Join us for a conversation with Anders and Beverly Gyllenhaal on their new book, A Wing and a Prayer: The Race to Save Our Vanishing Birds. The book is the result of a 25,000-mile journey across the Americas in 2021, which they spent documenting the efforts of ornithologists and conservationists to save the world’s birds, almost […]
John Kaag, the Donohue Professor of Ethics and the Arts at UMass Lowell and External Professor at the Santa Fe Institute, joins us to launch his new book Henry at Work: Thoreau on Making a Living. Professor Kaag discusses what Thoreau can teach us about working—why we do it, what it does to us, and how […]
Coinciding with the celebration of Juneteenth, join a Concord Museum guide for a walking tour introducing participants to the Concord women and men who played a crucial role in the abolitionist movement in the years leading up to the Civil War. 1.5-mile walk on flat terrain. Rain or shine. In partnership with The Robbins House. […]
Join us for a celebratory Juneteenth performance with Illstyle & Peace Productions. The group creates work rooted in West African Dance, contemporary and old school hip hop blended with an eclectic mix of dance and performance disciplines including tap, ballet, DJing, and beatboxing. Illstyle & Peace Productions is dedicated to delivering a positive message that […]
The detailed records of bird sightings and phenological observations around Concord from the last 170 years—from Thoreau’s notes to today’s studies by scientists at Boston University—provide a key to studying how climate change is affecting bird migration. Boston University professor Richard Primack and Colby College visiting assistant professor Amanda Gallinat present their recent research and […]
Vanderbilt political historian and best-selling author Eli Merritt reveals the deep political divisions that almost tore the Union apart during the American Revolution. Despite their differences, the nation’s founders united for the sake of liberty and self-preservation, forging grueling compromises to hold the nation together. Merritt’s book serves as a reminder that commitment to ethical […]
Tour the first burial ground in Concord dating to c. 1636 learning about past Concordians with a Concord Museum educator. Explore the classic iconography of New England headstones that feature winged skulls or “death’s head,” urns, willows, and others. About 1 1/2 miles on paved terrain. Rain or shine. Includes same-day admission to the Concord […]
The Concord Museum Guild of Volunteers is thrilled to present the 34th Annual Garden Tour on June 2 and 3, 2023! This event features carefully selected private gardens throughout Concord. Funds raised provide critical support to the Museum’s education initiatives. This year there are six unique gardens that reflect the individual interests and passions of […]
Pulitzer Prize winning author Edward Larson joins us for a conversation on his new book American Inheritance: Liberty and Slavery in the Birth of a Nation, 1765-1795, in which he discusses how liberty and slavery were intertwined during the nation’s founding. Professor Larson examines the role of Black Americans during the Revolutionary War and in the […]
Join us at the Concord Museum with Dr. Jill Titus who will speak on her book Gettysburg 1963: Civil Rights, Cold War Politics, and Historical Memory in America’s Most Famous Small Town. Dr. Jill Ogline Titus is associate director of the Civil War Institute at Gettysburg College and co-coordinator of the college’s Public History minor. […]
Writer, critic, and landscape historian Daegan Miller joins us with Guggenheim Fellow and environmental writer Sven Birkerts for a conversation on Daegan’s first book This Radical Land: A Natural History of American Dissent and the literary tradition laid down by Emerson and Thoreau that offers a new way of seeing the American past and of […]
Celebrate Emerson’s birthday (May 25) and follow the footsteps of writers Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau! Enjoy the spring weather and learn about the friendship of two notable observers of nature from a museum interpreter. 1-mile walk, mostly flat terrain, rain or shine. Meet at the Concord Museum. Includes same-day admission to the […]