Voices: Our Village in Perspective
January 8, Sunday, 2 pm
Voices: Lecture Series
A Photographic Trip Through 20th Century Chatham
Speaker: Spencer Grey, Former President, Chatham Historical Society
Location: Chatham Community Center
Admission Free - Donations Welcome
Spencer Grey will present a photographic overview of the life and times of people in Chatham from 1860 to the early years of the present century. About 300 pictures will be culled from the vast collection of photographs and postcards in the archives of the Atwood House Museum.
February 12, Sunday, 2 pm
Voices: Lecture Series
A Most Contemptible Passion: Marriage and Divorce in 18th Century New England
Speaker: Judy Reed
Location: Chatham Community Center
Admission Free - Donations Welcome
Judy Reed will discuss the memoirs of her three times great grandmother, Abigail Abbot Bailey. The lecture will discuss the dramatic life of Bailey, including her trials as an abused spouse, raising 15 children, surviving small pox, and completing a two hundred mile horseback journey over treacherous terrain to recover her children.
March 11, Sunday, 2 pm
Voices: Lecture Series
Lecture and film screening “We Still Live Here”
Speaker: Linda Combs, past director of the Wampanoag Language Program at Plymouth Plantation.
Location: Chatham Community Center
Admission Free - Donations Welcome
A sharing of the film “We Still Live Here,” about the revitalization of the Wampanoag language followed by a brief talk and discussion led by Linda Combs, past director of the Wampanoag Language Program at Plymouth Plantation. Combs is a member of the Aquinna Wampanoag tribe on Martha’s Vineyard. This lecture is co-sponsored by the Chatham Historical Society and the Chatham Wampanoag Committee.
March 14, Wednesday, 6:00 - 7:30 pm
Research Seminar
The History of Your Home
Speaker: Mary Ann Gray, Archivist, Chatham Historical Society
Location: Atwood House Museum Library
Cost:
Participants in this class will learn to utilize a variety of historical materials, available in the historical society archival collection and in other public-record locations, to investigate the history of their home. See more details about this seminar on the Event page.
April 15, Sunday, 2 pm
Voices: Lecture Series
Wild Chatham, Celebrating more than 300 years; A Photographic Journey
Speaker: John King, Atwood House Museum Director
Location: Chatham Community Center
Admission Free - Donations Welcome
Chatham is blessed by its unique location on the elbow of Cape Cod surrounded by water and encompassing pristine barrier beaches both from the Cape Cod National Seashore and Monomoy National Wildlife Refuge areas. This special part of New England has been a yearly destination and stop over for migrating birds and marine mammals for millennia. Most visitors to Chatham are only vaguely aware of this diversity of wildlife that visits Chatham on these yearly migrations. The presentation will review some of the natural history of the region highlighted by a collection of photographic images that illustrate the wild landscapes and wild creatures found in some of Chatham’s little traveled places today.
July 8, Sunday, 2 pm
Voices: Lecture Series
War of 1812
Speaker: Jim Coogan.
Location: Chatham Community Center
Admission Free - Donations Welcome
Local historian, Jim Coogan, will explore a facet of Cape Cod’s history rarely taught in schools today; its severe impact on the war of 1812. This presentation will celebrate the war of 1812’s 200th anniversary utilizing slides and images.
August 12, Sunday, 2 pm
Voices: Lecture Series
From Norwich to Chatham, the Nickerson Family Story from the 1600s to Today
Speaker: Mark, Ron & Brian Nickerson
Location: Chatham Community Center
Admission Free - Donations Welcome
The Nickersons will take the audience back to 17th century Norwich England , the home of William & Anne (Busby) Nickerson before they journeyed to the New World in 1637 and, ultimately, became the first English settlers of Chatham . The lecture covers William & Anne's early years in Yarmouth and the story about their purchase of land and relocating to Monomoyick in the 1660s. Information from the Nickerson Family Association will be used to describe Chatham’s early years. Wrapping the presentation up will be the history of the Nickerson Family Association from its start in the 1890s and then up to today, with its ownership of the homestead site of William & Anne and the relocation of our two buildings to the property, both over water.
October 14, Sunday, 2 pm
Voices: Lecture Series
Haunted Cape Cod
Speaker: Mark Jasper, author of Haunted Cape Cod and the Islands
Location: Chatham Community Center
Admission Free - Donations Welcome
Based on his popular book, “Haunted Cape Cod and the Islands”, this lecture will be a blend of true ghost stories, history and folklore. A focus on haunted inns, restaurants and residential homes in the Cape Cod area.
November 11, Sunday, 2 pm
Voices: Lecture Series
19th Century Medicine: When the Captain is the Doctor
Speaker: Mary Ann Gray, Archivist at The Chatham Historical Society's Atwood House Museum
Location: Chatham Community Center
Admission Free - Donations Welcome
The high seas were (and still are) a rough place! In the 19th century, the captain of a ship had a great many responsibilities, including substituting for a medical professional when there wasn’t one aboard. Join Mary Ann Gray to hear fascinating facts of the duties of a ship’s captain from the 1700’s to 1800’s.