Feed your brain!

Pack your lunch and join us for our hour-long Lunch and 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 and open to the public, 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 Courtney Roy-Branigan at (508) 746-1622 x8203 or croy-branigan@plimoth.org .

Lunch and Learn 2012 Schedule

Thursday, March 1, 12:00-1:00PM

Lunch & Learn – Plimoth Plantation’s Lunchtime Lecture Series

Wampanoag Program staff member Robert Charlebois presents; King Philip's War; A Native Perspective. Located in the Accomack building. Lecture will begin promptly at noon. A brief Q& A will follow. Participants are encouraged to bring a bag lunch. To reserve a seat, click here. FREE.

About our speaker: Robert Charlebois is on staff as an interpreter and researcher for the Wampanoag Indigenous Program at Plimoth Plantation. He is a member of the Abenaki Nation (Lacadie St. Jean, PQ Canada). He has also worked as a History & Social Studies teacher in public schools in the United States, and in First Nations schools in Canada. In addition to these positions, he also worked in the Lands Bureau for the Department du Affaires Indienne y Development du Nord (DIAND), in Hull, PQ. He is an elder in his community.

Thursday, April 5 , 12:00-1:00PM

Lunch & Learn – Plimoth Plantation’s Lunchtime Lecture Series

Join Kim Goggin as she presents: The Widewater Journals.  Dr. Harold Ernst and his wife Ellen created a summer paradise on the bluffs of Manomet (Widewater) where family and friends gathered to enjoy the outdoors. Listen as they recall how gatherings at this lovely estate setting created a lasting and significant environmental legacy. Located in the Accomack building. Lecture will begin promptly at noon. A brief Q& A will follow. Participants are encouraged to bring a bag lunch. To reserve a seat, click here. FREE.

About our speaker: Kim Goggin has been on staff at the Manoment Center for Conservation Sciences for 26 years. She currently holds the titles of Garden Cordinator and Administrative Assistant, and lectures on the Widewater story and assorted topics in the  New England area.

Thursday, May 3, 12:00-1:00PM

Lunch & Learn – Plimoth Plantation’s Lunchtime Lecture Series

Plimoth Plantation is pleased to present Foraging and Eating Wild, with expert forager Russ Cohen, author of Wild Plants I have Known and… Eaten. Located in the Accomack building. Lecture will begin promptly at noon. A brief Q& A and book signing will follow. Participants are encouraged to bring a bag lunch. To reserve a seat, click here. FREE.

About our speaker: Russ Cohen is in his 38^th year of teaching courses and lecturing on wild edibles. He received his bachelor's degree in land use planning from Vassar College in 1978, and received a masters in Natural Resources and a law degree from Ohio State University in 1982. Russ has received several awards for his work, including an Environmental Achievement Award from Save the Bay (RI) in 1993, an Environmental Service Award from the Mass. Association of Conservation Commissions in 1997, the Public Servant of the Year Award from the Environmental League of Massachusetts (also in 1997), an Environmental Merit Award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in 2003, and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Association of Massachusetts Wetland Scientists in 2011. Russ also received a "Heritage Hero" award from the Essex National Heritage Commission in 2006 for his foraging writing and programs. His book, Wild Plants I have Known and… Eaten, is in its fourth printing.

Thursday, June 7, 12:00-1:00PM

Lunch & Learn – Plimoth Plantation’s Lunchtime Lecture Series

The Winslows were an up-and-coming family in colonial New England, who contributed to local politics, government and the military. While the family is fairly well documented, what about the servants and slaves who helped run their households? Join Dr. Karin Goldstein as she presents: The Winslow Family & Their Servants. Lecture will begin promptly at noon in the Accomack Building. A brief Q& A will follow. Participants are encouraged to bring a bag lunch. To reserve a seat, click here. FREE.

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.

Thursday, July 5, 12:00-1:00PM

Lunch & Learn – Plimoth Plantation’s Lunchtime Lecture Series

Plimoth Plantation is delighted to present Wearing History- Reproducing Historical Clothing with Manager of Historical Clothing and Textiles Denise Lebica. Lecture will begin promptly at noon in the Accomack Building. A brief Q& A will follow. Participants are encouraged to bring a bag lunch. To reserve a seat, click here. FREE.

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.

Thursday, August 2, 12:00-1:00PM

Lunch & Learn – Plimoth Plantation’s Lunchtime Lecture Series

About our speaker: Dr. James Cedric Woods is the Director of the institute for Native American Studies at the University of Massachusetts Boston and a trustee of Plimoth Plantation. 

Thursday, September 6, 12:00-1:00PM

Lunch & Learn – Plimoth Plantation’s Lunchtime Lecture Series

Plimoth Plantation is pleased to present; Fur, Fortune and Empire- An Epic History of the Fur Trade in America with author Eric Jay Dolin.  Fur, Fortune, and Empire in the winner of the 2011 James P. Hanlan Book Award, given by the New England Historical Association, and was awarded first place in the Outdoor Writers Association of America, Excellence in Craft Contest. Located in the Accomack building. Lecture will begin promptly at noon. A brief Q& A and book signing  will follow. Participants are encouraged to bring a bag lunch. To reserve a seat, click here. FREE.

About our speaker: Eric Jay Dolin graduated from Brown University, where he majored in biology and environmental studies. After getting a master’s degree in environmental management from the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, he received his Ph.D. in environmental policy and planning from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Much of Dolin’s writing reflects his interest in wildlife, the environment, and American history. His books include Fur, Fortune, and Empire: The Epic History of the Fur Trade in America, Leviathan: The History of Whaling In America, the Smithsonian Book of National Wildlife Refuges, Snakehead: A Fish Out of Water, and Political Waters, a history of the degradation and cleanup of Boston Harbor. 

Thursday, October 4, 12:00-1:00PM

Lunch & Learn – Plimoth Plantation’s Lunchtime Lecture Series

Plimoth Plantation is pleased to present; Crime and Controversy in Colonial New England with Diane Rappaport, author of the book, The Naked Quaker: True Crimes and Controversies from the Courts of Colonial New England.  Located in the Accomack building. Lecture will begin promptly at noon. A brief Q& A and book signing will follow. Participants are encouraged to bring a bag lunch. To reserve a seat, please click here. FREE.

About our speaker: Diane Rappaport is a former trial lawyer who has made a new career as a writer and speaker. Her first book, New England Court Records: A Research Guide for Genealogists and Historians, won three Benjamin Franklin Awards in 2007 (Independent Book Publishers Association) for Best History Book, Best Reference Book, and finalist for Best New Voice in Nonfiction. Diane’s “Tales from the Courthouse” column for New England Ancestors magazine is a three-time winner of Excellence in Writing awards from the International Society of Family History Writers and Editors. 

Thursday, November 1, 12:00-1:00PM

Lunch & Learn – Plimoth Plantation’s Lunchtime Lecture Series

Plimoth Plantation is pleased to present; A Season to Taste; A Brief History of the Thanksgiving Table with Colonial Foodways Culinarian Kathleen Wall. Located in the Accomack building. Lecture will begin promptly at noon. A brief Q& A will follow. Participants are encouraged to bring a bag lunch. To reserve a seat, click here. FREE.

About our speaker: Kathleen Wall has been on staff at Plimoth Planatation since 1980. As the museum’s Colonial Foodways Culinarian, she trains, lectures and demonstrates period foodways techniches and history for staff and guests. Recent media apperences include The History Channel, Food Network, National Public Radio and the Victory Garden. She is a member of the Culinarian Historians of Boston, and blogs Pilgrim Seasonings for Plimoth Plantation on all things food-related.