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Ancient Winters at the Flagg Swamp Rockshelter

Acton Memorial Library 486 Main Street, Acton, MA, United States +1 more

Eric Johnson, Lecturer in the University of Massachusetts – Amherst Anthropology Department will provide a retrospective on the 1980 laboratory analysis and results from the excavation of this remarkable site in Marlborough, Massachusetts. He will discuss the identification of animals now or recently extinct in Massachusetts, how the site was used as a winter home […]

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Adult Archaeology Walk

Acton, MA Acton, MA, United States

Bettina Abe, a long-time Acton trail volunteer and retired member of Acton’s Conservation Division, will lead a brisk hike along the Nashoba Brook Trail, with stops at the stone chamber and Native American ceremonial sites. Trail conditions can be rocky, uneven, and often wet, and thus participation is limited. Registrants will receive a detailed email […]

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Burying the Trowel: A History of Controversy and Innovation in New England’s Cultural Stone Features Debate

Acton Memorial Library 486 Main Street, Acton, MA, United States +1 more

Unusual stone features dot the woodlands and hillsides of New England, and their provenance has been subject to many theories and debate. Kitty O’Riordan is a cultural anthropologist who has been studying the people, methods, and literature surrounding the cultural stone features debate in New England for nearly a decade. She earned her Ph.D. from […]

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Acton 250: Acton’s and Concord’s Roads to Revolution with Robert Gross

Acton Town Hall 472 Main Street, Acton, MA, United States

Countdown to April 19th, 1775: Acclaimed historian and author Robert Gross joins the Acton 250 Lecture Series to present: Acton’s and Concord’s Roads to Revolution Wednesday, October 23rd, 7PM in Room 204, Acton Town Hall, 472 Main Street, Acton MA                             Acton and Concord joined together on April 19, 1775, at the North Bridge, igniting […]

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Thoreau Prize Awarded to J. Drew Lanham

Trinitarian Congregational Church 54 Walden Street, Concord, MA, United States

The 2024 Henry David Thoreau Prize for Literary Excellence in Nature Writing, known as the Thoreau Prize, will be awarded to J. Drew Lanham. The Thoreau Prize was established in 2010 by nature writer Dale Peterson. In 2020, the Thoreau Society began administering the award. The Thoreau Prize is a literary award granted annually to […]

$25

Open house at the Faulkner Homestead and Jones Tavern

Faulkner Homestead 5 High Street, Acton, MA, United States +1 more

The Iron Work Farm’s two Acton house museums will be open Sunday afternoon, October 27. Jones Tavern, 128 Main Street, first built in 1732 and opened by Samuel Jones as a tavern in 1750, will be open from 1 to 3:00 p.m. The 1707 Jones-Faulkner Homestead, 5 High Street, will be open from 3 to […]

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Changes in the Land Book Discussion

Acton Memorial Library 486 Main Street, Acton, MA, United States

Join a group discussion of this landmark environmental history by William Cronon, which offers an original and profound explanation of the effects European colonists’ sense of property and their pursuit of capitalism had upon the ecosystems of New England. Updated with John Demos, this ethno-ecological history provides a brilliant inter-disciplinary interpretation of how land and […]

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Arlington on the Edge with Howard Winkler

Arlington Masonic Temple 19 Academy Street, Arlington, MA, United States

“Our Untold Stories” Observing the 250th Anniversary of the American Revolution The town of Arlington is surrounded by six cities and towns. Howard Winkler, former president of the Arlington Historical Society, went in search of the geodetic markers that delineate our town, and in the process found interesting sites removed from the center, that is, […]

$5

Fall Park Day 2024

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

Saturday, November 2, 2024 9:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m or 1:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. Minute Man Visitor Center Free, registration required. Park Day is an annual event where participants help to preserve Minute Man National Historical Park, one of our nation’s most iconic and historic battlefields. Volunteers may remove invasive plants, seed native plants, […]

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Edmund Tarbell: The Poetry of Painting with Mary Minifie

Groton History Center 172 Main Street, Groton, MA, United States

November 2, 11:30 AM (Boutwell House open 11-2) Gov. George S. Boutwell House, 172 Main Street, Groton Join the Groton History Centery in welcoming award-winning portraitist and still life artist Mary Minifie to speak about Edmund Tarbell’s career and legacy. Only an artist can explore the poetry, imagination, and keenness of perception that goes into […]

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Acton 250: The Hidden History of Black Boston with Joel Mackall

Acton Memorial Library 486 Main Street, Acton, MA, United States

Discover Boston’s rich 400-year African American history! Many vibrant Black communities flourished in Boston stretching back to early colonial times. We will delve into the rich narratives of neighborhoods and pivotal sites, events, and figures from the eras of Faneuil Hall and Long Wharf, which marked Boston's connection to the Atlantic world, all the way […]

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Bathsheba Spooner: A Revolutionary Murder Conspiracy

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

What possessed a woman from the elite of eighteenth-century New England society to conspire with American and British soldiers to murder her husband at the midpoint of the American Revolution? The story of Bathsheba Spooner has alternately fascinated and baffled residents of Worcester County for centuries. Beyond Central Massachusetts, the tale is largely unknown. Many, when […]

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