Events
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2 events,From March 1 through July 8, during Museum open hours, bring by new or clean and gently used clothing to donate to The Wish Project based in Lowell and Catie’s Closet for the run of Fresh Goods: Shopping for Clothing in a New England Town. The Wish Project is a critical resource for furniture, household goods and baby needs serving families […] 
How do you shop for clothes? Do you go to a department store at the mall, buy online or through mail order catalogues, shop locally at specialty shops, or frequent consignment shops? How did Concordians in the 18th and 19th centuries acquire their clothes? Who were the style-setters? As part of the state-wide MASS Fashion […] |
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The Indigenous Look: attire in 18th century Massachusetts As part of our Fresh Goods exhibition lecture series, Aquinnah Wampanoag artist and designer Elizabeth James-Perry will discuss the period from 1750 -1900 in terms of Indigenous Massachusetts attire and jewelry. While preferences often continued for use of soft smoked deerskin, elk and textured moose for clothing and sturdy […] |
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Transgressing the Color Line: Depictions of Free Blacks in the Popular Press As part of the Fresh Goods Lecture Series, join writer and historian Jonathan Michael Square as he analyzes images of free Africans Americans in New York City, Philadelphia, and Boston that appeared in the popular press. Specifically, a series of cartoons published in the early […] |
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Join Concord Museum Curator David Wood for a closer look at Fresh Goods: Shopping for Clothing in a New England Town, 1750-1900. Free with Museum admission, members free. |
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Dress in your favorite decade and enjoy a fashion-centric evening at the Concord Museum, complete with cocktails and treats inspired by the history of fashion in New England! Visit our current exhibition, Fresh Goods: Shopping for Clothing in a New England Town,and view clothing and accessories that reflect how locals experienced shopping in the 18th, 19th, […] |
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Built in 1747, Wright Tavern secured its place in American history in 1774 and 1775 when the First Massachusetts Provincial Congress used it as a convening space. Then on April 19, 1775, it was used as a meeting place for the local colonial militia, and later that same day it was taken over as the […] |
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Shift, Stays, and Pannier As part of the Fresh Goods lecture series, join historians and living history interpreters Linda Greene and Michele Gabrielson for an in-depth look at how women got dressed every day in the 1700s. They will explore the “ins” and “outs” of a typical 18th century woman’s dress from a common, lower […] |
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Friday and Saturday, June 1 and 2, 2018 - Celebrating 29 Years of a New England Tradition The famed Concord spokesman for individualism and self-reliance, Ralph Waldo Emerson, once wrote: “When I go into a good garden, I think, if it were mine, I should never go out of it.” This year the Concord Museum […] 
Celebrating 29 Years of a New England Tradition, the Museum's Garden Tour has become a New England tradition for garden lovers from near and far. The Garden Tour will take place on two days, Friday and Saturday, June 1 and June 2, rain or shine. Each of the private gardens reflects the individual interests and […] |