Concord Museum Virtual Event Co-sponsored by The Robbins House Register here https://concordmuseum.org/events/the-letters-of-ellen-garrison/. Ellen Garrison, the daughter and granddaughter of men who had been enslaved, spent her life educating newly freed people and fighting for their civil rights. Born and raised in Concord, she followed in her mother’s footsteps as an antislavery activist. After the Civil…
June 17, 2021• 8:15 PM—10:30 PM • Concord Museum & The Robbins House Suggested ticket: $5.00 • Advanced registration required The Robbins House partners with the Concord Museum in a screening of Harriet on the eve of Juneteenth to celebrate and continue the conversation raised by Harriet Tubman’s life. This award-winning Own Voices film directed by Kasi…
June 19, 2021 • 11:00 AM—2:30 PM Concord Museum in partnership with The Robbins House Member Tickets $5.00 ea. Non-Member Tickets $15.00 ea. Tickets include same-day admission to the Concord Museum. 19th century Concord was teeming with activists and intellectuals who cultivated the beginning of the antislavery movement. Coinciding with the celebration of Juneteenth, a…
Join us at the Robbins House as we celebrate her life and Juneteenth with a live stream of the Mountain View Cemetery celebration and a talk by our Program Director, Nikki Turpin.
Historic New England • Co-sponsored by the Lincoln Historical Society and The Robbins House Tuesday, June 22 • 7-8 pm • Virtual Program • Tickets are free; donations are encouraged • Please call 617-994-6678 for more information. The link for the webinar will be included in the order confirmation for this program. Join University of Maryland Professor of History Richard Bell for…
June 22, 2021 • 7:00 PM—8:00 PM • Suggested ticket: $5.00 Join MacArthur “Genius” Fellow and Harvard University Professor Tiya Miles as she discusses her new book, All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, a Black Family Keepsake, a story about women, mothers, and daughters, who chose the profundity of love over dehumanizing condition.…
Students at the Belmont Hill School for Boys recently researched the history of the bell that has towered over their campus since 1927. In a 2017 independent study, seniors examined the school’s ties with a Concord family who were school founders, and the family’s sugar plantations in Cuba from the mid- to late-1800s. What they…
POSTPONED Please join us as we read and discuss “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” The life and works of Frederick Douglass continue to shape our understanding of America. A gifted orator and prescient writer, Douglass forces us to reckon with the legacy of slavery and the promises of democracy. Mass Humanities…
Thoreau and Diversity: People, Principles, and Politics with Keynote Speaker Dr. Ibram X. Kendi George Schaller, the 2020 recipient of the Thoreau Prize for Literary Excellence in Nature Writing, will also be joining us. FOR REGISTERED ATTENDEES: IF YOU MISS ANY EVENT, YOU WILL BE ABLE TO ACCESS RECORDINGS ON THE SITE THROUGH DEC. 2021.
The Thoreau Society Virtual Annual Gathering – Featuring Keynote Speaker Ibram X. Kendi Interviewed by The Robbins House’s Maria Madison July 10th • 4-5 pm Thoreau and Diversity: People, Principles, and Politics July 7-11 • Regular Registration Fee: $250 • Student Registration Fee: $100 Register here
