Speaker: Peggi Medeiros

Daniel Ricketson (1813-1896) and Brooklawn Park

Peggi Medeiros

Peggi will speak to the MWC about Daniel Ricketson’s Brooklawn, his wives and children.
Daniel Ricketson grew up in New Bedford in a prominent Quaker family, who gained notoriety as a lawyer, philanthropist, poet, author, benefactor, and abolitionist.
Peggi is a research historian currently writing a column for the New Bedford Standard Times. She was a contributing writer for The Charles W. Morgan Returns to New Bedford, and in January 2014, Peggi did a presentation at the Whaling Museum called The River and the Rail symposium. She is a frequent guest lecturer at the Rotch Jones House & Garden Museum and for the Dartmouth Historical Preservation Trust.
During the past 38 years, Peggi has worked for the City of New Bedford, the Waterfront Historical Area League, the Swain School of Design and is currently the historian for the Wamsutta Club.

Speaker: Bruce Strickrott, Alvin Pilot/Manager

Dive Deeper: Humans and Robots Exploring Together

Bruce Strickrott, Alvin Pilot/Manager

The ocean is a defining feature of our planet and crucial to life on Earth, yet it remains one of the planet’s last unexplored frontiers. For more than 50 years, the human-occupied submersible has been exploring and giving scientists unprecedented access to the deep ocean. Now Alvin is all-new and more capable than ever. Come learn more about the world’s hardest working submersible.

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) is the world’s largest private, nonprofit ocean research, engineering and education organization. The Institution is dedicated to advancing understanding of the ocean and its interaction with Earth systems and humanity, and using this understanding for the benefit of society.

Annual Christmas Program

Speaker: James P. Stevens, CEO and Founder of The Gifts To Give Philanthropy Factorye

Jim Stevens speaks about his 30 years of corporate experience and a passion for building community to GiftsToGive.

Gifts To Give is building a new currency for philanthropy by re-building a more caring community, focused on local child poverty, literacy, service to others and giving. At Gifts To Give thousands of volunteers process millions of pounds of donated children’s gear that is then recycled, re-purposed and gifted to local children in-need. Their primary mission is to give all SouthCoast young people – the privileged and those in-need – an opportunity to practice Big Citizenship and Tangible Philanthropy through their gifts of time and treasure. Children come to understand, through their “doing” the power of giving and service and that we all have gifts to give.

Speaker: Elizabeth Liedhold, Director of the Marion Natural History Museum

Vernal pools and their importance to our environment

Elizabeth Liedhold will talk on vernal pools and both salt and fresh water wetlands so important to our environment.
The Marion Natural History Society has provided natural history programs for the area since the museum was first opened in 1872 and continues to do so to this day. The museum acts as a field trip resource for schools, hosting after-school nature programs and evening programs for adults and families.

Ms. Voss, a Mattapoisett resident and former director of the foster grandparent program at Coastline Elderly Services, will discuss the Memory Café. You might have heard about memory cafés but do not know much about them. Come listen to Ms. Voss and find out what happens at one and how they can help those with dementia.