GREAT MEADOWS NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE, CONCORD, MA
Experience the Codman House from the servants’ point of view. Learn about the employees who lived and worked on the grounds and in the house making life on the estate possible. Parlor maids, chambermaids, cooks, nannies, caretakers, and chauffeurs— meet specific individuals who served on the estate, some for a season and others for as […]
Enjoy a guided tour of the Codman Estate’s historic landscape learning about its early history, evolution, and preservation. The last two generations of family members to live here between 1862 and 1968, made improvements to the grounds and gardens, while carefully preserving aspects of what their 18th century ancestors created here. The grounds feature a […]
The 22nd Sholan Farms Apple Blossom Festival celebrates the advent of spring in the Central Massachusetts region as evidenced by the blooming of the apple trees. The Festival is a civic celebration organized and operated by the Friends of Sholan Farms. Activities will include crafters, food trucks, butterfly release, scavenger hunt, free wagon rides and […]
13th Annual Lexington Open Studios event on May 20 & 21st at LexArt! Visit with 40+ ARTISTS WHO LIVE, WORK, TEACH, CREATE OR ARE AFFILIATED WITH THE ARTS COMMUNITY IN LEXINGTON Learn more at lexingtonopenstudios.com! Photo courtesy of Nicole Mordecai This program is offered by LexArt as part of the Hidden Treasures Festival of Nature, […]
We're celebrating 100 years of Concord Art! Our founder, Elizabeth Wentworth Roberts (1871-1927), was not only a dedicated philanthropist, but a talented artist as well. This May, we invite you to visit Concord Art during gallery hours (Tuesday through Saturday, 10am to 4:30pm, and Sunday, 12pm to 4pm) to see the paintings and etchings of […]
Join Duncan Brown, Curator for the Boxborough Historical Society, as he explains the story of why a child’s shoe was hidden in the wall of a Boxborough house for 300 years and the journey the shoe took to come home to the Boxborough Museum. The house, owned by James and Hannah Whitcomb, was built in […]
Popular Bedford resident and charming Town Historian Sharon McDonald will be the Bedford Historical Society’s Annual Meeting guest speaker, talking once again about another set of ancient and interesting Bedford residents, as she had done in past lecture seasons. This time, her Cast of (Nineteenth Century Historical) Characters will include abolitionist and suffragist Lucinda Hosmer, […]
Historical Piano Concerts' 37th Spring season presents performances every Sunday in May. The concerts will include piano solo, piano with voice, with violin, and with clarinet, all with restored original pianos by important makers in Paris, Vienna, and Leipzig, ca. 1830 - 1877. On Sunday, May 21st, pianists Eunmi Ko and Hwaen Ch'uqi play an […]
We're celebrating 100 years of Concord Art! Our founder, Elizabeth Wentworth Roberts (1871-1927), was not only a dedicated philanthropist, but a talented artist as well. This May, we invite you to visit Concord Art during gallery hours (Tuesday through Saturday, 10am to 4:30pm, and Sunday, 12pm to 4pm) to see the paintings and etchings of […]
In this illustrated Louise Ruma Ivers Memorial Lecture, Richard A. Duffy presents nuanced context for the ways in which Black, brown, and Indigenous peoples have been portrayed in presenting the history of Arlington, Massachusetts. Sharing both dispiriting stereotypes and the inspiring work of allies in the cause of racial justice, this lecture is but one […]
We're celebrating 100 years of Concord Art! Our founder, Elizabeth Wentworth Roberts (1871-1927), was not only a dedicated philanthropist, but a talented artist as well. This May, we invite you to visit Concord Art during gallery hours (Tuesday through Saturday, 10am to 4:30pm, and Sunday, 12pm to 4pm) to see the paintings and etchings of […]
Rita Parisi from Waterfall Productions will present "I am Zelda," a one-act play about Mrs. F. Scott Fitzgerald. This original play sheds light on the mythical life of Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald, often known as the muse and infamous flapper wife of F. Scott Fitzgerald, author of "The Great Gatsby." This program is supported, in part, […]
