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