Free Online Lecture Series Provides Insights into Haverhill’s John Greenleaf Whittier

Oil on canvas painting from 1833 of John Greenleaf Whittier by Robert Peckham.

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Haverhill’s Whittier Birthplace is rolling out its free online lecture series for the first quarter, featuring the Haverhill poet’s connections to the Isles of Shoals, the man who portrayed John Greenleaf Whittier on canvas and his Amesbury home.

The lecture series, available via Zoom, begins Thursday, Jan. 23, at 7 p.m. with Amy Richards of the Isles of Shoals Historical and Research Association. She’ll discuss one of Whittier’s vacation spots.

Art historian Emily Esser is next up Thursday, Feb. 27, at 7 p.m. She discusses Deacon Robert Peckham, an artist and abolitionist, who painted one of Whittier’s most famous portraits, now owned by Whittier Birthplace.

Anne Ferguson of the Whittier Home Museum in Amesbury addresses the audience Thursday, March 27, at 7 p.m. Whittier lived in Amesbury after leaving Haverhill in 1836 and lived in the same house until his death in 1892.

Registration is required whittierbirthplace.org. While free, donations are also accepted online.

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