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190 years ago, while sitting in the upstairs study of the Old Manse, Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote in Nature that “the world shall be to us an open book.” His words set the stage for many literary greats who lived and visited at the Old Manse, and who took inspiration from the landscape surrounding it....

Join the Concord Museum for an evening with Megan Kate Nelson as she explores the captivating lives of women and men moving through the American West—Indigenous peoples, Black Americans, Mexican Americans, and Canadian and Asian immigrants—in the nineteenth century. Her new book, The Westerners, tracks the attempts of many Americans to remove these individuals from history, through a frontier...

Umbrella Arts presents... BAT BOY: THE MUSICAL | September 25 - November 8, 2026 in Concord, MA THE STORY: Half-bat, half-boy, ripped from the tabloid headlines, and thrust into the spotlight! In this camp horror comedy, a misunderstood monster seeks a place to belong. Taken in by a veterinarian, endeared to his adopted sister Shelly,...

Umbrella Arts presents... BAT BOY: THE MUSICAL | September 25 - November 8, 2026 in Concord, MA THE STORY: Half-bat, half-boy, ripped from the tabloid headlines, and thrust into the spotlight! In this camp horror comedy, a misunderstood monster seeks a place to belong. Taken in by a veterinarian, endeared to his adopted sister Shelly,...

Umbrella Arts presents... BAT BOY: THE MUSICAL | September 25 - November 8, 2026 in Concord, MA THE STORY: Half-bat, half-boy, ripped from the tabloid headlines, and thrust into the spotlight! In this camp horror comedy, a misunderstood monster seeks a place to belong. Taken in by a veterinarian, endeared to his adopted sister Shelly,...

Join OARS, Concord Free Public Library, and award-winning author and systems educator Dr. Linda Booth Sweeney for a lively book club conversation about how nature avoids waste and prevents pollution, free and open to all as part of OARS’ Egg Rock Readers book club. Drawing on renowned ecologist Thomas Crowther’s Nature’s Echo and Sweeney’s new children’s book, Do Bees Pee?,...