Events
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Art and Action for Suffrage: Women’s Suffrage Turns 100 Family Program
Explore the activism and debate around women’s suffrage in Concord. Using primary materials from the Concord Museum Collection, participants will examine the variety of printed materials from both sides of the […]
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POSTPONED: Black Devil and Gentle Cloud: Ruskin and Emerson at Odds
Program Postponed: Unfortunately, the August 15 Concord Museum Forum with Sara Atwood on Black Devil and Gentle Cloud: Ruskin and Emerson at Odds, has been postponed. We are working to reschedule […]
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Women of Concord Walking Tour
Walk through town and focus on the notable women who shaped Concord’s history. The tour highlights famous historical figures as Louisa May Alcott and Margaret Fuller, to those who are […]
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Women of Concord Collection Spotlight
Featuring intimate imagery from the Concord Museum’s collection, explore the lives and legacies of women who have shaped and continue to shape the American experience with Concord Museum curator David […]
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SOLD OUT I Want to Go to Jail
SOLD OUT - Thank you for your interest in our programs. Please join us for other upcoming forums in September including The Scrapbooks of Helen Thoreau and The Cabinet Maker's […]
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POSTPONED Monument Maker
POSTPONED - Thank you for your interest in our programs! Monument Maker with Linda Sweeney and Shawn Fields has been rescheduled to Sunday, December 15 at 11:00 AM. Know what you love. […]
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Celebrate the Apple: Family Open House
Apples have been the center of the New England harvest since the British first brought seeds and cuttings across the Atlantic in the 17th century. Now, New England’s apple orchards […]
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The Scrapbooks of Helen Thoreau
Middlebury College professor William Nash will discuss what can be learned about Helen Thoreau and Concord through the scrapbooks she kept chronicling events of the 1840's - two of which […]
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The Cabinetmaker’s Account
Jay Robert Stiefel, historian of Colonial Philadelphia society and its material culture, will introduce the life and work of English emigrant joiner John Head (1688-1754). Head’s Philadelphia account book is […]
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Along Battle Road Walking Tour
Visitors will follow in Paul Revere’s footsteps as we retrace the journey he took on horseback the night of April 18, 1775 to warn colonists about the approach of the […]
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Film Screening of Nature: A Walking Play
The Concord Museum and The Old Manse welcome you a screening of Nature: A Walking Play (TigerLion Arts), which tells the story of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau’s […]
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“Our Paradise at Concord”: How Hawthorne Found Happiness
Nathaniel Hawthorne cherished his years at the Old Manse, where he and his wife Sophia lived from 1842 to 1845. How did the moody Salemite find happiness in Concord? Surveying […]