GREAT MEADOWS NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE, CONCORD, MA
The Umbrella Arts Center invites the public to an opening reception for the new visual arts exhibition, "Reflections: Selfhood/Motherhood," featuring work by 2023/2024 Umbrella Artists-in-Residence, Jasmine Chen and Catherine LeComte […]
The Roudenbush Community Market (formerly the Westford Farmer's Market) will open on July 2, 2024 and run every Tuesday from 3:00pm to 7:00pm until September 10, 2024. We are located […]
Considered one of the most daring, eloquent speeches in the English language, Frederick Douglass’s fiery 1852 speech, “What to the Slave is the 4th of July?” challenges its audience, then […]
In-Person Program. Thursday, July 4 from 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. Please join the Royall House & Slave Quarters for our second annual "Reading Frederick Douglass Together" program on the museum […]
This dramatic presentation, created by Freedom’s Way National Heritage Area, aims to find out how our local towns read and reacted to the Declaration of Independence. Across the colonies, and […]
RiverFest Summer 2024: Celebrating our local Wild and Scenic Rivers!July 6th – July 28th, 2024 Summer is here! There’s no better time than now to experience the Wild and Scenic Rivers […]
The Hosmer House, a saltbox style building, is something of a unique structure. The original portion built in 1760 has gunstock corner posts. By 1796, when the addition was constructed, […]
The Roudenbush Community Market (formerly the Westford Farmer's Market) will open on July 2, 2024 and run every Tuesday from 3:00pm to 7:00pm until September 10, 2024. We are located on Fisher Way next to the Abbot School in Westford, MA. Visit our website for more information! Photo courtesy of the Roudenbush Community Market
Visit the Annual Gathering 2024 website for full description, additional details, and registration. In spite of a lifetime riven by illness and environmental change during an era marred by racial oppression and political turmoil, Thoreau once wrote, “Surely joy is the condition of life.” Even in his darkest hours, Thoreau found resilience. He turned from […]
In the spring and summer of 1774, news had reached Boston that Britain’s Parliament had invoked several measures in retaliation for the Destruction of the Tea in Boston Harbor, known as the “Intolerable Acts”. Samuel Adams and the Boston committee of correspondence developed a non-importation pledge known as the “Solemn League and Covenant”. The Covenant […]
When we think of Henry David Thoreau, we picture him during the two years he spent living at Walden Pond. But did you know that he lived in other homes in Concord throughout his life? Take a unique tour of the domestic side of Thoreau’s life, visiting the homes where he lived and hearing the […]
The Roudenbush Community Market (formerly the Westford Farmer's Market) will open on July 2, 2024 and run every Tuesday from 3:00pm to 7:00pm until September 10, 2024. We are located on Fisher Way next to the Abbot School in Westford, MA. Visit our website for more information! Photo courtesy of the Roudenbush Community Market
