Baker Avenue, Thorndike Street, Winslow road; they may be familiar travel routes in and around Beverly but do you know where beverly got its streetnames? Join us for the first in a series of lectures connecting street names with the beverly citizen that it was named after. This lecture will cover a lot of history […]
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 […]
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 […]
On this virtual walking tour you’ll find out how a self-made millionaire, a nationally prominent silversmith, a minister of the First Baptist Church, the home of one of the first responders to Abraham Lincoln’s call for soldiers in the Civil War, a carpenter/ ship owner who helped convert a private home into the City Hall […]
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 […]