Falmouth\, MA\, United States
CATEGORIES:2022 Programs,2022 Talk Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220209T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220209T200000
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL TALK: "A Shot in the Moonlight" with Ben Montgomery
DESCRIPTION:After moonrise on the cold night of January 21\, 1897\, a mob of twenty-five white men gathered in a patch of woods near Big Road in southwestern Simpson County\, Kentucky. Half carried rifles and shotguns\, and a few tucked pistols in their pants. Their target was George Dinning\, a freed slave who’d farmed peacefully in the area for 14 years\, and who had been wrongfully accused of stealing livestock from a neighboring farm. When the mob began firing through the doors and windows of Dinning’s home\, he fired back in self-defense\, shooting and killing the son of a wealthy Kentucky family. \nSo began one of the strangest legal episodes in American history — one that ended with Dinning becoming the first Black man in America to win damages after a wrongful murder conviction. \nDrawing on a wealth of never-before-published material\, bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize finalist Ben Montgomery resurrects this dramatic but largely forgotten story\, and the unusual convergence of characters — among them a Confederate war hero-turned-lawyer named Bennett H. Young\, Kentucky governor William O’Connell Bradley\, and George Dinning himself — that allowed this unlikely story of justice to unfold in a time and place where justice was all too rare. \n  \nCLICK HERE TO REGISTER
URL:https://museumsonthegreen.org/event/virtual-talk-a-shot-in-the-moonlight-with-ben-montgomery/
LOCATION:Cultural Center\, 55 Palmer Avenue\, Falmouth\, MA\, United States
CATEGORIES:2022 Programs,2022 Talk Series
ORGANIZER;CN="Museums on the Green":MAILTO:info@museumsonthegreen.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220210T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220210T200000
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL TALK: "Dress Codes" with Richard Thompson Ford
DESCRIPTION:Dress codes are as old as clothing itself. For centuries\, clothing has been a wearable status symbol; fashion\, a weapon in struggles for social change; and dress codes\, a way to maintain political control. Merchants dressing like princes and butchers’ wives wearing gem-encrusted crowns were public enemies in medieval societies structured by social hierarchy and defined by spectacle. In Tudor England\, silk\, velvet\, and fur were reserved for the nobility\, and ballooning pants called “trunk hose” could be considered a menace to good order. The Renaissance-era Florentine patriarch Cosimo de Medici captured the power of fashion and dress codes when he remarked\, “One can make a gentleman from two yards of red cloth.” Dress codes evolved along with the social and political ideals of the day\, but they always reflected struggles for power and status. In the 1700s\, South Carolina’s “Negro Act” made it illegal for Black people to dress “above their condition.” In the 1920s\, the bobbed hair and form-fitting dresses worn by free-spirited flappers were banned in workplaces throughout the United States\, and in the 1940s\, the baggy zoot suits favored by Black and Latino men caused riots in cities from coast to coast. \nEven in today’s more informal world\, dress codes still determine what we wear\, when we wear it—and what our clothing means. People lose their jobs for wearing braided hair\, long fingernails\, large earrings\, beards\, and tattoos or refusing to wear a suit and tie or make-up and high heels. In some cities\, wearing sagging pants is a crime. And even when there are no written rules\, implicit dress codes still influence opportunities and social mobility. Silicon Valley CEOs wear t-shirts and flip-flops\, setting the tone for an entire industry: women wearing fashionable dresses or high heels face ridicule in the tech world\, and some venture capitalists refuse to invest in any company run by someone wearing a suit. \nIn Dress Codes\, law professor and cultural critic Richard Thompson Ford presents a “deeply informative and entertaining” (The New York Times Book Review) history of the laws of fashion from the middle ages to the present day\, a walk down history’s red carpet to uncover and examine the canons\, mores\, and customs of clothing—rules that we often take for granted. \n  \nCLICK HERE TO REGISTER \n 
URL:https://museumsonthegreen.org/event/virtual-talk-dress-codes-with-richard-thompson-ford/
LOCATION:Cultural Center\, 55 Palmer Avenue\, Falmouth\, MA\, United States
CATEGORIES:2022 Programs,2022 Talk Series
ORGANIZER;CN="Museums on the Green":MAILTO:info@museumsonthegreen.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220215T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220215T200000
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL TALK: "Veritas" with Ariel Sabar
DESCRIPTION:In 2012\, Dr. Karen King\, a star religion professor at Harvard\, announced a breathtaking discovery just steps from the Vatican: she’d found an ancient scrap of papyrus in which Jesus calls Mary Magdalene “my wife.” The mysterious manuscript\, which King provocatively titled “The Gospel of Jesus’s Wife\,” had the power to topple the Roman Catholic Church. It threatened not just the all-male priesthood\, but centuries of sacred teachings on marriage\, sex\, and women’s leadership\, much of it premised on the hallowed tradition of a celibate Jesus. \nAward-winning journalist Ariel Sabar covered King’s announcement in Rome but left with a question that no one seemed able to answer: Where in the world did this history-making papyrus come from? Sabar’s dogged sleuthing led from the halls of Harvard Divinity School to the former headquarters of the East German Stasi before landing on the trail of a Florida man with an unbelievable past. Could a motorcycle-riding pornographer with a fake Egyptology degree and a prophetess wife have set in motion one of the greatest hoaxes of the century? A propulsive tale laced with twists and trapdoors\, Veritas is an exhilarating\, globe-straddling detective story about an Ivy League historian and a college dropout–and how they worked together to pass off an audacious forgery as a long-lost piece of the Bible. \nCLICK HERE TO REGISTER
URL:https://museumsonthegreen.org/event/virtual-talk-veritas-with-ariel-sabar/
LOCATION:Cultural Center\, 55 Palmer Avenue\, Falmouth\, MA\, United States
CATEGORIES:2022 Programs,2022 Talk Series
ORGANIZER;CN="Museums on the Green":MAILTO:info@museumsonthegreen.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220303T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220303T200000
DTSTAMP:20260403T170328
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LAST-MODIFIED:20220301T180742Z
UID:5658-1646334000-1646337600@museumsonthegreen.org
SUMMARY:CANCELLED!!!IN PERSON TALK: "A History of America in Ten Strikes" with Erik Loomis
DESCRIPTION:A History of America in Ten Strikes―published in the wake of the teachers’ strike that swept the country in 2018―challenges all of our contemporary assumptions around labor\, unions\, and American workers. Labor historian Erik Loomis recounts ten critical workers’ strikes in American labor history in “chapters [that] are self-contained enough to be used on their own in union trainings or reading groups” (Labor Notes)\, and adds an appendix detailing the 150 most important strikes in American history. These labor uprisings do not just reflect the times in which they occurred\, but speak directly to the present moment\, where American workers are still fighting for basic rights like a livable minimum wage. \nFrom the Lowell Mill Girls strike in the 1830s to Justice for Janitors in 1990\, “what Loomis’s book perhaps does best is remind us that the promise of the labor movement\, despite its many failures and compromises\, has always been to make everyday life more democratic” (The New Republic). \nAs a new generation of workers flexes their muscles with renewed strike campaigns on behalf of teachers\, autoworkers\, and nurses\, we have much to learn from both the victories and defeats of the past\, from the boots up. \nCLICK HERE TO REGISTER
URL:https://museumsonthegreen.org/event/virtual-talk-a-history-of-america-in-ten-strikes-with-erik-loomis/
LOCATION:Cultural Center\, 55 Palmer Avenue\, Falmouth\, MA\, United States
CATEGORIES:2022 Programs,2022 Talk Series
ORGANIZER;CN="Museums on the Green":MAILTO:info@museumsonthegreen.org
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SUMMARY:In Person Talk: "Nobska" with Ben Carnavale
DESCRIPTION:Locals and tourists alike pass Nobska Lighthouse in Woods Hole on Cape Cod\, Massachusetts\, every day. We take comfort in Nobska’s beauty and powerful fourth-order beam. Folks on Martha’s Vineyard and parts of the Elizabeth Islands also enjoy Nobska as do mariners out at sea but from different perspectives and for different reasons. \nWe take a close look inside Nobska with photos and text to reveal the history from one of America’s most beloved lighthouse-Nobska \nCLICK HERE TO REGISTER
URL:https://museumsonthegreen.org/event/in-person-talk-nobska-with-ben-carnavale/
LOCATION:Museums on the Green\, 55-65 Palmer Avenue\, Falmouth\, MA\, 02540\, United States
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL TALK: "Our Team" with Luke Epplin
DESCRIPTION:In July 1947\, not even three months after Jackie Robinson debuted on the Brooklyn Dodgers\, snapping the color line that had segregated Major League Baseball\, Larry Doby would follow in his footsteps on the Cleveland Indians. Though Doby\, as the second Black player in the majors\, would struggle during his first summer in Cleveland\, his subsequent turnaround in 1948 from benchwarmer to superstar sparked one of the wildest and most meaningful seasons in baseball history. \nIn intimate\, absorbing detail\, Luke Epplin’s Our Team traces the story of the integration of the Cleveland Indians and their quest for a World Series title through four key participants: Bill Veeck\, an eccentric and visionary owner adept at exploding fireworks on and off the field; Larry Doby\, a soft-spoken\, hard-hitting pioneer whose major-league breakthrough shattered stereotypes that so much of white America held about Black ballplayers; Bob Feller\, a pitching prodigy from the Iowa cornfields who set the template for the athlete as businessman; and Satchel Paige\, a legendary pitcher from the Negro Leagues whose belated entry into the majors whipped baseball fans across the country into a frenzy. \nTogether\, as the backbone of a team that epitomized the postwar American spirit in all its hopes and contradictions\, these four men would captivate the nation by storming to the World Series–all the while rewriting the rules of what was possible in sports. \nCLICK HERE TO REGISTER
URL:https://museumsonthegreen.org/event/virtual-talk-our-team-with-luke-epplin/
LOCATION:Cultural Center\, 55 Palmer Avenue\, Falmouth\, MA\, United States
CATEGORIES:2022 Programs,2022 Talk Series
ORGANIZER;CN="Museums on the Green":MAILTO:info@museumsonthegreen.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220329T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220329T200000
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CREATED:20220120T164537Z
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL TALK: "Blood and Treasure" with Tom Clavin
DESCRIPTION:The explosive true saga of the legendary figure Daniel Boone and the bloody struggle for America’s frontier \nIt is the mid-eighteenth century\, and in the 13 colonies founded by Great Britain\, anxious colonists desperate to conquer and settle North America’s “First Frontier” beyond the Appalachian Mountains commence a series of bloody battles. These violent conflicts are waged against the Native American tribes whose lands they covet\, the French\, and finally against the mother country itself in an American Revolution destined to reverberate around the world. \nThis is the setting of Blood and Treasure\, and the guide to this epic narrative is America’s first and arguably greatest pathfinder\, Daniel Boone―not the coonskin cap-wearing caricature of popular culture but the flesh-and-blood frontiersman and Revolutionary War hero whose explorations into the forested frontier beyond the great mountains would become the stuff of legend. Now\, thanks to painstaking research by two award-winning authors\, the story of the brutal birth of the United States is told through the eyes of both the ordinary and larger-than-life men and women\, white and red\, who witnessed it. \nThis fast-paced and fiery narrative\, fueled by contemporary diaries and journals\, newspaper reports\, and eyewitness accounts\, is a stirring chronicle of the conflict over America’s “First Frontier” that places the reader at the center of this remarkable epoch and its gripping tales of courage and sacrifice. \nCLICK HERE TO REGISTER
URL:https://museumsonthegreen.org/event/virtual-talk-blood-and-treasure-with-tom-clavin/
LOCATION:Cultural Center\, 55 Palmer Avenue\, Falmouth\, MA\, United States
CATEGORIES:2022 Programs,2022 Talk Series
ORGANIZER;CN="Museums on the Green":MAILTO:info@museumsonthegreen.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220331T190000
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CREATED:20220120T164604Z
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UID:5706-1648753200-1648756800@museumsonthegreen.org
SUMMARY:IN PERSON TALK: "Red Line" with Joby Warrick
DESCRIPTION:From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Black Flags\, the thrilling unknown story of America’s mission in Syria: to find and destroy Syria’s chemical weapons and keep them out of the hands of the Islamic State \nIn August 2012\, Syrian president Bashar al-Assad was clinging to power in a vicious civil war. When secret intelligence revealed that the dictator might resort to using chemical weapons\, President Obama warned that doing so would cross “a red line.” Assad did it anyway\, bombing the Damascus suburb of Ghouta with sarin gas\, killing hundreds of civilians and forcing Obama to decide if he would mire America in another unpopular Middle Eastern war. When Russia offered to broker the removal of Syria’s chemical weapons\, Obama leapt at the out. \nSo begins an electrifying race to find\, remove\, and destroy 1\,300 tons of chemical weapons in the midst of a raging civil war. The extraordinary little-known effort is a triumph for the Americans\, but soon Russia’s long game becomes clear: it will do anything to preserve Assad’s rule. As America’s ability to control events in Syria shrinks\, the White House learns that ISIS\, building its caliphate in Syria’s war-tossed territory\, is seeking chemical weapons for itself\, with an eye to attacking the West.\n\nRed Line is a classic Joby Warrick true-life thriller: a character-driven narrative with a cast of heroes and villains\, including weapons hunters\, politicians\, doctors\, diplomats\, and spies. Drawing on astonishing original reporting\, Warrick reveals how the United States embarked on a bold adventure to prevent one catastrophe but could not avoid a tragic chain of events that empowered America’s enemies. \nCLICK HERE TO REGISTER
URL:https://museumsonthegreen.org/event/virtual-talk-red-line-with-joby-warrick/
LOCATION:Cultural Center\, 55 Palmer Avenue\, Falmouth\, MA\, United States
CATEGORIES:2022 Programs,2022 Talk Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220414T190000
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CREATED:20220330T150509Z
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SUMMARY:Virtual Talk: "The Fabric of Civilization" with Virginia Postel
DESCRIPTION:The story of humanity is the story of textiles — as old as civilization itself. Since the first thread was spun\, the need for textiles has driven technology\, business\, politics\, and culture.  \nIn The Fabric of Civilization\, Virginia Postrel synthesizes groundbreaking research from archaeology\, economics\, and science to reveal a surprising history. From Minoans exporting wool colored with precious purple dye to Egypt\, to Romans arrayed in costly Chinese silk\, the cloth trade paved the crossroads of the ancient world. Textiles funded the Renaissance and the Mughal Empire; they gave us banks and bookkeeping\, Michelangelo’s David and the Taj Mahal. The cloth business spread the alphabet and arithmetic\, propelled chemical research\, and taught people to think in binary code.  \nAssiduously researched and deftly narrated\, The Fabric of Civilization tells the story of the world’s most influential commodity. \nCLICK HERE TO REGISTER
URL:https://museumsonthegreen.org/event/virtual-talk-the-fabric-of-civilization-with-virginia-postel/
LOCATION:MA
ORGANIZER;CN="Museums on the Green":MAILTO:info@museumsonthegreen.org
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