Concord Perspectives: The Garrison Men in Images and Objects
February 13, 2019 • 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM • Churchill and Janet Franklin Lyceum at the Rasmussen Education Center, Concord Museum • Free, please register
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
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
Tufts Student Focus Group Responds to Robbins House Visit
August 27th, 2018 • The Robbins House • Moderated by RH Interpreter Mary-Wren vanderWilden • Written by Robbins House Intern Emma Hodgdon
The Black Experience in Middlesex County from the 1640s to the 1870s
The Woburn Public Library sponsored a panel presentation and discussion of recent research into the lives of free and enslaved Black people in early Middlesex County.
The Defamation Experiment
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
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
New! Brochures at the Robbins House
Robbins House Historians Write Brochures to Answer Visitors’ Most Frequently Asked Questions
![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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