[SEMCO] Webinar on March 20: "Cape Cod and the Tea Party Crisis of 1773"

[dave at nyemuseum.org]

Dear Friends:

 

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).

 

Many thanks,

 

Dave

 

 

 

March 9, 2022

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

 

Contact:

David Shorten

Executive Director

Nye Museum

(508) 888-4213

 <mailto:dave at nyemuseum.org> dave at nyemuseum.org  

 

Announcing, "Cape Cod and the Tea Party Crisis of 1773,"

Webinar featuring Professor Mary Beth Norton

 

"Cape Cod and the Tea Party Crisis of 1773," Webinar on March 20 at 6PM

 

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, Mary Donlon
Alger Professor Emerita, Cornell University. Professor Norton is the
acclaimed author of In the Devil's Snare and more recently, 1774: The Long
Year of Revolution (now available through the Nye Museum's
<https://www.nyemuseum.org/support/gift-shop/books/> online gift shop). 

 

In this webinar, Professor Norton will discuss the sinking of the ship
William 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. 

 

 
<https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/2816427134774/WN_z9Go-TWgTxun7Wl4z
V5wJQ> REGISTER HERE.

 

2022 Event Series: "The Road to Revolution on Cape Cod"

 

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
<https://www.nyemuseum.org/events/> website 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.

 

About Mary Beth Norton



Mary Donlon Alger Professor Emerita @Cornell University

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. https://research.cornell.edu/researchers/mary-beth-norton

 

 

 

David J. Shorten

Executive Director

Nye Museum

 

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