HELL-BENT FOR THE WHITE HOUSE
Celebrates over two hundred years of presidential campaigns.  Posters, banners, leaflets, buttons and a fascinating variety of novelty objects document campaigns from party conventions to inaugurations, together with displays highlighting minor, or third, parties and Massachusetts in state and national elections.  Illustrated monthly lectures, including such subjects as women suffrage, campaign imagery and political folk art will accompany this exhibition. 

SUFFRAGE MOVEMENT - 1836-1920
Chronicles several of the significant women and their contribution from 1836 through 1920 on the way to the passage of the 19th Amendment.  From the founding of this country women have struggled to have the right to vote. Suffrage means: Latin suffregium to vote. Right or privilege of voting.  In 1776 Abigail Adams writes to her husband, John Adams, asking him to “remember the ladies” in the new code of laws being created to govern our new nation.  US Constitutional Convention places voting qualification in the hands of the states. Women in all states except New Jersey lose the right to vote. New Jersey follows suit denying women voting rights in 1807. It will be another one hundred and thirteen years before American women have the right to vote.

WILLIAM MULLER, MARINE ARTIST
Bill Muller detailed artworks of historical vessels includes the early 20th century legendary liners Normandy, Aquitania, Robert Fulton, and Olympic. Recognized by maritime historians and curators as a master in his field, artist Bill Muller's historical artworks accurately capture and preserve selected visual moments and events from our nation's rich maritime heritage.

RON GEERING, MASTER CRAFTSMAN
One of the top traditional craftsmen recreating early American pottery.  Geering’s work reflects a firm understanding of traditional construction and decoration techniques unusual to red clay wares, with a particular focus on English folk pottery of the 17th Century, and wares produced by designer/craftsmen of the early 20th Century.