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  • 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 […]

  • 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.  […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 9th Annual Sally Lanagan Lecture

    https://youtu.be/tFQ9o20tCEI Fabric of a Nation: American Quilt Stories Textile curator Jennifer Swope will discuss the diverse and sometimes hidden stories of the American experience told by quilts and bedcovers from the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Spanning more than 400 years, the quilts feature in the Museum’s upcoming Fabric of a Nation […]

  • On Eleanor Roosevelt

    Join historian Allida Black and biographer David Michaelis (a Concord Academy alumnus) as they discuss the life of Eleanor Roosevelt and the role Mrs. Roosevelt played in advancing human rights and women’s rights in the mid-20th century.  This event is the last and final forum offered in conjunction with the Museum’s exhibit, Every Path Laid […]

  • Transcendentalists and Their World with Robert Gross

    https://youtu.be/WbQYFkj-7xA Bancroft Prize-winning historian, Robert Gross, will discuss his newest book, The Transcendentalists and Their World, in which he offers both an intimate journey into the life of a Concord and a searching cultural study of the town’s major American writers as they plumbed the depths of the universe for spiritual truths and surveyed the […]

  • Travels with George: A Conversation with Nathaniel Philbrick

    https://youtu.be/incGvpLu40g In-person registration for this forum is full.  Please join the waitlist to attend in-person or register to watch the program virtually. Bestselling author Nathaniel Philbrick will discuss his new […]

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    HOME: Paintings by Loring W. Coleman

      In 2017, the Concord Museum was honored to receive an anonymous gift of 47 works of art by Loring Wilkins Coleman (1918-2015), a notable painter of New England landscapes. The exhibition celebrated the work of this accomplished artist who had a strong Concord connection and who explored a changing New England with a sense […]

  • 26th Annual FAMILY TREES

    26th Annual Family Trees: A Celebration of Children's Literature begins on November 24, 2021 through January 2, 2022! Concord's literary legacy is given a creative twist as 32 trees and […]