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January 2025
Gandhi’s American Friend: The Untold Story of Richard Gregg
The Medford Historical Society & Museum presents the program "Gandhi’s American Friend: The Untold Story of Richard Gregg," with John Wooding, emeritus professor of political science at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell. Richard Gregg was Gandhi’s confidant and friend for more than 20 years. He was the son of a Congregationalist minister who was born and lived in Medford and was educated at Harvard University. He worked as a labor lawyer and arbitrator in Boston and Chicago before moving to…
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African Art Lecture Series: Masquerade
The Medford Public Library continues its second Sunday series of online lectures meant as an introduction to African Art, its variety of forms, the depth of its history, and how it became an important player first in Western culture and continues to be important in a global world. Today's session is on masquerade, a multi-media artform including a "head" or mask, of many possible materials, and a body costume presented in the context of movement and sound– not just that…
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