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SUMMARY:Still Here: Houses of Our Patriots
DESCRIPTION:On the Way between Acton Center and Carlisle:  a 250+-Year History \nThe second event in the Acton 250 series “Still Here: Houses of Our Patriots” will be a presentation about the Nathaniel Edwards House\, 328 Pope Road\, on Monday\, June 10 at 7PM. at the Acton Memorial Library.  The speaker will be the house’s co-owner\, David Hardt\, who has done extensive research on this mid-18th century center-chimney building. \nFor more information and to register: https://tinyurl.com/HardtHouse to attend in person or via Zoom: https://tinyurl.com/Acton250-ZOOM. Please find all Acton 250 programming at http://www.actonma.gov/250.
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LOCATION:Acton Town Hall\, 472 Main Street\, Acton\, MA\, 01720\, United States
CATEGORIES:Talks
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SUMMARY:Countdown to April 19th\, 1775: The Gathering Storm
DESCRIPTION:Noted historian and author J. L. Bell will be speaking on Tuesday\, April 2 at 7:00 PM in Room 204\, Acton Town Hall\, 472 Main Street\, Acton\, MA. Please register for the talk at: http://tinyurl.com/APR–02–Bell\, or use the QR code to the right.  Remote Participation: You can participate in the Q&A using ZOOM http://tinyurl.com/Acton250-ZOOM or watch live at Acton TV http://tinyurl.com/Acton-TV. \nContext: As the year 1774 began\, Massachusetts politicians worried about how the royal government in London would respond to the Boston Tea Party. The force of that reaction became clear in the return of troops to Boston\, the Coerc ive Acts\, and the Massachusetts Government Act. In late summer the province’s people rebelled by shutting down government functions in rural counties\, seizing weapons in ports\, and electing their own legislature. The engine of that resistance was a little-understood institution: the colonial militia. By fall\, it was clear that the new royal governor had no leverage outside Boston. This talk traces the end of British power in most of Massachusetts even before the war began. \nJ. L. Bell has explored the end of British royal government in Massachusetts by following the contest for artillery pieces in his acclaimed book\, The Road to Concord: How Four Stolen Cannon Ignited the Revolutionary War. He also maintains the Boston 1775 blog\, which offers daily helpings of history\, analysis\, and unabashed gossip about Revolutionary New England. \nWe will post a recording shortly after on the Acton 250 website. This is the fourth lecture in a series commissioned by the Acton 250 Committee. Please visit the Acton 250 website https://www.actonma.gov/250 for all event programming. Please consider supporting programming at our commemorative memorabilia site at http://tinyurl.com/Acton-250-Commemorative. \nGenerously supported by the Acton Lions Club.
URL:https://freedomsway.org/staging/6553/event/countdown-to-april-19th-1775-the-gathering-storm/
LOCATION:Acton Town Hall\, 472 Main Street\, Acton\, MA\, 01720\, United States
CATEGORIES:Revolutionary Stories,Talks
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SUMMARY:Countdown to April 19\, 1775: “A Revolution in the News” with Historian Joseph Adelman
DESCRIPTION: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. \nPlease register at https://actonmemoriallibrary.assabetinteractive.com/calendar/countdown-to-april-19-1775-a-revolutionin-the-news-with-historian-joseph-adelman/ so that you may be contacted for future activities. You can also watch live on ActonTV (https://www.youtube.com/@ActonTV1/streams) or Zoom at https://actonma.zoom.us/j/81741134640 if you would like to engage in the Q&A portion of the talk. \nProfessor Adelman earned his bachelor’s degree in history from Harvard University and a Ph.D. in history from Johns Hopkins University. He currently teaches history at Framingham State University and is the author of Revolutionary Networks: The Business and Politics of Printing the News\, 1763-1789. A noted speaker and author\, he has published work in the Washington Post\, Slate\, and The Atlantic\, is a regular contributor to the award-winning podcast\, Ben Franklin’s World\, and serves as an Associate Editor for The New England Quarterly. \nIf required a “snow date” for this talk has been set for Monday\, February 12\, 2024. There is no charge for this event.
URL:https://freedomsway.org/staging/6553/event/countdown-to-april-19-1775-a-revolution-in-the-news-with-historian-joseph-adelman/
LOCATION:Acton Town Hall\, 472 Main Street\, Acton\, MA\, 01720\, United States
CATEGORIES:Revolutionary Stories,Talks
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SUMMARY:Historian Mary Fuhrer Explores Daily Life in Colonial Acton
DESCRIPTION:Acton 250 Lecture Series Continues\n\n“Historian Mary Fuhrer Explores Daily Life in Colonial Acton” \nThis fall the Acton 250 Committee will sponsor a series of lectures on the history leading up to the momentous events of 1775 and 1776. The lectures will help us understand what life was like in our community in that era and share the less told stories of residents. \nPlease join us on Monday\, November 13 at 7:00PM at Acton Town Hall as the Acton 250 Committee focuses on the everyday people and daily life in Acton with Mary Fuhrer. This illustrated talk will explore family\, households\, farms\, neighbors\, and the fabric of village life to recover the world of the Minutemen. It was a world far different from our own; it is the world that laid the groundwork for revolution. The Acton 250 Committee continues to sponsor a series of lectures on the history leading up to the momentous events of 1775 and 1776. The lectures will help us understand what life was like in our community in that era and share the less told stories of residents. This presentation will be available live on ActonTV and by zoom at https://actonma.zoom.us/j/81741134640. All event information is located at http://www.actonma.gov/250. \n\nMary Fuhrer is a Ph.D. social historian who for the past 30 years has interpreted village life in colonial and early Republic Massachusetts. She has authored two books and numerous articles on daily life and change in small town Massachusetts\, presented at history conferences and institutes\, and served as a consulting historian to Freedom’s Way\, Massachusetts Humanities\, and the Massachusetts Historical Society\, as well as serving as the co-author of MassMoments. She was awarded the Massachusetts History Commendation for her work in public history.
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LOCATION:Acton Town Hall\, 472 Main Street\, Acton\, MA\, 01720\, United States
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SUMMARY:From Crown Tensions to Tea Parties:  The Role of Massachusetts in Shaping the Revolution
DESCRIPTION:Noted Historian Prof. Robert Allison\nInaugurates the Acton 250 Lecture Series\n\n“From Crown Tensions to Tea Parties:\nThe Role of Massachusetts in Shaping the Revolution” \nStarting this fall\, the Acton 250 Committee will sponsor a series of lectures on the history leading up to the momentous events of 1775 and 1776. The lectures will help us understand what life was like in our community in that era and share the less told stories of residents. \nPlease join us on September 21 at 7:30PM at Acton Town Hall for the inaugural lecture. We are thrilled to feature Professor Robert Allison\, who will discuss the pivotal events that set the stage for the Boston Tea Party and sparked the American Revolution. This lecture will also be available by zoom at https://actonma.zoom.us/j/81741134640. \nProf. Allison is renowned for his expertise in American colonial history\, and the political\, social\, and economic factors that converged in the 18th century\, leading to the climactic moment in Boston’s history. He has taught history at Suffolk University since 1992\, when he received his doctorate at Harvard. He is currently the Chair of Revolution 250\, a consortium of organizations planning commemorations of the Revolution’s 250th anniversary and a life-trustee of the USS Constitution Museum.
URL:https://freedomsway.org/staging/6553/event/from-crown-tensions-to-tea-parties-the-role-of-massachusetts-in-shaping-the-revolution/
LOCATION:Acton Town Hall\, 472 Main Street\, Acton\, MA\, 01720\, United States
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