Author Archives for Cindy Keene
July 10, 2024 9:18 am
Published by Cindy Keene
CONCORD, Mass. – National Park Service archeologists working at Minute Man National Historical Park recently discovered five musket balls that were fired during the world-changing event known as “The Shot Heard Round the World” on April 19, 1775, according to a press release from the Minute Man Park. Early analysis of the 18th-century musket balls indicates they were fired by...
October 11, 2023 3:34 pm
Published by Cindy Keene
Minute Man National Historical Park has one of the largest collection of historical homes in the National Park system.Concord house museums are living history centers that teach through the collection, preservation, and dynamic interpretation of history and culture. Here’s your guide to exploring Concord’s national heritage sites. Distances noted are from Concord Visitor Center, 58 Main St., Concord. Orchard House...
October 11, 2023 3:28 pm
Published by Cindy Keene
Minute Man National Historical Park has one of the largest collection of historical homes in the National Park system. Concord house museums are living history centers that teach through the collection, preservation, and dynamic interpretation of history and culture. Distances noted below are from Concord Visitor Center, 58 Main St., Concord. Here is your guide to exploring Concord’s national heritage...
October 3, 2023 11:57 am
Published by Cindy Keene
The 31st annual Concord Festival of Authors (CFA) celebrates the written and spoken word with top-notch literary events throughout town on October 20 –30. Managed by the Friends of the Concord Free Public Library (CFPL), this year’s CFA also honors the library’s 150th anniversary as a community home for readers of all ages. The 2023 CFA kicks off with keynote speaker Jennifer...
May 1, 2023 7:25 pm
Published by Cindy Keene
By Chris Randall, Correspondent West Concord is holding its fourth annual Spring into West Concord festival from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday, May 20. This family-friendly event features sidewalk activities, the immensely popular Green Thumbs plant sale, a scavenger hunt, a raffle, and cake and ice cream! Plus, the much-anticipated Bruce Freeman Rail Trail mural will be unveiled...
March 20, 2023 11:44 am
Published by Cindy Keene
It’s not easy being a tour guide especially in Concord. The first bar to cross is the licensing, which requires an eight-week training on interpreting town history as well as techniques for providing an engaging visitor experience. Tours go on rain or shine, extreme weather events excluded, so tour guides need to be ready for whatever mother nature throws at...
February 28, 2023 7:22 pm
Published by Cindy Keene
Some might call them tombstone tourists, grave hunters or even taphophiles. That’s someone who has a passion for cemeteries and all things related: epitaphs, gravestone rubbing, photography, art, and famous deaths. Filmmaker Roberto Mighty may fall into this category of cemetery appreciator, as cemeteries have become a passion of his life For this multi-faceted television producer and multimedia artist, it...
February 2, 2023 9:25 am
Published by Cindy Keene
By Joe Palumbo In April of 2025, we will be celebrating the 250th anniversary of the events that took place in Lexington and Concord in 1775. As we approach that anniversary there are several milestone events that took place in the years leading up to 1775 that are certainly worth noting and reflecting on. Just 250 years ago last...
January 25, 2023 2:09 pm
Published by Cindy Keene
in·de·cent /ˌinˈdēs(ə)nt/ adjective not conforming with generally accepted standards of behavior or propriety; obscene.“the film was grossly indecent” not appropriate or fitting.“they leaped on the suggestion with indecent haste.” Why would a play be called “Indecent?” Indecent, by Paula Vogel, is Concord Player’s newest offering, February 10, 11, 17, 18, 19 (matinee), 24 and 25, and directed by Shira Helena Gitlin, Gitlin first...
January 10, 2023 12:46 pm
Published by Cindy Keene
By Joe Palumbo Dr. Martin Luther King Junior, from his Autobiography: When I went to Morehouse as a freshman in 1944, my concern for racial and economic justice was already substantial. During my student days, I read Henry David Thoreau’s essay “On Civil Disobedience” for the first time. Here, in this courageous New Englander’s refusal to pay his taxes and...