Sunday, June 30, 2024 10:00 AM Join us as Alexandra Marshall discusses the tension between fiction and memoir, with reference to her short story “Child Widow” (published in Ploughshgares, 2003) and her memoir The Silence of Your Name: The Afterlife of a Suicide, published in 2021. In addition to writing seven books (fiction, non-fiction and memoir), Ms. Marshall has penned essays, feature stories, travel journalism and opinion for a number of literary journals, newspapers and magazines. She lives in Boston … Continue reading 30 Jun 2024: A Writing Life/Writing a Life

Sunday, March 24, 2024 10:00 AM Join Nauset Fellowship in-person at Chapel in the Pines in Eastham or online via Zoom on Sunday, March 24 at 10am as John Dennis Anderson performs American poet Robert Frost. Robert Frost’s poetry spoke to the complexities of twentieth-century life and, for that, he won four Pulitzer prizes. This Chautauqua style performance explores Frost’s theory of “the sound of sense” through readings and discussion of some of his best-known poems, including “Stopping by Woods … Continue reading 24 Mar 2024: Robert Frost Chautauqua with John Dennis Anderson

Sunday, February 25, 2024 10:00 AM Join Nauset Fellowship in-person at Chapel in the Pines in Eastham on Sunday, February 25 at 10am as Candace Perry presents “NO SURRENDER” a short play which imagines what happens when a famous confederate statue is removed and General Lee pays a visit to a 2017 homeless encampment in New Orleans. All are welcome. Candace Perry is a writer, teacher, and social justice activist who strives to change the world, one play at a … Continue reading 25 Feb 2024: “No Surrender” with Candace Perry

Sunday, December 17, 2023 10 AM Join us as actor Bill Salem discusses how his experience performing Shakespeare’s words has deepened, with his own acting technique evolving to always searching first for Will’s journey as a playwright, then overlaying his own journey as an actor upon the character. Salem will perform several characters with some reflection about what they are saying and how they say it.  Salem has come to think of the Bard as his life coach. Bill moved … Continue reading 17 Dec 2023: Shakespeare and Me – A Private Journey Made Public with Bill Salem

Sunday, October 15, 2023 10:00 AM Edith Lake Wilkinson was an artist who lived and painted in Provincetown during the early decades of the 20th century until she was committed to an asylum for the mentally ill in 1924. Her belongings were packed up in a trunk which was sent to relatives in West Virginia. It was not until the 1960’s that her art was discovered. “Packed in a Trunk” chronicles how Jane Andersen, a relative of Edith, worked to … Continue reading 15 Oct 2023: “Packed In A Trunk: The Lost Art of Edith Lake Wilkinson” — A Film Presentation

Sunday, October 8, 2023 10:00 AM Join us as actress Jarice Hanson portrays Frances Perkins, the first woman Secretary of Labor. Best known for her crafting of the Social Security Act, 40-hour work week, and child labor laws, Frances Perkins, along with President Franklin D. Roosevelt, helped lift the country out of the Depression. Perkins was a strong advocate for immigrants, labor unions and women throughout World War II. Hanson’s presentation focuses on Perkin’s awakening as an activist when she … Continue reading 8 Oct 2023: “Frances Perkins: A Woman’s Work” A One-Woman Staged Reading

Please join us as Debra Wiess (author and director) presents a staged reading of “Remembering Good Harbor Beach”, a one-act thirty minute play. The play is starts off in the summer of 1923 when Josephine Nivison and Edward Hopper met in Gloucester, MA where they both came to paint. The play then fast-forwards to 16 years later at the Hopper’s summer home in Truro, as it delves into the complicated relationship of this artist couple. Debra Wiess is a Boston-based … Continue reading 27 Aug 2023: “Remembering Good Harbor Beach” with Debra Wiess

Join us as Steven Kagle discusses diaries as literature. Diaries are usually studied as sources of historical or biographical information and not as works of art. Steven will use a few New England diaries to explain how to read diaries as literature an explain their place in American culture. Steven Kagle is a former professor of English. He began studying diaries 60 years ago while working on the diaries of the Adams family, and went on to write and edit … Continue reading 30 July 2023: Reading American Diaries