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: “Honorable Exit” with Thurston Clarke
July 9, 2020 @ 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
FREE
HONORABLE EXIT
How a Few Brave Americans Risked All to Save Our Vietnamese Allies at the End of the War
Please Note Special Start Time 3:00 pm
The iconic photograph of the Fall of Saigon shows desperate Vietnamese scrambling to board a helicopter evacuating the last American personnel from Vietnam. It is an image of U.S. failure and shame. Or is it? This groundbreaking revisionist history reveals the less-known acts of American heroism that saved more than one-hundred-thousand South Vietnamese from communist revenge. During those final days, scores of Americans–diplomats, businessmen, soldiers, missionaries, contractors, and spies–risked their lives to help their current and former translators, drivers, colleagues, neighbors, friends–and even perfect strangers escape execution or years in a concentration camp. By the time the last U.S. helicopter left Vietnam on April 30, 1975, these righteous Americans had helped to spirit 130,000 South Vietnamese to U.S. bases in Guam and the Philippines. From there, the evacuees were resettled in the United States and became American citizens. Honorable Exit is a deeply moving history of Americans at their finest hour.
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(Sorry, no phone calls please. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we are all working remotely.)
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