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IPSWICH — Just how fond was Arthur Wesley Dow of his hometown of Ipswich, a quiet refuge of seascape and farmland tucked along the north Massachusetts coast? In 1893, he captured a scene on the ...

Ipswich Museum, 54 S. Main St., will host a lecture called “The Rising of the Women: New England Mill Strikes and the Pursuit of Women’s Rights, 1820-1920” at 7 p.m. Oct. 21. Cassandra Pelletier, ...

Lace was so valuable in the late 1700s that you could use it like money. Now, imagine 600 women, men and children in Ipswich making it at home. They became an economic engine, but are now mostly a ...

On Sunday, from 1-4 p.m., the Ipswich Museum invites you to a rare and personal look at the work of Francis H. Richardson (1859-1935), a notable North Shore artist, focusing on his years working and ...

IN 1917, Mr. Reid Moir announced the discovery of flint implements, mammalian and human bones, and fragments of rough pottery, in the lower of two superposed ‘floors' in a brickfield of Messrs. Bolton ...

COLCHESTER and Ipswich Museums are celebrating after receiving a major financial boost. The £126,200 in funding comes from the Museum Renewal Fund, a new initiative by Arts Council England to support ...

IPSWICH — As much as the sound of the red-winged blackbird singing from the marsh, the opening of the Heard House and Whipple House museums every spring is a sure sign warmer days will soon be here.

AN appeal on behalf of the Ipswich Museum has been issued by Mr. J. Reid Moir, its president. The Museum is not well provided with exhibits illustrating the culture of the bronze age; but it now has ...