Luther Childs Crowell (1840-1903) was the Wellfleet inventor of the square-bottomed paper bag machine as well as the holder of over 290 other patents. Come celebrate this prolific inventor and long-time Wellfleet resident!

Schedule

4:00 PM: Arrive at the museum to fold or decorate your Crowell-inspired square bottom paper bag.

4:30 PM: Enjoy a hot cocoa while learning about Luther Crowell’s 293 patents and the history of Uncle Tim’s Bridge.

5:30 PM: We depart the museum for a quiet, lighted walk down to Uncle Tim’s Bridge, arrange the lantern/bags and enjoy the beauty of the natural setting.

6:00 PM: We enjoy the lights, celebrate our Wellfleet community, and share our hopes for the New Year.

This event is free and open to the public. Parking is available behind Town Hall and at the base of Bank Street. Donations are always welcome.

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Earlier Event: February 4

Love Letter to Cape Cod

Later Event: March 11

Red Hawk Singers & Dancers

Surrealism, abstraction, Bauhaus typography, and modernist ideas in general found their way into post-war, American pop culture by way of newly arrived refugees in need of work. In the 1960s, even Saturday-morning television cartoons such as The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show served up avant-garde graphics and surreal plot lines, alongside a sly running commentary on cold war paranoia.

Peter McMahon, curator of The Children's Room, will explore this historical moment with special attention to Wellfleet’s mid-century writers and illustrators who produced over 200 ground-breaking books for children. 

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.  He is co-author, along with Christine Cipriani, of the award winning book, Cape Cod Modern. His design practice in South Wellfleet focuses on sustainable, modern architecture and restoration of mid-20th century buildings, and his summer house in Wellfleet has been published in House Beautiful Magazine and the book Outside Architecture.

Sometimes it feels like time buries the past; resurrecting it can be a joyous, consciousness-changing celebration of who we are and where we've come from.  

And so on June 8, 7:30 pm, join Seth Rolbein and friends at the Wellfleet Public Library to explore one way that we might bring Welfleet's amazing past back to the surface, and into the present:  

Can we, should we, select some of the great archival photographs at the Historical Society and Museum, locate where the photographer took the image decades and generations ago, and find a way to mount and display these old photos at that very spot, along our modern streets and ways, so people can compare then and now?

We'll talk through the idea, whether it's feasible, explore strategies --- and of course take a look at some of the great old photos that could find their ways to our streets and become part of this new outreach.

A Slice of Boston History:
Curious Tales from the Annals of the Omni Parker House

What do Boston Cream Pie, Eleanor Roosevelt, Parker House Rolls, Emeril LaGasse, Mark Twain, Malcolm X, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and John F. Kennedy have in common? Find the answer by joining Susan Wilson, House Historian of the Omni Parker House, for a slideshow-lecture from her delightfully anecdotal and lavishly illustrated new book, Heaven, By Hotel Standards.