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What Makes History? New Stories from the Collection The things we keep matter for the stories we tell. What objects do we choose to preserve, and who is able to collect them? Why were they once valued, and how can we continue to see them in new ways? This special exhibition explores what it means […] |
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Join us for a musical journey through the landscape with musician Ben Cosgrove. Straddling a line between folk and classical music, Ben performs as described by The Boston Globe “like a sonic plein-air painter”. Having performed across the country and composed music for NASA and Acadia National Park, Ben now joins us here in Concord […] |
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Object Spotlight Talk: The North Bridge Beam This talk will take place at 11:00 am and 3:00 pm in the April 19th, 1775 gallery. The North Bridge was the site of the first battle of the American Revolution on April 19, 1775. Although the appearance of the bridge and landscape has changed over the years it continues to […] |
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Object Spotlight Talk: The Barrett House Door This talk will take place at 11:00 am and 3:00 pm in the April 19th, 1775 gallery. On April 19, 1775, many women in Concord evacuated to safety, but Rebecca Barrett was at home when 100 British Regular soldiers marched to her doorstep ready to search for military supplies. Rebecca’s husband, […] |
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Enjoy free admission to the Museum and visit the immersive April 19, 1775 gallery to see the “One if by land, two if by sea” lantern hung in the North Church to signal Paul Revere on his midnight ride. During your visit, participate in drop-in activities to learn about life and craft in the colonies. […] |
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Object Spotlight Talk: Thoreau’s Desk This talk will take place at 11:00 am and 3:00 pm in in the Thoreau gallery. This simple green desk made in Concord accompanied Henry David Thoreau from the school room where he taught with his brother to Walden Pond, where he drafted some of his most influential works and journaled observations of […] |
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https://youtube.com/live/SDq2sXpri9I?feature=share Join historian Augustine Sedgewick in conversation with Robert A. Gross, author of Transcendentalists and Their World, for a deep dive into the history of the Thoreau family’s pencil manufacturing business. A story of environmental history and material culture, Thoreau’s pencils bring us to Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida where enslaved people harvested red cedar and […] |
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Curators from the Concord Museum lead a guided tour of the new special exhibition What Makes History. Free with Museum admission. Members visit free. Calling Card Case (detail), late 19th century, Possibly Europe. Concord Museum Collection, Bequest of Alice Stanwood Willoughby; Per775aaf. |
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Robert D. Richardson III Annual Forum https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlgIKlQh7BE More than two centuries after his birth, Ralph Waldo Emerson remains one of the presiding spirits in American culture. Yet his reputation as the starry-eyed prophet of self-reliance has obscured a much more complicated figure who spent a lifetime wrestling with injustice, philosophy, art, desire, and suffering. James […] |