Exhibits

Currently closed due to COVID-19.

Exhibit hours when we re-open: Monday – Friday 10 am to 3 pm, first and third Sundays of each month,12-3 pm. Free to the public.

Lectures & Workshops

Programs at Felton-Smith Historic Site, Felton Street, Peabody, MA
Members free | Non-members $5.00
Handicap accessible. Information 978.531.0805

• Lecture: Jewish History of Peabody

  Presented by Alan Pierce, Historian 

  When: October 13, 2021 (Wednesday), 1:00 pm

  Where: Felton-Smith Historic Site, Smith Barn, Felton Street, Peabody, MA (we hope!)

Special Events

This program is supported by a grant from the Bridge Street Fund, a special initiative of Mass Humanities. Through their generosity, these 3 presentations are free to the public.

“The Moses B. Paige Pottery Company: The Last of the Peabody Potteries” – Wednesday, June 23rd via Zoom at 1PM

Justin W. Thomas is a resident of Newburyport, Massachusetts, and a collector, researcher and writer about American pottery production from the seventeenth through the early-twentieth century. He presents “The Moses B. Paige Company: The Last of the Peabody Potteries” via Zoom on Wednesday, June 23rd, at 1pm.

Join us by registering here.

“Local 21’s Quest for a Moral Economy” – Wednesday, August 25th via Zoom – 1PM

Dr. Lynne Nelson Manion presents “Local 21’s Quest for a Moral Economy.” She will provide insight on the leather industry and its workers in the 20th century through the lens of a local leather union. She will offer a “hands-on” opportunity to utilize the tools of the historian: artifacts/primary sources. For the second part of the presentation, we ask our audience to please bring an artifact (object) or document/picture that is important to them.

Join us by registering here.

“Boston on Fire: A History of Fires and Firefighting in Boston” – Wednesday, September 22nd via Zoom – 1PM

Journalist Stephanie Schorow presents “Boston on Fire: A History of Fires and Firefighting in Boston.” Fires have shaped Boston since its founding on a narrow peninsula in 1630. In the first comprehensive history of Boston’s major fires, Stephanie Schorow tells the dramatic tales of seventeenth-century fires (which were viewed as signs of God’s wrath), the 1834 Ursuline convent fire, the Great Fire of 1872, the Chelsea conflagrations of 1908 and 1973, the tragic Cocoanut Grove nightclub fire, the Vendome Hotel collapse that killed nine firefighters in 1972, and an arson ring that terrorized the city in the 1980s. In her book of the same name, there are also chapters devoted to two key Boston innovations: the Hunneman fire engine and the citywide fire alarm system (first in the nation) developed by William Francis Channing and Moses Farmer.

Join us by registering here.

Tours & Walks

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