THE MUSEUM OF AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY
Boston and Nantucket

presents the

A Tribute to Bing Crosby

featuring a performance by

Paul Connors
Vocals with Guitar

Join us in the Nantucket African Meeting House

for a concert of Bing’s Tunes: Jazz and Pop Music from

1926 to 1979, songs from movies and radio shows,

plus Hawaiian, Irish, and cowboy songs.

Saturday September 8 at 2:00 pm

Nantucket Campus
29 York Street, Five Corners

RSVP: Please confirm your participation by email or phone

MAAH NANTUCKET SUMMER HOURS

Monday through Saturday, 11am - 3pm

MUSEUM AND EVENT ADMISSIONS

General admission:  $5.00

Youth 13 - 17 years and seniors 62+: $3.00

Members and all children 12 years & under: free.

email or phone (617)725-0022 x222.

THE MUSEUM OF AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY
Boston and Nantucket

presents the

ANNUAL FRANK AND BETTE SPRIGGS LECTURE
“Rhode Island's Black Patriots in the Revolutionary War”

Featuring Dr. Louis Wilson
Professor, Scholar, Author

Wednesday, August 29, 2012 at 2:00 pm

African Meeting House, Nantucket
29 York Street (Five Corners)

The American Revolution was a defining moment in the formation of what became the United States of America. The men and women who fought in that conflict have, for the most part, been memorialized. Unfortunately, this history gives little account of the many black soldiers who fought in the war.

Dr. Louis Wilson, Professor of African and African American History at Smith College, has captured through his research the names of more than 800 men who served in Revolutionary War army units from Rhode Island. In his talk, Dr. Wilson will share the personal stories of these men who fought to liberate their country from tyranny while their own personal freedom was not guaranteed.

Dr. Wilson’s present research is focused on two areas: African Americans in the American Revolutionary War and free blacks in Rhode Island prior to the Civil War. His most recent works include an article published in the book “Love Across the Color Line” and the completion of “Americans” (co-authored, Houghton Mifflin, 2004), a series of high school social science text. He has been a senior Fulbright researcher at the University of Cape Town, South Africa; a visiting professor of American Studies at the University of Hamburg; and a fellow at the
W. E. B. DuBois Institute at Harvard University.

Click here to RSVP for this free event.

For more information or questions, please contact Cara Liasson
at cliasson@maah.org or (617) 725-0022 x222

NANTUCKET HOURS AND ADMISSIONS:
Summer hours: Monday through Saturday, 11am-3pm
General admission: $5.00; youth 13 - 17 years and seniors 62+: $3.00;
Members and all kids 12 years & under: free.

"Recovered Lives 4: The Pompey Family"
Thursday, August 30

12 noon

With Frances Karttunen who will discuss the legacy of the Pompey family, a prosperous and

talented family with Nantucket roots whose story begins in the 1700’s with their namesake, a slave named Pompey who was manumitted, to Edward Pompey, a whaler/merchant and subscription agent of the Liberator and Sampson Pompey, a Civil War Veteran and member of the

Grand Army of the Republic in the 1800’s.

"Recovered Lives 3: The Rev. James Crawford"
Thursday, August 23

12 noon

Reverend James Crawford

With Frances Karttunen who will discuss the life of Rev. James Crawford, an ex-slave who became an ordained Baptist minister and was pastor for over forty years at the Nantucket Meetinghouse.

"On Being Site Managers

for the African Meeting House"

Thursday, August 16

12 noon

With Frank and Bette Spriggs, the Museum of African American History’s first

Nantucket Site Managers, who ran the Nantucket sites from 1999-2009.

How We Did It:

The Restoration of the African Meeting House
Saturday, August 11

2:00 pm

Helen Seager

Helen Seager, Founder, Friends of the African Meeting House on Nantucket, will give an illustrated talk about how she and a community of volunteers worked together to restore the Nantucket Meetinghouse in the 1990’s and raised awareness of the site’s history and significance.

"Recovered Lives 2: Cyrus Peirce"
Thursday, August 9

12 noon

Cyrus Peirce

With Barbara Ann White, Nantucket author, who will talk about Cyrus Peirce, a leading abolitionist as well as an educator. Peirce was the first director of the first teacher-training school in the United States, the founder of the Lexington Normal School, the first school in what evolved into the state university system of Massachusetts, and the first principal of Nantucket High School.

"Life in Codfish Park"
Thursday, August 2

12 noon

With Joan Wilson-Godeau who will talk about the lives of her parents and their contemporaries

who made their home down below the Sconset Bank in Codfish Park from the middle of the

1920s onward.

"Recovered Lives 1: Annie Nahar"
Thursday, July 26

12 noon

Author Barbara Ann White		Author Frances Karttunen

Annie Nahar was a graduate of Nantucket High School who followed the example of teacher

Anna Gardner and went from Nantucket to New Orleans at the end of the Civil War to teach

children newly released from slavery.

With Nantucket authors, Barbara Ann White, (A Line in the Sand: The Battle to Integrate Nantucket Public Schools, 1827-1847), and Frances Karttunen, (The Other Islanders: People Who Pulled Nantucket's Oars).

"Nantucket's Union Lodge"
Thursday, July 19

12 noon

With Francis W. Pease, a Nantucket native and businessman who has been an active Mason since 1946 and will discuss the history of Freemasonry (from 1771 to the present), the oldest and largest fraternity in the world, and how Nantucket’s Union Lodge is an example of a typical masonic lodge.

"The Reconstruction of Great Point Lighthouse: Documentary Photographs"

Thursday, July 12

Come witness the rebirth of New England’s most powerful light! Photographer Rob Benchley has drawn from a variety of sources to create a gripping show of photographs that reveal the resurrection of Great Point Lighthouse from its ruins on the day after the 1986 storm that toppled it.

The light’s reconstruction was done by local contractor Augusto “Augie” Ramos and his son Rookie.

Thursday Noontime Talks

are held at The African Meeting House

27 York Street

Dedicated to Renee Oliver & Eleanor Jones

(508) 228-9833

Thursday, July 5, 2012

Come learn about the extraordinary Reverend Louise Baker (1846-1896), one of the first ordained women ministers in the USA. She served as pastor of Nantucket's North Congregational Church for many years. She was also a supporter of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union, and a published poet.

Thursday Noontime Talks

are held at The African Meeting House

27 York Street

Dedicated to Renee Oliver & Eleanor Jones

(508) 228-9833

Nantucket African Meeting House

Hosts Gospel Concert  

Saturday * April 14 * 2pm

MAAH Nantucket * 27 York Street * Five Corners

Jessica Heuser

Renowned soprano Jessica Heuser will perform a concert featuring various Gospel and spiritual music selections.  Accompanied by pianist Robby Berhman, Heuser will be joined by her students.  Click here for more information about MAAH's Nantucket Campus. 

Hours/Admission/Directions:  Museum entrance fees apply.  Accessible for all.
Click to request more information or call 508-228-9833.

Nantucket's 6th Annual One Book, One Island Finale

An Afternoon of Jazz and Poetry
Featuring renowned poet, songwriter, author, and educator

Regie Gibson
and Musician Paul Connors

February 19 • 2 – 4pm • 2012

29 York Street • Nantucket, Five Corners

Music and spoken word in the African Meeting House close week of events designed
to foster the importance of life-long learning and provide multiple opportunities for cultural
enrichment in the Nantucket community. Accessible for all.

Admission fees apply [link], unless otherwise noted.

For details about additional events:

Contact MAAH Nantucket

Email • roliver@maah.org or woliver@maah.org
Phone • 508.228.9833

JANUARY, 2012

MAAH

EVENTS ON NANTUCKET

FEBRUARY12th - 19th

Nantucket's 6th Annual
One Book, One Island
featuring Dashiell Hammett's
The Maltese Falcon
(Nantucket African Meeting House and other venues)

August, 2011

MAAH

Events on Nantucket

(See below for July, 2011 events.)

Brown Bag Lunch Series
July and August
Thursday’s Noon to 1 P.M.

Aug. 25

Brown Bag Lunch:Dr. Francis Karttunen: Lucretia Coffin Mott, Abolitionist and Feminist (Noon to 1 P.M.)

Aug. 25

Spriggs Lecture: Elise Lemoire author of Black Walden; 2 P.M. <Details>

Aug. 26

Meet the musician night:Come meet Rio Clemente, David “Happy” Williams and Jake Vohs; 4 – 6 P.M.

Aug. 27

Jazz Festival: Rio Clemente, piano; David “Happy” Williams base; Jake Vohs, drummer
Tickets: $25.00
Location: First Congregational Church

Please consider the African Meeting House as the location for your wedding ceremony.

In order to help preserve these historic sites please make a contribution.

Past August 2011 Events:

Aug. 04

Brown Bag Lunch:Barbara White: Anna Gardner"A Disturber of Traditions" - Teacher of Freedmen (Noon to 1 P.M.)

Aug. 10

New York School of Interior Design (NYSID): Come hear the students report on the findings and research on the Boston Higginbotham House; 2 P.M.

Aug. 11

Brown Bag Lunch:Barbara White and Dr. Francis Karttunen: Colored Cemetery (Noon to 1 P.M.)

Aug. 18

Brown Bag Lunch: Dr. Francis Karttunen: Free Will Immigrants: Nantucket’s Cape Verdean Heritage (Noon to 1 P.M.)

Aug. 19

Lecture:Ames Fellowship Recipient Dr. Denise Patton, UMASS: Of Educational Value? 3 Generations of African Americans and the Nantucket Public Schools; 7 P.M.

July, 2011

MAAH

Events on Nantucket

(See below for June, 2011 events.)

Brown Bag Lunch Series
July and August
Thursday’s Noon to 1 P.M.

July 7:

Francis Karttunen: Captain Boston Had a Wife: The Maritime of Hannah Cook Boston

July 14:

Helen Seager: Evolution of the Black Heritage Trail

July21:

Francis Karttunen: The Remains of the Indians: What Became of Nantucket’s Wampanoag’s?

July 28:

Barbara White: Cyrus Peirce "Live to the Truth" - the story of an educator and an abolitionist.

June 11:
Docent workshop; 10:00 a.m.
Consider being a docent at an exciting place.
Meet your neighbors and enjoy the fun!
Call 508-228-9833

June 18:
Dr. Kathryn Cramer Brownell
Visiting Assistant Professor at Boston University
Topic:  “Stars for Freedom: Hollywood and the Civil Rights Movement.”

2:00 p.m.

Celebrate on June 18th
Juneteenth: Barbeque to follow: Special thanks to Rocky Fox from the Chicken Box for helping with the barbeque.

Treasures from the Collection; Bibles
Saturday April 30 to October 2, 2011

The Bibles date from 1804 to 1929.

They are part of the collections and treasures of the African Meeting House, some of its members when the building was a church, and the Boston/Higginbotham House families. Stop by, read the various inscriptions, and enjoy!

The Museum of African American History
African Meeting House
Seneca Boston-Florence Higginbotham House
27 & 29 York Street
(Five Corners)
Nantucket, MA

Northern White Cedar

Short, twisted trees on Nantucket, painting by Theodore Robinson (USA)
in 1882

Wampanoag Canoe, Plimouth Plantation, Massachusetts

Dale Gary, Town Arborist
Topic: Nantucket Trees

Saturday, April 2, 2011, 2 P.M.

Mr. Gary has been working on Nantucket for more than twenty years. He is the Town Arborist or Tree Warden. Mr. Gary will focus on our Nantucket trees. He desires to speak to your questions about our native trees as well as those that have been planted here.

Please come with your questions and concerns.

Open Daffodil Weekend
Saturday, April 30; 11 A.M. to 1 P.M.
Sunday, May 1; 1 – 3 P.M.

Treasures from the Collection; Bibles
Saturday April 30 to October 2, 2011

The Bibles date from 1804 to 1929. They are part of the collections and treasures of the African Meeting House, some of its members when the building was a church, and the Boston/Higginbotham House.

Stop by, read the various inscriptions, and enjoy!

Original Hospital on West Chester Street

Rev. Edward Blackman

Monday, January 17, 2011

12 noon

Annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Observance
“Celebrating Sacrifice”

A talk by Rev. Edward Blackman, Museum of African American History Advisory Council.

Location: Summer Street Church, One Summer Street, Nantucket.

Free admission.

Co-sponsored by the Interfaith Council and the African Meeting House, Museum of African American History.

Christmas Stroll

Event
Nantucket, MA

An Evening of Music
Friday, December 3, 2010
4:00 P.M. to 7:00 P.M.
Come enjoy the music
Refreshments: Hot cider and cookies

Leonard Germinara is MC

4:00 – 4:30 P.M. Owen LaFarge, Pianist

4:30 – 5:00 P.M. Jake Vohs, Guitarist, Drummer
and Vocalist

5:00 – 5:30 P.M. Armen Ghazaryan, Violinist

5:30 – 6:00 P.M. Tim Comings and Paul Connors,
Vocalists with guitar

6:00 – 6:30 P.M. Jim Sulzer, Classical Guitarist

6:30 – 7:00 P.M. Neville Richen, Special Reading

7:00 P.M. the winner of the Nantucket Lightship Basket will be announced

Sponsors:

• Jazz Co
• Spoken Word Nantucket
  

Please consider the African Meeting House as the location for your wedding ceremony.

In order to help preserve these historic sites: Please make a contribution.

November 19, 2010 (During Dinner Hours)

Have dinner at the Seagrille Restaurant to benefit

the African Meeting House

The Seagrille Restaurant earlier this year instituted (for the off season) Friday nights as Non-Profit Night.  On these non-profits nights proceeds are given to a selected non-profit. We are pleased to announce that the African Meeting House was selected. 

November 6, 2010 @ 2:00 pm

Interior Simplicity

Featuring Margot Montgomery
Owner of Nantucket Interiors. 

Margot Montgomery is an interior designer who has been living and working on Nantucket since 1980, Margot Montgomery has clients in Massachusetts, New York and California. This year is the 25th anniversary of her business.

African Meeting House Nantucket