Craft the Library’s 150th Parade!

Concord Free Public Library 129 Main Street, Concord, MA, United States

Drop in to make banners and flags for the Library's 150th birthday parade on October 1st! All ages welcome.

Free

Family Nature Walk: Concord Land Conservation Trust’s Nashawtuc Hill

Concord, MA, United States

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 […]

Free

Indigenous People of Concord Walking Tour

Concord, MA, United States

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. […]

Lizzie: The Musical

The Umbrella Community Arts Center 40 Stow St., Concord, MA, United States

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 […]

MIGHTY MOOSE

Concord, MA, United States

Mighty Moose 5k Run/Walk for Ovarian Cancer Sun September 24 2023

African American People of Concord Walking Tour

Concord, MA, United States

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 […]

Tours of Thoreau Farm, the birthplace of Henry David Thoreau

Thoreau Farm 341 Virginia Road, Concord, MA, United States

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.” […]

Free

Lizzie: The Musical

The Umbrella Community Arts Center 40 Stow St., Concord, MA, United States

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 […]