Meetings Ahead
Most meetings in Eastham are in person, typically with an online-attendance option. Click on the meeting you want to attend on the calendar at eastham-ma.gov for a link to an agenda and details. All meetings are at Town Hall unless otherwise indicated.
Thursday, Aug. 15
- Finance Committee, 4 p.m.
- Nauset Regional School Committee Retreat, 5:30 p.m.
Friday, Aug. 16
- 1651 Forest Advisory Committee, 10 a.m.
Monday, Aug. 19
- Select Board, 5:30 p.m.
Tuesday, Aug. 20
- Historical Commission, 10:30 a.m.
- Recycling Committee, 5 p.m.
Wednesday, Aug. 21
- Open Space Committee, 2:30 p.m.
- Planning Board, 5 p.m.
Conversation Starter
History Talks
About 30 people attended writer Lee Roscoe’s talk on Wampanoag art at the Eastham Historical Society’s 1869 Schoolhouse Museum on Aug. 8. Roscoe presented a slide show of photographs of Wampanoag wetus, wampum beads made from quahogs and clams, and pottery. Her talk was based on research for her 2022 book Wampanoag Art for the Ages, Traditional and Transitional. By “transitional,” Roscoe means the ways that artists who work in more traditional Western mediums continue to call back to native themes.
At the end of her presentation, Roscoe spoke briefly on how she grappled with writing about the Wampanoag people even though she is not one.
The Eastham Historical Society’s Thursday summer presentations at the Schoolhouse Museum will continue through the end of August, with author Sally Woodworth Buffington presenting the story of her family’s Nauset Haven Cottages on Aug. 15; journalist Bob Seay describing Edward Hopper’s Eastham on Aug. 22; and writer Don Descry giving away secret places on Cape Cod on Aug. 29. —Jack Styler
