The Robbins House Celebrates Second Annual Juneteenth in Concord
Saturday, June 15th • The Robbins House Juneteenth, the combination of “June” and “nineteenth,” was first celebrated on June 19,…
Trace Design Group creates a new look for the Robbins House
With generous material and carpentry donations from Concord Lumber and North River Builders, the new exhibit showcases the ever-changing research of the early residents of the Robbins House and how their stories can and do effect our lives today. Come see the new exhibits and let us know what you think.
Freedom’s Way Hidden Treasures
Saturday, May 25th • The Robbins House Ellen Garrison Reads Her Letters TRH consultant and Ellen Garrison re-enactor Elon Cook…
Concord Museum Community Conversation Series
Wednesday, April 24th • Rasmussen Education Center Frederick Douglass in Concord Prize-winning historian Robert A. Gross and TRH co-president Maria…
Concord Museum’s Inaugural Robert Gross Award Presented to Maria Madison
Saturday, April 13th Our own Maria Madison, founder and co-president of The Robbins House, received the inaugural Robert Gross Award…
The Robbins House was delighted to offer summer tours and programs for…
The Robbins House was delighted to offer summer tours and programs for… Mountain View College Upward Bound Program, Dallas, TX,…
Spotlight on: Patriot of Color Descendant
The Robbins House Advisor Denise Dennis Shares Her Family History By Jim Callahan, Robbins House Board Member A rare Revolutionary…
Ellen Garrison’s Voice Heard at Association of African American Museums Conference
Jackson, MI • August 7-10th TRH board members Maria Madison and Nikki Turpin presented a session with MD colleague Iris…
A Duke Ellington Celebration
Presented by The Music Ministry of First Parish in Concord in cooperation with The Robbins House Sunday, September 22 •…
The Concord Festival of Authors
Wednesday, October 30 • 7-8 PM • Concord Free Public Library, 129 Main Street The Robbins House: History & Race…
![Did you know that April is National Poetry Month? We have you covered with a little Robbins house trivia. Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote a poem entitled Peter’s Field. Peter’s Field most likely referenced Peter Hutchinson, who was the last African American owner of The Robbins House. Peter purchased the home in 1852 and lived with his wife, Nancy, and several of their children in the home until 1868. Emerson described Peter’s farm, and by extension the original area of farmland attached to The Robbins House out in the Great Field like this:
KNOWS he who tills this lonely field
To reap its scanty corn,
What mystic fruit his acres yield
At midnight and at morn?]
That field by spirits bad and good,
By Hell and Heaven is haunted,
And every rood in the hemlock wood
I know is ground enchanted.
[In the long sunny afternoon
The plain was full of ghosts:
I wandered up,
I wandered down,
Beset by pensive hosts.
For in those lonely grounds the sun
Shines not as on the town,
In nearer arcs his journeys run,
And nearer stoops the moon.
There in a moment I have seen
The buried Past arise;
The fields of Thessaly grew green,
Old gods forsook the skies.
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