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. For access all available CAM videos, 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: Wilber 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

• VL33 - The Beginnings of the Art Colonies of Cape Ann, 1875-1925
  Speaker: Mary Rhinelander McCarl | Date: 5/28/2011 | 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 Stark 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; Greg 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

• VL55.1 - Architect Eleanor Raymond: A Pioneer in the Field
  Speaker: Lyda Kuth | Date: 9/29/2016 | Link to video

• VL55.2 - Looking at John Singer Sargent
  Speaker: Erica Hirshler | Date: 2/23/2017 | Link to video

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

• VL55.3 - Movalli: Cape Ann & Beyond
  Speaker: Judith Curtis | Date: 4/1/2017 | Link to video

• 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; Sam Holdsworth | 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: Martha Oaks; Helena 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 - Unfolding Histories: A Conversation with the Curators
  Speakers: Molly O'Hagan Hardy; Jim Witham; Beth Welin; Holly Clay-Smith | Date: 4/24/2018 | Link to video

• VL60 - Harold Rotenberg: An American Impressionist Gallery Talk
  Speakers: Judi Rotenberg; Martha Oaks | Date: 5/07/2018 | Link to video

• VX09 - Harrison Cady: View from the Headlands - An Overview
  Speakers: Leon Doucette | Date: 10/01/2018 | Link to video

• VX10 - Gone...Fishing, an Exhibit Overview
  Speakers: Jeffrey Marshall | Date: 10/11/2018 | Link to video

• VL60.1 - Homer at the Beach: A Preview Presentation
  Speaker: Bill Cross | Date: 6/20/2019 | Link to video

• VL60.2 - Homer's Wine-Dark Seas
  Speaker: Marc Simpson | Date: 9/14/2019 | Link to video

• VL60.3 - Winslow Homer: New Insights
  Speaker: Sylvia Yount | Date: 10/04/2019 | Link to video

• VL61 - Judith Sargent Murray: A Complicated Woman
  Speakers: Sheila Skemp; Clare Leslie Marquette | Date: 1/25/2020 | Link to video

• VL62 - 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

• VL63 - Redefining Women—The Impact of the Revolution on Gender Ideology
  Speakers: Carol Berkin; Elizabeth Matelski | Date: 3/07/2020 | Link to video