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SUMMARY:4th of July at Norman Rockwell Museum
DESCRIPTION:In collaboration with The Guthrie Center\, Norman Rockwell Museum will celebrate American independence and democracy with a day of programming. Listen to a public recitation of the Declaration of Independence read by Berkshire County community leaders and residents. Enjoy live music from folk singer Doug Mishkin and Annie and Abe Guthrie. Experience Norman Rockwell’s iconic Four Freedoms and Civil Rights paintings with special gallery talks (Spanish also available). Holiday-themed artmaking activities. Bring your picnic blanket and spend the afternoon enjoying the music and the beautiful Berkshire views. \nFree with admission. Public reading and afternoon music is open to everyone. Picnic lunches are available for purchase at the Museum’s Terrace Café.
URL:https://massachusetts250.org/event/4th-of-july-at-norman-rockwell-museum/
LOCATION:Norman Rockwell Museum\, Glendale Road 9\, Stockbridge\, Massachusetts\, 01262\, United States
CATEGORIES:Celebration,Commemoration,Drama,July 4th
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SUMMARY:5th Annual Quock Walker Day Hike for Freedom
DESCRIPTION:Start the day with the 5th Annual Quock Walker Day Hike for Freedom at Bowman Elementary School\, 9 Philip Rd\, Lexington\, MA 02421. This family-friendly hike on the ACROSS Lexington Route M Loop commemorates Quock Walker’s journey from enslavement to employment in April 1781. Registration and storytelling at 8 am; walk starts at 8:30 am.
URL:https://massachusetts250.org/event/5th-annual-quock-walker-day-hike-for-freedom/
LOCATION:Bowman Elementary School\, Philip Road 9\, Lexington\, MA\, 02421\, United States
CATEGORIES:Black History,Commemoration,Event,Outdoors
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250705T100000
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SUMMARY:Headquarters of a Revolution: The 250th Anniversary of Washington’s Arrival in Cambridge
DESCRIPTION:Explore the people\, ideas\, and questions that shaped General George Washington’s first revolutionary headquarters 250 years ago this July. Choose your path through this free\, all-ages event featuring historic house and outdoor walking tours with J.L. Bell; family activities; talks by historians; living historians portraying George Washington\, William Lee\, and Martha Washington; Cambridge Open Archives\, a Story Walk\, and more. \nThe house at 105 Brattle Street\, now Longfellow House-Washington’s Headquarters National Historic Site\, served as Washington’s first military headquarters of the American Revolution from July 1775-March 1776. Headquarters was a testing ground for many of the ideals\, institutions\, and questions that still define our country. This event will reveal Cambridge Headquarters as a complex hub of revolutionary activity\, where generals\, enslaved people\, paid laborers\, poets\, Indigenous diplomats\, politicians\, self-emancipated families\, and soldiers shaped history. \nComplete event schedule at https://www.nps.gov/planyourvisit/event-details.htm?id=27412F86-EA01-B8BE-5DD9CFDA6A02B76A.
URL:https://massachusetts250.org/event/headquarters-of-a-revolution-the-250th-anniversary-of-washingtons-arrival-in-cambridge/
LOCATION:Longfellow House-Washington Headquarters\, Brattle Street 105\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Anniversary,Commemoration,Event,July 4th,Outdoors,Speakers
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250705T110000
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SUMMARY:5th Annual Quock Walker Day Community Celebration - Quock Walker and the Black Patriots
DESCRIPTION:Celebrate Quock Walker Day aka Massachusetts Emancipation Day with ABCL! \nJoin us for the fifth annual Quock Walker Day celebrations in Lexington on Saturday\, July 5\, 2025. \nCelebrate the 242nd Anniversary of Massachusetts Emancipation Day and hear how the Revolutionary War and the Black Patriots of Lexington and Massachusetts set the stage for Quock Walker’s judicial victories. His 1781 civil lawsuit for battery led to the 1783 criminal case that ended slavery in Massachusetts. \nJoin us for the 5th Annual Quock Walker Day Community Celebration at the Lexington Visitors Center Lawn\, 1875 Massachusetts Avenue\, Lexington\, MA 02420 – FREE. The festivities start at 11 am with music and recitation of the Governor’s Quock Walker Day proclamation. \nFIND YOUR JOY at any age with storytellers\, Farm to Plate Caribbean American Food Truck\, a dance workshop\, Black heritage scavenger hunts\, hands-on flax processing demonstration\, military reenactors\, and musical performance by Rhythms of Ghana. Festivities close with a poetry recital at 2 pm. \nHonor the 250th anniversary of the Battle of Lexington which kickstarted the Revolutionary War and paved the way for Massachusetts to adopt a state constitution in 1780. In 1783\, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court confirmed that the idea of slavery is inconsistent with the 1780 Constitution of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. \nRain Location for the 5th Annual Quock Walker Day Community Celebration is First Parish of Lexington\, 7 Harrington Rd\, Lexington\, MA 02421 \nThank you to our partners and vendors: Church of Our Redeemer\, Clarke’s Cakes & Cookies\, Fresh Food Generation\, First Parish of Lexington\, Follen Church\, Hancock UCC\, LexFarm\, Lexington Visitors Center\, Rhythms of Ghana\, 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Regiment Company A\, and the William Diamond Junior Fife and Drum Corps. \nCome early for colonial history and music and stay for the concert by Rhythms of Ghana. \nThis event is free. \nBONUS – Quock Walker Day Storytelling at Lexington Visitors Center – 9:45 am to 2:15 pm \nDuring Quock Walker Day at Lexington Visitors Center featured storytellers will celebrate the 242nd Anniversary of Massachusetts Emancipation Day and the 250th Anniversary of the Battle of Lexington. They will communicate memories of colonial Massachusetts\, along with tales of resilience\, ingenuity\, emancipation and patriotism from the 18th and 19th centuries.
URL:https://massachusetts250.org/event/5th-annual-quock-walker-day-community-celebration-quock-walker-and-the-black-patriots/
LOCATION:Lexington Visitors Center\, 1875 Massachusetts Avenue\, Lexington\, 02420\, United States
CATEGORIES:Black History,Celebration,Commemoration,Event,Outdoors
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SUMMARY:Burial Hill Tour Series – Revolutionary Connections
DESCRIPTION:The Plymouth Antiquarian Society and Pilgrim Hall Museum announce their continuing partnership in a free public tour series of Plymouth’s historic Burial Hill for the 2025 season. Each first Saturday of the month a thematic tour of the ancient burying ground will reveal facets of Plymouth’s evolving story over generations. This year honors the 250th Anniversary of the American Revolution with a series theme of “Revolutionary Connections.” Each monthly tour highlights the Revolutionary era in Plymouth with insights into South Shore connections to America’s contest for independence. Presenters include local historians and authors who share their expertise on a range of topics\, highlighting art\, history\, and culture atop the open-air history museum in the heart of downtown Plymouth\, Burial Hill. \nSevere weather may cancel tour. Stay up to date with us on our Facebook page and visit pilgrimhall.org or plymouthantiquarian.org for more information on the continuing Burial Hill tour series.
URL:https://massachusetts250.org/event/burial-hill-tour-series-revolutionary-connections/2025-07-05/
LOCATION:Plymouth Burial Hill Cemetery\, Town Square 19\, Plymouth\, Massachusetts\, 02360\, United States
CATEGORIES:Anniversary,Commemoration,Event,Memorial,Outdoors,Speakers
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250713T130000
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SUMMARY:"Spies Among Us" year long exhibit opening on February 6th 2025
DESCRIPTION:“Spies Among Us” will open on Thursday\, February 6th at 10 a.m. during the museum’s first Thursday opening hours. We will be open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on February 6th and will be open every Thursday going forward from 10-4. We will also showcase the exhibit during our February Second Sunday Open House on Sunday\, February 9th from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. \nThe exhibit will recall the story of General Gage’s spies who visited the Tavern in 1775\, explore examples of espionage on both sides\, and examine the many ways of spying that were used during the American Revolution. \nSpycraft played a pivotal role during the American Revolution\, with both the Continental Army and British forces using intelligence operations to gain strategic advantages. The Golden Ball Tavern and its proprietor Isaac Jones\, played host on a few occasions to British spies sent\, by General Thomas Gage\, to survey the towns that were scattered around the area from Boston to Worcester. This was just one of the British military’s tactics for keeping the Patriots in line. On the American side\, espionage was essential in countering the British military’s superior resources and manpower. \nThe spycraft of the American Revolution was marked by its ingenuity\, the use of civilian networks\, and the blending of military and civilian espionage tactics. Though it was often risky and unreliable\, intelligence-gathering operations played a critical role in the eventual success of the American cause\, allowing the Continental Army to take advantage of British vulnerabilities and ultimately secure victory. \nJoin us as we introduce our new exhibit and our new Thursday opening hours. The museum will continue to be open every second Sunday of the month for our Second Sunday Open House Tours and will now be open every Thursday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.\nWe look forward to welcoming you!
URL:https://massachusetts250.org/event/spies-among-us-year-long-exhibit-opening-on-february-6th-2025/2025-07-13/
LOCATION:Golden Ball Tavern Museum\, Boston Post Road 662\, Weston\, Massachusetts\, 02493\, United States
CATEGORIES:Commemoration,Event,Exhibit
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SUMMARY:Weaving An Address - Curator Tour and Author Talk
DESCRIPTION:The public is invited to a free program exploring The Umbrella Arts Center’s outdoors public art ramble\, Weaving an Address\, a site-specific exhibition of work by prominent Black artists commemorating colonial-era Black residents of Concord’s famed Walden Woods. \nOn Saturday\, July 19 at 3PM\, curator and artist Marla McLeod will lead a guided tour of the artwork installed at Brister’s Hill in Walden Woods\, named for Brister Freeman\, an enslaved man who won his freedom by serving in the Revolutionary War and then bought the property and lived there along with other formerly enslaved before Thoreau. \nThe tour will be followed at 4:30PM by refreshments and a panel discussion back at The Umbrella Arts Center (40 Stow Street\, Concord\, MA) with McLeod in dialogue with historian Elise Lemire\, author of Black Walden: Slavery and Its Aftermath in Concord\, Massachusetts\, who was recently a subject of the new international documentary\, Concord’s Secret History\, just released on over 500 PBS stations. Saturday’s discussion will examine the “journey from archive to art\,” and Lemire’s scholarly research that fueled Weaving’s creative installations. \nPart of the town’s Revolution250 celebrations\, this program is co-presented by The Umbrella Arts Center\, The Walden Woods Project and The Robbins House: Concord’s African American History Museum. It featured work by artists Sharon Chandler Correnty\, Ifé Franklin\, Stephen Hamilton\, Whitney Harris\, Ekua Holmes\, Perla Mabel\, Marla McLeod\, Kimberly Love Radcliffe\, and Anthony Peyton Young. \nLearn more at https://theumbrellaarts.org/weaving
URL:https://massachusetts250.org/event/weaving-an-address-curator-tour-and-author-talk/
LOCATION:The Umbrella Arts Center\, Stow Street 40\, Concord\, MA\, 01742\, United States
CATEGORIES:Black History,Commemoration,Event,Exhibit,Outdoors,Speakers
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SUMMARY:Open Hours at the Abigail Adams Birthplace
DESCRIPTION:Open Hours at the Abigail Adams Birthplace are back! Cost: $10 for adults\, $5 for children and members are free! Please note: Visits are by guided tour only. Tours begin on the half hour\, with the last tour starting at 2:30 p.m. \nFor more information\, please see our website: https://abigailadamsbirthplace.org/ \n180 Norton St.\, North Weymouth\, Massachusetts\, United States
URL:https://massachusetts250.org/event/open-hours-at-the-abigail-adams-birthplace-2/
LOCATION:Abigail Adams Birthplace\, Norton Street 180\, Weymouth\, Massachusetts\, 02191\, United States
CATEGORIES:Commemoration,Event,Women's History
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