Robyn Elizabeth Weisel is Executive Director of the Cuttyhunk Historical Society. Robyn grew up in Corona del Mar, California and headed to San Francisco for college where she studied art and English at St. Mary’s College, worked as a freelance photojournalist for Lesher Communications upon graduation, and became an independent photographer, among many other creative endeavors. After moving to Vermont 23 years ago, she began a successful career working with New England educational/arts non-profits in the area of development and administrative management. ​Ten years ago, she established the Ability Arts (AArts) project at River Gallery School of Art in Brattleboro, Vermont, supporting and enabling artists with disabilities an access point to more fully participate in artistic pursuits. Robyn and her family discovered Cuttyhunk years ago when her uncle brought them to the island on one of their sailing trips around the Elizabeth Islands. After vacationing there one summer, the opportunity to work with CHS was pursued and she thought it was a perfect fit for where she was in her professional and personal life. Going on her ninth year of working at CHS, now as the Executive Director.

Tim Richards serves as the President of the Truro Historical Society. Since 2017, Tim has researched Truro history subjects, starting with the Truro Tide Mill. His article on the mill appeared in the journal International Molinology in December 2022. Since then, Tim has researched the mid-19th century period when Truro’s Pamet Harbor briefly developed into one of the most active fishing harbors in New England. That research led to an exhibit in the Truro Historical Society’s Highland House Museum. He is currently writing a book on the subject.
When he is not engaged in historical activities, Tim teaches at the University of Pennsylvania and consults on business strategies for engagement with international governments. He retired from the General Electric Company in early 2019 after a 23-year GE career. For his final two years at GE, Tim was responsible for all of the company’s international government affairs. Other GE leadership roles included Energy Policy and government affairs in the Middle East, North Africa region, based in Abu Dhabi. Prior to joining GE, Tim spent eight years with the Office of the United States Trade Representative.
Tim is the co-author of Intellectual Property Rights: Global Conflict, Global Consensus?. He is a graduate of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University and of Bowdoin College.

Chelsea Cohen is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania. She joined Penn after graduating with a BA in Anthropology from DePaul University and an MS in Maritime Archaeology and Conservation from Texas A&M. Her dissertation research focuses on the relationship between British maritime culture, agroforestry, and the development of port cities in the eighteenth-century Chesapeake. Trained as both an historical and maritime archaeologist, she combines terrestrial and underwater methods to connect the land and sea.

Maggie Adler has over two decades of art world experience, having distinguished herself as a curator, speaker, writer, mentor, nonprofit fundraiser, and organizational leader. She spent more than a decade as Curator of Paintings, Sculpture, and Works on Paper at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art, She is now an independent curator specializing in the relationships between historical and contemporary art. Prior to the Carter, she held posts at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Williams College Museum of Art, and the Addison Gallery of American Art. She has organized numerous exhibitions, including Horizon Lines (2017); In Our Own Words: Native Impressions (2018); The Perilous Texas Adventures of Mark Dion (2020); Mythmakers: The Art of Winslow Homer and Frederic Remington (2020); Sandy Rodriguez In Isolation (2021); Emancipation: The Unfinished Project of Liberation (2023); Jean Shin: The Museum Body (2024); and Los Encuentros (2025). Adler holds a Bachelor of Arts in classical languages and the history of art and a Master of Arts in the history of art from Williams College. She has served as Chair of the Association of Historians of American Art; was selected as a Fellow of the Center for Curatorial Leadership; she is a multi-term commissioner of public art for the City of Fort Worth, Texas; and she serves the Smithsonian Archives of American Art as a board member and the Williams College Museum of Art, Arrivals Art Fair, and the National Juneteenth Museum in an advisory capacity.