Events

  • Coffee & Conversation: Private Johnny Johnston’s Story & Beverly Military Women

    Cabot House Cabot Street, Beverly, MA, United States

    Join Historic Beverly for a special Coffee & Conversation program exploring the remarkable story of Private Johnny Johnston (Edith Johnston) and the experiences of Beverly women who served during times of war and national service. In July 1942, Edith Johnston became one of the pioneering women to enlist in the newly formed Women’s Army Auxiliary...

  • Reading Frederick Douglass Together at Hale Farm

    Hale Farm 39 Hale Street, Beverly, MA, United States

    Historic Beverly invites the community to participate in our annual Reading Frederick Douglass Together program, a powerful public reading of Frederick Douglass’s landmark July 5, 1852 speech, “What, to the Slave, is the Fourth of July?” As part of this statewide initiative led by Mass Humanities, community members volunteer to read portions of Douglass’s speech...