Events

Celebrate Women's History Month! Join historian Richard Smith and Nikki Turpin , President of the Robbins House, as they lead a lecture / discussion highlighting and celebrating a selection of women reformers from Concord history, including Ellen Garrison, Abba May Alcott and Helen Thoreau. All are welcome, Co-sponsored by the Friends of Walden Pond and...

2024 Friends of Minute Man Winter Lecture Series, Part 2 Radical Spirits: The Material Culture of Drinking at Minute Man National Historical Park” with Nikki Walsh Sunday, March 24, 2024 2:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. Concord Free Public Main Library Free and open to the public Join us for the Friends of Minute Man Winter...

Women of the Great Field: The Robbins and Garrison Women and their Neighbors TUESDAY, MARCH 266:00—7:30 PM Goodwin ForumMain Library129 Main Street, Concord, MA, 01742 Women of the Great Field: The Robbins and Garrison Women and their Neighbors Join us for a Women's History discussion with The Robbins House on the history of the women...

A Fight for Freedom: Patriots of Color Walking Tour   In this 90 minute walking tour we will examine the known history and stories of these Patriots of Color who fought for freedom locally both during the American Revolution and beyond. Minuteman National Park, Robbins House and Concord Visitors Center staff will lead this tour examining...

Pasadena city leader Veronica Jones comes to speak in Concord  about  their work honoring Black history. 4/13. 2pm at CFPL Sponsored by Robbins House, Concord 250 and Special Collections For 129 years, Black educator and activist Ellen Garrison lay unsung and forgotten in an unmarked grave in Altadena, California’s Mountain View Cemetery. Ellen Garrison, native...

Come join us and celebrate and afternoon of words, music, art and song as we Stand up for Ellen on the anniversary of her birth at the Concord Armory!