Join us for an enlightening presentation on Black Music's American Journey from Francis Johnson to hip-hop. Black Music's American Journey is curated by Dr. Guthrie P. Ramsey, Jr. A Guggenheim Fellow and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Dr. Guthrie P. Ramsey is a music historian, pianist, composer, and Professor Emeritus of…
Join us for an enlightening presentation on Black Music’s American Journey from Francis Johnson to hip-hop. Black Music’s American Journey is curated by Dr. Guthrie P. Ramsey, Jr. A Guggenheim Fellow and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Dr. Guthrie P. Ramsey, Jr. is a music historian, pianist, composer, and Professor Emeritus…
“I wish, as well as everybody else, to be perfectly happy; but, like everybody else, it must be in my own way.” Published in 1811 and deeply beloved in the Victorian era, Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility continues to delight readers today. The novel follows the three Dashwood sisters – Elinor, Marianne, and Margaret – as they…
Bram Stoker's Dracula - a 70-minute solo adaptation.
Stoker’s Dracula is a 70-minute solo adaptation of Bram Stoker’s classic tale of terror. Unlike other adaptations, this play uses only the novel’s original text of diary entries, letters, and newspaper articles to tell one of the Victorian era’s most frightening tales. Josh Hitchens reprises this chilling performance at the Ebenezer Maxwell Mansion for the…
Join author Becky Diamond as we launch her fantastic new cookbook, featuring photographs from niside the Maxwell Mansion!https://www.tix.com/ticket-sales/ebenezermaxwellmansion/1714/event/1348495
Could the sudden death of Sir Charles Baskerville have been caused by the gigantic ghostly hound that is said to have haunted his family for generations? Arch-rationalist Sherlock Holmes characteristically dismisses the theory as nonsense. And immersed in another case, he sends Watson to Devon to protect the Baskerville heir and observe the suspects close…
By popular demand, we have added a second gathering of the Victorian Book Club on Sunday, November 12 at 3:30 to discuss Sir Arthur Conan Doyle classic The Hound of the Baskervilles.https://www.tix.com/ticket-sales/ebenezermaxwellmansion/1714/event/1354953
Enjoy the sights, sounds, and taste of an authentic Victorian Christmas at Ebenezer Maxwell Mansion! See the mansion decorated for the holidays, enjoy food and drink, and hear from Charles Dickens, the Victorian "man who invented Christmas", in a one-man show with Josh Hitchens!
Join Us for A Victorian Christmas! The mansion is beautifully decorated for Christmas this year, to tell us the stories of nineteenth-century Philadelphians and the ways they created our Christmas traditions. Stroll through each room and learn about the birth of Christmas trees, new carols, literature, and poems, and how shopping became a way…
