News and Events
The Defamation Experiment
Wednesday, November 7, 2018 • 7-9 p.m. • Alcott Elementary School Auditorium • Part of Concord Carlisle Adult & Community Education’s “Can We Talk” Series • Tickets are limited, $30
Wright Tavern History Festival: A Celebration of Concord’s History and Culture
Saturday, October 13th, 2018 • 11 am- 3 pm • The Wright Tavern • Sponsored by the Concord Museum • Free
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
Thursday, August 16th • Part of the Concord Museum’s “People of Concord” Summer Series
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…
Tufts Student Focus Group Responds to Robbins House Visit
On a beautiful summer day in August, eleven undergraduate students from Tufts University visited the Robbins House as part of their university orientation program.