The non-profit farm Gaining Ground will hold a free educational farm tour on Thursday, October 6, from 4:00 p.m. until 5:30 p.m. at its site on 341 Virginia Road in Concord. Everyone is invited to take part in this opportunity to learn about the process of winterizing crop fields and practices that extend the growing […]
✈️ 🛩 ✈️ 🛩 ✈️ 🛩 ✈️ 🛩 ✈️ 🛩 ✈️ Join the Passport Club on Wednesday, October 26th at 1:30 PM for a ghostly visit to Plymouth’s historic burial hill. The tour begins at the Main Staircase in Plymouth, then proceeds to Plymouth's Burial Hill. We will talk about Pilgrim stories, the Revolutionary War […]
Although Henry Thoreau spent only the first 8 months if his life living in his grandmother’s farmhouse, he would return to Virginia Road time and again throughout his life to visit the scenes of his early childhood. Join Biologist Amity Wilczek and Historian Richard Smith for a walk around the Thoreau Farm property as they […]
Learn about Concord’s African-American residents on this 90-minute walking tour. The tour will visit sites highlighting Concord’s history around enslavement, the first generation of self-emancipated African-Americans, and the growth of Abolitionism. We see how these families strived to support themselves on the land and in the town and worked to shape their own destinies as […]
