Events

Girl Scouts of Eastern Massachusetts invites your family to see for yourselves how your child will have more fun learning, doing, and growing as a Girl Scout.​ Girl Scout Staff and local volunteers will lead a fun, age-appropriate activity for future Girl Scouts, and after, staff will answer your questions and discuss how to begin...

Your Year of Trailblazing: Discover Concord Girl Scouts August 14 @ 6:00 pm - August 14 @ 7:30 pm Event Venue Rideout Park & Playground Event Organizer Girl Scouts of Eastern Massachusetts Description Girl Scouts of Eastern Massachusetts invites your family to see for yourselves how your child will have more fun learning, doing, and...

Fairyborough Tuesday, August 15 - Friday, August 18 | 10:00am - 2:00pm Location: Outdoors Cost: Free with admission Welcome to Fairyborough – the little city with a big future! Design, build, and explore a mysterious forest environment of fairy houses, gnome homes, and sprite skyscrapers, constructed completely out of natural materials and creativity. This changing...

August 9, 16, 23 at 10:30 AM: "Musical Mornings with Ricardo" at the Fowler Branch Library. Expand your musical and language skills singing in Spanish and English with Ricardo, a classically trained bassoonist from Guanajuato University, Mexico. Ages 7 and under. No registration required.

Live music by the Karl Helmer Duo at Reflections from 5 - 7pm       Enjoy Jazz Guitar & BassAvoid the paving hassles by shopping late, or just relax and enjoy - Many shops are open late!Reflections, A New Leaf, Joy St Life & Home, Concord Firefly, Debra's Natural Gourmet, Reasons to be Cheerful, Concord Art &...

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.”...

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.”...

August 9, 16, 23 at 10:30 AM: "Musical Mornings with Ricardo" at the Fowler Branch Library. Expand your musical and language skills singing in Spanish and English with Ricardo, a classically trained bassoonist from Guanajuato University, Mexico. Ages 7 and under. No registration required.

Live music by Steve Robb at Reflections from 5 - 7pm       Enjoy Acoustic Guitar 60s/70s/80s  R&BAvoid the paving hassles by shopping late, or just relax and enjoy - Many shops are open late!Reflections, A New Leaf, Joy St Life & Home, Concord Firefly, Debra's Natural Gourmet, Reasons to be Cheerful, Concord Art & Antiques, Art...

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.”...

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 Library Corporation will host the world premiere of the film Ralph Waldo Emerson: Give All to Love, Saturday, Sept. 30 2-4:30 PM in the Goodwin Forum at the Main Library. This film features an “essay on film” by Michael Maglaras and will provide a new and deeply personal perspective on Emerson, his writing, his...

 Author and Writer-In-Residence George Jreije will lead a workshop-style class at the Concord Free Public Library Aug. 28, 5 p.m. where participants will learn to appreciate the craft behind writing non-fiction, as well as the principles and forms of this style of writing. Participants with additional questions can visit George during his office hours immediately...

Live music by Seth Connelly at Reflections from 5 - 7pm       Enjoy Acoustic Guitar, Favorite songs 60s/70sAvoid the paving hassles by shopping late, or just relax and enjoy - Many shops are open late!Reflections, A New Leaf, Joy St Life & Home, Concord Firefly, Debra's Natural Gourmet, Reasons to be Cheerful, Concord Art & Antiques,...

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.”...

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.”...

“Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things,” Henry David Thoreau wrote in Walden (1854), offering a warning about technology and distraction that resonates in our own time. In conversation with Daegan Miller, Caleb Smith will discuss his new book Thoreau’s Axe: Distraction and Discipline in American Culture, exploring how nineteenth-century Americans understood...

September 7 @ 7:00 pm - September 7 @ 8:30 pm “Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things,” Henry David Thoreau wrote in Walden (1854), offering a warning about technology and distraction that resonates in our own time. In conversation with Daegan Miller, Caleb Smith will discuss his new book Thoreau’s Axe:...