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Spinning Gold: Shaping Your Family Research into Compelling Stories

Nackey S. Loeb School of Communications 749 East Industrial Park Drive, Manchester, NH, United States

This class will help students write their family’s stories, as true tales or fictional accounts. It includes exercises to get creative ideas flowing; guidance on planning and outlining stories; and tips for writing compelling stories from found facts. If you’ve ever planned to write your family’s history and never seem to get to it, this […]

Free

Conversation with Wicked author Gregory Maguire and Barefoot Books Co-founder Nancy Traversy

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

FREE family-friendly discussion about children’s publishing and the Barefoot Books journey with the best-selling author of Wicked, and the CEO and founder award-winning, global multicultural children's publisher.  Casual discussion followed by free family crafts-making activities and tour of the interactive children's illustration art exhibition,  Barefoot Books: 30 Years, 30 Artists.

Free

2022 Art Ramble: “In the Balance” – Artists Reception & Walkabout

Hapgood Wright Town Forest Walden St, Concord, United States

Meet the Curator and Artists of this year’s Art Ramble, an annual, temporary exhibition in the Hapgood Wright Town Forest in Concord, MA, a collaboration of The Umbrella Art Center and Concord’s Division of Natural Resources. Following Leave No Trace principles, regional artists create site-specific artworks promoting appreciation of nature, installed along Fairyland Pond and parts of the […]

Free

The Hip Roofed House

Shirley Historical Society Museum 182 Center Road, Shirley, MA, United States

Celebrate the publication of Ethel Bolton’'s history of her home at Pound Hill Place in Shirley, Massachusetts with a book release party and discussion.

Free
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Shirley Shaker Community Guided Tour

Shirley Shaker Village Shirley

Join the Shirley Historical Society for a guided tour of the site of the Shirley Shaker Community. Must be registered and paid for in advance at shirleyhistory.org. The Shaker Village property is part of the state prison system and can only be accessed by special arrangement. Our tour begins inside a Shaker building with a brief illustrated […]

$15 – $20
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The Boy Who Grew Flowers

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

Treehouse Shakers’ The Boy Who Grew Flowers Based on the Barefoot Books’ Picture Book By Jen Wojtowicz Play Adaption by Mara McEwin September 22-24, 2022 The Boy Who Grew Flowers is a stunning visual performance for audiences for ages 5-10 and their families. Adapted from Barefoot Books’ bestselling picture book by Jen Wojtowicz, play adaption by Mara McEwin […]

$50

King Phillips War and The Sudbury Fight

Sudbury History Center & Museum 288 Old Sudbury Road, Sudbury, MA, United States

Join us in person or online on September 22nd as public historian Richard Smith presents his lecture on "King Philip's War and The Sudbury Fight" King Philip’s War is considered by many historians to be the deadliest war in Colonial American history. In the space of little more than a year, 12 towns were destroyed, […]

Free – $10

Determined to Know Beans: A Biological & Historical Saunter of Thoreau’s Bean Field at Walden Pond

Walden Pond State Reservation 915 Walden Street, Concord, MA, United States

In 1845 Henry David Thoreau moved to Walden Pond to begin his two-year experiment in simple living in a small, one-room house that he built himself. Thoreau also planted and maintained a garden of “two acres and a half of light and sandy soil” in which he grew beans. Thoreau left the Pond in 1847 […]

$25

Open-Air Tap Room at the Faulkner Homestead

Faulkner Homestead 5 High Street, Acton, MA, United States

After a two-year absence, the Iron Work Farm’s popular annual fundraiser, the Open Tap Room, has returned as an outdoor gathering:  the “Open-Air” Tap Room at the oldest house in Acton, the 1707 Jones-Faulkner Homestead, 5 High Street, Acton. A 4:00 salute by the Acton Minutemen will open the event.  Join friends of the Iron […]

$30
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Dracula: A feminist revenge fantasy, really

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

One hundred and twenty five years after its publication, Dracula has continued to thrill and be interpreted by every generation in turn. And now, in the New England premiere of a bold new adaptation, award-winning playwright-actor Kate Hamill sinks her teeth into the sexism in Bram Stoker's classic. The result is a fun, fearless ride when the […]

$45

Nashobah Praying Indians: A Living People, A Living Landscape

Reuben Hoar Library 35 Shattuck Street, Littleton, MA, United States

Meet Strong Bear Medicine of the Nashobah Praying Indians and local historian Daniel V. Boudillion as they discuss the 1654 Nashobah Praying Indian Village. Topics include the Nashobah People – a vibrant, living community – as well as the living landscape of Native ceremonial structures in Littleton, Acton, and neighboring towns. Co-sponsored with Littleton Historical […]

Free

The Brooks Family Art Collection

Charlotte and William Bloomberg Medford Public Library 111 High Street, Medford, MA, United States

Join Doug Carr, an architect and student of art and history, as he presents a variety of art works collected by generations of Brooks Family members, whose ranks include the Saltonstalls and the family of John Quincy Adams. The Brooks collection contains works by John Singer Sargent, John LaFarge, Claude Monet, and sculptor Cyrus Dallin, […]

Free