• Silhouette Portrait Artist

    Silhouette Portrait Artist

    Portraits In Silhouette is the combined expertise of silhouette artists and mother-daughter team, Jean Comerford and Marcella Comerford-Foley. Portraits In Silhouette is focused on bringing you original, personalized work, full of inventive detail and creative spark. The silhouettes are never produced with a digital program, copied, or traced. You can expect a genuine, hand-cut, and […]

  • Ukrainian Egg (Pysanky) Workshop

    Ukrainian Egg (Pysanky) Workshop

    Pysanky, a Ukrainian Easter egg, is a traditional folk art that, according to legend, prevent bad things from happening in the world… as long as enough are made! In this workshop you will learn to make these intricately decorated eggs using the wax-resist method of dying. This workshop is for older artists (age 12 - […]

  • M is for Museum/Poppets Playdates

    This month, our M is for Museum/Poppets Playdates theme is "On the Farm!" Our Poppets friends will read Little Blue Truck's Springtime by Alice Schertle.  In this book, the Little Blue Truck is out for a drive with his friend, Toad.  They meet many baby animals born in the springtime! Our M is for Museum friends […]

  • Behind-the-Scenes Collection Tour

    What is a museum collection?  How does it work?  Who cares for it, and where does it live?  Learn the answers to these questions and more in a behind-the-scenes tour of the Wenham Museum's collections storage spaces.  The museum's Collections Manager, Samantha Grantham, will lead visitors into the storage spaces where 45,000 items in the […]

  • Our War in Iraq: The Perspective of Two Paratroopers

    Patton Homestead 650 Asbury Street, Hamilton, MA, United States

    Join us as we welcome two “Blue Falcon” paratroopers from the North Shore, Richard Barbato and Isaac Pike, and hear their perspectives on the Iraq War.  Through first-person accounts and personal photos, we will follow their journey from Kuwait to the Baghdad International Airport and the Battle of As Samawah.  Theirs is a riveting story […]

  • Behind-the-Scenes Collection Tour

    Behind-the-Scenes Collection Tour

    What is a museum collection?  How does it work?  Who cares for it, and where does it live?  Learn the answers to these questions and more in a behind-the-scenes tour of the Wenham Museum's collections storage spaces.  The museum's Collections Manager, Samantha Grantham, will lead visitors into the storage spaces where 45,000 items in the […]

  • M is for Museum & Poppets Playdates

    This month, our M is for Museum/Poppets Playdates theme is “Bugs from A to Z!” Our Poppets friends will read The Icky Bug Alphabet Book by Jerry Pallotta. In this book, we’ll explore our ABCs in this “icky” exploration of all the creepy crawly insects from A to Z. Our M is for Museum friends […]