How to Become Famous with Cass Sunstein Tuesday, September 24 7:00 – 8:00 p.m. Free for Members | $10 Non-Members | Free Virtual What makes someone who becomes famous, famous? Harvard law professor, public intellectual, and bestselling author Cass Sunstein offers clear and surprising answers in his new book How To Become Famous: Lost Einsteins, […]
What makes someone who becomes famous, famous? Harvard law professor, public intellectual, and bestselling author Cass Sunstein offers clear and surprising answers in his new book How To Become Famous: Lost Einsteins, Forgotten Superstars, and How the Beatles Came to Be. Using modern data analysis techniques to show the role of accident and serendipity in […]
One Community - One Goal Every September, the Lois Wells Memorial Kicks for Cancer event brings together local high school soccer teams to compete at Concord-Carlisle High School. On September 28, thirty-two soccer teams will take the field with jerseys bearing a loved one’s name on the back. The day now widely known as “Kicks” anchors what has […]
The Umbrella Arts Center continues to expand its creative discovery opportunities for families of preschool-aged children as young as 1 year old on Wednesdays this Fall! Your emerging little artist will love experimenting with clay, paint, collage, drawing, and other sensory rich materials alongside their caregiver and experience instructor Sarah Scoville. Enjoy the spontaneous creations […]
Our September meeting occurs during the library's annual Climate Prep Week, organized annually since 2018 by CREW (Communities Responding to Extreme Weather) as a week of learning, service, and action. This year's theme is “Reimagining our Relationship with the Land." We will discuss Margaret Renkl's 2023 book, The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year. Copies […]
Join the League of Women Voters of Concord-Carlisle for its Fall Membership Meeting and hear from Town Leaders of the Select Board, FinCom, School Committees, 2229 Main Street, and Warner’s Pond about their priorities for the 2024-25 town fiscal year. Learn more and register for Zoom at lwvcc.org Wednesday, September 25, 2024, 2:00 – 4:00 p.m. […]
Join us every Wednesday afternoon in The Workshop for an awesome craft, art project, or engineering puzzle! This week, we're celebrating Climate Prep Week and shorebirds with a special recycled book bird project! Recommended for kids ages 5-10 and their caregivers. If your child is ages 5-9, please be prepared to stay with your child […]
Drop by Craft Lab at Fowler, for kids 12 and under and enjoy hands-on artistic exploration. This week, as part of Climate Prep Week and to prepare for the upcoming Nature Walk and screening of Flyways, we will craft birds!
The Show Quilts 250: Stitching in the Spirit of Democracy is a free, public quilt show organized in celebration of the 250th anniversary of the American Revolutionary events of April 19, 1775 along Battle Road in Lincoln, Concord, Lexington, and Arlington, Massachusetts. Showcasing the creative energy of quilters near and far, Quilts 250 hopes to display as many […]
The Garden Club of Concord is seeking proposals from local organizations and residents seeking funding for gardening-related community projects. Each year the GCC sponsors a range of projects intended to support the preservation, restoration, and development of gardens and the natural environment of the Concord community. Organizations recently benefiting from a GCC grant include Concord […]
