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KENNEBUNK — The Brick Store Museum’s Third Thursday Talks serve to bring a new topic to the community every third Thursday of each month. Founded in 2015, the program offers lecturers from throughout New England that will speak on a variety of subjects in the museum’s program center.

Single lectures are $10 each; by joining the museum for $20, members may attend every lecture. Lectures start at 5:30 p.m., and light refreshments are served.

The Brick Store Museum is located at 117 Main St. To learn more about the lecture series, schedule and how to become a member, visit brickstoremuseum.org or call 985-4802.

Events are:

March 17: Ray Sapirstein, cultural historian, presents “Interpreting Photography,” which will look at how the museum begins the digitization process this year of over 5,000 photographs in its collection. Sapirstein will discuss the timely topic of how to interpret your photographs.

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April 21: Kennebunk’s Joyce Lovely presents “Ice Cream, Gas Masks, and God.” Lovely authored a book of the same name discussing her childhood in the United Kingdom during World War II.

May 19: Kimberly Alexander of the University of New Hampshire presents “Georgian Shoe Stories from Colonial America,” about the elegant shoes made in Georgian London and sold in the bustling shops of colonial New England.

June 16: Jennifer Pustz of Historic New England presents “Voices from the Back Stairs: Domestic Servants in 19th and 20th Century New England,” which will discuss diversity of domestic service, the relationships servants had with their employers and their roles in the grand homes of New England.


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