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  • Claiming Sovereignty: Native Communities and the American Revolution

    Concord Museum Cambridge Turnpike, Concord, United States

    Elizabeth James-Perry, Aquinnah Wampanoag Culture Bearer and Artist, joins us for a conversation on the experiences of Native communities in the Massachusetts area during the American Revolution. As part of the new special exhibition Whose Revolution Elizabeth James-Perry created a Wampum choker that represents the kind of object an eighteenth-century Wampanoag soldier from eastern Massachusetts, active in the Revolutionary War ...

    $10

  • West Concord Art Loop Kick-Off Celebration!

    West Concord Junction Commonwealth Avenue and Main Street, Concord, MA, United States

    Postponed to April 26th, due to the weather. Join us April 26th!  

  • Patriots of Color Walking Tour

    North Bridge Lower Parking Lot Monument Street, Concord, MA, United States

    Saturdays, 1:30pm Tours March 22, 2025 – June 30, 2025 Between twenty and forty colonists who fought along the Battle Road on April 19, 1775, were of African descent or Indigenous people. Although excluded from required militia service prior to the war, these individuals of color were the first of many to take up arms between 1775 and 1783. By ...

  • Concord Museum: The 250th Midnight Ride Celebration

    Concord Museum Cambridge Turnpike, Concord, United States

    Join us for a special event marking the 250th anniversary of the American Revolution at the 250th Midnight Ride Celebration. Enjoy an unforgettable night of festive food, entertainment, and dancing as we mark this historic milestone in style and honor Churchill and Janet Franklin. Proceeds from the event will benefit the Museum’s educational programs, helping us continue to inspire and ...

  • Art Reception at Wright Tavern: “Awake, Rise, Act: Contemporary Broadsides”

    wright tavern

    Awake, Rise, Act: Contemporary Broadsides An exhibition of Fine Art prints made to resemble 18th century broadsides created for the semiquincentennial celebration of Concord Massachusetts. They are on view at the Wright Tavern, an historic building that played a role in the founding of the United States and the place where the Provincial Congress was planned. Nineteen artists created prints ...

  • Concord250: Umbrella Arts “Black Out Walden”

    Spring through Fall 2025 The exhibition is planned for The Brister Hill Loop, part of the forest named for Brister Freeman, an enslaved man who won his freedom by serving in the Revolutionary War and then bought property in Walden Woods and lived there along with other formerly enslaved. This area holds the untold stories of people who etched out ...

  • Evening of Fife & Drum Music (Military Tattoo)

    Lexington Battle Green 1625 Massachusetts Ave., Lexington

    Attend the 23rd Annual Lexington Tattoo and Muster Free outdoor evening performance of fife and drum music at the scene of the first skirmish in the Revolutionary War. Hosted by the William Diamond Junior Fife & Drum Corps of Lexington and featuring four other corps.

    Free

  • Concord Players present “Urinetown”

    Concord Players – 51 Waden Street 51 Walden Street, Concord, MA, United States

    A slightly different kind of revolution will take place in historic Concord with The Concord Players’ production of Urinetown the Musical! It’s a dark time in a dark city, where a 20-year drought has led to severe water restrictions – including a ban on private toilets. Public pay toilets are controlled by the evil ‘Urine Good Company’, which is gleefully ...

    $28

  • Concord Recreation Concord250th Fun Run

    Willard School Powder Mill Road, Concord, Ma

    Event Details: Saturday, May 3rd 9-11am Starting location: Willard School Ending location: White Pond 2.5 mile course and 1 mile course options Colonial dress encouraged!

  • Concord250: Discord on the Concord: River Ice Breakup and the Revolution of the Seasons (Then and Now)

    Concord Free Public Library 129 Main Street, Concord, MA

    The Sudbury-Assabet-Concord (SuAsCo) Wild and Scenic River Stewardship Council hosts University of Connecticut Professor Robert Thorson and a special presentation on the history of our rivers as part of Concord250. A frequent and engaging speaker in Concord, Dr. Thorson is a Midwestern native, turned Northwestern geologist, turned Northeastern academic. He is a life member of the Thoreau Society, serves on ...

  • Fife & Drum Music Festival (Muster)

    Hastings Park, Lexington Corner of Massachusetts Ave. and Worthen Rd., Lexington

    Free outdoor afternoon of music, history and entertainment by two dozen fife and drum corps representing different eras including the Revolution, hosted by the William Diamond Junior Fife & Drum Corps of Lexington. Begins with a 250th anniversary ceremony on the Lexington Battle Green (1624 Massachusetts Ave.) honoring the 7 Lexington patriots who fell on the Green at the Battle ...

    Free