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Join us at the Ipswich Museum for our April Wednesday Evening lecture featuring Crocker Snow as he discusses his book Muskeget, followed by his film Unintended Consequences: Protected Seals of Muskeget and Cape Waters. 
A little-known island between Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket, Muskeget is awash in natural wonders. Author/journalist Crocker Snow has been visiting uninhabited Muskeget, 9 miles east of Chappaquidick, to hike, hunt, fish, clam, paint, and experience its uniqueness for seventy years. As one of its owners, he is the somewhat self-appointed steward of the treeless little island that is listed as a Natural National Landmark with the Department of the Interior. Two noted protected mammals inhabit the island: the lasrge horsehead gray seals that reach up to 800 pounds and the tiny “microtus breweri” beach vole that is only found on Muskeget.
Crocker has revised and updated his book, MUSKEGET, to embolden our understanding of this tiny island off Nantucket as it seeks survival in the midst of the ever-increasing warming climate crisis.
Crocker is an award- winning journalist and has traveled the world for over 50 years as a foreign correspondent. From 2002-2014, he was the director of the Edward R. Murrow Center of Public Diplomacy  at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy where he specialized in Middle East media, and most recently on the global impact of climate change and the warming of the Artic.