Week of Events
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...
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...
Help Hartwell Halloween Decorate
If you are interested in contributing a jack-o-lantern for our Hartwell Halloween program, you may drop it off at Minute Man Visitor Center (Rt. 2A Lexington) on Friday, October 27 between 9 am and 4 pm, or Saturday, October 28 between 9 am and 2 pm. The pumpkins will be illuminated and displayed at Hartwell...
Monday, October 2, 2023
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October 2, 2023 -150 Years of Cinema Lecture at Library
150 Years of Cinema Lecture at Library
The Friends of the Library will present a lecture entitled “150 Years of Cinema” October 2nd 7-8 PM in the Goodwin Forum at the Main Library with Films at Fowler host Randall Warniers.
Tuesday, October 3, 2023
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October 3, 2023 -Reading Circle: “The Wellfleet Oysterman”!
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October 3, 2023 -Teen Advisory Board
Reading Circle: “The Wellfleet Oysterman”!
WEDNESDAY, October 4th, from 7:00 pm - 8:15 pm for our Reading Circle: "The Wellfleet Oysterman"! After three visits to Cape Cod from 1849-1855, Thoreau wrote: “I did not see why I might not make a book on Cape Cod, as well as my neighbor on ‘Human Culture.’ It is but another name for the...
Teen Advisory Board
Join us in the Teen Lounge for Teen Advisory Board (TAB)! Tuesday, October 3 at 3 PM at Concord Free Public Library. TAB is a monthly meeting of volunteers who work with the Library to help us plan programs, buy materials, and run events. Attendees receive community service! Main Library. No registration required.
Wednesday, October 4, 2023
No events on this day.
Thursday, October 5, 2023
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October 5, 2023 -White Rabbit Red Rabbit
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October 5, 2023 -White Rabbit Red Rabbit
White Rabbit Red Rabbit
White Rabbit Red Rabbit No rehearsal. No director. One actor. A script in a sealed envelope. Theater stripped to its essential elements in a no-net night of unexpected comedy and shared discovery. Forbidden to leave his native Iran, Nassim Soleimanpour wrote a play to travel the world in his place. Since its award-winning premiere at...
White Rabbit Red Rabbit
October 5 @ 7:30 pm - November 12 @ 3:00 pm Event Venue The Umbrella Arts Center No rehearsal. No director. One actor. A script in a sealed envelope. Theater stripped to its essential elements in a no-net night of unexpected comedy and shared discovery. Forbidden to leave his native Iran, Nassim Soleimanpour wrote a play to...
Friday, October 6, 2023
No events on this day.
Saturday, October 7, 2023
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October 7, 2023 -Thoreau’s Cape Cod Readathon
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October 7, 2023 -Tours of Thoreau Farm, the birthplace of Henry David Thoreau
Thoreau’s Cape Cod Readathon
Thoreau's Cape Cod Readathon will run Saturday, October 7 and Sunday, October 8 with live readings will run from 10 am – 3 pm daily. This first-of-its-kind, two-day live reading of Henry David Thoreau’s Cape Cod celebrates an iconic work that depicts the natural beauty of Cape Cod and how Thoreau’s depiction of the environment...
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.”...
Sunday, October 8, 2023
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October 8, 2023 -Thoreau’s Cape Cod Readathon
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October 8, 2023 -Thoreau’s Cape Cod Readathon
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October 8, 2023 -Thoreau’s Cape Cod Readathon
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October 8, 2023 -Tours of Thoreau Farm, the birthplace of Henry David Thoreau
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October 8, 2023 -Family Nature Walk: Concord Land Conservation Trust’s Nashawtuc Hill Circuit
Thoreau’s Cape Cod Readathon
Thoreau's Cape Cod Readathon will run Saturday, October 7 and Sunday, October 8 with live readings will run from 10 am – 3 pm daily. This first-of-its-kind, two-day live reading of Henry David Thoreau’s Cape Cod celebrates an iconic work that depicts the natural beauty of Cape Cod and how Thoreau’s depiction of the environment...
Thoreau’s Cape Cod Readathon
Thoreau's Cape Cod Readathon will run Saturday, October 7 and Sunday, October 8 with live readings will run from 10 am – 3 pm daily. This first-of-its-kind, two-day live reading of Henry David Thoreau’s Cape Cod celebrates an iconic work that depicts the natural beauty of Cape Cod and how Thoreau’s depiction of the environment...
Thoreau’s Cape Cod Readathon
Thoreau's Cape Cod Readathon will run Saturday, October 7 and Sunday, October 8 with live readings will run from 10 am – 3 pm daily. This first-of-its-kind, two-day live reading of Henry David Thoreau’s Cape Cod celebrates an iconic work that depicts the natural beauty of Cape Cod and how Thoreau’s depiction of the environment...
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.”...
Family Nature Walk: Concord Land Conservation Trust’s Nashawtuc Hill Circuit
Family Nature Walk: Concord Land Conservation Trust's Nashawtuc Hill Circuit Join Peter Alden for a family nature walk of the Egg Rock and Nashawtuc Hill Circuit. Sunday, October 8 at 2 PM. We will assemble at the start of Squaw Sachem Trail, and we'll see Egg Rock, the hemlock grove along the Assabet River, fields,...