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February 2010 |
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Gentleman's Dress Advice and Rental
Contact Mark directly at
markhilliard@post.harvard.edu
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Baroque Music of Scotland and Maritime Canada Chris Norman, baroque flute and David Greenberg, violin A Cambridge Society for Early Music Concert Saturday, February 27, 8:00 p.m. $30, $25 for seniors and Athenĉum members students and children under 17 FREE |
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Two of the most imaginative and dynamic performers in traditional and
early music join forces to present a program that runs the gamut from
Bach to bannocks, refined to rollicking, performed on violin, flutes,
pipes, pump organ, and voice. For more information and to purchase tickets, contact Cambridge Society for Early Music at 617.489.2062 or on-line at www.csem.org
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March 2010 |
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Celebrating 1810: The Salem Athenĉum Bicentennial Assembly Saturday, March 6, 7-11 p.m. Hamilton Hall, 9 Chestnut Street, Salem Period dress or black tie $125 [RSVP] The Athenĉum will honor its 200th anniversary with a delightful return to Salem in 1810. Authentic food, drink, music and entertainments will greet guests who are encouraged to wear period dress to complete the transformation.
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April 2010 |
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Founders Symposium Saturday, April 24, 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. $60 (includes box lunch)
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Calendar last updated: 09 February 2010
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William Bentley’s Salem The second of the Athenĉum’s course offerings will be part of our Bicentennial Celebration in 2010, and will focus on one of Salem’s most illustrious citizens, Reverend William Bentley. Almost everyone living in Salem knows something about Bentley, but few of us know the details of his extraordinary life and the extent of his influence both within and outside New England. This course will fill in some of these details, and promises to give a picture of Salem’s extraordinary economic growth at the same time. For thirty-six years, from 1783 to 1810, Bentley was pastor of the East Church in Salem, and chronicler in his voluminous diary of the port town’s daily events. These were the years of Salem’s meteoric economic growth, the period when the China Trade put Salem on the world’s map, the era when the town developed into an elegant metropolis … and the time when the Salem Athenaeum was founded. In a series of six classes, Dr. Friary will discuss the eccentric minister who rarely traveled further than Boston and Cambridge but was a citizen and an observer of the world. Dr. Friary will explore Bentley’s childhood in Boston, as well as his education at the Boston Latin School and Harvard College. It will follow his search for a post as pastor of one of New England’s churches and his adoption of the liberal theology that in his lifetime became Unitarianism. Course participants will hear about Bentley’s parishioners, grand and obscure; Salem’s harbor front; and Bentley’s commitment to his own intellectual development, and the education of others. Bentley’s activity in, indeed his passion for, collecting all sorts of curiosities, tangible and otherwise, will be the focus of one session. Finally, as spring brings longer days and warmer nights, Mr. Bentley himself will appear for a walk about the East Parish in 1819 and the buildings and personalities he knew so well. Donald Friary, a Salem resident since 2005, is President of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts and Principal with History for Hire. He was for twenty-eight years Executive Director of Historic Deerfield, Inc. and has taught at the State University of New York at New Paltz and at Smith College. He holds three degrees in American Civilization: an A.B. from Brown University and his A.M. and Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania. He is also a member of the American Antiquarian Society, a Fellow of the Massachusetts Historical Society, and a member of the board of Historic Salem, Inc. The author of numerous articles and reviews in early American history, he has appeared on the streets of Salem in costume and in character as the Reverend Bentley. Members will also recall his fascinating lecture this past year, with Margherita Desy, on the Great Salem Fire of 1914.
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