Them Bones. . . Again: Facing Death In Munich & Vienna & Along the Danube

TICKETS:  $10 advance online tickets. Purchase tickets online via this link, or pay $15 cash at the door.

There is plenty to see in Munich and Vienna, and towns along the Danube. And then there are other things to see. Visits to the relics of saints. Crypts. Death masks. Heart burials. Vienna’s leading painting: the Spanish Flu, and suicide. And how did a public memorial to a prolific, late-Renaissance composer of motets and madrigals come to commemorate the death of a more modern, and scandalized, musician?

Join us for a hauntingly edifying evening with guest speaker, Gregory Williams, as he tours us around the creepier highlights of this historic region. 

Gregory Williams was a District Court judge for 15 years, retiring in 2015—for his last ten years, he was First Justice of the Edgartown District Court. A citizen of both the U.S. and Canada, 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 talks on such topics as Massachusetts historical crimes, notable Cape Cod figures, and the romantic-macabre.

He has served on the boards of several Cape non-profits,and is the immediate past-president of the Sturgis Library Board. His Facebook page, Gregory Williams Speaks, continues to signal his scheduled events, and also offers peeks at odd bits of history, art, and music.

TICKETS:  $10 advance online tickets. Purchase tickets online via this link, or pay $15 cash at the door.