All Over England
The speaker will introduce her 48 minute slide show highlighting her exhausting 4 week romp around England. Set to foot-tapping music that runs the gamut from “Rule Britannia” to Elton…
The English Garden: Perfection on Earth
Though the earliest English gardens were planted by Roman conquerors in the 1st century AD, the English garden as we know it today is a designed landscape style that was…
Continuing Conversation: The Klondike Gold Rush
Following the Museums a la Carte lecture with Robert H. Romer, join docent Pat McCarthy for further discussion in Blake Court in the D'Amour Museum of Fine Arts. Museum members…
Continuing Conversation: Better Angels
Following the Museums a la Carte program by Dawn Howkinson Siebel, join history docent Jim Boone for a further discussion in the Police and Fire exhibit in the Wood Museum…
Gallery Activities
10:30 am-2:30 pm Create an “animal adaptation” collage 11:30 am-3:30 pm Identify animal skulls, scat and pelts at a hands-on station Noon-4 pm Make a canine valentine in the Art…
Explore GeeBee Airplanes
Free with museum admission. What is the difference between a GeeBee flyer and a modern commercial airplane? Stand underneath the real thing and take a look for yourself.
Pulling the Person Out of the Paper Work: More than Dates & Names
Registration for this class has closed. Learn how to research your ancestry using the extensive resources available including genealogical websites. You’ll learn a great deal about researching– but keep in…
The Art & History of Cheese Making
Registration for this class has closed. We don't usually think of cheese as a preserve, but it originated as a way to turn the milk that was plentiful in spring…
Vincent Van Gogh: The Last Chapter. How Genius Challenged Tradition and Then Transformed It
The painter Vincent van Gogh exposed the journey of becoming an artist as virtually no one else in the history of art. Hundreds and hundreds of letters, paintings, and drawings…
The History of Latinos in Western Massachusetts
Joe Carvalho and Elizabeth Roman have collaborated to write and edit “Nuestra Historia,” part of The Republican’s Heritage Book series. While Mr. Carvalho delved into the origins of Latinos in…