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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72" style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Dear Friends:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The Nye Museum will be hosting an exciting educational event on March 20 at 6PM. Could you please help us promote the event? Flyers and press release attached (and pasted below).<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Many thanks,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Dave<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>March 9, 2022<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>Contact:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>David Shorten<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>Executive Director<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>Nye Museum<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>(508) 888-4213<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="mailto:dave@nyemuseum.org"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>dave@nyemuseum.org</span></a><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>Announcing, “Cape Cod and the Tea Party Crisis of 1773,”<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>Webinar featuring Professor Mary Beth Norton<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>“Cape Cod and the Tea Party Crisis of 1773,” Webinar on March 20 at 6PM<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>The Nye Museum will kick-off its 2022 season with a special webinar presentation on Sunday, March 20 at 6PM entitled, “Cape Cod and the Tea Party Crisis of 1773.” The speaker will be Mary Beth Norton, <span style='color:#58585A'>Mary Donlon Alger Professor Emerita, Cornell University. Professor Norton is the acclaimed author of <em><span style='border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'>In the Devil’s Snare</span></em> and more recently, <em><span style='border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'>1774: The Long Year of Revolution (now available through the Nye Museum’s </span></em></span></span><a href="https://www.nyemuseum.org/support/gift-shop/books/"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'>online gift shop</span></a><em><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#58585A;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'>)</span></em><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#58585A'>. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#58585A'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#58585A'>In this webinar, Professor Norton will discuss the sinking of the ship <em><span style='border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'>William </span></em>off Race Point in December 1773. This educational event is free and open to the public. A portion of the webinar will be reserved for questions from the audience. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#58585A'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/2816427134774/WN_z9Go-TWgTxun7Wl4zV5wJQ"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>REGISTER HERE</span></a><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#58585A'>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#58585A'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#58585A'>2022 Event Series: “The Road to Revolution on Cape Cod”<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#58585A'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#58585A'>This event is part of Nye Museum’s 2022 Event Series, “The Road to Revolution on Cape Cod.” We are offering complementary 1-year trial memberships to anyone who registers for this event. Members receive free access to Nye Museum events, tours, and exhibits, as well as discounted prices at the gift shop. New and returning members will receive membership cards in the mail after registering. (See our </span><a href="https://www.nyemuseum.org/events/"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>website</span></a><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#58585A'> for other events in the series). The series will explore the cultural and political history of the Revolutionary era on Cape Cod (c. 1760s-1770s). It will also feature an archaeology dig, a muster demonstration by the Tenth Massachusetts Regiment, and, the museum will unveil its 2022 special exhibit, “The Road to Revolution on Cape Cod” during our Annual Grand Opening on June 18 from 12PM – 4PM.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:7.5pt;background:white'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#232333'>About Mary Beth Norton<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:7.5pt;background:white'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'><img border=0 width=321 height=321 style='width:3.3402in;height:3.3402in' id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image001.jpg@01D833AC.774D5D60" alt="photo of Mary Beth Norton"></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#232333'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:7.5pt;background:white'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#747487'>Mary Donlon Alger Professor Emerita @Cornell University<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:7.5pt;background:white'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#232333'>Expertise American Revolution; colonial America; Early American women and gender; Salem witch trials Current Research Interest Events of the months between the Boston Tea Party, December 1773, and the outbreak of fighting at Lexington and Concord, April 1775 Distinction American Historical Association President American Academy of Arts and Sciences American Philosophical Society Pulitzer Prize in History Finalist Cornell University Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow Allan Nevins Prize for best-written dissertation in American history Selected Publications Norton, Mary Beth. Separated by Their Sex: Women in Public and Private in the Colonial Atlantic World. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2011. Norton, Mary Beth. In the Devil’s Snare: The Salem Witch Trials of 1692. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2002. <a href="https://research.cornell.edu/researchers/mary-beth-norton">https://research.cornell.edu/researchers/mary-beth-norton</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>David J. Shorten<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Executive Director<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Nye Museum<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>