Activities at the COA for Pride Month: Thursday, June 11that 2:00 PM "Living in Pryde" Movie 🌈 🌈 🌈 🌈 🌈 🌈 🌈 A 35-minute WGBH documentary that follows residents of the first LGBTQ+ supportive and welcoming senior housing community in Jamaica Plain. A panel discussion follows the showing, that includes a resident who lives […]
The Concord Museum, in partnership with Lexington History Museums, presents an engaging program highlighting new research and evolving interpretations from the communities at the center of the start of the American Revolution. This conversation brings together Curator David F. Wood, whose work Eyewitness to Revolution draws from the Concord Museum’s renowned collection; Paul O’Shaughnessy, President […]
An Evening of Music, Craft, and Cultural Tradition Experience a unique night that brings together two extraordinary artistic voices: Puerto Rican cuatro player and composer Fabiola Méndez and master luthier William Cumpiano. Enjoy a live performance from Fabiola alongside an intimate fireside conversation with William on instrument building, cultural heritage, and the evolving story of […]
Looking for some fun!? Play our 6 fabulous rounds of original, brain-teasing trivia with no cover fee. Enjoy The Colonial Inn's full bar/apps/ dinner menu. So get your friends, neighbors, or co-workers together, make an unstoppable team (up to 6), and test your collective grasp on humanity! Follow @tom_rutledge_presents for trivia dates, clues, and general […]
Saturday, July 4, 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM: Join us for a powerful Independence Day tradition at The Robbins House: Reading with Frederick Douglass. Held annually on our front lawn, this community event features a reading of Douglass’s famous speech, “What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?” Audience participation is encouraged—come lend your […]
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 […]