In 2007 Elizabeth Mehlin established Mehlin Conservation in Essex, Massachusetts.  Elizabeth has sixteeen years’ experience in conservation of oil paintings for government agencies, private institutions and individual clients in the US and Canada.

She received her Master of Art Conservation degree specializing in paintings from Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. She holds a B.A. in Art History from Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts

She will be speaking primarily about the work she has done on the mural at the Sawyer Free Library in Gloucester.

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Dave Rattigan of Scamps Comedy will organize the show . I have known Dave for over 

twenty years where I have worked with him to organize many prior shows .

For the past fifteen years I have attended the comedy night at the Cruiseport in Gloucester 

and the event was always well attended.

The event will be G rated and will not offend anyone . Bringing comedy to Masconomo Park 

will be a first and laughter is great therapy for all .... and Masconomo Park at the Bandstand will

be the gathering spot for the event .

There will be four comedians and the event is scheduled for June 23rd to start at 6PM with a fifteen

minute break and commence at 8:30 PM . 

Bill Seymour will be speaking on his foundation Homes For Our Troops www.hfotusa.org

Our Mission: To build and donate specially adapted custom homes nationwide for severely injured post-9/11 Veterans, to enable them to rebuild their lives.

Pam Beaudoin is the Superintendent of the Manchester-Essex Regional School District (MERSD)

Join scholar and anthropologist Mary Ellen Lepionka to learn about the history of the land now known as Beverly, MA.

As Lepionka describes, The people living where Montserrat is now were the Pawtucket of Nahumkeak. They welcomed the “Old Planters” of Salem Village, today’s Beverly, and lived peaceably side by side with them during the first 50 years of English settlement. During the 18th and 19th centuries, however, their sites, history, homeland, and very identity were “erased.”

Mary Ellen Lepionka of Gloucester is an independent scholar researching the history of Cape Ann from the last Ice Age to around 1700 for a book on the subject. Some chapters have been published at CapeAnnHistory.org

Mary Ellen’s interest in local indigenous history and culture was sparked by Samuel de Champlain’s 1606 map of Le Beauport (Gloucester) showing a wigwam on her street. Mary Ellen is a retired college instructor, textbook developer, author, and publisher with a Master’s degree in anthropology from Boston University and post-graduate work at the University of British Columbia. She taught anthropology and world history at Boston University, Vancouver City College, Northeastern University, North Shore Community College, and Salem State College.

Articles by Mary Ellen appear in the Bulletin of the Massachusetts Archaeological Society and the local history blogs Enduring Gloucester and Historic Ipswich.