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  • A Presentation About Louisa Hawthorne by Kate Blair – March is International Women’s Month

    Harvey Wheeler Community Center 1276 Main St, Concord, MA, United States

    Hawthorne cousin Kate Dike Blair explores the life and death of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s younger sister Louisa, a frequent visitor to her brother at the Old Manse in Concord. Louisa drowned in the Henry Clay Steamboat disaster of 1852. Kate’s great-great-great-granduncle, John Dike, was traveling with Louisa, but his wife, Priscilla, was not with them. What […]

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  • Nowruz and Poetry at Fowler

    Fowler Library 1322 Main Street, Concord, MA, United States

    Celebrate the arrival of Spring and Nowruz, the Persian Festival for the New Year with poetry from Concordian Ralph Waldo Emerson and his inspiration, the 13th century Persian poet Hafez Shirazi, globally renowned poet Rumi, Bostonian Phillis Wheatley, and Concordian Henry David Thoreau. The event will include brief remarks on the celebration of Spring and […]