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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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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 9, 2023
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October 9, 2023 -American Contradictions: Slavery and the American Revolution at the Old Manse
American Contradictions: Slavery and the American Revolution at the Old Manse
Sundays at 2:30 Many who fought for liberty and independence from Great Britain also enslaved other people – a contradiction that is at the heart of the American Revolution. At the Old Manse, we see this contradiction embodied in the life of William Emerson, “Patriot Preacher” and enslaver. We also see it deeply impacting the...
Tuesday, October 10, 2023
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Wednesday, October 11, 2023
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October 11, 2023 -Spotlight Tour on Lincoln at deCordova
Spotlight Tour on Lincoln at deCordova
deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum’s Lincoln to Depart in October A longtime and much-loved installation at deCordova Sculpture Park and Art Museum will be departing in October. Sculptor DeWitt Godfrey’s Lincoln, a large, low-lying horizontal sculpture made of 80 steel cylinders that appear to cascade down the hill will be de-installed and repurposed for future installations at...
Thursday, October 12, 2023
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Friday, October 13, 2023
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Saturday, October 14, 2023
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October 14, 2023 -Tours of Thoreau Farm, the birthplace of Henry David Thoreau
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October 14, 2023 -After Hours @ the Library
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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After Hours @ the Library
Join us for an adult evening of fun and festivities - After Hours @ the Library, October 14th 7-9 PM at the Main Library, sponsored by the Friends of the Library and the Library Corporation. The Library will come alive with music, art, puppetry, theater, storytelling, and more. Delicious food and drink from local purveyors....
Sunday, October 15, 2023
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October 15, 2023 -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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