Programs
Campus Tours at the Museums (May-Oct)
June 6th – October 17th, 2025
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.
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Entries Welcome for Katharine Lee Bates Community Poetry Fest
CALLING ALL POETS!
We are now accepting entries for our annual Katharine Lee Bates Poetry Fest, which 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.”
Submissions from poets of all ages are welcome. Poems must be original, unpublished works of 25 lines or less. Each entrant can submit up to three different poems.
The submission deadline is before 3 pm on Friday, May 22, 2020. Winners will be notified in June and invited to read their works at the Poetry Fest on Friday, July 10, at the Museums on the Green.
Click on the links below for an entry form. Submit each entry on a separate page, unsigned and ready for photocopying. Please mail all entries to the Falmouth Historical Society, PO Box 174, Falmouth, MA 02541
ENTRY FORMS:
STUDENT ENTRY FORM
ADULT ENTRY FORM
