On Thursday, May 2 at 7 p.m., Judy Anderson will present a lecture at the Marblehead Museum titled “Marblehead on the Eve of Independence.”
For a half-century until the Revolution began in 1775, the thriving international Atlantic seaport of Marblehead was a very different place than most people realize today. For two generations in the mid-1700s, the gritty but prosperous town was the sixth most populous metropolis in British North America, with a thriving economy, productive craftsmen, and a vigorous waterfront.
This illustrated talk will present a portrait of Marblehead and Marbleheaders in the mid-1700s, at the peak of the town’s pre-Revolutionary prosperity in the late-colonial period, even as a drama of social tensions and political divisions began to erupt.
This lecture is available in-person or via Zoom. For tickets, visit the museum’s website at marbleheadmuseum.org, or call the museum at 781-631-1768.