We've heard of a number of other Monday (or other) Evening Clubs built around the concept of a dinner, presentation and discussion. Presumably there was a common impetus for this, but we haven't yet discovered what it was.

Among the clubs we've run into are:

The Monday Evening Club of Newburyport, Mass.

(Founded shortly after World War I). Despite its name, the Newburyport club meets on Wednesday evenings from October to June. Newburyport is also home to the Fortnightly Club, founded in the 1870s, and the Tuesday Night Club, founded around 1910. (We are indebted to William Plante, Jr., of the Newburyport Monday Evening Club, for this information.)

The Monday Evening Club of Haverhill, Mass.

(Founded 1860)

(Founded 1869; Mark Twain was a member; papers are archived at Trinity College.)





The Whiting Club, founded in Lynn, Massachusetts in 1903. It currently has 35 members from throughout the North Shore, and launched its website in 2014 (website expired as of 2019).





The Thirteen, a Salem, Massachusetts club launched in the early 1900s, which apparently was one of a number of "thirteen clubs" founded in that era — one aim being to dispel superstitions by traditionally having just 13 members, meeting on the 13th, and so on. (Thanks to Charlie Newhall, historian of the Whiting Club and member of both the Whiting and The Thirteen, for information on both clubs.)