Social justice advocate, Army nurse, celebrated author, radical abolitionist, and the first woman licensed to drive a car in America. These are just some of the remarkable women buried in Concord’s Sleepy Hollow Cemetery. Visit Sleepy Hollow with a Museum guide to learn more about these women and their legacies. 1 mile walk, mostly flat […]
vs. North Andover
Come learn about the birthplace of Henry David Thoreau and consider lessons about living deliberately that we can learn from his legacy. Take an inside look at the restored 1730s house listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the Wheeler-Minot Farmhouse/Henry David Thoreau Birth House. Locally, it is also known as “Thoreau Farm.” […]
A free, All-ages Grassroots Community Music Festival! More than four dozen live acts in your neighbor’s yards, within walking distance of West Concord Village. The streets surrounding West Concord Village will be filled with music for the third annual West Concord Porchfest (rain date: Sunday September 24). Porchfest is a free, all-ages grassroots community music […]
Drop in to make banners and flags for the Library's 150th birthday parade on October 1st! All ages welcome.
Join Peter Alden as he guides us on a family nature walk of the Egg Rock and Nashawtuc Hill Circuit! Park on the right along Frenchman's Meadow just after the Sudbury River bridge on Nashawtuc Road. We assemble at the start of Squaw Sachem Trail. First destination is Egg Rock where the rivers join. Next […]
For over 10,000 years the indigenous people of the land knew this area as Musketaquid. The land between the grassy rivers. This tour explores the history of the first people and how they lived in a land of abundance seeking to keep and foster balance with the natural world, their mother, who sustained them always. […]
vs. Lincoln- Sudbury High School
vs. Lincoln Sudbury High School
The subject of centuries-old, sing-song villainy, Lizzie Borden turns searing rock anthem anti-hero and has audiences raging in their seats. Lizzie was famously acquitted and yet the question lingers… did she do it? Now, as the story is retold by four women defying musical theater stereotypes, fronting a six-piece rock band, and delivering a score […]
