Fire and Thunder: Massachusetts Black Soldiers in the Civil War Exhibit

Falmouth Public Library 300 Main Street, Falmouth, MA, United States

For the month of April, the Fire and Thunder 16 panel exhibit will be on display in the Adult Collections Room for the public to view during library hours. "The institution of slavery was a disease deeply embedded in the tissue of the new American republic. Though abolished in Massachusetts in the 1780s, on the

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Ken Burns The Civil War Screening: 1864

Falmouth Public Library 300 Main Street, Falmouth, MA, United States

The Civil War is an epic nine-episode series by the award-winning documentary filmmaker Ken Burns. Heralded as an unforgettable introduction to a four-year conflict fought in 10,000 places, the film vividly embraces the entire sweep of the war: the complex causes and lasting effects of America's greatest and most moving calamity, the battles and the

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Ken Burns The Civil War Screening: 1865

Falmouth Public Library 300 Main Street, Falmouth, MA, United States

The Civil War is an epic nine-episode series by the award-winning documentary filmmaker Ken Burns. Heralded as an unforgettable introduction to a four-year conflict fought in 10,000 places, the film vividly embraces the entire sweep of the war: the complex causes and lasting effects of America's greatest and most moving calamity, the battles and the

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Author Talk with Sarah Dixwell Brown

West Falmouth Library 575 West Falmouth Highway, West Falmouth, MA, United States

The Yale Club of Cape Cod invites the public to a talk and conversation with author Sarah Dixwell Brown about her book Regicide in the Family: Finding John Dixwell at the West Falmouth Library on Thursday, May 1,  at 6 PM. This is a free event. Please register online. Walk-ins also welcome. In the 1660s

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