As the Cape Ann Museum opens its newly renovated space with an exhibition of American Abstraction greats Mark Rothko, Milton Avery, and Adolph Gottlieb, it’s worth remembering their New York friend and colleague Joseph Solman, a leader of 20th‑century American Expressionism. In 1935, Solman, Rothko, and Gottlieb were all members of “The Ten,” a group that challenged New York museums’ resistance to European Expressionism. While Rothko and Gottlieb later shifted toward Abstraction, Solman spent his life creating Modernist works celebrated nationwide. On May 9, Heather Atwood will screen her Color of Light video on Solman, followed by a conversation with his son, Emmy Award–winning journalist Paul Solman. 

Join us for powder horn carving with artist and reenactor Laurie McCarthy.

Join us for military leather work with Jay Blain.

Mass Audubon is pleased to once again offer this series of free birdwatching walks made possible by the Massachusetts Cultural Council and the local cultural councils of the participating towns, as noted below.

Four women. Four centuries. 400 years of Beverly history.

Join us at the Cabot Theatre this Earth Day 2026 for a FREE screening of Plastic People! Green Beverly is proud to sponsor this special event.

This talk by Martha Oaks, the Museum’s Chief Curator and contributing author to the upcoming Avery, Gottlieb, & Rothko: By the Sea exhibition, will explore Milton Avery and Sally Michel’s earliest visits to Gloucester, setting the stage for future stays with artist friends. What was it that drew the couple here and inspired them to keep coming back? Who did they rub shoulders with on Cape Ann and who was taking note of their work? Learn what has changed in the local art colony over the past century and what has stayed the same.

The talk will explore Milton Avery and Sally Michel’s earliest visits to Gloucester, setting the stage for future stays with artist friends. What was it that drew the couple here and inspired them to keep coming back? Who did they rub shoulders with on Cape Ann and who was taking note of their work? Learn what has changed in the local art colony over the past century and what has stayed the same.

The Second Annual North Shore Technology Council Sustainability for Life Science Conference will focus on how private companies and institutions are driving sustainability within their labs. With federal funding and investment capital at an all-time low, we will examine how Massachusetts and local biotech companies are not only maintaining their goals but making strides in operating sustainable labs.

LGBTQIA+ youth, ages 10-14, are welcome.

Join experts from around the world for a one-day symposium on Revolutionary War privateers and Newburyport’s Atlantic impact!

Inspiring keynotes and panel discussion featuring local businesswomen, plus networking throughout the event.

Join identical twin filmmakers and Tufts All-American athletes Lisa Lax and Nancy Stern Winters of Lookalike Productions for a dynamic conversation about their award-winning films; stories that not only entertain audiences, but also inspire social change. Lisa and Nancy will interweave excerpts from their acclaimed work to show how subjects as diverse as a disabled cyclist from Ghana, Muhammad Ali, President George H.W. Bush, Pat Summitt and Sesame Street’s Muppets can inspire governments, fellow citizens, fans, and communities around the world to do the right thing.

This experience will be led by Jennifer Lee, an independent student of the history and culture of the Indigenous people of the Northeast Woodlands.  Jennifer is a member of the Northern Narragansett – a group yet to be recognized by state and federal authorities as an official tribe.

Regular Q&As on our Drive Green program

Welcome to this month’s 3 in 30, where we explore the theme Marvels of Engineering through some of the most technical and fascinating objects in the Historic Beverly collection.

Horace Mann observed in 1845, “The people of Massachusetts, to a greater extent than those of any other State in the Union, are a mechanical people.” Across the Commonwealth, networks of manufacturers were as innovative and entrepreneurial as today’s firms in Silicon Valley and along Routes 128 and 495.

LGBTQIA+ youth, ages 14-17, are welcome.

LGBTQIA+ young adults, ages 18-23, are welcome.

March Special Lecture: Plum Island and the Story of John Boyle O'Reilly Presented by James Russell, CHMM Director

Join us on March 13, 2026 at Boston University and Spring Into Action with MIRA Coalition at our annual immigrant rights conference! The Spring Into Action Conference is focused on education and advocacy. In preparation for our annual lobbying day, Immigrants Day at the State House, MIRA Coalition member organizations and those active in the immigrant rights space gather at the conference to share our legislative priorities, develop our advocacy skills, network with other members, and celebrate our communities. This year we are offering 8 total workshops along 2 tracks, focused on sustaining yourself and your organization and movement building. Together, we are leading with courage over fear. 

Francis Cabot Lowell is most often remembered through the institutions and places that bear his name: the City of Lowell, the Lowell Institute, and the Waltham-Lowell System of textile manufacturing. What is less often explored is how Lowell’s pioneering industrial work emerged directly from the Massachusetts merchant world of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, a world shaped by families like his mother’s side – the Cabots of Beverly.

College funding decisions don’t exist in a vacuum. This webinar on Wednesday, 3/11 at 6PM EST, explores how families and grandparents can support undergraduate and graduate education across generations while balancing retirement, legacy goals, and long-term financial planning.

In this interactive webinar, Tufts alum and Life Coach Michael Bolognino will offer a practical, human approach to dusting off, defining, and channeling our inner resilience. You’ll reflect, discuss, and walk away with concrete tools you can use immediately to navigate work and life with more steadiness, perspective, and agency.

How can you listen strategically to navigate disagreement, power, and complex institutions? 

Born in Worcester, MA, and a long-time resident of Gloucester, Charles Olson (1910-1970) was an innovative poet and essayist; he is widely recognized as a major figure in postmodern poetry and a leading voice of the Black Mountain Poets. Olson is best known for his Maximus Poems which were inspired by Gloucester and Cape Ann and explored the relation of self to place.

GREEN EGGS & HAM BREAKFAST Celebrating Dr. Seuss’ 122 birthday!

Step into wartime Newburyport with Alex Cain as loyalists face persecution, prices soar, and fear hangs heavy as we move to independence.

As Beverly celebrates its 400th anniversary, Historic Beverly invites you to explore the city neighborhood by neighborhood through a special series of Thursday night virtual walking tours this March.