Thursday July 17, at 7:00 P.M.   

Marconi's Hotel - A Photo Essay.   

Noted Producer and Director Chris Seufert presents a photo essay about this historic Hotel Building built for Guglielmo Marconi's company in 1914.  

Hotel Nautilus

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Thursday July 24, at 7:00 P.M.       

The French Cable Station   

Meets Marconi.   

French Cable Station Museum Director Joe Manas and Marconi-RCA Museum Executive Director Dick Kraycir explore the competing turn-of-the-century communications technologies and their impact on Cape Cod.

French Cable Station Museum, Orleans MA

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Thursday July 31, at 7:00 P.M.   

You would not think you were  

in Chatham Port. 

In 1914, a part of Chatham was transformed in a way seen at few places on earth. Guglielmo Marconi included rustic Chatham Port in his plans to build massive high-power radio stations around the world.  Ed Moxon reveals how the big news unfolded here and around the world 100 years ago.  The postmark on the post card reproduced below was 1915, but that date was not originally on this postcard. The picture was taken from the top of what is now Cove Hill Road and the home at 600 Orleans Road is in the foreground. The photographer was probably trying to get the six large Marconi Towers. The locals  used wood to heat their homes hence there were few trees.

Postcard of Chatham Port

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August 7, at 7:00 P.M.    

The Enigma Machine in WWII.  

What does that have to do with Chatham?   

Donna Lumpkin hosts a video on the Enigma machine and the decryption breakthroughs  

which helped win the Battle of the Atlantic and end World War II.  

ENIGMA Machine