Coffee @ The Kennedy Museum
The Boston Massacre – presented by Ret. Judge Greg Williams
Armed government agents in the streets. A resentful populace. A look at the “massacre” of 5 March 1770, its precursor, the soldiers, the victims, the propaganda, and the trials. Preston, White, Gray, Attucks, Carr, Caldwell, Maverick, Revere, Adams.
Join us for a cup of coffee as we relive history with retired Judge Gregory Williams presenting the story of The Boston Massacre, which occurred on this date, March 5, 1770.
Event Details
Location: JFK Hyannis Museum: Scudder Family Center for Civic Engagement on the second floor.
Attendance: In-person or via Zoom
Cost: $3.00 Non-Members | Free for Museum Members. Become a member today!
Registration: Purchase tickets below.
About Gregory Williams
Gregory Williams was a Massachusetts District Court judge for 15 years, retiring in 2015—for his last ten years, he was First Justice
of the Edgartown District Court, and the Presiding Justice of the Appellate Division (Southern Division). Before taking the bench, he was an Assistant Attorney General, lastly serving as Deputy Chief of the Western Massachusetts Division. Before that, he was in private practice for about 15 years. He holds degrees from Western Maryland College (now McDaniel College) (B.A., English); Queen Mary College, University of London (M.A., English [20th-century British Literature]), and Washington and Lee University School of Law (J.D.). He has talked on such topics as Massachusetts historical crimes, notable Cape Cod figures, and the romantico-macabre for more than ten years.
He has served on the boards of several Cape non-profits, and is the immediate past-president of the Board of Trustees of Sturgis Library. His website is gregorywilliamsspeaks.com, and his Facebook page, Gregory Williams Speaks, continues to signal his scheduled events, and also offers peeks at odd bits of history, art, and music.Retired judge Gregory Williams sees himself as “a storyteller rather than a historian,” preferring to riff on historical events that grab his fancy or sense of humor, and follow where the trail leads. He’s presented talks on- and off-Cape, at libraries, clubs, historical societies and for Tales of Cape Cod. Previous lectures have included such murderous New England subjects as the Boston Massacre, Lizzie Borden, “Mad Jack” Percival, Sacco and Vanzetti, Pocasset’s Edith Freeman and more; as well as talks on Edgar Allan Poe; the bones buried in mass graves in Paris and Rome; and visions of Hell created by such famous artists as Hieronymus Bosch and Gustave Doré.