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Welcome to the Orleans Historical Society
July & August
Thu . Fri . Sat 10a - 1p
Weir fishing, salt works, British invasions, Charter boats, quahogging and more, are explored through photographs, documents, artifacts, Harbor Walks, and our Tuesday Evening Lecture Series.
Visit our Events Calendar for a full schedule of related activities & events!
Free admission, suggested donation
Congratulations to the MLB CG36500!
We’re pleased to announce that we (Marine Restoration and us) won two awards at the Wooden Boat Show held this year at the Mystic Seaport in CT.
FIRST PLACE, OWNER RESTORED in the POWER category and JUDGES CHOICE (overall top award).
Thank you to all the volunteers and to the
highly skilled folks at Marine Restoration.
July 2, Thursday,at 7 pm
Garrison Keillor:
The Man On the Radio In the Red Shoes
America's foremost humorist and commentator, Garrison Keillor, takes his skits and jokes, music and monologues across the country in his traveling radio show, spinning his stories into American gold. This free-form 90 minute documentary film takes an intimate look at the private man in the public spotlight and goes behind the scenes of A Prairie Home Companion, and inside the imagination of the man who created it.
 Tickets are $10 and benefit WCAI. Purchase at the door with cash or credit card. Call WCAI for more info at 508-548-9600, x100 or 101.
Listen to this fisherman's oral history:
Louis Eldredge - born 1906
Listen to more oral histories on our collections page!
Historic House Plaque Project
Beautiful historic markers for qualifying houses.
Members $95
Non-members $120 (includes 1 yr. membership)
Find out if your house is elegible for a marker!
For details and an application download PDF here
or call 508-240-1329
July 7, Tuesday, 7:30 pm
LECTURE: "Cornerstone Forum
with Michael Farber
and the Lighthouse Charter School"
The Cornerstone Forum is returning to town after 375 years! By the 1630s, the Pilgrim Elders knew that Cape Cod was their New Promised Land. Boxed in by Massachusetts Bay Colony to the north and barren ground to the south and west, they could only head eastward! They came to Bound Brook at Quivet Creek to establish the Cape's first land survey.
The Cornerstone Forum will hold an open discussion to explain this ancient bound system. It will be asserted that this system originated at the headwaters of Bound Brook--the landing point for the first magnetic north line drawn in the New World.
Based on the theories of Morse Payne, Michael Farber and the crew at Cape Cod Lighthouse Charter School will present their latest fieldwork.
July 10, Friday 10 am
BONNIE SNOW’S MAIN STREET WALK
OHS Historian tells tales of Orleans past citizens as you view Main Street's antique homes. Sunscreen, hat and water recommended. Approx 1 hr, easy stroll.
$3 adults / children free
Meet at the Meeting House Museum
July 14, Tuesday, 7:30 pm
LECTURE: Theresa Barbo
Orleans resident and author, book signing after.
July 15, Wednesday 7:30 pm
Rock Harbor Historic Sunset Stroll
Historian Bonnie Snow and Stacia Croteau give a guided tour of the area.
Meet at the RH parking by the jetty |
