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SUMMARY:The Story Behind Paul Revere’s Ride — And More
DESCRIPTION:Paul Revere is an American icon\, but how much does the story of the Midnight Ride hold up\, and why? \nThis program will explore Revere and his famous ride\, and offer some insights into other aspects of his life. Revere was a silversmith with several side jobs\, an active member of the Freemasons\, and a father to a large family\, as well as a politically active Patriot in the American Revolution. \nTegan Kehoe\, Research and Adult Program Director at the Paul Revere House in Boston\, will present Revere and his legacy\, including the history of the Paul Revere House itself. \n2 PM – Social period\n2:15 PM – Brief Society announcements followed by the program \nThis event is free and open to the public. \nSpace is limited to 100 attendees. One registration per household\, please. \nRegister for the event here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/Wdys173jTsCd9kvAxCICXg \nThis program is supported in part by a grant from the Bedford Cultural Council\, a local agency which is supported by the Mass Cultural Council\, a state agency.
URL:https://legacy.merrimackvalley.org/event/the-story-behind-paul-reveres-ride-and-more/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Free Events,Historical,Lecture
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SUMMARY:Virtual Tour: Making Their Way: The Florida Highwaymen Painters
DESCRIPTION:Join curator Gordon Wilkins on Zoom to explore the work of the Florida Highwaymen\, a loosely affiliated group of 26 African American landscape painters who sold their vivid and expressive tropical scenes door-to-door and out of the trunks of their cars along the coastal roads of Eastern Florida from the 1950s through the 1980s. This program is presented in partnership with Andover’s Memorial Hall Library.
URL:https://legacy.merrimackvalley.org/event/virtual-tour-making-their-way-the-florida-highwaymen-painters/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture
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ORGANIZER;CN="Addison Gallery of American Art":MAILTO:addison@andover.edu
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SUMMARY:Virtual Tour: Hayes Prize 2025: Tommy Kha\, Other Things Uttered
DESCRIPTION:Join assistant curator Rachel Vogel on Zoom to explore the work of contemporary photographer Tommy Kha\, the second recipient of the Addison’s Bartlett H. Hayes\, Jr. Prize. Kha examines how we construct belonging and otherness through photography\, inventing new models for self-portraiture with a critical eye toward the medium’s long history of absences and erasure. Other Things Uttered\, his first museum solo exhibition\, introduces viewers to the distinctive vocabulary and grammar of his photographic practice. This program is presented in partnership with Andover’s Memorial Hall Library.
URL:https://legacy.merrimackvalley.org/event/virtual-tour-hayes-prize-2025-tommy-kha-other-things-uttered/
LOCATION:Addison Gallery of American Art\, Chapel Avenue\, Andover\, Massachusetts\, 01810\, United States
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture
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SUMMARY:Author and Historian Marion Gibson Discusses "Witchcraft: A History in 13 Trials"
DESCRIPTION:In Partnership with the Ashland Public Library. Sponsored by the Friends of the Ashland Public Library. \nWe are so fascinated with witches and witchcraft\, so we are taking this opportunity to discuss both with historian and author Marion Gibson about her book\, “Witchcraft: A History in 13 Trials”. This book is a fascinating\, vivid global history of witch trials across Europe\, Africa\, and the Americas\, told through thirteen distinct trials that illuminate the pattern of demonization and conspiratorial thinking that has profoundly shaped human history. So\, grab your morning tea (or afternoon tea\, depending on where you are) and join us for this fascinating conversation. \nPlease register for the event by visiting the library website and to receive participation information.
URL:https://legacy.merrimackvalley.org/event/author-and-historian-marion-gibson-discusses-witchcraft-a-history-in-13-trials/
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CATEGORIES:Free Events,Lecture,Talks and Film
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SUMMARY:Monster Romance Panel with Ashley Bennett\, Kate Prior\, and Colette Rhodes
DESCRIPTION:In Partnership with the Ashland Public Library. Sponsored by the Friends of the Ashland Public Library. \nWe just love our Monster Romance Panels! This time\, we welcome authors Ashley Bennett\, Kate Prior\, and Colette Rhodes as they talk about how it is different/same from PNR/Alien romances\, their publishing journeys\, and experience with Romancelandia. This is sure to be an amazing conversation! \nPlease register for the event on the library website to receive participation information.
URL:https://legacy.merrimackvalley.org/event/monster-romance-panel-with-ashley-bennett-kate-prior-and-colette-rhodes/
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SUMMARY:Climate Lyricism: Author Min Hyoung Song in Conversation with Rochelle L. Johnson
DESCRIPTION:In Climate Lyricism\, Min Hyoung Song articulates a climate change-centered reading practice that foregrounds how climate is present in most literature. Song shows how literature\, poetry\, and essays by Tommy Pico\, Solmaz Sharif\, Frank O’Hara\, Ilya Kaminsky\, Claudia Rankine\, Kazuo Ishiguro\, Teju Cole\, Richard Powers\, and others\, and others help us to better grapple with our everyday encounters with climate change and its disastrous effects\, which are inextricably linked to the legacies of racism\, colonialism\, and extraction. \nIn this talk\, Song shares his own writing practice\, and observations about literature as a powerful tool for change. He also dives deeper into his concept of climate lyricism—a mode of address in which a first-person “I” speaks to a “you” about how climate change thoroughly shapes daily life. This lyricism and its relationship between “I” and “you\,” Song contends\, affects the ways readers comprehend the world\, fostering a model of shared agency from which it can become possible to collectively and urgently respond to the catastrophe of our rapidly changing climate. In this way\, climate lyricism helps to ameliorate the sense of being overwhelmed and feeling unable to do anything to combat climate change. \nSong will be joined in conversation by Rochelle L. Johnson\, President of the Thoreau Society and Chair of Environmental Studies at the College of Idaho.
URL:https://legacy.merrimackvalley.org/event/climate-lyricism-author-min-hyoung-song-in-conversation-with-rochelle-l-johnson/
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CATEGORIES:Lecture
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ORGANIZER;CN="Thoreau Farm":MAILTO:info@thoreaufarm.org
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