American Reckoning—Resistance and Heart with Gregory Williams and Jacqueline Schwab

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Advance online tickets: $20 (no additional fees!)

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Joins us at Thacher Hall for An American Reckoning—Resistance and Heart, a fiery new collaborative program featuring pianist Jacqueline Schwab and Judge Gregory Williams. In words and music, we’ll explore a wide range of tumultuous times of American history.

We in the U.S. are living through fraught times. But we, as a nation, have done so before. The struggles for Black and brown civil rights, for the rights of women, for the rights of workers, for the rights of immigrants and migrants, for the rights of LGBTQ people--for everyone. The bedrock of it all: the rule of law. The federal government is sliding backwards. We, the people, do not have to.

Parking Note:  There is no parking at Thacher Hall. Parking is available just across Route 6A from Thacher Hall around the Common, as well as at the Post Office and Chapter House Inn. Crossing attendants will be available to assist with crossing Route 6A at the designated crosswalk in front of Thacher Hall. If you need accessible parking information, please email events@thacherhall.org.

Accessibility Note:  Thacher Hall is a historic building and is not accessible via wheelchair - a short flight of stairs is required for entrance into the Hall and the restrooms are located on the lower level (accessed via stairs).

Pianist Jacqueline Schwab spins musical stories from the myriad strands in the American quilt and is heartened by community music making. Her signature playing features in over a dozen of Ken Burns’ documentaries, including his Grammy-winning Civil War, Baseball, Lewis and Clark, Mark Twain, The War and Benjamin Franklin--and will be heard on Ken's upcoming documentary series, The American Revolution. She has performed at the White House for President Clinton and on PBS with the American Pops Orchestra and has accompanied Scottish singer Jean Redpath on public radio’s A Prairie Home Companion and on CBS’s Late Show with David Letterman. She has performed solo concerts of vintage American music in most every state of the Union and loves connecting with audiences through both her playing and the stories she relates about the pieces. Her most recent solo album I Lift My Lamp—Illuminations from Immigrant America celebrates vintage music from American immigrants. In 2023, she collaborated with the Alliance for New Music-Theatre, Washington, DC, to perform Ukrainian traditional music for translated plays about the war in Ukraine. Jacqueline graduated from England Conservatory, majoring in piano improvisation. She grew up in Pittsburgh and has since lived in Boston and on Cape Cod. 

Gregory Williams was a Massachusetts trial-court justice for 15 years, including serving ten years as First Justice of Edgartown District Court. Before taking the bench, he was an Assistant Attorney General, lastly Deputy Chief of the Western Massachusetts Division, and before that, a lawyer in private practice. 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 speaks on such topics as Massachusetts historical crimes, notable Cape Cod figures, and the romantic-macabre.

Ticket revenue pays artist fees and enables Thacher Hall to share the arts with the Yarmouth Port community.

Get Your Tickets Here via credit card

Advance online tickets: $20 (no additional fees!)

$25 (cash or check only) at the door!

EBT, WIC, SUN Bucks, and ConnectorCare cardholders receive free admission to Thacher Hall sponsored events. Cardholders can request discount at the door or use the code Card2Culture when purchasing online tickets. See the complete list of participating organizations offering EBT, WIC, and ConnectorCare discounts.