Part of the Massachusetts Archaeology Society Speaker Series: Fields of Conflict and Hallowed Ground, Ten Years of Battlefield Archaeology in the National Park Service Northeast Region Presented by Joel Dukes of the National Park Service. Explore a diverse range of conflict sites from Maine to Virginia. Over the last ten years NARP has worked with...
Captain Samuel Page’s Company: At the Front Lines of the American Revolution In Massachusetts we often think of the Revolution through the lens of the 18th of April, Bunker Hill and the Siege of Boston. Historian Beth Bower will discuss Captain Samuel Page’s Company, a diverse group of soldiers from Danvers and Beverly, who fought at...
Summer 1774. The Port of Boston has been closed. The countryside is rising up, there is talk of raising minute companies alongside the regular militia, and British soldiers are appearing in Danvers. General Thomas Gage, newly appointed Royal Governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony arrives in New England to keep watch over the restless colonists. Come...
Illustrated talk with internal and external photos about the Danvers country house of Marblehead’s principal 18th c. merchant, Robert “King” Hooper, where the last royal governor, British military Gen. Gage lived in summer 1774 when the Massachusetts government. moved to Salem. Built c. 1754, it was more opulent than his Marblehead home (c. 1728-30 with...
Women in full period dress relate their field activities as wives, mothers, and supporters of soldiers fighting in battle and performing camp life work during this documentary film. Fascinating perspective of family involvement during the War for Independence. Filmed with reenactors in Wyndham NH. Share your knowledge in casual discussion. Bring your lunch, tables available....
For some social history background related to Robert “King” Hooper’s “Great House at Danvers,” social historian Judy Anderson of Marblehead will present an illustrated talk about the two dozen members of Robert “King” Hooper’s family in Marblehead, Newburyport, and Danvers. You’ll find drama, tragedy, high-end fashion, nearly twenty portraits by J.S. Copley, complex family relations,...
Privateers, often seen as profiteers and pirates, were crucial to America’s first war. Explore this little-known part of Revolutionary War history. The ragtag fleet of private vessels, from 20-foot whaleboats to 40-cannon men-of-war, truly revealed the new nation’s character, its ambition and entrepreneurial ethos. Award-winning author Eric Jay Dolin will make this aspect of our...
