“The perception of beauty is a moral test.” – Henry David Thoreau, Journal, 21 June 1852 Over two hundred years ago, John Keats famously declared that “Beauty is Truth, and Truth Beauty.” When contemporary scientists and mathematicians refer to a theory as beautiful, they associate beauty with concision and streamlined elegance. Yet for as long […]
An evening in Big Cherry – a small town in anywhere, USA – and the city council meeting unfolds in real time, unmasking undercurrents that threaten to undo life as they know it … and driving the question, “How far would you go?” Award-winning playwright Tracy Letts’s (August: Osage County) new play was called one […]
SHOW the LOVE Donate Personal Care Items to Open Table Food Pantry in Maynard The Rotary Club of Concord is spearheading a donation drive for personal care items for Open Table. Personal care items are not covered by SNAP/food support programs. Donations will help reduce the cost of Open Table purchasing these items for the […]
Artisans Way, located at 18 Walden St., Concord, is sponsoring a mug drive to benefit Household Goods, a local organization in Acton that provides a full range of donated furniture and household items, free of charge, to people in need. (www.householdgoods.org) The mug collection starts on Sunday, March 17 and lasts through Saturday, March 30. […]
Tania Vitvitsy, President of Ukrainian Charitable Platform, returns to the COA to talk about her most recent two-month stay in Ukraine. In September 2023, Tania traveled to five cities in Ukraine: Lviv, Izky, Kyiv, Ternopil, and Chortkiv. The purpose of the 2023 trip was to continue engaging with the Lviv-based Ukrainian Education Platform and other […]
We are celebrating spring with a profusion of flowers! Join Fowler and ArtScape for the opening of our community art show, Art in Bloom. The show will run 3/11-5/25.
THURSDAY, MARCH 21 6:30—8:00 PM Goodwin Forum Main Library This talk features the author and editor James Marcus, whose new book, Glad to the Brink of Fear, A Portrait of Ralph Waldo Emerson, will be released by Princeton University Press on March 5, 2024. William Munroe Special Collections events are made possible by the […]
Concord Museum members and the public are invited to view the new special exhibition What Makes History: New Stories from the Collections. At 11:00am and 2:00pm, Museum curators will lead a guided tour. No advanced registration required. With Museum admission. Members visit free.
Spring Park Day at Minute Man Saturday, March 23rd 9-11:30am or 1:00-3:30pm Minute Man Visitor Center Parking Lot Park Day is an annual event where participants help to preserve Minute Man National Historical Park, one of our nation’s most iconic and historic battlefields. Volunteers may take part in removing invasive plants, seeding native plants, caring for orchards, […]
About Flipping the Script: The Women of the Manse These are the stories of the women of the Old Manse – vital, complex, and essential – who lived in the Old Manse from the time of the Revolutionary War through 1939. In this tour, we flip the script and explore the history of the Old […]
