Special Event with Beverly's own Dr. Rita Colwell If you think sexism thrives only on Wall Street or Hollywood, you haven’t visited a lab, a science department, a research foundation, or a biotech firm. Rita Colwell is one of the top scientists in America: the groundbreaking microbiologist who discovered how cholera survives between epidemics and […]
The hearth was an integral part of the home for centuries. In this Spotlight Talk presentation we’ll explore the role of the hearth at the John Balch house and how it developed throughout the years. Get the inside story on objects, events, and our historic houses with Spotlight Tours and Historic House Spotlights. These tours […]
If your house could talk, what stories would it tell you? Have you ever wondered about the history of your house? For example, wondered what year was it built, who owned it before you and what they were like? This lecture is what you need. Our archivist Bekah Connell, along with volunteer Fay Salt, will […]
CANCELLED Birth and death, justice and injustice, wounding and healing;these are just a few of the themes that illustrate the depth and richness of the centuries of human experience of the people of Beverly. Join collections specialists Abby Battis and Elise Williams to see how just a few works from Historic Beverly's five centuries of […]
The hearth was an integral part of the home for centuries. In this Spotlight Talk presentation we’ll explore the role of the hearth at the John Balch house and how it developed throughout the years. Get the inside story on objects, events, and our historic houses with Spotlight Tours and Historic House Spotlights. These tours […]
NEW DATE If you’ve read enough historical fiction (Laura Ingalls Wilder, I’m looking at you), you’ll know how crucial cornmeal and molasses were to early American settlers. But how did New England colonists come to adopt “Indian meal?” And what is molasses – a byproduct of the Caribbean slavery-fueled sugar plantations – doing on New […]
This new virtual walking tour will explore an extensive area of Beverly’s Cove neighborhood originally called Cove Village. The tour will explore the transformation of the land from agrarian village to a bustling neighborhood with the addition of the trolley line. Business history will also be explored including the ever popular Woodberry Tavern and the […]
Have you ever wondered about some of the first African-Americans in Beverly? In this program we will tell stories of some African-Americans and other people of color through objects and documents in Historic Beverly’s collection, including ship cargo logs, wills, bills of sale, newspapers, and many other documents, including some associated with anti-slavery organizations. We […]
Join Historic Beverly on our next pop-up Privateer Trail walk! It’s going to be a beautiful day for a walk around Fish Flake Hill on Sunday and we would love for you to join us! Have you ever heard of Washington’s Navy? We’ll tell you all about how it got its start right here in […]
11:00 am We will be reading “Around America to Win the Vote” by Mara Rockliff. This story tells just a bit of the true story of a couple of women suffragists, their kitten and a little yellow car who drove 10,000 miles around America to spread the word about “Votes for Women” in 1916. Recommended […]
Audrey Aristeo spent a year constructing an accurate, up-to-date inventory and new wayfinding map of the Abbott Street Cemetery through field research, online investigation and research within the Historic Beverly files and vital records of Massachusetts. Learn about the burial ground, its inhabitants, and how the landscape has changed over time, and explore the map […]
Six blocks of Lothrop Street between Central and Ives Streets are lined with 19th and 20th century houses built by Beverly’s prosperous merchants. This residential neighborhood combines ready access to the downtown with an ocean view, and an almost suburban separation from the noise and crowding of working class and industrial neighborhoods on the west […]