Posts Tagged ‘history’
Opening Reception and Talk: Old Yarmouth, Life During the American Revolution
Talk with Jonathan Lane on the Wreck of the HMS Somerset Jonathan Lane, a public historian affiliated with the Massachusetts Historical Society, has more than three decades of experience in…
Read More‘The Importance of Seaweeds’ presented by Ecologist and Author Gil Newton and The Barnstable Land Trust
THE IMPORTANCE OF SEAWEEDS presented by Ecologist and Author Gil Newton and The Barnstable Land Trust Saturday May 30 at 11:00 AM Osterville Village Library Seaweed is commonly found along…
Read MoreThe New Bedford Whaling Museum visits the OVL with ‘A Day in the Life of the Lagoda’
The New Bedford Whaling Museum visits the OVL with ‘A Day in the Life of the Lagoda’ Saturday May 23rd at 1pm Osterville Village Library Join New Bedford Whaling Museum…
Read More‘The Sinking of the SS Pendleton’ presented by Reid Oslin, Coast Guard Auxiliary
THE COAST GUARD’S GREATEST SMALL BOAT RESCUE On February 18, 1952, four courageous crew members from U.S. Coast Guard Station Chatham, launched a 36-foot wooden motor lifeboat into the teeth…
Read MoreChurchill’s Secret Armies in WWII presented by Historian David Barrett
This two-part series explains how, with Churchill’s support, the British efforts at destroying the Nazi tyranny of World War Two, resulted in the victory of the Allies in 1945. In…
Read More‘Boston History in Poetry’ presented by Anthony Sammarco
Boston History in Poetry Noah Webster describes poetry as a literary work in which special intensity is given to the expression of feelings and ideas using distinctive style and rhythm,…
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