Concord’s Three Cemeteries Walking Tour

Concord Visitor Center 58 Main St, Concord, MA, United States

Hear the voices of the silent stones in Concord’s cemeteries on this 90-minute tour. Scenic, wooded Sleepy Hollow is the most famous, with highlights including the magnificent Melvin Memorial and the graves of Concord’s literary giants: Alcott, Emerson, Hawthorne, and Thoreau. The Hill Burying Ground and the South Burying Ground are the resting places of […]

$20 – $25

Concord Tour Company presents: Grave Addiction — An evening walking tour through historic Concord’s graveyards

Concord, MA, United States

You'll love this atmospheric walk through two of Concord's oldest cemeteries as we explore everything about our graves from burial customs to iconography, plus a goodly share of Concord-centered tales, including: what Henry Thoreau though of ghosts; a first person description of Nathaniel Hawthorne's gruesome encounter with a drowned woman; and the mysterious case of […]

$30
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Register for the Concord Ed Fund Apple Challenge!

Concord, MA, United States

The Concord Education Fund is proud to invite you to join the Apple Challenge, a virtual 5 mile Hike / Bike / Roll/ Stroll fundraising event the weekend of November 5th-7th. DID YOU KNOW.... The CEF funded Zoom subscriptions for all CCHS students in March of 2020?  The CEF purchased bike racks with pump stations for all […]

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Register now for free workshop: “How to Manage Stress in Uncertain Times”

Concord, MA, United States

The Center for Parents and Teachers announces a new and innovative offering on How to Manage Stress in Uncertain Times   Please find instructions below each workshop on how to register for individual sessions. Wish to attend all 4 sessions?  Please email cpt@concordps.org and type “Series on Managing Stress” in the subject line. We are […]

The Telephone/Trouble in Tahiti

51 Walden

Opera51 presents a program of two short operas, The Telephone by Gian Carlo Menotti and Trouble in Tahiti by Leonard Bernstein, conducted by Alan Yost. Principals are 51 Walden's Artist in Residence Margretta Beatty and bass Michael Prichard. Performances at 2 p.m. and 4 p.m.

$25

Indigenous Peoples’ Day Family Program with the Wampanoag Nation Singers and Dancers

Concord Museum Concord, MA, United States

Join us for a performance with the Wampanoag Nation Singers and Dancers, a group of musicians and artisans from the tribal communities of Mashpee on Cape Cod and Aquinnah on Martha’s Vineyard on Indigenous Peoples’ Day.  Participate in the performance of eastern social songs and dances accompanied by a water drum and handcrafted rattles. This […]

Start your music lessons now!

Concord, MA, United States

IMSCC Music Lessons are in full swing! New students are welcome to start at any time. We have expert, experienced instructors for all band and orchestra instruments, plus piano, voice, guitar, and ukulele. IMSCC gives you a choice of in-person or remote lessons for all ages and levels of musicians, beginners through adults. In-person lessons […]

Concord Tour Company presents: Grave Detectives! Concord’s only cemetery tour created just for kids

Concord, MA, United States

Grave Detectives! will introduce families to some of Concord’s oldest history that is hiding in plain sight at Old Hill Burying Ground. This tour will introduce how to read gravestone iconography, how to use images to roughly date stones, and how the epitaphs convey information. Grave Detectives! Stories in Stone is an interactive discovery tour […]

$15

Indigenous People of Concord Walking Tour

Concord Visitor Center 58 Main St, Concord, MA, United States

This 75 minute tour looks at the over 10,000 year history of native people in Concord (Musketaquid). Starting with the mighty Mill Brook, we will meander down Main Street and up to the Calf Pasture on Lowell Road examining how native people lived by the 3 rivers of Concord (Musketaquid) and what happened when two […]

$20 – $25