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“Reflections: Selfhood/Motherhood” Opening Reception

The Umbrella Arts Center 40 Stow Street, Concord, MA, United States

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 […]

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Roudenbush Community Market

Roudenbush Community Market Fisher Way, Westford, United States

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

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Concord: Reading Frederick Douglass Together

The Robbins House 320 Monument Stree, Concord, MA, United States

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 […]

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Medford: Reading Frederick Douglass Together

Royall House & Slave Quarters 15 George Street, Medford

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 […]

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Declaring Independence: Then & Now

The Depot 13 Depot Square, Lexington, MA, United States

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 […]

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Acton 250: Hosmer House Open House

Hosmer House 300 Main Street, Acton, MA, United States

The Hosmer House, a saltbox style building, is something of a unique structure. The original portion built in 1760 has gunstock corner posts. By 1796, when the addition was constructed, they were no longer popular. The original 1760 fireplace has an interior beehive oven located on the left whereas the 1796 fireplace has an oven […]

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Roudenbush Community Market

Roudenbush Community Market Fisher Way, Westford, United States

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

Annual Gathering 2024: Thoreau & Resilience

Concord, MA Concord, MA, United States

Visit the Annual Gathering 2024 website for full description, additional details, and registration. In spite of a lifetime riven by illness and environmental change during an era marred by racial oppression and political turmoil, Thoreau once wrote, “Surely joy is the condition of life.” Even in his darkest hours, Thoreau found resilience. He turned from […]

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Westford 250 – The Solemn League and Covenant and Westford’s Response to the 1774 Intolerable Acts

Westford Historical Society & Museum 2 Boston Road, Westford, MA, United States

In the spring and summer of 1774, news had reached Boston that Britain’s Parliament had invoked several measures in retaliation for the Destruction of the Tea in Boston Harbor, known as the “Intolerable Acts”. Samuel Adams and the Boston committee of correspondence developed a non-importation pledge known as the “Solemn League and Covenant”. The Covenant […]

A Walk in Thoreau’s Concord

Concord Museum 53 Cambridge Turnpike, Concord, MA, United States

When we think of Henry David Thoreau, we picture him during the two years he spent living at Walden Pond.  But did you know that he lived in other homes in Concord throughout his life?  Take a unique tour of the domestic side of Thoreau’s life, visiting the homes where he lived and hearing the […]

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Roudenbush Community Market

Roudenbush Community Market Fisher Way, Westford, United States

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

Connecting Communities: Walks & Talks — “How We Remember” at Minute Man NHP

Minute Man National Historical Park 174 Liberty Street, Concord, MA, United States

Join us as we continue Freedom's Way National Heritage Area's 2024 Connecting Communities: Walks & Talks program with a Concord's North Bridge: History & Memory tour hosted by Minute Man National Historical Park. At 11:00 a.m. meet a Park Ranger at the benches by the North Bridge for this 30 minute program. Learn about the […]

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