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SUMMARY:Vineyard Preservation Trust presents: Martha’s Vineyard: A Revolutionary War Refuge Historic Edgartown Walking Tours – Highlighting the Revolutionary War’s Impact on the Island
DESCRIPTION:Martha’s Vineyard: A Revolutionary War Refuge\nMartha’s Vineyard\, known for its whaling heritage and maritime culture\, played a unique and often overlooked role in the Revolutionary War. As a fiercely independent community it was both a refuge and a target\, caught between British occupation on the mainland and the growing struggle for American independence. Join us for a walking tour of historic downtown Edgartown and discover the lasting impact of this pivotal time through the lens of the Trust’s historic properties. Tours offered seasonally Tuesdays-Saturdays 10:30am\, July 1 – September 6. Tour image by Ray Ewing\, courtesy of the Vineyard Gazette.\nTour Highlights Include:\nThe Cooke House (1766): The Martha’s Vineyard Museum’s historic property was home to generations of the Cooke family and the site of Great Harbor’s custom’s house. Learn how Edgartown’s residents’ livelihoods were altered by the conflict and how the infamous Grey’s Raid – the British seizure of nearly 10\,000 sheep in 1778–forever altered the course of the island’s history.\nThe Old Whaling Church & Dr. Daniel Fisher House (Circa. 1840): Discover how the Revolutionary War impacted the whaling industry on the island.\nGen. Benjamin Smith Home/The Vineyard Gazette Building (1760): View the original home of Captain Benjamin Smith\, a Patriot militia commander on Martha’s Vineyard. Now housing the Vineyard Gazette\, one of the nation’s longest-running independent newspapers\, this historic building reflects the island’s Revolutionary past and its ongoing role in public discourse.\nThe Vincent House (1672): What is a broad or a kingboard? Discover the significance of the Eastern White Pine trunks highly prized by the British Empire for their role in securing naval dominance – and how colonists cleverly hid these boards from British authorities.\nAnd much more!
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LOCATION:Vineyard Preservation Trust\, Old Whaling Church\, Main Street 89\, Edgartown\, Massachusetts\, 02539\, United States
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SUMMARY:Captain Amasa Soper’s Company
DESCRIPTION:Costumed members of this Revolutionary War reenactment group take on the roles of farmers\, printers\, and tailors who volunteered to defend Boston harbor after the siege of the city ended in 1776.
URL:https://massachusetts250.org/event/captain-amasa-sopers-company/
LOCATION:Paul Revere House\, 19 North Square\, Boston\, 02113\, United States
CATEGORIES:Event
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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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