2020: MOG VIRTUAL TALKS
“The Man Who Never Was: Operation Mincemeat” with Executive Director Mark Schmidt. WATCH
“Sudden Courage: Youth in France Confront the Germans 1940-1945” with Ronald C. Rosbottom. WATCH
“Yales Needs Women: How the First Group of Girls Rewrote the Rules of an Ivy League Giant” with Anne Gardiner Perkins. WATCH
“The Crowded Hour: Theodore Roosevelt, the Rough Riders, and the Dawn of the American Century” with Clay Risen. WATCH
“Hunting Whitey: The Inside Story of the Capture and Killing of America’s Most Wanted Crime Boss” with Casey Sherman. WATCH
“Jefferson’s White House: Monticello on the Potomac” with James B. Conroy. WATCH
“Coast to Coast in 48 Hours” with Anne Barrett. WATCH
“She Came to Slay: The Life and Times of Harriet Tubman” with Erica Armstrong Dunbar. WATCH
“How to Get Rid of a President: History’s Guide to Removing Unpopular, Unable, or Unfit Chief Executives” with David Priess. WATCH
“The Ghosts of Eden Park: The Bootleg King, the Women Who Pursued Him, and the Murder that Shocked Jazz-Age America” with Karen Abbott. WATCH
“This Gulf of Fire: The Destruction of Lisbon” with Mark Molesky. WATCH
“In Black and White: The Life of Sammy Davis., Jr.” with Wil Haygood. WATCH
“Night of the Assassins: The Untold Story of Hitler’s Plot to Kill FDR, Churchill, and Stalin” with Howard Blum. WATCH
“Fire and Fortitude: The U.S. Army in the Pacific War, 1941-1943” with John C. McManus. WATCH
“Honorable Exit: How a Few Brave Americans Risked All to Save Our Vietnamese Allies at the End of the War” with Thurston Clarke. WATCH
“Washington’s End: The Final Years and Forgotten Struggle” with Jonathan Horn. WATCH
“Thomas Jefferson’s Education” with Alan Shaw Taylor. WATCH
“America the Ingenious: How a Nation of Dreamers, Immigrants, and Tinkerers Changed the World” with Kevin Baker. WATCH
“The Impeachers: The Trial of Andrew Johnson and the Dream of a Just Nation” with Brenda Wineapple. WATCH
“Lincoln on the Verge: Thirteen Days to Washington” with Ted Widmer. WATCH
“A Furious Sky: The Five-Hundred Year History of America’s Hurricanes” with Eric Jay Dolin. WATCH
“The Pleasures of Age: Old Women and Political Power in the Women’s Suffrage Movement” with Corinne Field. WATCH
“Cult of Glory: The Bold and Brutal History of the Texas Rangers” with Doug Swanson. WATCH
“The Sword and the Shield: The Revolutionary Lives of Malcom X and Martin Luther King, Jr. WATCH
VIRTUAL EVENTS
Annual Teddy Bear Picnic. WATCH
Katharine Lee Bates Poetry Fest. WATCH
A DAY IN THE LIFE: FALMOUTH IN THE FORTIES
In September 1941, just months before the United States entered World War II, the Falmouth Kiwanis Club made a two-hour video: A Day in the Life. They chose a variety of locations around town and filmed people doing everyday things. At the time, Falmouth was a small town with a rural feel and a large immigrant population. Nearly 40% of the town was Portuguese, Azorean and/or Cape Verdean. That changed after the war. The Falmouth Enterprise (September 26, 1941) reported that “about 400 attended yesterday’s matinee and evening sessions to see the motion picture of Falmouth civic life…With Oscar L Huntiing providing many laughs through his witty comments on the personalities portrayed on the screen, the audience seemed to enjoy itself hugely.” Here are some scenes from that video. See if you can recognize businesses, automobiles, buildings, or, perhaps, people from a bygone era. WATCH
OTHER VIDEOS
“Welcome to Falmouth and the Museums on the Green” by Barbara Sillery. WATCH
“Historical Walking Tour of Falmouth” with Tom Mountford. WATCH
EDUCATIONAL VIDEOS
This 7-part video series, “Life in Colonial Falmouth,” was written and produced for elementary school children to teach them about local history and colonial life in America. Each year, many classes visit the Museums on the Green for a curated tour designed especially for them.This program is funded in part by Mass Humanities, which receives support from the Massachusetts Cultural Council and is an affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities .
Life in Colonial Falmouth: Introduction
Life in Colonial Falmouth: The Doctor’s Office & Kitchen
Life in Colonial Falmouth: House Tour
Life in Colonial Falmouth: The Herb Garden
Life in Colonial Falmouth: Around the Campus
Life in Colonial Falmouth: The Mystery Table
Life in Colonial Falmouth: Making Candles and Soap
