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As soon as restoration of the Robbins House was complete, our nonprofit group turned its attention to the families of…
As soon as restoration of the Robbins House was complete, our nonprofit group turned its attention to the families of…
Reposted from HuffPost By Maria Madison, ScD Whether through a painting, artifact or object, thoughtful museums and historic sites share…
A recent New York Times article, “‘Sisterhood’ Felt Meaningless. So My Sisters and I Got in the Car.” details the road trip taken by three sisters to women’s history sites in search of feminism in our current political climate – ending with the story of Ellen Garrison at the Robbins House.
The Robbins House recently installed a timeline of the long Civil Rights movement listing local, state and national events. We invite visitors to let us know what current events they’d add, since our timeline ends in 2017 but will stand in front of the Robbins House for years to come. Much has happened just in the few months since the outdoor exhibit was installed. Here is a response we just received:
Two hundred years after Henry David Thoreau’s birth, a distinguished panel considered Thoreau’s lessons for today’s environmental policy, civil disobedience, and our relationships with the natural world. Laura Dassow Walls highlighted the event with her new biography, Henry David Thoreau: A Life.
September 2017
Emma Hodgdon, who has interned for The Robbins House for two summers now, returns to her junior year as an English major at Tufts University next week.