Lunch & Learn: Plimoth Plantation’s Lunchtime Lecture Series
Feed your brain!
Pack your lunch and join us for our hour-long Lunch & Learn lecture series! Held the first Thursday of each month from March through November, Plimoth Plantation welcomes a lineup of lively, unique guest speakers who bring big ideas, humorous tales, and adventure stories to your lunch table.
This series is free to members and just $8.00 (per lecture) for non-members, so our seats fill up quickly! Be sure to make your reservations ahead of time online by clicking the link listed for each session, or contact Ellis Brewster at (508) 746-1622 (Ext. 8226).
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Lunch & Learn 2013 Schedule
Lunch & Learn: Native Crafts, Bow & Arrow Making
Thursday, March 7, 2013, 12-1pm
Free for Members/$8 for Non-Members
Join Plimoth Plantation’s talented artisan, Brian Bartabough, as he discusses and demonstrates the traditional native bow & arrow making (as well as other native crafts) from the 17th-century to today. Bring a lunch or buy one at our Patuxet Café. Discussion starts promptly at noon in Gainsborough Hall. Please register online by clicking here.
Lunch & Learn: Native People & The Sea
Thursday, April 4, 2013 12-1pm
Free for Members/$8 for Non-Members
Plimoth Plantation is pleased to present Josh Reed, the Assistant Professor of History at UMass Boston and Director of the Native American Indigenous Studies Program, who will discuss the profound relationship between Native people and the sea. Bring a lunch or buy one at our Patuxet Café. Discussion starts promptly at noon in the Accomack Building. Please register online by clicking here.
Lunch & Learn: The First Peopling of this Place We Now Call Plymouth (An Archaelogical Perspective)
Thursday, May 2, 2013 12-1pm
Free for Members/$8 for Non-Members
Plimoth Plantation is pleased to present Ellen Berkland, a Massachusetts DCR Archeologist who has done numerous excavations and site protection on the South Shore and greater Boston area. Join us as she brings her knowledge on Native Archeology to Plimoth Plantation. Bring a lunch or buy one at our Patuxet Café. Discussion starts promptly at noon in the Accomack Building. Please register online by clicking here.
About our speaker: Ellen Berkland has been a practicing professional archaeologist in New England for over 25 years. Ellen served as the Boston City Archaeologist for 16 years, and recently began working for the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation where she manages and protects below ground cultural resources on half a million acres across the state.
Lunch & Learn: The History of Jewish People in Plymouth
Thursday, June 6, 2013 12-1pm
Free for Members/$8 for Non-Members
Drawing upon her immense research and knowledge on the subject, Plimoth Plantation’s own curator, Dr. Karin Goldstein, will discuss the often unknown “hidden history” of Jewish people in early Plymouth. Dr. Goldstein’s book on the subject, Jewish Plymouth, will be published in 2013. Bring a lunch or buy one at our Patuxet Café. Discussion starts promptly at noon in the Accomack Building. Please register for this event by clicking here.
About our speaker: Curator of Originals Collection at Plimoth Plantation since 1992, Dr. Goldstein received her Ph.D from Boston University in 2006 in American and New England Studies. She received her M.A from the University of Leicester (Leicester, England) in 1991 where her thesis:Nomenclature of Museum Objects earned distinction. She has recently contributed articles to American Furniture & The Mayflower Quarterly, and has taught at Boston University, Tufts University, and Bridgewater State.
Lunch & Learn: Hike Plymouth! Discover New Trails and Walking Paths
Thursday, July 11, 2013 12-1pm
Free for Members/$8 for Non-Members
Looking for a new place to stroll on a warm summer evening? Come hear about the hidden (and some un-hidden) walking trails of Plymouth with author Frank Werny, a former chemical engineer turned leading authority on local hiking. Frank has authored two books on local walking and hiking trails - Great Walks and Hike Plymouth! Books will be for sale at the event, and Frank will be signing books after his lecture. Bring a lunch or buy one at our Patuxet Café. Discussion starts promptly at noon in the Accomack Building. Register online by clicking here.
About our speaker: Frank Werny was born in Germany and emigrated to the U.S. in 1953. He received his BS from the University of Puget Sound and a PhD in organic chemistry from the University of Hawaii. Frank has lived in Germany, the Pacific Northwest, Hawaii, Delaware and Pennsylvania. He retired after a career in chemical research and now enjoys retirement living with his wife Dorothy in the Pinehills of Plymouth. He spends his time hiking, traveling, and visiting family and grandchildren all over the country. Frank has explored over 70 hikes over a period of 7 years in Plymouth, Duxbury, Pembroke, Sagamore, Sandwich and Wareham, and published a full color book detailing his favorites. For each hike, the book gives directions with a GPS address, features, difficulty, instructions and a Google map with the hike overlaid. Many of the hike descriptions also include historical or descriptive background material on the features of that particular hike. Frank continues to explore new hiking trails and paths and plans to update future revisions of his book with his discoveries.
Lunch & Learn: Yesterday's Clay And Potters of Today
Thursday, August 1, 2013 12-1pm
Free for Members/$8 for Non-MembersJoin Martha Sulya, (Curator of Colonial Reproductions at Plimoth Plantation) who will share her knowledge of ceramics from the Stephen Bradford pottery site in Kingston, MA. Excavated in 1996, three generations of the Bradford family produced commonly used household items along the Jones River from the late 18th to the mid-19th centuries. Learn the fate of the family business during an era of change. Martha will also address the use of common archaeological techniques such as mapping and excavation, as well as other less well known methods of gathering information, such as analyzing plant and animal remains. Bring a bagged lunch to enjoy while listening or buy one in our Patuxet Café. Discussion starts promptly at noon in the Accomack Building. Please register online by clicking here.
About our speaker: Martha Sulya has been the Curator of Colonial Reproductions at Plimoth Plantation since 2004. Prior to that, she was the Site Manager (Maine properties) for Historic New England. A former role-player at Plimoth Plantation, Martha brings a unique and knowledgeable perspective to her work, training sessions and lectures. She can often be seen in the Museum’s Craft Center creating (and interpreting) the reproduction 17th-century pottery that is featured in the Museum’s exhibits. She is a 1989 graduate of Bates College (where she majored in history) and is currently working on her thesis (Tradition and Change in an Era of Transition: The Bradford Family Pottery of Kingston, Massachusetts) at the University of Massachusetts, Boston.
Lunch & Learn: Shoulder Your Arms; Colonial Militias In Early Plymouth Colony
Thursday, September 5, 2013 12-1pm
Free for Members/$8 for Non-MembersPlease join us as Plimoth Plantation’s own Colonial Interpreter, Chris Messier, discusses the role of famous Plymouth military figures (such Captain Myles Standish) and importance of Colonial arms and armament in early New England. Bring a lunch or buy one at our Patuxet Café. Discussion starts promptly at noon in the Accomack Building. Please register for this event online by clicking here.
About our speaker: Chris Messier has been a Colonial Interpreter and Museum Teacher at Plimoth Plantation for over ten years. He has portrayed everyone from Capt. Myles Standish to Master Christopher Jones (of Mayflower), and is one of the Museum’s expert authorities on military history and practice in early Plymouth Colony. Chris travels extensively around the country, leading workshops and lecturing on 17th – century New England history.
Lunch & Learn: Dying Cloth in the 17th Century
Thursday, October 3, 2013 12-1pm
Free for Members/$8 for Non-Members
Please join us as Plimoth Plantation’s talented historical clothing and textiles manager, Denise Leblica, discusses how early Colonists dyed cloth using 17th-century practices and materials. Bring a lunch or buy one at our Patuxet Café. Discussion starts promptly at noon in the Accomack Building. Please register for this event by clicking here.
About our speaker: Denise Lebica, Manager of Historical Clothing and Textiles at Plimoth Plantation, designs, constructs and maintains all reproduction historical clothing for our interpreters at Plimoth Plantation. Denise also leads programs and workshops in historical clothing reproduction and techniques, and has recently presented at costume and living history conferences at Colonial Williamsburg and the Narva Museum in Estonia.
Lunch & Learn: Native Foods
Thursday, November 7, 2013 12-1pm
Free for Members/$8 for Non-MembersCarol Wynne, Wampanoag Foodways Manager at Plimoth Plantation, will discuss Wampanoag foods and how they were grown, used and stored in the 17th-century. Bring a lunch or buy one at our Patuxet Café. Discussion starts promptly at noon in the Accomack Building. Please register for this event by clicking here.
About our speaker: Carol Wynne has been working at Plimoth Plantation off and on since 1998 after leaving her prior job of being a flight attendant for over 20 years. She loves people and has been an interpreter, horticulturist, Wampanoag museum teacher and Foodways Manager at the Museum. Carol is a Mashpee Wampanoag and a tribal elder. She loves talking about her people and her ancestor’s ways. In her spare time, she also works at the Aptucxet Trading Post Museum as a Site Manager.
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