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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

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It’s Your Story: A Memoir Intensive Workshop with Nancy Shohet West

Thoreau Farm 341 Virginia Road, Concord, MA, United States

Does the idea of writing your memoir tempt you — or intimidate you — or maybe both? No matter what your age, you’ve had unique experiences worth retelling. Where you’ve lived, what you’ve created, whom you’ve influenced and been influenced by, what your passions are, what challenges you’ve faced down: these are all aspects of […]

$150
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Elizabeth Wentworth Roberts: Artist + Philanthropist

Concord Art Association 37 Lexington Road, Concord, MA, United States

Elizabeth Wentworth Roberts (1871-1927) incorporated Concord Art in 1922 creating a Board of Directors that included Daniel Chester French as the president. She started to install exhibitions in locations around Concord Center in 1915 to raise money for the war effort, support her fellow artists, and bring the art and artists of Boston to Concord. […]

Free
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The Art of Gertrude F. Sanderson

Littleton Historical Society 4 Rogers Street, Littleton, MA, United States

Visit the Littleton Historical Society to view a new exhibit showcasing the life and art of Gertrude F. Sanderson. Gertrude Fletcher Sanderson (1872-1937) was born in Littleton, Massachusetts the daughter of George Webster Sanderson and Charlotte Tuttle Sanderson. She was a graduate of the Boston Art School and the Julian Academy of Art in Paris. […]

Free