Archive for September, 2022
Wednesday
Sep
28
7:00 pm
William C. Cross – “Winslow Homer: American Passage”
Like his contemporaries Twain and Whitman, Homer captured the landscape of a rapidly changing country with an artist’s probing insight. His tale is one of America in all its complexity and contradiction, as he evolved and adapted to the restless...
Thursday
Sep
22
7:00 pm
Janet Parnes – “Myths and Miracles of Victorian Medicine”
Medicine in the Victorian Age has a lot to tell us about today’s world: how we handle a pandemic, and how far medicine has come. Prepare to gasp, cringe and chuckle, as you discover the horrifying practices and milestones discoveries...
Thursday
Sep
15
6:00 pm
Michael S. Murphy – “Webster’s Regiment: 12th Massachusetts Volunteer Regiment”
In 1861, approximately 1000 men from Massachusetts answered the call from their country and marched off to war to keep the Union together. The 12th Massachusetts fought in just about every major battle in the Eastern Theater of Operations against...