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Arlington Indigenous Peoples Day Celebration
Join us for a townwide celebration of this land’s First Peoples! This free event for all ages will feature a fun and educational performance by the Red Hawk…
Stones & Stories: Tour of the Old Burying Ground & Whittemore-Robbins House
Explore over 300 years of Arlington History through two historic sites at the heart of Arlington Center: the Old Burying Ground and the Whittemore-Robbins…
New England Forests: Insights From Ancient Pollen Preserved in Lake Sediments
How have New England forests changed over the last 14,000 years and what insights does that history provide as we deal with present-day and future climate…
Prince Hall: The Legend & The Man
Prince Hall was a Freemason, patriot, abolitionist, and prominent leader of Boston’s Black community during the American Revolution. He repeatedly petitioned…
Bullet Strikes: First Day of the American Revolution
Join historian and archaeologist Joel Bohy for a closer look at the research behind Bullet Strikes From the First Day of the American Revolution. In 2013, Bohy…
Harvard in War & Exile
Much of Harvard’s Revolutionary-era landscape remains visible amid the modern campus. At the outbreak of war with England, Harvard was still a modest “College…
Johnny Appleseed: Myth and Reality
For generations, folklore and children’s tales have painted a gentle picture of Johnny Appleseed—a whimsical wanderer drifting barefoot across the American…
Fessenden’s Spice Mill: A Pioneer in Boston’s Victorian Botanical Medicine Renown
This colorful, illustrated lecture on the Fessenden water-powered spice mill—which operated on Arlington\'s Mill Brook in the mid-1800s—delivers surprising…