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Patriots’ Day Spirit 2022

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

Join Iron Work Farm for a fun and activity filled Patriots' Day Spirit celebration. Come travel back in time with us to learn why we celebrate Patriots' Day in Acton as the start of both the Revolutionary and Civil Wars. What better place to do it than at the Faulkner Homestead, the home of Col. […]

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Patriot Vigil

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

Patriots' Day 2022 at Minute Man National Historical Park Lantern light procession: 7:50 p.m. (step off at North Bridge Visitor Center) Ceremony at North Bridge: 8:00 – 8:45 p.m. As darkness descends upon the North Bridge battlefield we invite you to come and reflect on the events of April 19, 1775 and the meaning of […]

Free

Arrival of the Sudbury Militia

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

Patriots' Day 2022 at Minute Man National Historical Park The Sudbury Companies of Militia and Minute will make their annual march to North Bridge in honor of their fellow townsmen who made the same march in 1775. They will fire volleys from North Bridge in soldierly salute. Note that this event will take place at […]

Free

Patriots Day Candlelight Tribute

Fairview Cemetery Tadmuck Road, Westford, MA, United States

Join the Westford Historical Society while the sun sets for our first-ever Patriots Day (April 19th) Candlelight Tribute in the Old Division of Fairview Cemetery. In this unique self-guided stroll, you can access the service records of Westford’s Revolutionary War Patriots on your phone or tablet. There will be colonial interpreters to answer your questions […]

$5 – $10

Microadventures in Massachusetts

Fitchburg Public Library 166 Boulder Drive, Suite 108, Fitchburg, MA, United States

Looking for some fun day trips that are out of the ordinary, or opportunities to introduce younger family members to short experiences to test the waters? Join us at the Fitchburg Public Library (Garden Room) for this free, in-person event! Experienced hiker and outdoorswoman Alison O'Leary provides a tour of a dozen day trip options […]

Free

Earth Day Drop-In Program

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

Visit the Concord Museum this Earth Day and build your own binoculars (without lenses) to explore birds in the sky.  But first, test your binoculars out in Alive with Birds. Environmental bonus: recycle by bringing your own toilet paper tubes! Free with Museum admission. Members visit free. Image courtesy of the Concord Museum

Free with Museum Admission

Birds of Prey Wildlife Encounter: Earth Day Family Program

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

Visit the Concord Museum on Earth Day and meet birds of prey and learn about their importance to the ecosystem with an educator from Mass Audubon. Species may include owls, falcons, hawks, vultures and eagles. Feel through these powerful and graceful birds a true connection and appreciation for all wildlife and the habitat we share. […]

Free

Musketaquid Earth Day

The Old Manse 269 Monument Street, Concord, MA, United States

Over the past two years, during the worst of the pandemic, The Umbrella Arts & Environment program has continued to create solace, community, and reconnection with nature. Although they took a very different form from celebrations of the past few decades, 2020 and 2021 gave us opportunities to safely engage new, wider audiences in deep […]

Free

When Things Go Horribly Wrong with Sy Montgomery

Virtual

To research books, films and articles, Sy Montgomery has been chased by an angry silverback gorilla in Zaire and bitten by a vampire bat in Costa Rica, worked in a pit crawling with 18,000 snakes in Manitoba and handled a wild tarantula in French Guiana. She has been deftly undressed by an orangutan in Borneo, […]

Free
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Historical Piano Concerts Spring Series

Ashburnham Community Church 84 Main Street, Ashburnham, MA, United States

The Historical Piano Concerts series is built on the Frederick Collection of Historical Grand Pianos by major makers in Vienna, Paris and Leipzig, ca. 1790-1928. The concerts' 36th spring season will feature three solo piano programs, and one concert each, of piano with violin, with tenor voice, and with clarinet, performed by nationally / internationally […]

$15

Power and Liberty: A Conversation with Gordon Wood

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

Annual Mary Lesneski Memorial Lecture at the Concord Museum Brown University professor, Gordon Wood, will discuss his new book, Power and Liberty: Constitutionalism in the American Revolution, in which he distills a lifetime of work on constitutional innovations during the Revolutionary era with historian Richard Brown of the University of Connecticut. Advanced registration is required. […]

$10
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The Umbrella Open Studios

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

Friday, April 29   12-6PM Saturday, April 30   11AM-5PM 40 Stow Street, Concord, MA 01742 The Umbrella Arts Center in the heart of historic Concord Center cultural district is home to more than 60 working artists skilled in a variety of fine and applied arts including ceramics, glass, fiber arts, jewelry making, illustration, mixed-media, painting, photography, printmaking, illustration, […]

Free