Admission is $10 for members and $15 for non-members.
Memberships available at the door or online.
We regret to inform you that advanced ticket sales are not available. Please arrive by 6:30 to secure your seat.
We wish to thank the Town of Barnstable for their generous tourism grant and Lambert's Market for their donation of wine.
Emmy and Murrow award-winning investigative journalist KATHY CURRAN details how a formerly unidentified murder victim found in July 1974 in the Race Point Dunes was identified through DNA as Ruth Marie Terry and the clues linking the death to her murderer. Terry’s son Richard Hanchett will join Curran in this talk. Dessert reception to follow.
Sponsored by Greg Masterson, Barbara Erickson
Emmy award-winning Chronicle reporter TED REINSTEIN returns with facts and folklore for the 250th. Book signing and dessert reception follow.
Sponsored by: Heather Campbell, Deborah Baker, Peri Wentworth
Associate Fellow of the Royal Historical Society VINCENT MILES explains that the first transatlantic steamships were experimental and suffered many losses. Two of the ships lost were owned by Cape Codder, and two of the captains involved hailed from the Cape
Sponsored by: Bob & Alex Frazee, Wolfgang Fatller, Jean Turnbull & Priscilla Myers
Best-selling author MICHAEL TOUGIAS, known for his riveting, character-driven accounts of survival and rescue, returns with another true tale that will put the audience on the edge of their seats. When the boat sinks 12 miles out in the Gulf of America, three friends must survive 28 hours in open water, facing eight-foot waves, jellyfish stings, hypothermia, and circling sharks. Tougias chronicles one of the most improbable rescues in Coast Guard history and the extraordinary resilience of the men who survived to tell about it.
Book signing and dessert reception to follow.
Sponsored by: Town of Barnstable Tourism Grant, Lynn & Steve Heslinga
This is a documentary film, directed by John deGraaf. It narrates the life of Cape Cod native Katharine Lee Bates, composer of the patriotic standard America the Beautiful, by exploring pivotal historical moments such as women’s suffrage, the Civil War, and the Gilded Age. LENNY MIELE, featured speaker in the documentary and the author of Voice of the Tide, and KAREN OLCOTT, co-producer of the film, discuss.
Sponsored by: Greg Masterson, Bill Belcher & Mary Jo Rubin, Larry & Beth Thayer
STEVE FLACK stars in a highly entertaining, interactive depiction of the persona of John Adams, with a modern slant, comparing his trials and tribulations to those of modern-day Americans.
Sponsored by: Phineas Fiske, Joseph Kiceina & Susan Schwager
Retired Cape Cod photographer STEVE HEASLIP describes 40 years of photographing the Cape’s most famous political family.
Sponsored by: Lloyd & Linda George
Retired educator NANCY FRANKS introduces the audience to nine of America’s first ladies with ties to Massachusetts -Martha Washington, Abigail Adams, Louisa Adams, Frances Cleveland, Florence Harding, Jackie Kennedy, Nancy Reagan, Barbara Bush, and Hillary Clinton.
Followed by a patriotic-themed raffle.
Sponsored by: Bill Belcher & Mary Jo Rubin, Peri Wentworth
Local art historian MARY WOODWARD will present an illustrated talk about the finest portrait painter in Colonial America. Because of Copley’s work, important patriots such as Paul Revere, Mercy Otis Warren, and John Hancock are readily recognized.
Sponsored by: Grace Galvin, The Barnstable Historical Society
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