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Leominster Farmers Market

Monument Square Historic District 43 Park St, Leominster, MA, United States

A slice of Leominster's local businesses including locally grown produce, crafts & vendors! Summer Outdoor & Winter Indoor Farmer's Market - Farm Fresh Eggs & Local Grown Produce, Grass-fed Beef, Pork & Chicken, Local Honey, Freshly Baked Cookies & Pies, Cupcakes and Breads, Jewelry, Soaps, Blown-Glass, Knit & Crochet, Pottery, Paintings, Cards & Other Handmade […]

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Tours of Thoreau Farm, the birthplace of Henry David Thoreau

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

Take an inside look at the restored 1730s house listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the Wheeler-Minot Farmhouse/Henry David Thoreau Birth House. Locally, it is also known as “Thoreau Farm.” Tour includes the lovingly restored second-floor room where Henry David Thoreau was born in 1817. Visits to the house are by guided […]

Free

Approaching Public Art

Andres Institute of Art 106 Route 13, Brookline, NH, United States

Celebrate 25 years with the Andres Institute of Art! You won't want to miss this unusual and broad investigation into public art. Guests include: Mark Favermann, Moderator—Artist, brander – Favermann Design David Phillips - Award-winning sculptor and alumni Andrew Spahr - Former Curator Currier Museum, currently DIr. of Historic Houses Pamela Tarbell - Award-winning artist […]

Free

Open-Air Tap Room at the Jones-Faulkner Homestead

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

The Iron Work Farm's annual fundraiser returns to the grounds of the Faulkner Homestead. A salute by the Acton Minute Men will open the event, which will feature music by Ward Hayden & the Outliers, a local pizza fest, and activities for kids and adults. $40 admission/donation includes three drink- and food tickets.  Kids are […]

$40
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Acton-Boxborough Farmers Market

Elm Street Playground 19 Elm Street, Acton, MA, United States

Bring your organic ABFM grocery tote every Sunday and stock up on local produce and artisanal goods while you enjoy music, artisan offerings, our community table... and friends and neighbors.

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Lunenburg Farmers’ Market

Ritter Memorial Building 960 Massachusetts Avenue, Lunenburg, MA, United States

The Lunenburg Farmers' Market is an outdoor place to gather weekly and enjoy live music and shop for locally produced arts, crafts, produce, meats, and other unique items. Photo courtesy of Lunenburg Farmers' Market

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Nashua Farmers Market

Nashua Public Library Parking 6 Hartshorn Avenue, Nashua, NH, United States

The Nashua Farmers Market is held outdoors each Sunday from 10 am–2 pm in the Nashua Public Library Parking Lot at 6 Hartshorn Avenue. Market is from late-May to mid-October. Photo courtesy of FlipSide ImageWorks

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Tours of Thoreau Farm, the birthplace of Henry David Thoreau

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

Take an inside look at the restored 1730s house listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the Wheeler-Minot Farmhouse/Henry David Thoreau Birth House. Locally, it is also known as “Thoreau Farm.” Tour includes the lovingly restored second-floor room where Henry David Thoreau was born in 1817. Visits to the house are by guided […]

Free
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Shirley Shaker Village Site Guided Tour

Shirley Shaker Village Shirley

This lovely wooden building was built in the early 19th century by the Believers in the Second Coming of Christ, commonly known as the Shakers. Until 1908, they had a village in the southern part of Shirley, Massachusetts where they lived, worked, and worshiped together. The Shirley group was known for the quality of their […]

$20

Indigenous Peoples’ Day Family Program with the Wampanoag Nation Singers and Dancers

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

Join us for a program and performance with the Wampanoag Nation Singers and Dancers, a group of musicians and artisans from the tribal communities of Mashpee on Cape Cod and Aquinnah on Martha’s Vineyard on Indigenous Peoples’ Day. Participate in the performance of eastern social songs and dances. Tickets are free, but space is limited. […]

Free

Indigenous People of Concord Walk

For over 10,000 years the indigenous people of the land knew this area as Musketaquid, the land between the grassy rivers. This tour explores the history of the first people and how they lived in a land of abundance seeking to keep and foster balance with the natural world, their mother, who sustained them always. […]

Free
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Devens Farmers Market

Rogers Field Elm & Jackson Roads, Devens, MA, United States

Dick’s Market Gardens returns to Devens this summer with a vibrant selection of locally grown fruits and vegetables. The market will be open on designated Tuesdays (7/18, 8/1, 8/15, 8/29, 9/12, 9/26, and 10/10) from 11:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m. Located at the corner of Rogers Field, close to the Devens Fire Station at the […]