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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VIRTUAL TALK: “Marooned: Jamestown, Shipwreck, and a New History of America’s Origin” with Joseph Kelly
January 14 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
$10.00
MAROONED
Jamestown, Shipwreck, and a New History of America’s Origin
Legend goes that the colony in Jamestown was a false start. It’s often told as a cautionary tale of lazy louts who hunted gold until they starved or shiftless settlers in need of the hard discipline of martial law. Yet, author Joseph Kelly comes to a radically different and decidedly American interpretation of these first Virginians. In his gripping account of shipwrecks and mutiny in America’s earliest settlements, he argues that the colonists were literally and figuratively marooned, cut loose from civilization, and cast into the wilderness to fend for themselves any way they could. The British caste system meant little on this new frontier: those who wanted to survive had to learn to work and fight and intermingle with the nearby native populations. Ten years before the Mayflower Compact and decades before Hobbes and Locke, these colonists invented the idea of government by the people. And, 150 years before Jefferson, they discovered the truth that all men were equal. PURCHASE THIS BOOK ONLINE FROM EIGHT COUSINS BOOKSTORE
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