Video Lecture Finding Aids & Transcripts

The Video Lecture Finding Aids, Transcripts, and Scripts found on this page correlate to the CAM Video Vault Lecture Series. Lectures are arranged chronologically. Find a curated list of newly released CAM videos available for viewing online here or to access all available CAM video, please visit our Vimeo page.

The Cape Ann Museum Library & Archives is continually working to transcribe and edit more lectures from the series. Once completed, they will be added to this page on a rolling basis. If there is a lecture that you would like made priority, please contact us at library@capeannmuseum.org.

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• VX01 - Demetrios Exhibit installation 
  Date: 1986 | Link to video

• VL01 - Hooley: Gloucester's own Trumpeter, Sylvester Ahola
  Speaker: Dick Hill | Date: 1992 | Link to video

• VL02 - The Art of Drawing
  Speaker: Bernard Chaet | Date: 8/5/2005 | Link to video

• VL03 - Clarence Birdseye Day
  Speaker: Maggie Rosa ; Luisa Cleaves | Date: 10/7/2006 | Link to video

• VL04  - Fitz Henry Lane & Mary Blood Mellen: Old Mysteries and New Discoveries
  Speaker: John Wilmerding | Date: 7/6/2007 | Link to video

• VL05 - Fitz Henry Lane and Maxim and Martha Karolik: A Tale of Two Love Stories
  Speaker: Carol Troyen | Date: 7/19/2007 | Link to video

• VL06 - Sisters of the Brush: Women Artists in the 19th Century America
  Speaker: Erica Hirshler | Date: 8/12/2007 | Link to video

• VL07 - The American Sublime in Trans-Atlantic Perspective
  Speaker: Tim Barringer | Date: 8/23/2007 | Link to video

• VL08 - Gloucester's Fishing Industry: Then and Now
  Speaker: Peter Prybot | Date: 9/30/2007 | Link to video

• VL09 - Quarrying on Cape Ann
  Speaker: Barbara Erkkila | Date: 11/11/2007 | Link to video

• VL10 - Women Workers at Mighty Mac
  Speaker: John Ronan; Gerolama Lovasco| Date: 3/8/2008 | Link to video

• VL11 - Drawn to the Light: Women Artists of Cape Ann, 1900-1950
  Speaker: Janet Comey | Date: 7/10/2008 | Link to video

• VL12 - Sixty Years of Painting on Cape Ann
  Speaker: Oliver Balf | Date: 7/19/2008 | Link to video

• VL13 - A Monumental Place: Cape Ann's Sculptural Legacy
  Speaker: Rebecca Reynolds |Date: 9/13/2008 | Link to video

• VL14 - Conversations with Contemporary Artists
  Speaker: Ken Hruby, Sculptor | Date: 10/18/2008 | Link to video

• VL15 - Ravenswood: Wilderness to Special Place
  Speaker: Electa Kane Tritsh | Date: 11/15/2008 | Link to video

• VL16 - Working Alone Together: Gershon Benjamin and the Circle of Artists Around Milton Avery in Gloucester in the Early 1930s
  Speaker: Lisa Peters | Date: 12/6/2008 | Link to video

• VL17 - History of Dolls and Doll Collecting
  Speaker: Betty Nett | Date: 1/24/2009 | Link to video

• VL18 - Award Winning Photos by Charles Lowe in the 1970s
  Speaker: Peter Watson | Date: 3/21/2009 | Link to video

• VX02 - Charles Lowe exhibit walkthrough
  Date: 3/30/2009 | Link to video

• VL19 - Conversations with Contemporary Artists
  Speaker: Don Gorvett, Printmaker | Date: 4/25/2009 | Link to video

• VL20 - Capturing Life & Glory 
  Speaker: Gordon Goetemann | Date: 1/16/2010 | Link to video

• VL21 - Private Lives, Public House—The White-Ellery House: The Stories of the Families Who Lived There
  Speakers: Stephanie Buck; Martha Oaks | Date: 4/3/2010 | Link to video

• VL22 - Portuguese Hill: Celebrating Gloucester Neighborhoods
  Panel Discussion | Date: 5/1/2010 | Link to video

• VX03 - Walk Around Portuguese Hill
  Guide: Father Alves | Date: 5/2/2010 | Link to video

• VL23 - Your Old House: Paint and Maintain to Conserve Historic Character
  Speaker: Sally Zimmerman | Date: 5/6/2010 | Link to video

• VL24 - The Man Who Brought Fresh Halibut to America's Dining Table
  Speaker: Robert E. Viator | Date: 6/19/2010 | Link to video

• VL25 - The Baby and the Bathwater
  Speaker: Elizabeth Mehlin | Date: 6/17/2010 | Link to video

• VL26 - Rockport Reminiscences: Rockport Artists in the 1930s
  Panel Discussion | Date: 9/30/2010 | Link to video

• VL27 - How Gloucester Kept Its Head Above the Water During the Great Depression
  Speaker: Mary McCarl | Date: 11/6/2010 | Link to video

• VL28 - Presence and Absence: New Works by Bruce Herman
  Speaker: Bruce Herman | Date: 11/13/2010 | Link to video

• VL29 - Gloucester's Sea Serpent
  Speaker: Wayne Soini | Date: 12/18/2010 | Link to video

• VL30 - A Visit with Louisa May Alcott: Living History
  Speaker: Jan Turnquist | Date: 3/26/2011 | Link to video

• VL31 - The Launch of the "Elsie": A Ship Model by Erik Ronnberg, Jr.
  Speaker: Wilbur James; Erik Ronnberg, Jr. | Date: 4/9/2011 | Link to video

• VL32 - Conversations with Contemporary Artists
  Speaker: Brad Story, Sculptor | Date: 4/23/2011 | Link to video

• VL34 - Cyrus Bartol: Manchester's Most Important Forgotten Man
  Speaker: William Cross | Date: 6/11/2011 | Link to video

• VL35 - Cape Ann Fishermen, the Pilgrims and England in 1623
  Speaker: Dr. Todd Gray | Date: 7/14/2011 | Link to video

• VL36 - Hans Hofmann and Sam Feinstein, the Artist's Search
  Speaker: Patricia Start Feinstein | Date: 10/22/2011 | Link to video

• VX04 - Sam Feinstein: The Evolution of a Vision—Gallery exhibit walkthrough
  Date: 10/29/2011 | Link to video

• VL37 - The Making of Opus 139, A CB Fisk Organ for Harvard's Memorial Church
  Speakers: Dennis Lanson; Greg Bover | Date: 10/29/2011 | Link to video

• VL38 - As the Wind Turns or There is No Such Thing as Plain Sailing: Mishap and Mayhem on the High Seas
  Speaker: Stephanie Buck | Date 1/7/2012 | Link to video

• VL39 - 55 Years of Woodworking and Design
  Speaker: Jay McLauchlan | Date: 1/14/2012 | Link to video

• VL40 - The Empire and the Seaport: Trading Overseas in the Early Republic
  Speaker: Robert Booth | Date: 1/14/2012 | Link to video

• VL41 - All the Ships at Sea: A Celebration of Cape Ann's Role in the Maritime Trades
  Speaker: William Trayes | Date: 5/5/2012 | Link to video

• VL42 - Of Love, Death, and Liberty: The Hidden History of the Manchester Library
  Speaker: William Cross | Date: 6/16/2012 | Link to video

• VL43 - Marsden Hartley's Second Coming: Gloucester and Beyond, 1931-1943
  Speaker: Townsend Ludington | Date: 6/28/2012 | Link to video

• VL44 - The Last Days of Dogtown
  Speaker: Anita Diamant | Date: 7/28/2012 | Link to video

• VL45 - Marsden Hartley: The Painter as Poet
  Speaker: Peter Anastas | Date: 8/11/2012 | Link to video

• VX05 - CAMafterhours
  Performers: Brian King, Kristen Miller, and Sarah Slifer Date: 08-16-2012 | Link to video

• VL46 - Marsden Hartley on Cape Ann: Hartley's 16 year Relationship with Cape Ann
  Speaker: Elyssa East | Date: 8/18/2012 | Link to video

• VX06 - 1000 Sunday Mornings: Harpsichord Concert 
  Performers: Frances Conover Fitch; Greb Bover | Date: 9/05/2012 | Link to video

• VL47 - Marsden Hartley: From Maine to Dogtown and Back Again
  Speaker: Gail Levin | Date: 9/22/2012 | Link to video

• VL48 - Who We Are is Who We Were—Historic Businesses of Cape Ann: Cape Pond Ice
  Speaker: Scott Memhard | Date: 10/20/2012 | Link to video

• VL49 - Charles Olson, Newman Shea, and the Fishing Strike of 1917
  Speaker: David Rich | Date: 11/17/2012 | Link to video

• VL50 - Chance, Choice: Ralph Coburn in Context
  Speaker: Karen Quinn | Date: 12/15/2012 | Link to video

• VL51 - The Girl I Left Behind Me
  Speaker: Mary Rhinelander McCarl | Date: 3/23/2013 | Link to video

• VL52 - Two Brothers: Stories from the Front Lines of WWI
  Speaker: Timothy Kendall | Date: 4/13/2013 | Link to video

• VX07 - Uncommon Vision: A Gallery Talk
  Speaker: Dennis Flavin | Date: 4/20/2013 | Link to video

• VL53 - Anne's Eyes: A History of Cape Ann Light
  Speaker: Paul St. Germain | Date: 5/11/2013 | Link to video

• VL54 - Coming of Age in the Rocky Neck Art Scene of the 1950s
  Speaker: Peter Anastas | Date: 7/13/2013 | Link to video

• VX08 - Reading Ferrini: A Gallery Talk
  Speakers: Peter Anastas; David Rich | Date: 9/14/2013 | Link to video

• VL55 - The 28th Burnham to Operate a Ship in Essex Since 1819
  Speaker: Harold Burnham | Date: 9/21/2013 | Link to video

• AL01 - Essex County's Spectacular Great Salt Marsh
  Speaker: Doug Stewart | Date: 2/6/2016 | Link to recording

• AL02 - Seafaring Women of the 19th Century
  Speaker: Capt. Laurel Seaborn | Date: 3/26/2016 | Link to recording

• AL03 - Margarett Sargent: The Bold and the Beautiful
  Speaker: Margaret Bernier | Date: 3/25/2017 | Link to recording

• AL04 - Paper Trail: A Personal Journey through the Archives of the Cape Ann Museum
  Speaker: Peter Anastas | Date: 4/8/2017 | Link to recording

• VL56 - Lane Lithographs: An Overview
  Speaker: John Wilmerding | Date: 10/27/2017 | Link to video

• VL57 - Laid Down on Paper: Printmaking in America, 1800 to 1865
  Fitz Henry Lane Symposium, Morning Session
  Speakers: Sam Holdsworth; Martha Oaks; Helenda Wright; Marie-Stephanie Delamaire; Joan Irving; Rebecca Szantyr | Date: 10/28/2017 | Link to video

• VL58 - Laid Down on Paper: Printmaking in America, 1800 to 1865
  Fitz Henry Lane Symposium, Afternoon Session 
  Speakers: Christine Garnier; Ellen Sondag; Margaretta Lovell | Date: 10/28/2017 | Link to video

• VL59 -Winslow Homer: New Insights
  Speaker: Sylvia Yount | Date: 10/04/2019 | Link to video

• VL60 - Judith Sargent Murray: A Complicated Woman
  Speakers: Sheila Skemp; Clare Leslie Marquette | Date: 1/25/2020 | Link to video

• VL61 - Promises and Limits of the New Republic : A Closer Look at African Americans on Cape Ann
  Speakers: Joanne Pope Melish; Kabria Baumgartner; Lise Breen; Bethany Jay | Date: 2/29/2020 | Link to video

• VL62 - Redefining Women—The Impact of the Revolution on Gender Ideology
  Speakers: Carol Berkin; Elizabeth Matelski | Date: 3/07/2020 | Link to video