GREAT MEADOWS NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE, CONCORD, MA
The Umbrella Stage Company in partnership with Firebird Pops Orchestra is thrilled to announce the return of our Holiday Pops concert! -- Friday, December 15 at 7:30pm -- Saturday, December 16 at 3:00pm -- Sunday, December 17 at 3:00pm Together with the Firebird Vox choir, the orchestra will sweep you away with magical scores from […]
North County Land Trust's annual Winter Solstice Lantern Walk is back for another year and is set to be brighter than ever! Enjoy a glowing, ethereal stroll through winding, wooded trails with family and friends over cups of hot cocoa. Embrace the longest night of the year with a warm bonfire along the path and […]
January 6 - February 4, 2024 11am-5pm Tue-Sun Opening Reception: Sunday, January 7, 2024; 2 - 4 pm Doug Masury Workshop - Exploring Color: Saturday, January 13, 1 pm Exploring the World of Fibers, 2024 celebrates fiber arts and fiber artists from New England and throughout the Northeast. The exhibit was juried by Jennifer Swope, […]
Whether your resolution is to spend more time outside or to get in shape, a guided hike is a great way to start the new year! Enjoy the fresh air, Wachusett Meadow's beautiful trails, good company, and some seasonal natural history along the way. We will either hike or snowshoe, depending on conditions. Adult Member […]
Curated by Hanna Melnyczuk, a Ukrainian-American artist, and Halyna Andrusenko, an artist from Kyiv, The Umbrella Arts Center’s iteration of the traveling exhibition Don’t Close Your Eyes features the work of 27 artists from various regions of Ukraine responding to the invasion of their country, which began February 24, 2022. Expressions of grief, loss, survival, […]
Monthly Outdoor Adventures in Nashua Parks 2nd Saturdays, January thru May, from 1:00 to 3:00 pm The Nashua River Watershed Association would like to invite you to participate in our FREE Nashua Quest series running on the 2nd Saturday of each month, January thru May, from 1:00 to 3:00 pm. Sign up for program(s) of your […]
Did we really have a Town Moderator who was jailed by the Patriots (not the football team)? Is it true that a local scuba diver would cut a hole in the ice at Lake Potanipo, go down to the bottom and dig through the mud with his hands for artifacts? What’s this I hear about […]
Bring your family and friends to see sculptures transformed by the moonlight in this special after-hours tour. Small group tours with deCordova’s experienced Museum Guides last 60-75 minutes. Please dress for the weather with sturdy footwear. Bring a flashlight or lantern. Visitors should park in the main lot and meet their Museum Guide in front […]
On April 19, 1775, the American Revolution began at the Old North Bridge in Concord, Massachusetts. The “shot heard round the world” catapulted this sleepy New England town into the midst of revolutionary fervor, and Concord went on to become the intellectual capital of the new republic. The town–future home to Emerson, Thoreau, and Hawthorne–soon […]
Professor Adelman will tell the story of the Revolutionary War’s forgotten instigators: newspaper printers and editors. Shrewdly gauging the political climate and interests of their communities and balancing them with their own commercial interests, eighteenth-century printers were instrumental in creating propaganda and rallying the public to the revolutionary cause. Please register at https://actonmemoriallibrary.assabetinteractive.com/calendar/countdown-to-april-19-1775-a-revolutionin-the-news-with-historian-joseph-adelman/ so that […]
As a Harvard alumnus, diplomat, U.S. President, member of Congress and attorney before the Supreme Court, John Quincy Adams had a unique relationship with slavery. Prickly and curmudgeonly, he danced with abolitionists, but never became one himself. However, Adams did harbor an intense hatred for the arguments of Southern slaveholders, and eventually found himself in […]
Learn about the Revalyon family, free Black Bostonians, who moved their family to Medford in 1828. Speaker and Local Historian Dee Morris will tell us about Thomas (b. 1777) and Margaret (b. 1781) Revalyon, free Black Bostonians, who moved their family in 1828 to a new house on Cross Street in Medford. Thomas owned a […]
