The BLAST! (Babysitter Lessons and Safety Training) program provides training in First Aid, in household safety, and some fundamentals of childcare. In addition, this course helps prepare children to interview for a babysitting job, select safe and suitable games and activities, prevent accidents, and begin babysitting safely and competently. We will cover choking prevention and […]
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Join us for the CFA 2023 kick-off event with Keynote Speaker, Jennifer De Leon—editor, author, and professor of Creative Writing. In this honest and interactive talk, Jennifer will share some of the ways in which “story” can provide crucial insight into the complex intersection of race, class, and educational issues, dispelling myths and showcasing the […]
Author Jennifer De Leon will kick off the 2023 Concord Festival of Authors with a discussion of her new book Borderless! Jennifer De Leon is the award-winning author of the YA novels, Borderless, featured on the TODAY show, and Don’t Ask Me Where I’m From. She is also the author of White Space: Essays on […]
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Join Concord Family Network for our Annual Halloween Party under the tents at Verrill Farm. We'll have various stations with crafts and activities geared at the 2-6 year old range, though all are welcome. Costumes are encouraged, but not required (great opportunity to trial that Halloween costume). FREE for Concord Family Network members, $15 per […]
This is an annual event - stop by for a fun-filled, open-air fair featuring local crafters and artists!
Food, music, sales & crafts! 10am - 3pm
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.” […]
The Robbins House, Concord’s African American History Museum, presents author Ray Anthony Shepard. Shepard discusses A Long Time Coming, his new biography-in-verse of six impactful Black Americans from different eras, including Ona Judge, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, Ida B. Wells, Martin Luther King Jr., and Barack Obama, chronicling their diverse ways of fighting racism. Shepard […]
