Drawing on the wealth of National Historic Landmark properties covered in their recent book, Historic New England: A Tour of the Region’s Top 100 National Landmarks, authors Patricia Harris and David Lyon will discuss and show photos of a dozen New England sites. They include the homes of authors Edith Wharton and Mark Twain, a submarine, a dazzling carousel, the snuff mill where America’s first great portrait painter was born,… Read more Historic New England: A Tour of the Region’s Top 100 National Landmarks – Thursday, 5/14/26 at 6 PM
Drawing on the wealth of National Historic Landmark properties covered in their recent book, Historic New England: A Tour of the Region’s Top 100 National Landmarks, authors Patricia Harris and David Lyon will discuss and show photos of a dozen New England sites. They include the homes of authors Edith Wharton and Mark Twain, a submarine, a dazzling carousel, the snuff mill where America’s first great portrait painter was born,… Read more 
Join us for an evening with best-selling author and former NHPR host Laura Knoy as she talks about her latest historical novel, The Shopkeeper of Alsace. An uplifting and inspiring story of a Jewish family’s resilience during the World Wars in France, inspired by a real woman Laura met as an exchange student.
Perfect for fans of We Were the Lucky Ones, The Nightingale, and The Alice Network, this dramatic… 
What makes New England a culture? A place? An identity? What makes a story, especially a quintessentially New England story, come to life?
Mel Allen, former Editor of Yankee magazine, will discuss some of the unforgettable people and places he has come to know over the past near half century of writing about the region. In his lecture, he will explore the inherently “Yankee” characteristics of “thriftiness, independence, resilience, love… 
This entertaining and informative presentation explores the impact that our place in the family, our birth order, has on our styles of dealing with people. Each position in the birth order brings unique characteristics that influence how a person views the world, chooses to behave and prefers to deal with the everyday activities of life. Learn to identify many of the characteristics associated with the oldest, only, next to the… 
Greet Halloween with delightfully spooky poems and stories by two American masters, Emily Dickinson and Edgar Allan Poe. The recital features gruesome poems in a pounding cadence by Poe, his sinister short story The Tell-Tale Heart, and quietly haunting, eerie and elusive works by Dickinson. Helpful explanations provided with each of the time-honored works help you fully understand, appreciate and enjoy them. Creepy props enhance the Halloween atmosphere. The program… 
Not everything people think is ghostly activity is truly paranormal. In this lecture, Dustin pulls back the curtain… or sheet in this case- in order to explain why some strange encounters can be rationally explained. Citing evidence from historic cases of paranormal fraud, coupled with rational scientific explanation, Dustin debunks some interesting paranormal occurrences and shines a light into the darkness. But- does this mean that ghosts don’t exist? Well……