Visitors can enjoy free admission to the Museum on the Fourth of July and enjoy special family activities and food trucks. Hear a gallery talk on with Museum staff on the Revolution and its legacy at 12pm. Visitors will: -Enjoy free admission to see the original Paul Revere lantern and dozens of objects that witnessed […]
Celebrate a sweet summer afternoon with us at the Harvey Wheeler Community Center! Thanks to the generous sponsorship of Life Care of Acton, an ice cream truck will be in our parking lot from 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM on Tuesday, July 7th, offering a variety of delicious ice cream novelties for Concord seniors to […]
Goodwin will be performing their third studio release: “Then Rain, Then Wind.” Collaborating with poets across time and space, this album brings aged yet ever salient words to a new generation. Setting the poetry of Emily Dickinson, Rabindranath Tagore, Charles Baudelaire, Langston Hughes, and Li Qinghzhao to music, Goodwin has reached across the globe and […]
Tour the heart of the Concord Museum’s collection of objects used and made by Henry David Thoreau in the galleries, which displays more Thoreau objects than have previously been on permanent display and learn about his life in Concord and two years at Walden Pond. Free with Museum admission. Members visit free.
Henry David Thoreau is known for the two years he spent living at Walden Pond. Did you know that he lived in other homes in Concord throughout his life? Take a tour of the domestic side of Thoreau’s wholly human life visiting the homes where he lived and hearing the stories told of him by […]
In July 1776 the citizens of Concord listened to the reading of the Declaration of Independence and then voted to accept. The Wright Tavern and Freedom's Way are sponsoring an event to recreate this experience on the steps of First Parish in Concord. Come hear and discuss the reading of the greatest document ever written. […]
Celebrate the Museum’s special exhibition, Revolutionary Legacies, with a special guided tour following a festive happy hour of wine, beer, and light refreshments in the Museum’s courtyard. Reflect on the nation’s founding principles, their continuous reinterpretation over the past 250 years, and consider what they mean today through textiles, ceramics, and relics from the 19th […]
As the country celebrates its 250th Anniversary, enjoy a staged reading and discussion of the new play Walt Whitman’s American Dream by Sarah Vander Schaaff, directed by Brendon Fox, Artistic Director of the renowned Peterborough Players. A juicy biopic, the play stirs the bigger questions still at the heart of our experience; the ensemble of […]
Come down to Concord Center on August 1st, 10am-3pm. There will be live music on Main St (by the Visitor Center) and also down on Walden St. There will be sales, shopping, food, and fun!
Tour Old Hill Burial Ground and learn about the Revolutionary War soldiers buried in Concord’s oldest cemetery. Visit the final resting place of some of the most well-known figures from April 19, 1775 including Emerson Cogswell, Colonel Barrett, and Captain David Brown. This tour includes about 1 mile of walking on hilly, unpaved terrain. $15 […]