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2016 Highland House Event List


Philip Hoare:
The Screening of ‘The Hunt for Moby-Dick’
May 5, 6pm Truro Public Library

Open House and Living Legacy Reception
June 3, 4–6 pm

Massachusetts Walking Tour – Bipedal Concert Tour
June 12, 6pm

From Bean to Bar – Chequessett Chocolate, Small Batch Chocolate Making: Katherine Reed and Josiah Mayo
June 29, 7pm

Thoreau’s ‘Cape Cod’: A Colloquium Led by Helen McNeil-Ashton
July 6

The Cape Cod Jazz Quartet
July 13, 7pm

Thoreau’s ‘Cape Cod’: A Marathon Community Reading of the Full Text
July 15th – 9am – 4pm

Open House and Reception – Forest to Farm: Truro’s landscape before and after Thoreau
July 15, 4–6 pm

National Park Service: Its Legacy and Its Future: Roundtable Discussion on the occasion of the 100th Anniversary of the National Park Service
July 16, 10am – Truro Meeting House, 3 First Parish Lane, Town Hall Hill, Truro

Evidence on the Land: How humans created the landscapes of Truro, from the Woodland people to the “Saints and Strangers” to backyard conservationists: Mark Adams
July 20, 7pm

Three Centuries at Tashmuit: A Time-Traveler’s Tour of the Highland Area: Peter Burgess
July 27, 7pm

How to Move Something Really Big: The 1996 Relocation of Highland Lighthouse: Bill Burke
August 3, 7pm

Truro: How land use history has shaped our current landscape: Deborah Merriam
August 10, 7pm

Truro Historical Society Annual Dinner
August 13, 6pm

Farming with Children – Growing Food, Health and Community through Children’s Gardens: Francie Randolph
August 17, 7pm

Outer Cape Chorale Chamber Singers
August 24, 7pm

Edward Hopper:  Capturing the Outer Cape Light – Lisbeth Wiley Chapman
August 31, 7pm

Bob Masson’s Cemetery Tour
September 11, 12:45 – 3pm

Opening lecture for Truro Treasures: Highland Lighthouse
September 16, 3pm

Photographers Day
September 18 @ 10:00 am – 12:00 pm

Season’s Closing Open House

September 24, 1-4pm (free admission)

Philip Koch: Edward Hopper’s Legacy on Cape Cod
Saturday, September 24, 6-7 pm

Photographers Day
Date to be determined

Susan Howe Music & Speaker Series

We are very pleased and excited to announce the establishment of the Truro Historical Society’s Susan Howe Music & Speaker Series established in her honor due to the generosity of the Truro community, her family and her many friends and colleagues. In establishing this series, Susan’s commitment to Truro’s history and culture will live on and provide inspiration to all.

We will strive to develop and bring a program of inspiring authors, artists, historians, and musicians to the museum each season to share their knowledge and talent with the community and visitors to Truro.

Stay tuned for updates on this new inspiring series and thank you again for your support. If you would like to donate in Susan’s memory, please click on the link:  Donate to the Susan Howe Memorial Fund

Josephine and Edward Hopper in Truro – Video by Outer Cape TV

We are very pleased to announce that Lower Cape TV has released a short video about Josephine and Edward Hopper in Truro where Helen McNeil-Ashton, Vice President of Collections at the Truro Historical Society, describes the Hoppers’ relationship within themselves and with Truro. Here’s the link: Josephine and Edward Hopper in Truro

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