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Sewn Circuits

Discovery Museum Discovery Museum, 177 Main St, Acton, MA, United States

Join us for an exciting new program for kids and their caregivers to explore hand sewing and simple circuitry to engineer unique wearable creations with working lights! In this 90-minute session we’ll investigate how circuits work using wires, small LED lights, and batteries. Then, we’ll experiment with ways to make fabric creations – like felt […]

$10
Concord River Whitewater Rafting

Concord River Whitewater Rafting

UMass Lowell Inn and Conference Center 50 Warren St, Lowell, MA, United States

“Squeeze into a wet suit, hop into a raft, and hang on! Whitewater rafting on the Concord River in Lowell happens only on weekends in April and May, when rain and snowmelt swell the river, producing Class III and IV rapids. This urban river run, a mere 1.7 miles long, is a high-octane ride over […]

$99.00
Exhibition: A Perpetual Invitation: 150 Years of Art at the Concord Free Public Library

Exhibition: A Perpetual Invitation: 150 Years of Art at the Concord Free Public Library

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

In honor of the Concord Free Public Library’s 150th anniversary, the Concord Museum and the Library have collaborated on a special exhibition featuring the Library’s art collection. Featured objects will include paintings by Washington Allston, N.C. Wyeth, May Alcott Nieriker, Charles Hovey Pepper, Alicia Keyes, and Elizabeth Wentworth Roberts, among other artists, as well as […]

A Family Revealed: From Slavery to Hope

Discovery Museum Discovery Museum, 177 Main St, Acton, MA, United States

Discovery Museum Speaker Series Speaker: Wallis Wickham Raemer, educator, and Reggie Harris, folk singer and social activist Location: This event will be live and in-person at Nashoba Brooks School 200 Strawberry Hill Road, Concord, MA Cost: Free with pre-registration; $5 suggested donation appreciated In an evening of engaging music and conversation with the audience, two […]

$5
Exhibition: A Perpetual Invitation: 150 Years of Art at the Concord Free Public Library

Exhibition: A Perpetual Invitation: 150 Years of Art at the Concord Free Public Library

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

In honor of the Concord Free Public Library’s 150th anniversary, the Concord Museum and the Library have collaborated on a special exhibition featuring the Library’s art collection. Featured objects will include paintings by Washington Allston, N.C. Wyeth, May Alcott Nieriker, Charles Hovey Pepper, Alicia Keyes, and Elizabeth Wentworth Roberts, among other artists, as well as […]

Exhibition: A Perpetual Invitation: 150 Years of Art at the Concord Free Public Library

Exhibition: A Perpetual Invitation: 150 Years of Art at the Concord Free Public Library

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

In honor of the Concord Free Public Library’s 150th anniversary, the Concord Museum and the Library have collaborated on a special exhibition featuring the Library’s art collection. Featured objects will include paintings by Washington Allston, N.C. Wyeth, May Alcott Nieriker, Charles Hovey Pepper, Alicia Keyes, and Elizabeth Wentworth Roberts, among other artists, as well as […]

An Evening with Robert Pinsky, Former US Poet Laureate

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

Robert, Pinsky, Poet Laureate of the United States from 1997 to 2000 joins us for a reading and conversation on writing, teaching, and poetry’s place in the world. It was said of Robert Pinsky in the New York Times Sunday Book Review, “No other living American poet—no other living American, probably—has done so much to […]

Exhibition: A Perpetual Invitation: 150 Years of Art at the Concord Free Public Library

Exhibition: A Perpetual Invitation: 150 Years of Art at the Concord Free Public Library

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

In honor of the Concord Free Public Library’s 150th anniversary, the Concord Museum and the Library have collaborated on a special exhibition featuring the Library’s art collection. Featured objects will include paintings by Washington Allston, N.C. Wyeth, May Alcott Nieriker, Charles Hovey Pepper, Alicia Keyes, and Elizabeth Wentworth Roberts, among other artists, as well as […]

Concord River Whitewater Rafting

Concord River Whitewater Rafting

UMass Lowell Inn and Conference Center 50 Warren St, Lowell, MA, United States

“Squeeze into a wet suit, hop into a raft, and hang on! Whitewater rafting on the Concord River in Lowell happens only on weekends in April and May, when rain and snowmelt swell the river, producing Class III and IV rapids. This urban river run, a mere 1.7 miles long, is a high-octane ride over […]

$99.00
Exhibition: A Perpetual Invitation: 150 Years of Art at the Concord Free Public Library

Exhibition: A Perpetual Invitation: 150 Years of Art at the Concord Free Public Library

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

In honor of the Concord Free Public Library’s 150th anniversary, the Concord Museum and the Library have collaborated on a special exhibition featuring the Library’s art collection. Featured objects will include paintings by Washington Allston, N.C. Wyeth, May Alcott Nieriker, Charles Hovey Pepper, Alicia Keyes, and Elizabeth Wentworth Roberts, among other artists, as well as […]

Tours of Thoreau Farm, the birthplace of Henry David Thoreau

Tours of Thoreau Farm, the birthplace of Henry David Thoreau

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 […]

Free
Concord River Whitewater Rafting

Concord River Whitewater Rafting

UMass Lowell Inn and Conference Center 50 Warren St, Lowell, MA, United States

“Squeeze into a wet suit, hop into a raft, and hang on! Whitewater rafting on the Concord River in Lowell happens only on weekends in April and May, when rain and snowmelt swell the river, producing Class III and IV rapids. This urban river run, a mere 1.7 miles long, is a high-octane ride over […]

$99.00