Events

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.

Monthly Social Meeting at Cape Ann Lanes / Laneside Pub & Brewery. 

Meal Service at the First Beverly Baptist Church, Cabot St. Beverly. Full dinner served to approximately 40 clients.

This event is supported by Beverly Bootstraps. All volunteers welcome.

District Governor Alexandar Fallk will be at our regular morning club meeting to present the club with the Membership Award for attaining our growth goals in 2022. 
 

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.

Here website is here

Dinner Meeting at Allie's Beach St. Cafe Manchester MA 

Martin Flood will be speaking about the project to restore the tennis courts at Memorial Park in Essex.

Back by popular demand, the Club is hosting the second annual St. Patrick's Day Dinner & Music!  Music by The Erstwhiles, and a special appearance by the Creaganmore Pipes and Drums.  Corned beef and the trimmings, cash bar, and Irish step dancing will be presented after the dinner!

Tickets go fast so please click the link on our homepage, or complete the registration, to purchase tickets in advance.  Club Members who are volunteering please use the volunteer signup - and dinner is comped.