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Past Events
Past Events
Whether you missed an event or want to rewatch some of our exciting weekly presentations, we've got you covered.
Check out our past events below!
Cape Cod Camino Way: History and Social Justice on Cape Cod
Summary: The Cape Cod Camino Way explores history through the lens of social justice and brings the past to life with connections to current issues. In this program, you will "walk and talk" your way across Cape Cod to examine issues such as women and people of color in science, the Pilgrims and the Wampanoags, our Sea Captains and the connections to the Triangle Trade, and more. The arts, environment, interesting people, and stories come to life as we learn more about the peninsula we visit or call home.
To learn more visit: hhtps://capecodcaminoway.com/
There will be a book signing at end. Books can be purchased for $20 from presenter, cash, check or Venmo.
About Peggy Jablonski: Margaret (Peggy) Jablonski is an organizational consultant and coach who specializes in managing change, leadership development, and building effective organizations. Peggy works with colleges, nonprofits, and small businesses to foster a culture of success, develop authentic leaders, and strengthen diverse teams through interactive retreats, workshops, and individual coaching experiences.
With two decades of consulting experience, she has guided faculty and staff from dozens of colleges to advance change, improve services, and implement transformational programs.
To learn more visit: hhtps://capecodcaminoway.com/
There will be a book signing at end. Books can be purchased for $20 from presenter, cash, check or Venmo.
About Peggy Jablonski: Margaret (Peggy) Jablonski is an organizational consultant and coach who specializes in managing change, leadership development, and building effective organizations. Peggy works with colleges, nonprofits, and small businesses to foster a culture of success, develop authentic leaders, and strengthen diverse teams through interactive retreats, workshops, and individual coaching experiences.
With two decades of consulting experience, she has guided faculty and staff from dozens of colleges to advance change, improve services, and implement transformational programs.
The Story of Cape Cod’s Modern Architecture with Peter McMahon
Summary:
Starting in the late 1930s, the Outer Cape attracted some of the prime movers of modern architecture, including architects Marcel Breuer, Serge Chermayeff and Olav Hammarstrom and engineer Paul Weidlinger, who built houses for themselves, their friends and their clients. Walter Gropius, Xanti Schawinski, Konrad Wachsmann, Constantino Nivola, the Saarinen family and Florence and Hans Knoll all either rented summer cottages or were frequent houseguests here. The vibrant community also included artists Gyorgy Kepes and Saul Steinberg as well as numerous writers, academics and their students.
This group of international refugees and their friends made a home for themselves in the secluded pine woods of Wellfleet, Truro and Provincetown; many are even buried here. This collection of creative people believed in the power of design to improve the human condition and to integrate man with nature. They applied those principles equally to the great projects they undertook in the world beyond Cape Cod and to their own cottages, which were sometimes made with salvaged material, Homasote and driftwood.
About Peter McMahon:
Peter McMahon is the Founding Director of the Cape Cod Modern House Trust, incorporated in 2007 to archive, restore and celebrate the Outer Cape’s outstanding modern architecture and the creative culture that surrounded it. Info at ccmht.org
He is co-author, along with Christine Cipriani, of Cape Cod Modern. Mid-Century Architecture and Community on the Outer Cape, (2014, Metropolis Books) winner of the Historic new England Book Prize, 2015.
Recent lectures include: the Architectural Association (London), Harvard’s Graduate School of Design, and Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts.
His design practice, PM Design, focuses on sustainable, modern architecture and restoration of mid-20th century buildings.
His summer house in Wellfleet has been published in House Beautiful and Outside Architecture. Info at pm-design.org.
Starting in the late 1930s, the Outer Cape attracted some of the prime movers of modern architecture, including architects Marcel Breuer, Serge Chermayeff and Olav Hammarstrom and engineer Paul Weidlinger, who built houses for themselves, their friends and their clients. Walter Gropius, Xanti Schawinski, Konrad Wachsmann, Constantino Nivola, the Saarinen family and Florence and Hans Knoll all either rented summer cottages or were frequent houseguests here. The vibrant community also included artists Gyorgy Kepes and Saul Steinberg as well as numerous writers, academics and their students.
This group of international refugees and their friends made a home for themselves in the secluded pine woods of Wellfleet, Truro and Provincetown; many are even buried here. This collection of creative people believed in the power of design to improve the human condition and to integrate man with nature. They applied those principles equally to the great projects they undertook in the world beyond Cape Cod and to their own cottages, which were sometimes made with salvaged material, Homasote and driftwood.
About Peter McMahon:
Peter McMahon is the Founding Director of the Cape Cod Modern House Trust, incorporated in 2007 to archive, restore and celebrate the Outer Cape’s outstanding modern architecture and the creative culture that surrounded it. Info at ccmht.org
He is co-author, along with Christine Cipriani, of Cape Cod Modern. Mid-Century Architecture and Community on the Outer Cape, (2014, Metropolis Books) winner of the Historic new England Book Prize, 2015.
Recent lectures include: the Architectural Association (London), Harvard’s Graduate School of Design, and Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts.
His design practice, PM Design, focuses on sustainable, modern architecture and restoration of mid-20th century buildings.
His summer house in Wellfleet has been published in House Beautiful and Outside Architecture. Info at pm-design.org.
Beyond the Mayflower. Return to Nauset by Patricia Donohoe
Summary: Patty Donohoe will explore the lives of three teenagers who sailed on the Mayflower to America with their parents and, as life would have it, returned to the place where the ship’s scouting party encountered the most resistance from the Native peoples: Nauset (later Eastham.) We’ll learn about their lives in Plymouth Colony and discuss why they eventually chose to come back to the Cape.
About Patricia M. Donohoe: Patricia has been researching her family’s history for forty years, and as an archivist with the Eastham Historical Society and Registrar for the Captain Joshua Gray-Jonathan Hatch DAR Chapter on the Cape, enjoys helping people connect with their heritage. She also works with her brother, Joe in their business, familystorykeepers.com. Patty handles the family history research and Joe does the filming. Together, they have recorded hundreds of stories for clients throughout the U.S. Patty and her husband, John, are the parents of three sons and grandparents to seven budding genealogists. Her favorite quote comes from a 2013 interview given by Dr. Maya Angelou. “Each of us has been paid for by those who came before us.”
About Patricia M. Donohoe: Patricia has been researching her family’s history for forty years, and as an archivist with the Eastham Historical Society and Registrar for the Captain Joshua Gray-Jonathan Hatch DAR Chapter on the Cape, enjoys helping people connect with their heritage. She also works with her brother, Joe in their business, familystorykeepers.com. Patty handles the family history research and Joe does the filming. Together, they have recorded hundreds of stories for clients throughout the U.S. Patty and her husband, John, are the parents of three sons and grandparents to seven budding genealogists. Her favorite quote comes from a 2013 interview given by Dr. Maya Angelou. “Each of us has been paid for by those who came before us.”
The First Church of Eastham, 1645 by G. Thomas Ryan
Summary: The first families from England had to have a meeting house and minister to be incorporated by Plymouth as a town. We will discuss this church – its clergy, community, meeting houses, cemeteries – and its relations with the local Nauset Tribe. The first 72 years will be the focus, to the death of Rev. Treat, with reference to the ongoing life of today’s congregational community. Recent discoveries will be featured:
The finding of foundations for the very first meeting house.
The realization that a small percent of the congregation actually was in church on a Sunday.
How unfair it might be to know Rev. Treat only as the bombastic fire and brimstone preacher.
About G. Thomas Ryan: Tom is a local historian and senior producer of 100+ videos for Eastham 400. He is a long-time leader of the Cape Cod Council of Churches, of Nantucket Interfaith, and of the Nauset Interfaith Alliance. Tom was instrumental in joining efforts of the Federated Church of Orleans and the Eastham Library, allowing the digitalization of many early church archives for the library.
Tom chairs the Migrant and Refugee Committee of the Cape Cod Council of Churches and is a founding member of the Refugee Support Team of the Nauset Interfaith Association.
The finding of foundations for the very first meeting house.
The realization that a small percent of the congregation actually was in church on a Sunday.
How unfair it might be to know Rev. Treat only as the bombastic fire and brimstone preacher.
About G. Thomas Ryan: Tom is a local historian and senior producer of 100+ videos for Eastham 400. He is a long-time leader of the Cape Cod Council of Churches, of Nantucket Interfaith, and of the Nauset Interfaith Alliance. Tom was instrumental in joining efforts of the Federated Church of Orleans and the Eastham Library, allowing the digitalization of many early church archives for the library.
Tom chairs the Migrant and Refugee Committee of the Cape Cod Council of Churches and is a founding member of the Refugee Support Team of the Nauset Interfaith Association.
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