Upcoming 2024 Lectures

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Monday, September 23, 2024@7pm, in person, at the Island Hall.

Nick Wessell

"Election 2024 Forecast"     

(In-person at the Island Hall. No Zoom coverage.  Lecture will be recorded and posted on this website.)          

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Monday, October 28, 2024@7pm, via Zoom.

Arthur R. Clausnitzer Jr., Ph.D., Northeast Archaeology
Research Center, Inc., based in Farmington

"Merchants, Masters, and Servants: The History and Archaeology of Social and Economic Relationships on Smuttynose Island in the 17th Century" 

While the popular perception of the Isles of Shoals, a small archipelago located six miles offshore of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, is that of a refuge for rogues, renegades, and apostates, the inhabitants of the Isles were, in fact, a key node in a complex web of unequal social, economic, and political relationships. These included not only the fishing masters who called the Isles of Shoals home but also their fishing servants and   merchants from mainland ports such as Ipswich and Salem, located in the Massachusetts Bay colony. This presentation presents the results of nearly two decades of research using historical records and archaeological excavation to examine these relationships in a new light.      

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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