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Lowell Walks: Mill Girls & Boarding House Keepers

Lowell National Historical Park Visitor Center Lowell National Historical Park Visitor Center, 246 Market St, Lowell, MA, United States

With the construction of a new mill city, a large labor force was needed to fill minimum wage positions being rapidly created. The boarding house system allowed mill agents sent out into the New England countryside to recruit a new workforce of young women with promises of paid work, available food, shelter, and the care...

Free

Lowell Walks: Portuguese in Lowell

Portuguese American Civic League of Lowell Central Street, Lowell, Massachusetts, United States

Join researchers and archivists from the University of Massachusetts Lowell's Portuguese American Digital Archive, Nikki Tantum, Gray Fitzsimons, and Nicole Catarino on a walk around the Back Central neighborhood. In the late 1800s, increasing demands for cotton cloth production provided jobs and opportunity for the first Portuguese immigrants arriving in Lowell. In the decades that...

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1774 and All That: Reflections on a Long Year of Revolution

Concord Museum Concord Museum, 53 Cambridge Tpke, Concord, MA, United States

On September 19, 2024, the Concord Museum will commence its highly anticipated fall forum series with a special discussion featuring Mary Beth Norton, renowned historian and award winning author of the landmark text 1774: The Long Year of Revolution. This exciting event marks the beginning of a series of programs hosted by the Concord Museum...

Stone Walls of New England with Kevin Gardner

Moses Greeley Parker Memorial Library, Dracut Arlington Street, Dracut, MA, United States

Kevin Gardner is a lifelong resident of Hopkinton, NH. Like a lot of independent rural Yankees, he’s been a jack of many trades, a builder, logger, writer, teacher, radio voice, even an actor and director. For more than forty years he has been a stone wall builder in a family business widely known for traditional...

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Event Series El Encuentro Latino Film Festival

El Encuentro Latino Film Festival

Nancy L. Donahue Theatre in Liberty Hall 50 EAST MERRIMACK STREET, Lowell, MA, United States

El Encuentro Film Festival, presented by UNITAS, invites you to celebrate the vibrant world of Latino storytelling through film during Hispanic Heritage Month. Join us on Friday, October 4th &  Saturday, October 5th, 2024, at the Richard and Nancy Donahue Theater at Middlesex Community College in downtown Lowell, MA. This in-person festival is a dynamic...

$10 – $15

Into the Thaw

Lexington’s Cary Memorial Hall 1605 Mass Ave, Lexington, MA, United States

In 2024, Minuteman National Historical Park and Walden Pond were named as among the top 11 endangered historic sites in America, in part due to climate change. The alterations to our natural environment during the climate crisis have far-reaching consequences to the preservation of history as well as the natural landscape. More than 40 years...

$10 – $15

Sounds of Labor in Lowell: Agriculture and Early Industry

Lowell National Historical Park Visitor Center Lowell National Historical Park Visitor Center, 246 Market St, Lowell, MA, United States

What does the history of work in Lowell sound like, and how can you tell that story through music? Come be part of the musical composition process in the first of a series of workshops on the soundscape of Lowell through its many eras! Join contemporary composers working on new pieces specifically for Lowell National...

Free

Acton 250 Committee presents: One for the Revolutionary Road: Taverns and the American Revolution

Acton Memorial Library 486 Main Street, Acton, MA

Northeastern University Professor Malcolm F. Purinton discusses the role of the tavern in local society as the colonies headed into the American Revolution. There were few places more important in colonial and revolutionary America than local community taverns that played witness to local, regional, and national events in American history. Decisions made in these cozy...

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Daniel O’Donnell Cary Memorial Hall

Lexington’s Cary Memorial Hall 1605 Mass Ave, Lexington, MA, United States

Daniel O’Donnell’s remarkable career has moved on to a new level with his success as a TV presenter, just another facet to his ever-expanding list of entertainment achievements. The Donegal based singer, who is one of the most prolific and successful recording artists in the UK charts, is the only artist in the world to...

Bullet Strikes from the First Day of the American Revolution

Acton Town Hall 472 Main Street, Acton, MA, United States

The Acton 250 Committee presents Joel Bohy, a historic arms & militaria specialist at Blackstone Valley Auctions and Estates. Joel will discuss the arms and ammunition used by both British and provincial forces on April 19, 1775, as well as the battle damage that remain. Using modern shooting incident reconstruction, archaeology, live fire studies, and...

Free

Crip Camp

Town of Acton Health and Human Services Building 30 Sudbury Road - Rear, Acton, United States

A free showing of an award winning film free documentary film at the Health and Human Services bldg, 30 Sudbury Road- rear, Acton, MA. Please register in advance via EventBrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/crib-camp-a-special-free-screening-of-an-award-winning-documentary-film-tickets-1219928070699?aff=oddtdtcreator This special free screening of the Award Winning Documentary Film "Crip Camp" A disability revolution. The film takes a look back in time at...

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“The Light of Seven Days”: An author event with Mass Book Award-Honoree River Adams

Chelmsford Public Library Boston Road, Chelmsford, Massachusetts, United States

Join the Chelmsford Public Library for a special event with Mass Book Award-honoree River Adams! River will share their acclaimed and richly textured novel, The Light of Seven Days. Living with her Babby after her parents’ death, 10-year-old Dinah Ash is invited to train at Leningrad’s legendary Vaganova Ballet School. In the world of elite...

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