Saturday, Dec. 3, 9 am–2 pm. Historical Society Christmas Open House at the Westminster Historical Society, 110 Main St., Westminster.
Learn and celebrate Fitchburg poets at the Poets of the Past event at the Mill St. Stage, Fitchburg on April 6. The Fitchburg Historical Society, Stratton Players, Bonfire Bookshop and InTown Fitchburg are celebrating Poetry Month. With a night of featured readers who will each share a tribute to Fitchburg poet Caroline Atherton Mason followed […]
Interested in local history? Genealogist and author Jan Drake will read from letters sent home from the Civil War, followed by a reception on April 6 at the Gardner Museum. Drake is a retired librarian and hobby genealogist. Her great grandfather’s cousin George W. Harwood from North Brookfield enlisted in the MA 36th Regiment of […]
You can meet the infamous Zelda Fitzgerald, wife of "The Great Gatsby" author F. Scott Fitzgerald April 12 at the Templeton Senior Community Center. Feel free to dress in Roaring Twenties style, Flappers! Lunch will be Pot Roast. To register, call the Templeton Senior Center at 978-894-2780.
Retired corporate accountant Bob Ainsworth, the author of Duped, a fictional account of the still unsolved 1990 art heist at Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, will review the actual details of the theft, the suspects, and the motives behind the world’s most valued art theft. He will also tell of his own brush with the […]
The Stratton Players invite members of the public who enjoy reading, and enjoy theatre to partake of an informal group that reviews and reads aloud scenes from comedies and dramas for possible recommendation for production. Stratton Players chair Sally Cragin. explains that this is like a book club, in that it’s convivial and friendly, and […]
History At Play, LLC offers living history performances which breathe life into the stories of influential and often forgotten women. Artistic director and performer Judith Kalaora will be back at the museum with a program about a strong female character in the wake of an American Revolution: Rachel Revere, Paul Revere’s young 2nd wife. This […]