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  • Object Spotlight Talk: Vedic Texts

    This talk will take place at 2:30pm in the Thoreau Gallery. An English traveler and writer, Thomas Cholmondeley (pronounced “chumly”), gifted Henry David Thoreau 44 volumes of sacred texts of India’s Vedic literary tradition. On his death, Thoreau bequeathed half of the volumes to Ralph Waldo Emerson and half to Bronson Alcott. This spotlight talk takes a […]

  • 1774 and All That

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    1774 and All That: Reflections on a Long Year of Revolution One of the most acclaimed and original colonial historians of our time, Mary Beth Norton, shares her landmark text 1774: The Long Year of Revolution chronicling the revolutionary changes that occurred from December 1773 to April 1775—from the Boston Tea Party to the Battles […]

  • How to Become Famous with Cass Sunstein

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    How to Become Famous with Cass Sunstein What makes someone who becomes famous, famous? Harvard law professor, public intellectual, and bestselling author Cass Sunstein offers clear and surprising answers in his new book How To Become Famous: Lost Einsteins, Forgotten Superstars, and How the Beatles Came to Be. Using modern data analysis techniques to show […]

  • Making the Presidency

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    John Adams and the Precedents that Forged the Republic Renowned presidential historian and Executive Director of the George Washington Presidential Library at Mount Vernon, Dr. Lindsay M. Chervinsky, joins us for a conversation on John Adams’ five year-battle to defend the presidency. 1797 wasn’t too different from 2024, with pandemics, battles over immigration and citizenship, […]

  • FULL! Nummeehquantamūmun: Artist Talk

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    This program is full. Please join us for another program this fall! Join artist nia holley, Nipmuc, for a talk about her installation that reintroduced corn in the Museum's courtyard. Learn about the artist's inspiration and process while seeing the installation in its final days before harvest.  Learn more about Nummeehquantamūmun and the collaboration between […]

  • The Artists and the Orchard

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    Join us for an evening exploring the beauty and wisdom of apple trees through words and images with artists Ellen Harasimowicz and Linda Hoffman. Linda Hoffman will share from her writings of conversations with an apple tree that they held over a year on her orchard Old Frog Pond Farm in Harvard, MA. Throughout the […]

  • FULL! Indigenous Peoples’ Day Family Program with the Wampanoag Nation Singers and Dancer

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    This program is full. The Concord Museum is open on Indigenous Peoples' Day. Please enjoy a visit to our galleries including the exhibit The People of Musketaquid! 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 […]

  • A House Restored: A Conversation on Saving a New England Colonial

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    12th Annual Sally Lanagan Forum  Architectural Conservator and author, Lee McColgan, joins us for a conversation on his journey saving the ramshackle Loring House in Pembroke, Massachusetts, built in 1702, using period materials and methods and on a holiday deadline.  Trading the corporate ladder for a stepladder, Lee dives into the unexpected challenges of restoring […]

  • FULL! Sleepy Hollow-een Tour

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    This tour is full. Please join us for another program this fall. 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 generations. 1 mile walk, mostly flat sidewalk or […]

  • A Dialogue with The Veda: Hindu Scripture and the Transcendentalists

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    When we think of the connections between the Transcendentalists and Eastern culture, we often think about Henry David Thoreau’s seminal essay Civil Disobedience and its influence on leaders of non-violent protest movements throughout the world, including Mahatma Gandhi. However, the exchange of ideas went both ways, and the thoughts and writings of Thoreau and Raph […]

  • Mindprints: Thoreau’s Material Worlds

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    Mindprints: Thoreau’s Material World Henry David Thoreau accumulated a variety of tools, art, and natural specimens throughout his life as a homebuilder, surveyor, and collector.  Ivan Gaskell, professor of cultural history and museum studies at Bard Graduate Center and author of Mindprints: Thoreau’s Material World, will be joined by Concord Museum Curator David Wood for […]

  • FULL! Attack from Within: How Disinformation is Sabotaging America

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    Registration is full. Please sign up to watch virtually or consider joining us at another program. Legal scholar and analyst for MSNBC and NBC News and professor at the University of Michigan Law School, Barbara McQuade, joins us for a conversation on how to identify the ways disinformation is seeping into all facets of our […]