Lectures & Events

All lectures are held in the Olde Colonial Courthouse, Route 6A & Rendezvous Lane, Barnstable Village. Price of admission is $5 and includes refreshments following the program. Parking is available on the street and across the street at St. Mary's Church.

Summer 2011 Lecture Series

Click here for a printable version of the 2011 lecture series

  • June 6 - Continuity & Change in the Cape Landscape: The Vintage Photographs of Samuel Chamberlain Then & Now
    @ 7:00 Sarah Korjeff, Preservation Specialist, in association with History Along 6A
    @ 8:00 Presentation of Mercy Otis Warren Woman of the Year Award
  • July 11 - Raiders & Rallies: Civil War Cape Cod 150 Years Ago, July 1861
    Stauffer Miller, author, The Raised Right Arm
  • July 18 - Law and Disorder in Old Nantucket
    Frances Karttunen, Nantucket historian and author
  • July 25 - Shipwrecks Around Cape Cod
    Bill Quinn, photographer and author
  • August 1 - The Railroad on Cape Cod: Then & Now
    Theodore Shrady, author, Orange Blossom Special and The Sleeping Car
  • August 8 - Weir Fishing Rules: Sustaining a Way of Life on the Water
    The Eldredge Family: Ernie Eldredge, Shareen Davis, photographer and Shannon Eldredge, Cape Cod fish weirs historian
  • August 15 - Master of the Sweet Trade: A Story of the Pirate Samuel Bellamy
    Mariah Hallett, and the Whydah - Elizabeth Moisan, author
  • August 22 - Wampanoag Language Reclamation Project
    Nitana Hicks, Doctoral student and Wôpanâak Language Apprentice
  • August 29 - Strange & Unusual Stories About Cape Cod
    Jim Coogan & Jack Sheedy, historians, authors, Cape Odd

2011 Lecture Series

  • May 16 - Pirates of the Whydah
    @7:30 p.m. Ken Kincor, Project Historian, the Whydah Project, in association with Maritime Days.
  • October 3 - The Last Muster: Images of the Revolutionary War
    @7:30 p.m. Maureen Taylor, The Photo Detective, author

Trustees Meetings

Trustees meet on the first Monday of each month:  7:00 pm in the Cataldo Room at the Old Colonial Courthouse.  The January meeting will be January 9, 2012 to avoid any holiday conflicts.