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Colors of Concord: The Grassy Plain
Colors of Concord: The Grassy Plain features artworks created by Umbrella 2022-2023 Artist-in-Residence, Ponnapa Prakkamakul. Following a year of intensive outreach to underrepresented members of the Concord community, Prakkamakul has created a series of site-specific new artworks inspired by the people and places she discovered there. The work is on view in The Umbrella’s Main […]
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Colors of Concord: The Grassy Plain
Colors of Concord: The Grassy Plain features artworks created by Umbrella 2022-2023 Artist-in-Residence, Ponnapa Prakkamakul. Following a year of intensive outreach to underrepresented members of the Concord community, Prakkamakul has created a series of site-specific new artworks inspired by the people and places she discovered there. The work is on view in The Umbrella’s Main […]
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Walking tours – Concord Visitor Center
A walking tour is a great way to get fresh air while also learning something new. Consider taking a walking tour with the Concord Visitor Center; we have tours on Indigenous People; African Americans of Concord; Women of Concord, and our weekend twilight tour. For more information: https://visitconcord.org/visit/walking-tours/
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Spotlight Talk – The History of a Desk: John Cuming, Brister Freeman, and the Power of Writing
Thomas Dugan Public History intern Jas Wheeler discusses Concord’s history of enslavement and self-emancipation by examining how Brister Freeman, a man enslaved by Colonel John Cuming, found personal liberty through service in the Revolutionary War. Using John Cuming’s desk and Brister Freeman’s muster rolls, Wheeler draws attention to how Americans leveraged the power of writing […]
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