Join Carolyn Gold for a discussion of her new book, When I died: Rx for Traumatic Brain Injury on Tuesday, February 23 at 7:00 p.m. When I Died is the remarkable story of the author's recovery of her identity after a traumatic medical event, and the struggle against all odds––brain loss, depression, family and doctor […]
Submit a Poem to Gaining Ground! Did you know April is National Poetry Month? Help us celebrate by writing an original poem about vegetables, the weather, birds, bugs, or anything else related to farming! Gaining Ground will feature several poems in a display at the farm this coming April. Submit your poem to: poems@gainingground.org no […]
As we grow older, certain health concerns deserve our full attention, especially our oral health. Poor dental and oral care can affect your heart and many other aspects of health. Please join Dr. Padma, DMD on Wednesday, February 24th at 10:00 AM on Zoom. Dr. Padma is a practitioner at North Acton Dental in Acton […]
The Concord Free Public Library hosts a free family-friendly concert featuring Rockabye Beats the last Wednesday of each month at 10 a.m. via Zoom. Rockabye Beats’ music is reminiscent of founder Marcos Valles’ Puerto Rico. Participants will enjoy an interactive 30 minute concert that includes movement, dancing, counting, singing, and a little bit of Spanish […]
Have you ever accidentally shrunken your favorite wool sweater into unwearability? In this class, you’ll deliberately knit a set of floppy oversized bowls using 100% wool and watch the magic happen when you deliberately shrink them! This class will also cover two-color Fair Isle knitting to create checkerboards, zigzags and other motifs. Prior knitting experience […]
The Covid crisis challenges us all, particularly parents who might work at home, act as teachers, and struggle to keep their families safe, well and (relatively) calm during a pandemic. The Practice of Presence program will discuss mindful ways to prevent parental burnout in an age of increasing anxiety. Be Well Be Here founder Lara […]
How well do our energy models answer our questions -- do they provide frameworks to analyze our energy /climate challenges? What price, how much supply:demand imbalance, and where should we invest? Over the past fifty years our energy models have evolved and become more sophisticated, however the questions remains, how well have they predicted prices […]
The Middle School Building Committee invites you to our next Community Forum, to be held Wednesday, February 24 at 7:00pm via Zoom. We hope you will join us to hear more about proposed program plans and input we’ve collected so far, to give us further feedback, and to have your questions answered. Forum details and Zoom link […]
As part of Black History Month the Concord Museum is hosting a conversation on Wednesday, February 24, 2021, 7:30 p.m. with Kyera Singleton, Executive Director of The Royall House and Slave Quarters, and Niya Bates, formerly a public historian at Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello, as they discuss the challenges museums and historic houses face in order […]
As Acton-Boxborough Regional School District School Resource Officers, Keith and Tyler bring years of experience and a wealth of practical advice for parents to this conversation. We'll be talking about the 5 Rs of internet safety as well as healthy relationships, pornography and sexting, bullying and cyberbullying, and violence and racism. Our goal is to […]
