Inaugural Annual Report
The Robbins House just launched our first-ever annual report.
Robbins House board members attend IMLS AAHC Conference
IMLS Convening for Museum Grants for African American History and Culture (AAHC) Wednesday, May 25th, Washington DC Our exciting IMLS…
The Future of the American Past
“The Future of the African American Past” conference will provide an opportunity for historians to share research and ideas, take…
The Future of the American Past
“The Future of the African American Past” conference will provide an opportunity for historians to share research and ideas, take…
AAM 2016 Annual Meeting
American Alliance of Museums (AAM) 2016 Annual Meeting and MuseumExpo Thursday, May 26th – Sunday, May 29th The IMLS conference…
AAM 2016 Annual Meeting
American Alliance of Museums (AAM) 2016 Annual Meeting and MuseumExpo Thursday, May 26th – Sunday, May 29th The IMLS conference…
Gaining National Momentum
The Robbins House included in more high profile Black History & museum conferences The Future of the African American Past…
Ellen Garrison/Harriet Jacobs Pop-up Exhibit
Robbins House Humanities Director Presents Ellen Garrison/Harriet Jacobs Pop-up Exhibit During February’s Black History month, Robbins House humanities director, Elon Cook,…
Freedom’s Way Hidden Treasures Weekend
May 22nd, The Robbins House - Freedom’s Way Hidden Treasures Weekend
Meet Ellen Garrison (1823-c.1890), Concord’s Civil Rights activist. Ellen Garrison was born in Concord’s Robbins House the year it was built, 1823.
Freedom’s Way Hidden Treasures Weekend
May 22nd, The Robbins House - Freedom’s Way Hidden Treasures Weekend
Meet Ellen Garrison (1823-c.1890), Concord’s Civil Rights activist. Ellen Garrison was born in Concord’s Robbins House the year it was built, 1823.
![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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