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  • Incorporating Concord Gallery Talk

    See Concord in the 1600s when it became colonial New England’s first inland town as we mark the day when the Massachusetts Bay Colony authorities granted permission for a “plantation” in what the Native people called Musketaquid. Participation is on a first-come-first-served basis. With Museum admission. Concord Residents and Members visit free. Image: Sword, 1675.  […]

  • Farming in Concord: History Learning Center Program

    See some of the treasures from the Concord Museum’s collection in a special program on the history of farming in Concord spanning the tools of Native horticulture to the Concord grape. Participation is on a first-come-first-served basis. This event is free with Museum admission. Members visit free. This program is part of Celebrate Concord Week. […]

  • Louis Menand on The Free World

    Thank you for tuning into our program! Please submit your questions to the speakers through the chat on YouTube. https://youtu.be/FwL3fXH-Dic Louis Menand, Harvard Professor, New Yorker staff writer, and Pulitzer-Prize winning author of The Metaphysical Club discusses his new book, The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War in which he tells the […]

  • 26th Annual Golf Tournament

    Join us for the 26th Annual Golf Tournament at the beautiful Concord Country Club! Enjoy a full day of fun featuring a Bramble format with on-course contests, luncheon, and a reception and awards ceremony.  This highly anticipated annual event draws players and sponsors from the greater Boston area for a lively day full of friendly […]

  • These Truths: A conversation with Jill Lepore

    https://youtu.be/y88SGDbAjLk Registration for the in-person portion of this program is full.  Please join the waitlist using the form below or sign up to watch virtually. In her ambitious one-volume historical survey, These Truths: A History of the United States, award-winning historian and New Yorker writer, Jill Lepore offers a magisterial account of the origins and […]

  • Conversation with Annette Gordon-Reed

    https://youtu.be/T5khqGbNzdg Annette Gordon-Reed, Harvard Law School Professor and Pulitzer-Prize winner for The Hemingses of Monticello, will discuss her newest book, On Juneteenth which provides a historian’s view of the country’s long road to Juneteenth, recounting both its origins in Texas and the enormous hardships that African Americans have endured in the century since, from Reconstruction […]

  • Indigenous Peoples’ Day Family Program with the Wampanoag Nation Singers and Dancers

    Registration for the program is full.  Please join the waitlist.  Thank you! Join us for a program and performance with the Wampanoag Nation Singers and Dancers, a group of musicians and artisans from the tribal communities of Mashpee on Cape Cod and Aquinnah on Martha’s Vineyard on Indigenous Peoples’ Day.  Participate in the performance of […]

  • Now Comes Good Sailing Part 1

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMLkeuLcC-U In Now Comes Good Sailing, a number of today’s leading writers offer wide-ranging original pieces exploring how Thoreau has influenced and inspired them—and why he matters more than ever in an age of climate, racial, and technological reckoning.  This virtual event, co-sponsored by the Concord Museum and the Thoreau Society, will feature the following writers: […]

  • Sue Miller and Doug Bauer on Memoir and Memoir Writing

    https://youtu.be/1HdQR9xQPS4 Novelists Sue Miller and Doug Bauer will read from and discuss their respective family memoirs, The Story of My Father and What Happens Next? Matters of Life and Death.  The author of ten best-selling novels, Sue Miller’s The Story of My Father, was heralded as a “beautiful, spare memoir about her relationship with her […]

  • Emerson’s Circle Walking Tour

    This walking tour is full.  Thank you for your interest in our programs; please consider joining us for another event. In the 1800s, Concord was the center for American authors and thinkers, including Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and Louisa May Alcott. They gathered together with other Concordians to discuss issues of the day […]

  • Sleepy Hallow-een Tour

    This walking tour is full.  Thank you for your interest in our programs; please consider joining us for another event. Join us for this special Halloween event! Take a tour through historic Sleepy Hollow Cemetery with a Concord Museum guide. Learn about the lives and deaths of past Concordians through stories passed down through the […]

  • Now Comes Good Sailing Part 2

    https://youtu.be/-Ft89c_rffM In Now Comes Good Sailing, a number of today’s leading writers offer wide-ranging original pieces exploring how Thoreau has influenced and inspired them—and why he matters more than ever in an age of climate, racial, and technological reckoning.  This in-person event at the Concord Museum, and hosted in partnership with the Thoreau Society, will feature […]