| Event Name | Organization | Dates | City | | Literary Landmarks Walking TourPresented by Boston By Foot at Borders Book Store - School Street June 3, 2009 - Ongoing During the nineteenth century, Boston was the most important literary center in the United States and was home to many of America's greatest writers. Our literary tour highlights the homes and haunts of such great Victorians as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry David Thoreau, Louisa May Alcott, Henry James and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Individually, they were writers and poets without peer. Collectively, they made Boston the epicenter of American Letters and earned it the... | Boston By Foot | 06/03/09-
Ongoing | Boston |
Portuguese Lusitano Horse ShowPresented by Boston Portuguese Festival June 2, 2012 This will be a great opportunity to understand the role of the wonderful Lusitano horse in Portugal’s history and culture.
Sons of the Wind Farm located Merrimac, MA, is home to the national horse of Portugal. This horse, also referred to as the “Royal Horse of Europe”, is known for his extraordinary beauty, bravery, athletic talent and intelligence.
The day’s events will feature Portuguese freestyle dressage clinics, airs above grounds... | Boston Portuguese Festival | 06/02/12 | Merrimac |
Azorean Whale Boat RegattaPresented by Boston Portuguese Festival June 3, 2012 The Boston Portuguese Festival and the Azorean Maritime Heritage Society are hosting its 7th Annual Azorean Whale Boat Regatta at the MIT Pierce Boathouse, on Sunday, June 03, 2012.
The annual regatta, one of the most celebrated events of the Boston Portuguese Festival, is back this year with more crews competing and a great program.
Races will begin at 1pm and spectators can root for their local teams from the viewing deck of the MIT Pierce Boathouse overlooking... | Boston Portuguese Festival | 06/03/12 | Cambridge |
Boston's Best CruisePresented by Boston's Best Cruises at MBTA Harbor Express Ferry November 1, 2009 - Ongoing 90 min. round trip ferry ride from Boston's Long Wharf and back. Scenic, historical, inexpensive family fun. Best views of Boston and the Harbor Islands.big fun on a budget. | Boston's Best Cruises | 11/01/09-
Ongoing | Boston |
Reading a Powder Horn: The Siege of Boston through One Soldier’s Eyes Presented by Concord Museum at Concord Museum June 14, 2012 "Reading a Powder Horn: The Siege of Boston through One Soldier’s Eyes," is presented by J.L. Bell on Thursday, June 14, at 7:00 p.m. at the Concord Museum.
J. L. Bell is the voice of the well-known blog, “Boston 1775” (http://boston1775.blogspot.com/), that offers history, analysis, and unabashed gossip about the start of the American Revolution. His presentation will use an ambitiously engraved powder horn exhibited in the Concord Museum's... | Concord Museum | 06/14/12 | Concord |
23rd Annual Concord Museum Garden TourPresented by Concord Museum at Concord Museum June 1-June 2, 2012 The Concord Museum’s 23rd annual Garden Tour has become a New England tradition for garden lovers from near and far. The Garden Tour will take place rain or shine on Friday and Saturday, June 1 and 2. The tour of eight Concord-area private gardens is self-guided and self-paced, beginning each day at 9 a.m. and continuing until 4 p.m. Tickets are good for either or both days, but each garden may only be visited once. Advance Tickets (through 5/25): $32; after 5/25 or at the door: $38. ... | Concord Museum | 06/01/12-
06/02/12 | Concord |
Essex National Heritage Area Photo Safari featuring Canon at Long Hill ReservationPresented by Essex National Heritage Commission at Long Hill Reservation August 4, 2012 Capture Long Hill’s blooming flower fields at this former family retreat renowned for its gardens for almost a century. You'll be equipped with all the latest camera gear from Canon, provided by Hunt’s Photo & Video, and personally coached by Hunt’s technical experts and visiting professional photographers! Reservations required for the AM session from 8am-12pm, or PM session from 1-5pm! | Essex National Heritage Commission | 08/04/12 | Beverly |
Essex National Heritage Area Photo Safari featuring Sigma at Gloucester MaritimePresented by Essex National Heritage Commission June 16, 2012 With a state-of-the-art digital camera in hand, photograph Gloucester’s historic working waterfront! At Maritime Gloucester photographers can capture sea creatures in their own hands (or in touch tanks), panoramic views of Gloucester Harbor, an ever changing parade of boats and the oldest continuously operating marine railway in the country. Reservations required. Visit www.essexheritage.org/photosafari | Essex National Heritage Commission | 06/16/12 | Gloucester |
Essex National Heritage Area Photo Safari featuring Tamron at Lawrence HeritagePresented by Essex National Heritage Commission June 30, 2012 Join us in Lawrence to explore the esplanade of a nineteenth-century canal and capture the architectural details of the city’s industrial-era mills and the canal’s gates, locks, bridges and historic Great Stone Dam - all within this National Historic Register district! You'll be equipped with the latest camera lenses & gear from Tamron and personally coached by Hunt’s technical experts and visiting professional photographers! Reservations required. Visit... | Essex National Heritage Commission | 06/30/12 | Lawrence |
Essex National Heritage Area Photo Safari featuring Nikon at the House of the Seven GablesPresented by Essex National Heritage Commission July 21, 2012 Photograph the site at the House of the Seven Gables (its own national historic district on The National Register of Historic places) while equipped with the latest camera gear from Nikon and personally coached by Hunt’s technical experts and visiting professional photographers! The property includes 5 historic houses, an 18th century granite sea wall, and two seaside gardens with views of Salem Harbor. Reservations required for the AM session from 8am-12pm, or PM session from... | Essex National Heritage Commission | 07/21/12 | Salem |
Pirates, Privateers & Patriots Tour: Freedom TrailPresented by Freedom Trail Foundation at BosTix Booth - Faneuil Hall May 1-November 25, 2012 Learn the tales of scallawag pirates who plied their trade in Boston harbor, the privateers who sympathized with the Colonists against the mighty British Navy, and the patriots who encouraged them to help overthrow British rule in 18th century Boston. You'll be surprised to learn who was involved in promoting "terrorist acts" against Great Britain as the American Revolution played out on Boston waters. Tall Ships are in Boston this summer, so take in the juicy history of... | Freedom Trail Foundation | 05/01/12-
11/25/12 | Boston |
Freedom Trail Foundation Costume Guided ToursPresented by Freedom Trail Foundation January 1, 2009 - Ongoing The Freedom Trail Foundation offers some of the most popular and acclaimed historical tours in all of New England. Walk Into History along the famous red line with an 18th Century Costumed Guide. Hear the tales of the brave Bostonians and Colonialists who dared to challenge Britain and helped establish the greatest republic in the world. These 90 minute tours are designed for individuals, groups, corporate team building and schools. Read the descriptions carefully and select your special... | Freedom Trail Foundation | 01/01/09-
Ongoing | Boston |
Free Sunday Mornings at Harvard Museum of Natural HistoryPresented by Harvard Museum of Natural History at Harvard Museum of Natural History June 27, 2010-June 30, 2012 Don’t miss the world famous exhibit of 3,000 ‘Glass Flowers’, amazingly realistic models of plants, fruits and flowers created by father-son glass artists Leopold and Rudolph Blaschka from 1886-1936. Explore 12,000 specimens drawn from Harvard’s vast research collections at the University's most visited museum -- dinosaurs, meteorites, gemstones, and hundreds of prehistoric and current-day animals from around the globe. Get close to the world’s only mounted... | Harvard Museum of Natural History | 06/27/10-
06/30/12 | Cambridge |
Fiber Revival Presented by Historic New England at Spencer-Peirce-Little Farm August 11, 2012 Join the Newburyport Spinners Guild and Historic New England for a day-long exploration of fiber arts, featuring demonstrations of needle felting, hand-spinning, weaving, and alpaca and sheep husbandry, colonial rug making, and knitting. Try your hand with a vintage sock-making machine. Wash, comb, spin, and weave wool from our resident sheep. Vendors offer a variety of natural fibers, yarn, and equipment. To register for specific specialist-led workshops on weaving, felting, dyeing, and... | Historic New England | 08/11/12 | Newbury |
Friday Evenings at GropiusPresented by Historic New England June 8-September 28, 2012 Walter Gropius, founder of the German design school known as the Bauhaus, was one of the most influential architects of the twentieth century. His 1938 home showcases the clean, contemporary lines of Modernist design. During this evening slide show and house tour, see how Gropius’s innovative lighting scheme comes to life at night. Light refreshments provided. | Historic New England | 06/08/12-
09/28/12 | Lincoln |
Codman Estate Antique Auto Show Presented by Historic New England at Codman Estate July 15, 2012 This annual auto show draws more than 200 classic and antique autos, trucks, and motorcycles from all over New England and includes entertainment by the New Liberty Jazz Band, museum tours, a raffle, family activities, and food concessions. Rain or shine. | Historic New England | 07/15/12 | Lincoln |
Parade of Sail Presented by Historic New England September 2, 2012 Come to Beauport for some of the best views of the annual Gloucester Schooner Festival's Parade of Sail and watch schooners sail to the Eastern Point Light breakwater to begin the Mayor's Cup race. Coffee and light breakfast refreshments are available on a first-come, first-served basis. | Historic New England | 09/02/12 | Gloucester |
Family Harvest Festival Presented by Historic New England at Spencer-Peirce-Little Farm September 29, 2012 See tractors and other farm equipment spanning the last eighty years. Try your hand at corn husking and win prizes at the pie-eating contest. Learn how simple machines help farmers with pumping water, pressing cider, and preparing food. Find your way through a hay bale maze. Enjoy a wagon ride through brightly colored autumn fields, build scarecrows, go on a pumpkin treasure hunt, and make fall crafts. Listen (and dance!) to folk music or watch a puppet show. The circa 1690 stone and brick... | Historic New England | 09/29/12 | Newbury |
Portsmouth Furniture Revisited Presented by Historic New England October 6, 2012 Historic New England presents Portsmouth Furniture Revisited with Brock Jobe. His ground breaking 1993 Portsmouth Furniture exhibition inspired renewed interest in the beautiful treasures crafted and cared for over the course of three centuries in this Seacoast town. Join Brock Jobe, professor of American Decorative Arts at Winterthur Museum, for a new look at Portsmouth-made furniture as he shares insights and discoveries from the last two decades. | Historic New England | 10/06/12 | Portsmouth |
Portsmouth Furniture Workshop Presented by Historic New England October 6, 2012 Portsmouth's c. 1807 Rundlet-May House has one of the finest intact, original furniture collections of any house on the New Hampshire Seacoast. Join scholar and historian Brock Jobe for an in-depth examination of some of the most important pieces in the house. | Historic New England | 10/06/12 | Portsmouth |
Favorite Things, Hidden Treasures Presented by Historic New England October 20, 2012 This extended house tour highlights the favorite objects of American folk art collectors Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little, including objects hidden in cupboards, cabinets, and drawers. Hear detailed stories about the Littles and their collecting, take an up-close look at the many objects in the house, and enjoy a rare opportunity to see treasures stored in the attic, which is not usually open to the public. | Historic New England | 10/20/12 | Essex |
Introduction to New England FurniturePresented by Historic New England October 27, 2012 Explore New England furniture with this in-depth workshop. Historic New England Senior Curator Nancy Carlisle and furniture conservator John Childs lecture on furniture made and used in New England from the seventeenth to the mid-nineteenth century. Topics include regional variations in style, changing shop practices, consumer patterns, craftsmanship, and technology. Participants examine original pieces from Historic New England’s extensive collection up close. The course concludes... | Historic New England | 10/27/12 | Haverhill |
Beacon Hill Walking Tour Presented by Historic New England at Otis House Museum May 5-October 27, 2012 Go beyond the brick sidewalks and charming gardens and learn about Beacon Hill’s development in the Federal era. The fortunes, ambitions, and struggles of Beacon Hill’s early residents, both wealthy and working class, shaped the streets, architecture, and character of the hill. The program starts with a tour of the Otis House, the earliest intact mansion in the neighborhood, and continues on Beacon Hill’s historic streets. Private group tours available by appointment. | Historic New England | 05/05/12-
10/27/12 | Boston |
Historic New England's Open HousePresented by Historic New England June 2-June 3, 2012 Each year, Historic New England opens many of its properties to the public free of charge on a Saturday in June. From Wiscasset, Maine, to Jamestown, Rhode Island, to Stockbridge, Massachusetts, learn about the people who lived in stone-enders, urban mansions, rural estates, and working farms during free guided tours at Historic New England’s house museums.
Highlights this year include the first-ever opening of the attached farmhouse at Spencer-Peirce-Little Farm and tours... | Historic New England | 06/02/12-
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Walking Tour of Jamaica PondPresented by Jamaica Plain Historical Society at Jamaica Pond Bandstand June 23, 2012 Join the JP Historical Society on a trip around Jamaica Pond. Once a gathering point for Boston’s elite, the Pond had previously been put to industrial use as tons of ice were harvested there each winter. Learn about the movers and shakers such as Francis Parkman who made their homes on the Pond’s shores. Discover how the Pond was transformed from private estates and warehouses into the parkland we know today. Tours are cancelled in case of heavy rain. | Jamaica Plain Historical Society | 06/23/12 | Boston |
Walking Tour of WoodbournePresented by Jamaica Plain Historical Society at Bethel AME Church, Jamaica Plain June 16, 2012 Join the JP Historical Society and learn about this neighborhood which developed from 19th-century summer estates into a model suburban enclave. It contains examples representative of New England architecture with designs by local architects and builders. Woodbourne is a National Historic District. It also contains an unusual garden city model housing development by the Boston Dwelling House Company celebrating the centennial of its founding in 2012. Tours are cancelled in case of heavy... | Jamaica Plain Historical Society | 06/16/12 | Boston (Jamaica Plain) |
Walking Tour of Green StreetPresented by Jamaica Plain Historical Society at Southern Jamaica Plain Health Center June 9, 2012 Join the Jamaica Plain Historical Society on a trip along Green Street. Laid out in 1836, the street played a key role in Jamaica Plain’s development, functioning as a residential, commercial, and transportation conduit in the lives of the district’s residents. Although Green Street was subdivided as early as 1851 for stores, factories and houses, it was not extensively developed until the late 1870s with construction continuing until the early 1900s. The Bowditch School was... | Jamaica Plain Historical Society | 06/09/12 | Boston |
Walking Tour of Hyde SquarePresented by Jamaica Plain Historical Society June 2, 2012 Join the JP Historical Society to learn about 1840s Hyde Square when German and Irish immigrants transformed the neighborhood with their businesses, schools, and institutions. See how in the early 1960s, Hyde Square changed again when Cuban, Puerto Rican, and Dominican immigrants transformed it into Boston’s first predominantly Hispanic neighborhood. This tour also takes us to the home of Maud Cuney Hare, a prominent music historian and one of only two black women students at the New... | Jamaica Plain Historical Society | 06/02/12 | Boston |
A Gilded and Heartbreaking Life: The Photographs of Clover Adams, 1883-1885Presented by Massachusetts Historical Society February 9-June 2, 2012 In May 1883, Clover Adams, a descendant of Boston’s Sturgis and Hooper families and the wife of the historian Henry Adams, picked up her camera and began taking photographs—of her husband, of afternoons at the beach on Boston’s North Shore, and of eminent friends who frequented the Adamses’ home on Lafayette Square in Washington, D.C. Examples of these photographs will be on exhibit 9 February through 2 June at the MHS. Based on Natalie Dykstra’s book, Clover... | Massachusetts Historical Society | 02/09/12-
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| The Fenway Victory Gardens: Finding History Inside and Out | Massachusetts Historical Society | 06/05/12 | Boston |
An Tua Nua with MetamovementsPresented by MetaMovements Salsa at An Tua Nua March 25, 2009 - Ongoing Metamovements offers semi-private salsa lessons every Wednesday starting at 7 for those who want to quickly learn how to become better dancers. At 7pm we feature a specialized semi-private lesson focused on your specific needs. Each group is based on experience level so whether you're new to salsa or have been dancing for years we have something for you. At 8 we feature a Rueda de Casino class, a type of social, round form of salsa dancing. Each class is followed by a small performance to... | MetaMovements Salsa | 03/25/09-
Ongoing | Boston |
Ray Lam & Yelena BeriyevaPresented by Mount Auburn Cemetery May 27, 2012 This Memorial Day weekend Mount Auburn Cemetery presents a concert of music by 20th century American composers featuring clarinetist Ray Lam and pianist Yelena Beriyeva. The program in Story Chapel will include works by Leonard Bernstein, perhaps most familiar among the list to be highlighted, as well as William Bolcom and Robert Muczynski, who are still alive today. Walter Piston’s The Clarinet Concerto will be also be performed. Piston, a titan among pedagogues who taught such... | Mount Auburn Cemetery | 05/27/12 | Watertown |
A Pride Week Walk through Mount Auburn Presented by Mount Auburn Cemetery at Mount Auburn Cemetery June 3, 2012 Meet some of the celebrated figures from Boston’s past whom today we would call “gay” and “lesbian,” on a walk led by Robin Hazard Ray. Poet Amy Lowell, actress Charlotte Cushman, collector and curator William Sturgis Bigelow, sculptor Anne Whitney, and American Field Service founder Henry B. Sleep are just a few of the remarkable individuals we will visit in recognition of Boston Pride Week 2012. | Mount Auburn Cemetery | 06/03/12 | Cambridge |
Jean Danton & Thomas StumpfPresented by Mount Auburn Cemetery June 9, 2012 An Artful Collaboration: Music and Poetry
During the 19th century, Boston’s musicians and authors were part of an extended intellectual circle that often sparked artistic collaboration. Composers like George Chadwick and Mabel Wheeler Daniels set to music the prose of poets like Amy Lowell, Julia Ward Howe, and Thomas Bailey Aldrich. The same collaborative spirit can be seen in more recent times with the poems of David McCord, also put to music. Join us in Bigelow Chapel... | Mount Auburn Cemetery | 06/09/12 | Watertown |
Mount Auburn: A Photographer's ParadisePresented by Mount Auburn Cemetery at Mount Auburn Cemetery July 15, 2012 If you are interested in nature and landscape photography, join Helen Abrams on a walk to discover some of the beautiful locations for taking photographs at the Cemetery. Whether you use a “point and shoot” or a digital SLR, bring your camera and enjoy the beauty of this amazing landscape. Along the way we’ll share some of the significant photographs taken at Mount Auburn over the years, including 19th-century daguerreotypes and 20th-century aerial shots. | Mount Auburn Cemetery | 07/15/12 | Cambridge |
Bigelow Chapel Open HousePresented by Mount Auburn Cemetery July 29, 2012 Come and explore Mount Auburn’s first chapel, originally constructed in the 1840s. Staff and volunteers will be on hand to answer questions about the Chapel and point out some of its most interesting features. | Mount Auburn Cemetery | 07/29/12 | Watertown |
Designing Mount AuburnPresented by Mount Auburn Cemetery at Mount Auburn Cemetery August 8, 2012 Join Meg Winslow to learn about the Bostonians who contributed to the design of Mount Auburn’s picturesque landscape, the country’s first designed landscape open to the public. We will visit significant landscape features within the Cemetery, as well as designs by the Olmsted Firm and Fletcher Steele among others. | Mount Auburn Cemetery | 08/08/12 | Cambridge |
Exhibition: Wiyohpiyata: Lakota Images of the Contested WestPresented by Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology at Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology May 12, 2009-December 30, 2013 Wiyohpiyata: Lakota Images of the Contested West explores the meanings of a recently discovered nineteenth-century "artist's book," in the collection of Houghton Library, that had been recovered from the Little Big Horn battlefield after Custer's defeat in 1876. The exhibit presents colored drawings by Plains Indian warriors from the book with historic Lakota objects from the Peabody's collections. | Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology | 05/12/09-
12/30/13 | Cambridge |
Sequentia, with Benjamin BagbyPresented by Rockport Music at Shalin Liu Performance Center July 13, 2012 Program Title: Rheingold’s Curse
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A Germanic Saga of Greed and Vengeance from the Medieval Icelandic Edda (on which Wagner based his Ring des Nibelungen)
Benjamin Bagby, voice, lyre
Agnethe Christensen, voice (Brynhild), drum
Lena Susanne Norin, voice (Gudrun)
Elizabeth Gaver, fiddle
Norbert Rodenkirchen, flutes, lyre
“…imaginative and harrowing…Bagby has created vocal numbers of... | Rockport Music | 07/13/12 | Rockport |
Mapparium®Presented by The Mary Baker Eddy Library January 3, 2012-January 4, 2022 Visit the Mapparium and venture to the This popular Boston landmark is a world-famous, three-story, stained-glass globe that has been visited by over 10 million people since it was constructed in 1935.
Step inside this three-dimensional globe for a 20 minute tour. Learn about its construction, history, and the significance of this magnificent architectural and artistic achievement. From the bridge of the giant sphere, visitors explore the Earth at its center, surrounded by... | The Mary Baker Eddy Library | 01/03/12-
01/04/22 | Boston |
Let's Celebrate Childhood: Then and Now at the Wenham MuseumPresented by The Wenham Museum June 8-September 2, 2012 Explore how children lived, worked, dressed and played from the 17th century to the present with a fun and interactive look at how kids’ lives have changed – and stayed the same – through the centuries. Visitors will see how the toys and games, clothing, furnishings, books, chores, and other aspects of family life have evolved over time; on display June 8-September 2, 2012. | The Wenham Museum | 06/08/12-
09/02/12 | |
1st Annual Spring Antiques FairPresented by Ventfort Hall Mansion and Gilded Age Museum June 2-June 3, 2012 Ventfort Hall, in cooperation with Rhinebeck Antiques Fair and hosted by Alice Nathan and Irving Marks, will present the First Annual Spring Antiques Fair. | Ventfort Hall Mansion and Gilded Age Museum | 06/02/12-
06/03/12 | Lenox |
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