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Reading WWI Panoramic Photos

Fort Devens Museum 94 Jackson Road, 3rd Floor, Devens, MA, United States

Visit the Fort Devens Museum to learn what the details of WWI panoramic photos can tell us! This program is offered by the Fort Devens Museum as part of the […]

Free

Cruising New Hampshire’s History

Hollis Social Library 2 Monument Square, Hollis, NH, United States

The Hollis Social Library will host author Michael Bruno with “Cruising New Hampshire History,” his talk on highway historical markers. As a young adult riding his motorcycle, Bruno stopped to […]

Free

Mayday Festival & Open Studios

Munroe Center for the Arts 1403 Massachusetts Ave, Lexington, MA, United States

Munroe Center for the Arts is celebrating Mayday with song and dance and lots of art on Saturday, May 20th! From 11 - 5pm ten MCA artists will be opening […]

Free

Home Work: Domestic Servants at the Codman Estate Tour

Codman Estate 34 Codman Road, Lincoln, MA, United States

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 […]

Free

The Landscape and Gardens of Codman Estate Tour

Codman Estate 34 Codman Road, Lincoln, MA, United States

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 […]

Free

Sholan Farms 22nd Apple Blossom Festival

Sholan Farms 1125 Pleasant St, Leominster, MA, United States

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 […]

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Lexington Open Studios

LexArt 130 Waltham Street, Lexington, MA, United States

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, […]

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Celebrating 100 Years of Concord Art and our founder, Elizabeth Wentworth Roberts

Concord Art Association 37 Lexington Road, Concord, MA, United States

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 […]

Free

Why Was a Child’s Shoe Hidden in the Wall of a House for 300 Years?

Boxborough Town Hall 29 Middle Road, Boxborough, MA, United States

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 […]

Free

“Cast of (Nineteenth Century Historical) Characters”

Bedford Old Town Hall 16 South Road, Bedford, MA, United States

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, […]

Free

Historical Piano Concerts from The Frederick Collection: Eunmi Ko & Hwaen Ch’uqi

New Dawn Arts Center 84 Main Street, Ashburnham, MA, United States

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 […]

Free
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Celebrating 100 Years of Concord Art and our founder, Elizabeth Wentworth Roberts

Concord Art Association 37 Lexington Road, Concord, MA, United States

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 […]

Free