Current Events spotlights exciting happenings in the coming days. If you’d like to contribute a listing, please email Current Editor Leigh Blander at lblander@marbleheadnews.org.
Jazz at the Arts
Thursday, Sept. 18, 7 p.m.
The Marblehead Arts Association and Gene Arnould present Debby Larkin and the Jeff Stout Quintet as a part of a Jazz at the Arts concert series. Doors at 8 Hooper St. open at 6:30 p.m. There will be a cash bar. Tickets, $35, can be purchased at marbleheadarts.org or the Arnould Gallery, 111 Washington St.
What leatherback sea turtles can teach us
Friday, Sept. 19, 6-8 p.m.
Marblehead resident and WINGS, Women of Discovery board member Karen Zieff will host a conversation with Callie Veelenturf on leatherback sea turtles and the rights of nature. The event is at the Marblehead Arts Association, 8 Hooper St. Veelenturf is founder of The Leatherback Project and the National Geographic Society’s newest program, For Nature. Tickets are $20 and available at https://loom.ly/tLViLp4.
Me&Thee with Garnet Rogers
Friday, Sept. 19, 8 p.m.
Me&Thee Music continues its 56th season with one of Canada’s best known acoustic performers, Garnet Rogers.
“His literate humor and lightning-quick wit moves his audience from tears to laughter and back again,” according to a Me&Thee press release.
Rogers was born in Hamilton, Ontario, where he began his professional career barely out of high school.
This season, the Me&Thee will be collecting donations of non-perishable food items for the Marblehead Food Pantry before each performance.
Online tickets are only available at meandthee.org and in person locally at Arnould Gallery, 111 Washington St. Doors open at 7:15 p.m. with community seating. 28 Mugford St.
Book sale
Saturday, Sept. 20, 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
Fall into good reading with the Friends of Abbot Public Library’s fall book sale. Find your next great read (which you won’t have to return!) while supporting the library. Proceeds from the book sale will go towards Abbot Public Library’s programs and services, including museum passes, Library of Things and more. The library is located at 235 Pleasant St.
All aboard!
Saturday-Sunday, Sept. 20-21
Marblehead 250 invites residents and visitors to experience Revolutionary War Marblehead at locations in the Historic District from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. on both Saturday and Sunday. Highlights include Glover’s Regiment at Fort Sewall; an historical interpreter portraying the widow of war hero, James Mugford; 18th-century diarist Ashley Bowen portrayed by Donald Friary; and a colonial Anglican service at St. Michael’s Church. In addition, audience members can decide which side of the Revolution they would have defended by participating in a recreated town meeting at the Old Town House; visit the Jeremiah Lee Mansion and discover Lee’s role in procuring weapons and supplies for the rebels; and learn about the town’s Tory population at the “King” Hooper Mansion, home of the Marblehead Arts Association.
New this year: the Fame from Salem, which is very similar to John Glover’s schooner Hannah, will be docked at State Street Landing each morning, with the option of a paid harbor sail each day. To learn more visit marbleheadmuseum.org/headers-in-the-revolution.
