UPCOMING EVENTS: 2026

Winter, date TBD: Practical Philanthropist, Life and Times of Mary Louise Curtis Bok Zimbalist book lecture and signing, Union League, Philadelphia

November 18: America’s Hometown Movie Theaters book lecture and exhibition “Please Remain Standing: North Carolina Theaters” at High Point Museum

November 9: America’s Hometown Movie Theaters book lecture at Artworks Photo Club, Mocksville, North Carolina

November 4: Practical Philanthropist, Life and Times of Mary Louise Curtis Bok Zimbalist book lecture and signing at the Acorn Club, Philadelphia

October 15: America’s Hometown Movie Theaters book lecture at Winston-Salem Women’s Club, North Carolina

October 13: Practical Philanthropist, Life and Times of Mary Louise Curtis Bok Zimbalist book launch, Curtis Institute of Music, Philadelphia

August 1: America’s Hometown Movie Theaters book lecture and signing, a/perture cinema, Winston-Salem, North Carolina

July 21: America’s Hometown Movie Theaters book lecture and signing, Coyote Twin Theater/Vermillion Cultural Association, Vermillion, South Dakota

July 19: America’s Hometown Movie Theaters book lecture and signing, Open Door Studio and Gallery, Cheyenne, Wyoming

July 18: America’s Hometown Movie Theaters book lecture and signing, Midwest Theater, Scottsbluff, Nebraska

June 20: America’s Hometown Movie Theaters book lecture and signing, Maynard Fine Arts Theatre, Maynard, Massachusetts

June 17: America’s Hometown Movie Theaters book lecture and signing, Strand Theatre, Delaware, Ohio

April 23 (National Movie Theatre Day): Pre-launch celebration of America’s Hometown Movie Theaters with a lecture and book signing, Bookmarks, Winston-Salem, North Carolina

PAST EVENTS

Newport Cottages 1835–1890

Trudy Coxe of Newport Mansions interviews author Michael C. Kathrens 
July 14, 2023

Building the Brooklyn Bridge 1869–1883

CBS Saturday Morning interviews author Jeffrey I. Richman 
November 27, 2021

General Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen lecture by author Jeffrey I. Richman
October 5, 2021

Making America Modern: Interior Design in the 1930s

Cooper Hewitt lecture by author Marilyn Friedman
December 7, 2018

Ardrossan: The Last Great Estate of the Philadelphia Main Line

Main Line Television interviews author David Nelson Wren
May 10, 2018

Radnor Historical Society lecture by author David Nelson Wren
November 16, 2018

Imagining Ichabod: My Journey into 18th-Century America 

Historic cooking demonstration with author Paula Bennett and her husband, Harvey
June 4, 2016