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Friends & Family of Residents

Holiday

07.4.2025

Reading the Declaration of Independence at the North Bridge

“And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm Reliance on the Protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor.” On April 19, 1775 the Revolutionary War began at Lexington and Concord. Fourteen months later, on July 4, 1776 the Continental Congress meeting in...

Arts & Culture

07.4.2025

Concord 250: Concord Band Plays at Picnic in the Park

Concord Band Plays at July 4th Picnic in the Park! Join in for some genuine patriotic fun when the Concord Band performs at the 46th Annual Picnic in the Park on Thursday, July 4th, from 3:00-4:00PM, Emerson Field, in Concord, MA. Music Director Jim O'Dell will lead the Concord Band through exciting marches, a lively dixieland...

Arts & Culture

07.5.2025

Thoreau’s Birthplace – Free House Tours

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.” Tour includes the lovingly restored second-floor room where Henry David Thoreau was born in 1817. Visits to the house are by guided...

07.6.2025

Thoreau’s Birthplace – Free House Tours

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.” Tour includes the lovingly restored second-floor room where Henry David Thoreau was born in 1817. Visits to the house are by guided...

07.7.2025

Thoreau’s Birthplace – Free House Tours

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.” Tour includes the lovingly restored second-floor room where Henry David Thoreau was born in 1817. Visits to the house are by guided...

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Friends & Family of Residents

Literary Visitor

07.9.2025

Thoreau Society Annual Gathering Event “A Concord Parade”

This is a the Thoreau Society Annual Gathering Event Join a mini parade and meet a variety of spirits including Thoreau, Louisa May Alcott, George Washington Dugan, Gandhi, MLK Jr. and more! Meet across from the Colonial Inn Contact trsoe@bentley.edu for more information