GREAT MEADOWS NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE, CONCORD, MA
On the Way between Acton Center and Carlisle: a 250+-Year History The second event in the Acton 250 series “Still Here: Houses of Our Patriots” will be a presentation about the Nathaniel Edwards House, 328 Pope Road, on Monday, June 10 at 7PM. at the Acton Memorial Library. The speaker will be the house’s co-owner, David Hardt, who has […]
Co-Chairs Charlie Annand and Marcia Nelson of the The Hutchinson Family Memorial Project will tell us about the Milford Hutchinson Family and the national and international fame of the Hutchinson Family Singers and their plans for a memorial honoring them here in Milford. Huzzah! Huzzah!John Hutchinson has graciously offered to join us and sing a […]
Readers young and old have embraced Barbara Cooney’s Miss Rumphius, about the lupine lady who made the world more beautiful, since its publication four decades ago. Harry & Hilda: Letters Home, The Sparkling Life of the Lupine Lady and the Professor Who Made It Possible is the story of the “real” Miss Rumphius, Hilda Edwards, […]
Come Celebrate Juneteenth at Fitchburg Abolitionist Park! - Listen and discuss Frederick Douglass's influential address, "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?" - Learn about Fitchburg’s connection to the Abolitionist Movement - Celebrate how far we have come in developing and improving Abolitionist Park over the past seven years! Feel free to bring […]
Join us for a fun and family-friendly walk at Doyle Conservation Area in Leominster as we seek all the colors of the rainbow found in nature! Learn about the many sights and sounds of nature on the first day of summer with Anna Wilkins, NCLT Executive Director. If you visit the Leominster Public Library to […]
Join us as we continue Freedom's Way National Heritage Area's 2024 Connecting Communities: Walks & Talks program with a Lexington Celebrates! Walking Tour hosted by the Lexington Historical Society. Space is limited to 20 people. Registration is required. Click here to reserve your spot. Parades, pageants and pandemonium have defined the many commemorations of the […]
Join the Friends of Minute Man National Park for a free 45-minute tour of the Buttrick Gardens. Learn about the history and preservation of these beautiful gardens. We’ll find shady spots to view the historic plantings and discuss why the Buttrick Gardens recently received a Concord Historical Commission Landscape Preservation Award. Beginning in 1911, two […]
The Umbrella Arts Center invites the public to an opening reception for the new visual arts exhibition, "Reflections: Selfhood/Motherhood," featuring work by 2023/2024 Umbrella Artists-in-Residence, Jasmine Chen and Catherine LeComte Lecce, in the Allie Kussin Main Gallery. Also on view is "random assembly" in the Main Hall Display, with artwork by Umbrella Ceramic Studio […]
The Roudenbush Community Market (formerly the Westford Farmer's Market) will open on July 2, 2024 and run every Tuesday from 3:00pm to 7:00pm until September 10, 2024. We are located on Fisher Way next to the Abbot School in Westford, MA. Visit our website for more information! Photo courtesy of the Roudenbush Community Market
Considered one of the most daring, eloquent speeches in the English language, Frederick Douglass’s fiery 1852 speech, “What to the Slave is the 4th of July?” challenges its audience, then and now, to consider the meaning of freedom, citizenship, and patriotism. After this initial reading, the audience will be invited to join the actors for […]
In-Person Program. Thursday, July 4 from 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. Please join the Royall House & Slave Quarters for our second annual "Reading Frederick Douglass Together" program on the museum grounds in Medford on Thursday, July 4th. We invite community members to gather on the lawn in front of the historic Slave Quarters building to […]
This dramatic presentation, created by Freedom’s Way National Heritage Area, aims to find out how our local towns read and reacted to the Declaration of Independence. Across the colonies, and particularly in Massachusetts, towns debated what freedom meant to them, and grappled with the grievances aired in the official Declaration. What did the words in […]
