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On Discover West Concord Day, at 11:00AM and 2:00PM, the Fowler Library will show Rivers, Rails, and Revenues, a documentary about West Concord’s industrial history made by students of Susan Erickson’s 5th grade class in 2000. On the same day, the Concord Visitor Center will offer free walking tours about West Concord’s past and present, including industrial history, beginning at 10:00AM and 1:00PM.
This fall, the West Concord Junction Cultural District Committee invites you to celebrate West Concord’s industrial history as a vibrant, multicultural, entrepreneurial factory and mill town through a mural, a photo exhibit, a documentary screening, and other events.
Events and Exhibitions:
Visit the full-color grand mural designed by Edward Feather and painted by a team of West Concord artists in front of 30 Beharrell Street. All are invited to attend an unveiling of a new 24’ x 8’mural on Saturday, September 24th, 2022 at 11:00AM.
Between September 24th and November 30th, the Fowler Branch of the Concord Free Public Library will host a photo exhibit of the people and places of industrial West Concord.
The Concord Conservatory of Music will feature in its November monthly ‘Listening Project’ a selection of music related to the West Concord industrial history era.
The Industry Project is presented by the West Concord Junction Cultural District Committee, with funding support from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency. The project is also made possible by the generous West Concord community funding support of presenting sponsors Trashology and the Green Labs Recycling. This is also made possible by supporting sponsor Plug Power. Additional local support was provided from the Concord Cultural Council, a local agency that is supported by the Mass Cultural Council, a state agency.
For more information about any of the events visit https://visitconcord.org/visit/west-concord/ or https://www.concordma.gov/2301/West-Concord-Junction-Cultural-District-
