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 […]
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 […]
After a three-year hiatus Anne O’Connell’s Irish Step Dancers will perform at the Gardner Museum on March 16. Join us for a St. Patrick’s Day celebration with a lively performance rooted in traditional Irish dance. Irish Step Dance performance will be 6:30-7:30 pm after a museum-hosted reception at 6 pm. Reservations required: email info@gardnermuseuminc.com
Exhibit runs until Dec 18 with Sept. 1, 1 pm. Opening of Gardner Theatre Guild exhibition at The Gardner Museum, 26 Pearl St., Gardner. From 1939 until the early 1960s, local residents produced top-notch “Broadway Shows” at the Miller's Opera House, The Little Theater, and Pearson Auditorium and supported several organizations with funds raised by […]
6th Annual Festival of Trees at the Gardner Museum, 26 Pearl St., Gardner, through Dec. 3 The beloved event is open to the public Wednesdays,Thursdays 1–4 pm; Fridays 1–7 pm; Saturdays, Sundays 10 am – 4 pm.
6th Annual Festival of Trees at the Gardner Museum, 26 Pearl St., Gardner, through Dec. 3 The beloved event is open to the public Wednesdays,Thursdays 1–4 pm; Fridays 1–7 pm; Saturdays, Sundays 10 am – 4 pm.
6th Annual Festival of Trees at the Gardner Museum, 26 Pearl St., Gardner, through Dec. 3 The beloved event is open to the public Wednesdays,Thursdays 1–4 pm; Fridays 1–7 pm; Saturdays, Sundays 10 am – 4 pm.
6th Annual Festival of Trees at the Gardner Museum, 26 Pearl St., Gardner, through Dec. 3 The beloved event is open to the public Wednesdays,Thursdays 1–4 pm; Fridays 1–7 pm; Saturdays, Sundays 10 am – 4 pm.
Exhibit runs until Dec 18 with Sept. 1, 1 pm. Opening of Gardner Theatre Guild exhibition at The Gardner Museum, 26 Pearl St., Gardner. From 1939 until the early 1960s, local residents produced top-notch “Broadway Shows” at the Miller's Opera House, The Little Theater, and Pearson Auditorium and supported several organizations with funds raised by […]
Local journalist and author Chris Woolf will talk about his new book, “Bumbling Through the Hindu Kush: A Memoir of Fear and Kindness in Afghanistan.” In 1991, he travelled to Afghanistan to visit a BBC colleague. They hitched a ride with an aid convoy and bumbled straight into the war.
Local journalist and author Chris Woolf will talk about his new book, “Bumbling Through the Hindu Kush: A Memoir of Fear and Kindness in Afghanistan.” What happens when a regular person accidentally finds themselves lost in the middle of a war? In 1991, BBC journalist Chris Woolf traveled to Afghanistan. The government in Kabul was […]
Those encouraging words by 14th century mystic and anchoress, Julian of Norwich, have soothed humanity during its darkest times. Now is the time to revisit her words as we struggle through our greatest human reckoning to date. Presenter is Will Darcangelo, M.Div. Minister of First Parish of Fitchburg and First Church of Lancaster, columnist and […]