The Chatham Historical Society’s
2026 Annual Meeting
with keynote speaker and author, Ben Shattuck
Author Ben Shattuck will talk about his past two books — The History of Sound (2024) and Six Walks: In the Footsteps of Henry David Thoreau (2022) — and the role that history plays across genres.
Thursday, August 13, 2026 AT 5 PM FREE EVENT
Held at the Chatham Community Center, 702 Main Street, Chatham, MA
The Chatham Historical Society will be hosting its Annual Meeting on Thursday, August 13. After a brief business meeting discussing the museum’s 2026 season, there will be a keynote address by author Ben Shattuck.
The meeting will also highlight plans for the upcoming year at the Atwood Museum, home of the Chatham Historical Society.
This event is free and open to members and the general public. Online registration is required.
This event will take place at the Chatham Community Center at 702 Main Street. Parking is available on site.
Documents for the Meeting:
Annual Meeting Agenda
Organizational Chart
Changes to the Board of Trustees
2026 Treasurer’s Report
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Sponsored by Cape Cod Five Cents Savings Bank
Get to know this year’s speaker:
Author, Ben Shattuck
Ben Shattuck’s most recent book, The History of Sound (Viking) was the recipient of the 2025 Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award and the Story Prize Spotlight Award, and was shortlisted for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction and the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction. His film adaptation of the title story premiered at the 2025 Cannes film festival. His first book, Six Walks: In the Footsteps of Henry David Thoreau (Tin House), was a New Yorker Best Book of 2022, a New York Times Best Book of Summer, a New England Bestseller, and was nominated for the Massachusetts Book Award. A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, he is a recipient of the PEN Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers and a Pushcart Prize. He spends time between Brooklyn and coastal Massachusetts, where he owns and runs the oldest general store in America, built in 1793.