Join us for an in-person tour! Our docents take you through the museum highlighting the lives, stories, and achievements of 19th-century Black entrepreneurs, intellectuals, and artisans with soundscapes and images. Sample a ginger cookie made from a recipe from  Fisher’s cookbook. Highlighted 19th-century heroes include Francis Johnson, John Trower, Eliza Grier, Henry Ossawa Tanner, Julian…

Heather Moqtaderi, Founder and Artistic Director of Past Present Projects, will speak about Linda Sanders’ site-specific “Deep Rivers” mural at the Ebenezer Maxwell Mansion. The mural was commissioned as part of the Mansion’s “Deep Rivers” tour, which highlights 19th Century African Americans who achieved greatness in arts, culture, science, and business. Moqtaderi was invited to…

Charlotte Brontë’s masterpiece tells the story of Jane, orphaned as a child, who feels an outcast her entire life. Her courage is tested once again when she arrives at Thornfield Hall, where the brooding, proud Edward Rochester has hired her to care for his ward Adèle. Jane finds herself drawn to his troubled yet kind…

Join Concetta Martone, Ph.D. on ZOOM Colors are all around us. They are inherent to the natural world but also man-made. They speak to us directly when revealing details about the nature of objects, subliminally when invoking moods and eliciting emotions, and aesthetically when delighting us with their beauty. Color is an essential element of…

Coming in March 2023 – Pulitzer Prize nominee Joseph Starita talks about Dr. Susan La Flesche Picotte, the first Native American doctor in U. S. History. On March 14, 1889, Susan La Flesche Picotte received her medical degree―becoming the first Native American doctor in U.S. history. She earned her degree thirty-one years before women could…

“Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else.” Charles Dickens’s Hard Times: For These Times tells a story about honoring the value of the human heart in an age of materialism and social injustice. It takes place in Coketown, where Mr. Thomas Gradgrind…

Ebenezer Maxwell Mansion invites anyone living in the 19144 zip code to join us on Saturday morning, May 20, 2023, for complimentary coffee, tea, hot chocolate, and pastries or cookies. Learn about the Andrew Jackson Downing and Frank Scott gardens from our Garden Curator, Scott Travaline, Horticulturalist. Get ideas and professional advice for your own…

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…