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Concord Perspectives: The Garrison Men in Images and Objects
The Defamation Experiment
Wright Tavern History Festival: A Celebration of Concord’s History and Culture
Spotlight On… Kenneth B. Morris, Jr. – Descended from both Frederick Douglass & Booker T. Washington
Monday, September 17th • Part of The Walden Woods Project Stewardship Lectures • Co-sponsored by the Robbins House Frederick Douglass visited Concord numerous times between 1841-1844 (persuaded early on by Mary Merrick Brooks, above) to spread his message of antislavery activism with stories about his own enslavement from birth to…
In Her Own Words: Mary Merrick Brooks and Strategies of Reform — with Sandra Harbert Petrulionis
Ellen Garrison: Educator, Social Justice Advocate, Daughter of Concord — with Maria Madison and Kerri Greenidge
Tuesday, August 21th • Part of the Concord Museum’s “People of Concord” Summer Series Kerri Greenidge, Tufts History Lecturer and Maria Madison, Brandeis Heller School Associate Dean of Diversity explored the life and activism of Robbins House resident Ellen Garrison through reading her letters with audience members. Topics selected from…