On Saturday, July 8, from 10:00 am to 4:00 pm, the Marion Art Center will host its 11th Annual Arts in the Park at Bicentennial Park, located at the corner of Main Street and Spring Street in Marion. Admission to the festival is free and street parking is available. More than forty artisans from a […] Read more »
Annual Meeting: The Marion Library’s Board of Trustees welcomes all to attend our Annual Meeting on Monday, June 26, 6:30 pm at the Elizabeth Taber Library. Libby O’Neill, the Library Director, will give a brief overview of the library’s services and programs and then highlight some of our accomplishments over the past year. During this […] Read more »
The Marion Natural History Museum will be hosting a Birds of Prey program to be given by Blue Hills/Mass. Audubon on Friday, July 7, 7:00 – 8:00 pm. Find out why hawks, owls, eagles, and falcons are considered birds of prey, and discover their diversity while meeting live birds of prey native to Massachusetts. We’ll […] Read more »
Starting July 1, the Sippican Lands Trust will offer a StoryWalk at its Hagemann Woods property in Marion. This year’s StoryWalk at Hagemann Woods features The Snail and the Whale by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler. StoryWalk is an innovative and delightful way for children and adults to enjoy reading and the outdoors at the […] Read more »
The Mattapoisett Library will hold an Exotic Birds of Peru Slide Show on Tuesday, June 27 at 6:30 pm. Skip Bedser will present the slide show from his spring trip to Peru. Guides well known in birding professionally choreographed the tour. Come join us for an adventurous evening of the true birds of paradise from […] Read more »
St. Philip’s Episcopal Church, next to the Town Beach in Mattapoisett, continues their long tradition of visiting clergy from Massachusetts and beyond. Services using the 1928 Book of Common Prayer are conducted at 8:00 am and 10:00 am each Sunday through Labor Day weekend. The Reverend Alan B. Warren, Rector of The Church of the […] Read more »
Sippican Historical Society Speakers’ Series presents “The Art of the Yankee Whale Hunt” on Thursday, June 22 at 7:00 pm at the Marion Music Hall. Historian Michael P. Dyer will speak on June 22 about his upcoming book, The Art of the Yankee Whale Hunt. The talk will focus on whalemen’s perceptions of the hunt […] Read more »
The next Rochester Historical Society meeting will be held on Wednesday, June 21 at 7:00 pm at the East Rochester Church/Museum, 355 County Road. The public is invited to hear another interesting piece of Rochester History. Refreshments will be served. The Society will feature a presentation by Bob Sanderson, of Marion, co-founder of Jonathan’s Sprouts. […] Read more »
An old-fashioned clambake will be held at The Knights of Columbus, 57 Fairhaven Road in Mattapoisett, on Sunday, June 25 at 1:30 pm for $40. For tickets, please call Jim at 508863-3496. Read more »
The monthly meeting of the Florence Eastman Post 280 will be held at the Post Hall at 7:00 pm on June 21. This meeting will cover the normal reports and will also review the Memorial Day program that, due to weather and road concerns, was held indoors at the Center School. A big “Thank you” […] Read more »