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2024 Program Videos

Sailing Towards My Father. May 13, 2024

Stephen Collins stars in a one man play depicting Herman Melville, author of Moby Dick; his life from youth to old age. 

https://youtu.be/E_m_XZJfkzc

Twists and Turns of the Cape Cod Canal. May 20, 2024

Stephen Blakely, retired news editor, tells how the Canal was built and how it operates. 

https://youtu.be/A5ROqVUbUIU

Myths, Tall Tales & Half Truths. May 28, 2024

Story  Teller James Ellis from West Barnstable tells the audience several tall tales and half-truths. 

https//youtu.be/cwFBE9YquQU

Whaler at Twilight. June 3, 2024

 Alexander Brash tells the long last true story of his great great grandfather, an American whaler in search of adventure, absolution and redemption. 

https://youtu.be/a97Gp0K3dXo 

In a Moving Meditation. June 10, 2024

Stephen G. Waller offers an intimate look at a Cape Cod kettle pond’s intriguing natural and human history. 

https://youtu.be/MB1fMp-r8no

Left for Dead: Shipwreck, Treachery & Survival at the Edge of the World. June 17, 2024

Eric Jay Dolin tells the gripping story of an American whaler.

https://youtu.be/dtoJ95dvssc

Allegiance: The Life and Times of William Eustis. Jun 24, 2024

Tamson George, award winning author discusses the unique life of military surgeon William Eustis and how he was an eye witness to the American Revolution.

https://youtu.be/loNSi0bDDQg

The Lioness of Boston. July 1, 2024

Best Selling Author Emily Franklin relates the evocative story of the life of Isabella Stewart Gardner.

https://youtu.be/IGg4OZ8E1iM

Fly Girl. July 8, 2024

Gifted storyteller, Ann Hood entertains the audience with an amusing and sometimes moving account of her adventurous account of her years as a flight attendant

https://youtu.be/i2hIOcwYM4I

Murder in Hollywood: The Untold Story of Tinseltown’s Most Shocking Crime. July 15, 2024

Best Selling author and Barnstable native Casey Sherman describes his new book Murder in Hollywood. 

https://youtu.be/Rah--zFMJic

Eva and Henry’s Story: A Cape Cod Marriage. July 22, 2024

Irene Paine, author of Eva & Henry's Story: A Cape Cod Marriage transports the audience to joys and struggles of an educated bride and sea captain husband in the 1880s. 

https://youtu.be/qrgYo5Ng4XY 

Before Brooklyn: The Unsung Heroes Who Helped Break Baseball's Color Barrier. July 29, 2024

Ted Reinstein; Baseball; Sports; Color Barrier in Sports; Tales of Cape Cod Inc. Ted Reinstein talks about baseball's unsung heroes who helped break the color barrier.

https://youtu.be/JglSc-t26AA

Six Walks in the Footsteps of Henry David Thoreau. August 5, 2024

Ben Shattuck, author of Six Walks in the Footsteps of Henry David Thoreau, retraces Thoreau's path through Cape Cod and demonstrates the ways walking in nature inspires us all.

https://youtu.be/careA-M8jyo

Midnight Ride, Industrial Dawn & the Rise of American Enterprise. August 12, 2024

Dr. Robert Martello takes Paul Revere from patriot to entrepreneur.

https://youtu.be/BtNM0XlKeU

Wampanoag Art for the Ages. August 19, 2024

Lee Roscoe presents Wampanoag Art for the Ages, a look at life through the art of the Algonquian tribe.

https://youtu.be/RYzXHD_TbAs

The Age Steam Powered Ocean Liners: The Competition Between Britain and America. August 26, 2024

Vincent Miles relates the competition between Britain and America during the days of steam powered ocean liners, including those ultimately claimed by the Atlantic.

https://youtu.be/KQl2WRxS5Qg!

Chasing Shadows: My Life Tracking the Great White Sharks. September 3, 2024

Greg Skomal discusses his fascination with shark ecology, history and behavior.

https://youtu.be/mhcZqPTnt0Q

If These Walls Could Talk: Cape Cod Historic Museum Tour. September 9, 2024

Marcia Belmont Young takes us on a tour of Cape Cod historic house museum's stories of ship captains, Native Americans, artists, and ghosts.

https://youtu.be/5YTRcoKm_PE 

Cape Cod Independence: Body of the People Reenactment. September 16, 2024

Cape Cod Independence, the revolution that started on Cape Cod as told through a Body of the People reenactment

https://youtu.be/lk0mYr9MWic

Ten Hours Until Dawn: The True Story of Heroism and Tragedy Aboard the Can Do. September 23, 2024

Michael Tougias presents the true story of the heroism of pilot boat captain Frank E. Kirk during the Blizzard of 78 near Gloucester harbor.

https://youtu.be/4I1xfvZZGS0

Bizarre & Eerie Events in War. September 30, 2024

Joe Yukna relates the bizarre and eerie events recorded during combat.

https://youtu.be/eaLtNyZWbEY

2023 Program Videos

Swirling Currents. May 15

Coastal Sustainability author and shellfish biologist Sandy Macfarlane describes the muddy road to today's vibrant shellfish industry that produces the succulent morsels we love and helps to preserve the waters we love just as much.

https://youtu.be/pzSUVJA97Jk

Luminaries of West Barnstable. May 22

Chief Justice Lemuel Shaw, Mercy Otis Warren, James Otis Jr., Mad Jack Percival James H Ellis, former Vice President of the West Barnstable Historical Society traces the stories of Lemuel Shaw, Mercy Otis Warren, James Otis Jr. and Mad Jack Percival.

https://youtu.be/M4OfRq4iOOo

The Combat Zone: Murder, Race and Boston's Struggle for Justice. June 1

Journalist Jan Brogan reveals how the 1976 murder of a Harvard football player in Boston's old red light district and the two trials that followed impacted the city, state and ultimately the nation. 

https://youtu.be/Bz2Rk5Oy1RY

The Lightkeeper's Daughter, The True Story of Ida Lewis. June 5

Author Lenore Skomal relates this true story to be produced as a major motion picture; Set against the backdrop of a country in turmoil including the Civil War and the Woman's Suffrage Movement, Ida's ordinary life took a drastic turn when the world discovered she had been silently saving the lives of countless sailors.

https://youtu.be/QPiShjpnbDo

On the Road to the Mayflower. June 12

Author Kevin Doyle and historian artist Karen Rinaldo flash back to the religious persecution of the Separatists which inspired their pilgrimage and journey to the New World.

https://youtu.be/y0ZV0QGzRGA

More than a Job: New England Fishing. June 19

Founder and Executive Director of the New Bedford fishing Heritage Center, Laura Orleans and Captain Rodney Avila who has fished commercially for over 60 years introduces the workings of the New Bedford commercial fishing industry and relate why it is more than a job.

https://youtu.be/kLqmRw1IZwc

The Portland Gale. Jun 26

Popular speaker Don Wilding recounts the voyage of the Portland as a killer storm approaches, sending the vessel to the depths of Cape Cod Bay and claiming 200 lives.

https://youtu.be/T30loxHlOJg

Batter Up: The History of the Cape Cod Baseball League. July 6

Bill Higgins, former sports editor for the Cape Cod Times focuses on the Cape League's history which includes some of the biggest stars in the game.

https://youtu.be/CS2gKA4Y2DE

A Walk Through History. July 10

Mark McGrath explores the beauty of the Outer Cape through photography and stories.

https://youtu.be/1tydRtlsYtY

Lizzie: The Murders, The Evidence, The Law, The Birthday. July 17

Greg Williams recounts the legend of Lizzie Borden as we celebrate her birthday.

https://youtu.be/1dGMcysL0b4

White House by the Sea: A Century of the Kennedys at Hyannisport.July 24

Author, Kate Storey talks about Hyannisport, where for 100 years, America's most storied political family has come to celebrate, bond, play and grieve.

https://youtu.be/lPIc-worOwE

Letter From Barnstable Jail: William Apess & the Mashpee Resistance. July 31

Historian Drew Lopenzia recounts the true story of William Apess of the Pegueot Indian Nation, who helped Mashpee Indians gain their civil rights through one of the first sustained actions of civil liberty in US History.

https://youtu.be/g5sIAt5Tp2c

Tin ticket - The Heroic Journey of Australia's Convict Women. August 7

Historian Deborah Swiss relays the compelling true story, soon to be a tv series, of survival and triumph of the human spirit through the eyes of three extraordinary women, who were among the founding fathers of modern Australia.

https://youtu.be/HJURtcJKVJ0

Paul Revere's Last Ride - Patriotic Metalworking and Entrepreneurship in Early America. August 10

Dr. Robert Martello explores Revere's patriotic service to the country which took place in workshops and factories and was instrumental in closing America's technological gap with England and entering the Industrial Age.

https://youtu.be/mUcGK0qLopk

The Pirate's Wife: The Remarkably True Story of Sarah Kidd. August 14

Dr. Daphne Palmer Geanacopoulos recounts the dramatic and deliciously swashbuckling story of Sarah Kidd, the wife of the famous pirate Captain Kidd, charting her transformation from New York socialite to international outlaw during the Golden Age of Piracy.

https://youtu.be/T6GhJ86SwQ0

Thomas and Tisquantim, Two Unlikely Travelers. August 21

Popular speaker and Barnstable resident Tim Lindberg weaves the true story of hardship, heartbreak and greed, honor and loyalty and the will to survive as two voyagers set the scene for a world in which the Pilgrims find themselves.

https://youtu.be/dtwSXE8buRM

Tales of Extreme Survival. August 28

Best-Selling author Michael Tougias shares what each of us is capable of when under pressure and chronicles the stories of people who experienced harrowing events to become survivors.

https://youtu.be/l9nhJlw2RB4

History of the Cape Cod Bridges. September 7

Park Ranger Samantha Gray recounts the challenges to build the Cape Cod bridges.

https://youtu.be/7SYNb6Nyt_s

Bathsheba Spooner; A Revolutionary Murder Conspiracy. September 11

Andrew Noone recounts the saga of the first woman in American history to be executed after the Declaration of Independence.

https://youtu.be/F8S30nisLyM

Hearts Touched With Fire; How Great Leaders Are Made. September 18

David Gergen, a leader in the public arena for more than a half century and advisor to Presidents Nixon, Ford, Bush and Clinton , reveals the time tested secrets of dynamic leadership.

https://youtu.be/HebAgDvtONg

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