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Dickens Fellowship
Dramatic reading of
Great Expectations
Thursday, September 9, 7 pm

Annual Book Sale
Saturday, Sept.11, 10 am-1 pm

Paul Harding     [Register Now]
Tuesday, September 21, 7 pm
$15, $10 members, students free

Fur Trade in America
Lecture by Eric Jay Dolin
Tuesday, September 28, 7 pm
$15, $10 members, students free
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Collections Symposium
Saturday, October 2, 9 am-1 pm
$40, $35 members, $10 students
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Mass. Bay Charter Exhibition Opening Reception
With remarks by Supreme Judicial Court Chief Justice Margaret H. Marshall
Wednesday, October 13, 7 pm
Peabody Essex Museum
$25 Register at pem.org/calendar

Nathaniel Bowditch Course
4 Thursdays, Oct. 21 - Nov.11, 7-9 pm
Tuition $145/$125 members  [Register Now]

Adams Lecture
Given by David Armitage
Tuesday, November 2, 7:30 pm
Reception begins at 7:00 pm
$35, $30 members, $10 students
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Fahima Vorgetts
Friday, November 5, 7 pm
Tabernacle Church, Salem
$15, $10 members, $5 students

Gordon A. Martin, Jr.
Tuesday, December 7, 7 pm
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The Athenæum will be closed Saturday, September 4 for Labor Day weekend.  Normal hours resume Tuesday, September 7.

Nathaniel Bowditch
Celestial Navigator Extraordinaire

Join us for a very special course on Nathaniel Bowditch and 19th century celestial navigation led by Dr. George W. Brandenburg, Director Emeritus of the Laboratory for Particle Physics and Cosmology,  and Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Physics at Harvard. 

The course will meet four Thursdays, October 21-November 11 from 7-9 p.m.  Tuition is $145/$125 for members. [Register Now]

Nathaniel Bowditch was a founding shareholder of the Salem Athenæum and we are delighted to present this in-depth look at his life and work during our bicentennial year.  His greatest achievement, The New American Practical Navigator, first published in 1802, made accurate navigation tables widely available and secured the success of the Far East trade for the young United States.
    [More information about the course]

Massachusetts Bay Charter
 

Bicentennial celebrations continue this fall with a public display of the Massachusetts Bay Charter (1629) which the Salem Athenæum received as a gift in 1810.  The four page parchment document will be exhibited at the Peabody Essex Museum with an opening reception on October 13th featuring remarks by Margaret H. Marshall, Chief Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court.  The exhibition will be on view through January 30th.    [Read more...]