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2023 Art Ramble: Geo-Metric
Art Ramble is an annual, temporary public art exhibition in the Hapgood Wright Town Forest in Concord, MA, a collaboration of The Umbrella Art Center and Concord’s Division of Natural Resources (CDNR). Following Leave No Trace principles, regional artists create site-specific artworks promoting appreciation of nature, installed along Fairyland Pond and parts of the historic...
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Thoreau’s Axe: A Conversation with Author Caleb Smith
Thoreau’s Axe: A Conversation with Author Caleb Smith
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:...
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Thoreau’s Axe: A Conversation with Author Caleb Smith
Thoreau’s Axe: A Conversation with Author Caleb Smith
“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...
$10
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Ag Day
Ag Day
September 9th, 2023 10am-2pm Right in downtown Concord - intersection of Walden St and Main St Concord Ag Day is a once a year farmers’ market celebrating local agriculture organized by the Concord Agriculture Committee to showcase Concord farms and local produce. This unique market showcases the bounty of Concord’s many farm businesses at the...
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Tours of Thoreau Farm, the birthplace of Henry David Thoreau
Tours of Thoreau Farm, the birthplace of Henry David Thoreau
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.”...
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Discovery Day Open House at the Concord Conservatory of Music
Discovery Day Open House at the Concord Conservatory of Music
Imagine your kids discovering what it’s like to play the ukulele, violin, keyboard, flute, trumpet, drums, and cello in one afternoon! Adults can also explore instruments or get back to their music-playing days. You’re never too old to learn music. This year, the CCM Discovery Day Open House with its instrument Exploration is on Saturday, Sept....
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Tours of Thoreau Farm, the birthplace of Henry David Thoreau
Tours of Thoreau Farm, the birthplace of Henry David Thoreau
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.”...
Free
