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Atlantic Canadian research can be difficult to navigate—there is no “one-stop-shop” for the region, and record locations and availability can vary widely from province to province. In this online lecture, Chief Genealogist David Allen Lambert will provide his go-to resources for the region.

For the past few years, a team of editors has been working on an edition of William Bradford's lesser known writing that will be published by the Colonial Society of Massachusetts and American Ancestors. In this program two of the editors, Dr. Francis Bremer and Dr. Kenneth Minkema, will discuss new findings that shed light on Bradford's literary efforts, Plymouth colony religion, and the much underestimated intellectual life of the colony.

This presentation will delve into the profound impact of Gloucester’s coastal landscape on the development of three titans of 20th-century art: Milton Avery, Adolph Gottlieb, and Mark Rothko. Barker and Rathbone will illuminate the shared summers and creative exchanges that fostered lifelong friendships and influenced the artists’ evolution from representational painting to abstraction. They will share behind-the-scenes details about the building blocks around creating the exhibit and highlight key works from the exhibition’s impressive roster of loans.