​The annual community re-enactment commemorates Col. Alexander Leslie’s tense stand-off with local militiamen at the bridge over Salem’s North River on February 26, 1775. Now known as “Leslie’s Retreat,” this failed attempt by British redcoats to seize control of a local weapons stockpile places Salem firmly in the midst of Massachusetts’s unrest just before Lexington...
Join Charlie Newhall and Bob Erbetta to learn about this turning point of the politics of Salem in 1774, Pickering’s role in reshaping the Militia, and the coming of the American Revolution.
Register to attend via Zoom HERE. Register to attend in person HERE. Dive into Marblehead’s architectural heritage through a talk about five Glover family homes from the mid-1700s, with photos, beginning with General John Glover’s handsome Georgian-style home located on today’s Glover Square, near the public Town Landing on Front Street. Glover’s heroism in the American...
Road to the Revolution: The Stamp Act Crisis in Massachusetts Presented by Abby Chandler More information TBD Lynnfield Historical Society for more information
Join Revolutionary Spaces for a live reading of the screenplay Dill, a story inspired by real people and real events on the Cape Ann Shore in Massachusetts during a tumultuous time on the cusp of the American Revolutionary War. The protagonist is an enslaved woman named Dill, short for Deliverance, who despite her strong-willed character and...
A Lecture by Robert Allison, Ph.D., Suffolk University Thursday, March 21, 7pm At Marblehead Museum & Virtual via Zoom Following the Boston Tea Party, Parliament cracked down on Massachusetts. Find out how the Coercive Acts (or, as Massachusetts called them, "the Intolerable Acts") made otherwise loyal subjects into rebels by taking power to choose local...
G. Patrick O'Brien, an assistant professor at the University of Tampa, will host this Zoom lecture on his research into resisting slavery in colonial Marblehead. This lecture explores the life of Flora Lee, an enslaved Marblehead woman, who had her daughter spirited away from her during the Revolution. Lee's efforts to be reunited with her...
As Kevin MacDonald and volunteers work on reinstalling a new exhibition in the Marquand Gallery to focus on the first 50 years of Newburyport’s history – her Golden Age – curator Kevin MacDonald will detail his research on a small but, as it turns out, significant document in the CHMM collection. The town’s evolutionary path...
THIS EVENT IS ALMOST FULL Join Us! Saturday, April 6, 2024 8:30 AM – 1:00 PM St. John’s Prep, Kenneally Commons, Danvers Space is limited. Registration required HERE. PDPs for Educators Offered! All are welcome. Essex Heritage invites you to a FREE workshop. Youth in the region are asking their teachers for a more accurate and honest...
Every year on Patriots Day, the members of Danvers Alarm List Company honor the Danvers men who fell at the Jason Russell House on April 19th 1775, by doing their own mini-marathon march.
Lynnfield on the Eve of the Revolution: Daniel Townsend, Martin Herrick and the North Parish Militia 7:00pm - Begin gathering in front of the Centre Congregational Church 7:30pm - Small procession across the Common, led by fife and drum, followed by townspeople 7:40pm - (approx) Lantern Vigil across from the Old Burial Ground, recognizing the...
Saturday, April 20th 10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. Jeremiah Lee Mansion Gardens **Rain Date is Sunday, April 21st** Members: $10 per Person / $25 per Family Non-Members: $15 per Person / $40 per Family Ages 3 & Under: FREE Come enjoy the sights, sounds, and smells of colonial New England at Marblehead Museum’s 1st Annual...
