Saturday, April 20th
10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Jeremiah Lee Mansion Gardens
Members: $10 per Person / $25 per Family
Non-Members: $15 per Person / $40 per Family
Ages 3 & Under: FREE
Enjoy the sights, sounds, and smells of colonial New England at Marblehead Museum’s 1st Annual Colonial Craft Fair! Stroll along the beautiful gardens of the Jeremiah Lee Mansion, meeting skilled artisans and historic reenactors as they demonstrate crafts from a time gone by. Learn how shoes were made (a major Marblehead industry!) from a Master Shoemaker, or try your hand at copperplate printing with an accomplished Printmaker. Chat with members of Glover’s Marblehead Regiment or see 18th-century food being prepared by a Culinary Historian.
From Ipswich Lacemaking and Coopering to Tinsmithing and Rope-making, there are so many things to see and learn! Join us for a day of fun and festivities as we celebrate the trades of the past and the individuals who keep those skills alive.
NAACP North Shore Book Discussion
In Person or Via Zoom
Tuesday, April 23
7:00PM
FREE
This event is offered as a hybrid event; both virtually and in-person.
How the Word Is Passed is a 2021 nonfiction book written by author Clint Smith and published by Little, Brown. The work examines the legacy of American slavery and how it continues to impact society today. The text includes visits to a variety of historical landmarks/monum
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Sports and Leisure Tour
Saturday, April 27 | 10am and 1pm
Saturday, May 4 | 10am
$15 Members / $20 Public
Join Jarrett Zeman for a new walking tour on the history of sports and leisure in Marblehead.
You’ll learn how popular sports and leisure activities began, from baseball and boxing to bicycling, billiards, movies, roller skating, drinking and more. You’ll discover how Marblehead became a leisure mecca as we explore the colorful characters who called our town home from 1865-1965.
Sports and leisure haven’t always been fun and games --- the meaning of sports has always been contested. Who gets to participate? When does leisure become vice? Should Sunday be reserved for religious devotion, or is it the best day to have fun? Headers have been fighting about these questions for centuries.
Marblehead on the Eve of Independence
Thursday, May 2 at 7PM
$10 Members / $15 Public
This illustrated talk by Judy Anderson will present a portrait of Marblehead at the peak of the town’s pre-Revolutionary prosperity, as social tensions and political divisions began to erupt. Judy will profile our gritty but thriving seaport in the two generations before the grueling struggle for independence.
As Britain’s colonies in North America launched into their long and grueling war for independence, the thriving international Atlantic seaport of Marblehead, which had been the sixth most populous city in British North America, was a very different place than most people today realize or assume or realize.
Join Judy as she reveals lesser known stories from a pivotal part of Marblehead’s history.
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