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January 2024
The Two Nerdy History Girls Ride Again
You may know them as the Two Nerdy History Girls – authors Loretta Chase and Susan Holloway Scott, the originators of the infamous blog by that name. Tonight, the Medford Public Library presents the bestselling authors via Zoom. They address such questions as how do they find interesting tidbits of historical lore, which libraries of the world have they visited, and how do they avoid the inescapable “rabbit hole”? It promises to be a fascinating and entertaining conversation between these…
Find out more »Lizzie Borden & John Best: Knowlton’s Trials that Gripped Boston
The Medford Historical Society & Museum begins its 2024 program season with "Lizzie Borden & John Best: Knowlton’s Trials That Gripped Boston’s South and North Shores," featuring speakers Douglas Heath and Alison Simcox. Hosea Knowlton is best known as the chief prosecutor of Lizzie Borden, whose 1893 trial for the murder of her parents created a national sensation. During his tenure as Massachusetts attorney general, Knowlton tried more murder cases than any man who held that office. As notorious as the…
Find out more »And Then They Came for Me: Remembering the World of Anne Frank
The Tufts University Department of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies presents a staged reading of "And Then They Came for Me: Remembering the World of Anne Frank," one of several “remembrance readings” coordinated by the National Jewish Theatre Foundation to commemorate International Holocaust Remembrance Day. "And Then They Came for Me ," written by James Still, is a play about the impact of the Holocaust on four teenagers – Anne Frank, Ed Silverberg, Eva Geiringer Schloss and her older brother…
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The Power of Truth: Early Diversity in a Medford Neighborhood
The Medford Historical Society & Museum presents local historian Dee Morris with the Black History Month program, "The Power of Truth: Early Diversity in a Medford Neighborhood." Morris will introduce residents to the Revalyons, an early free Black family that lived in East Medford for many years. Thomas (born in 1777) and Margaret (born in 1781) Revalyon moved their family to a house on Cross Street in Medford in 1828. Thomas owned a popular Main Street barber shop while Margaret…
Find out more »The Souls of Womenfolk: A Conversation with Alexis Wells-Oghoghomeh
The Royall House & Slave Quarters invites you to a special Black History Month book talk with historian and author Alexis Wells- Oghoghomeh. Her 2021 book "The Souls of Womenfolk: The Religious Cultures of Enslaved Women in the Lower South" traces a bold history of the interior lives of bondwomen as they carved out an existence for themselves and their families amid the horrors of American slavery. With particular attention to maternity, sex, and other gendered aspects of women's lives,…
Find out more »Time’s Echo: On Art and Memory with Jeremy Eichler
Tufts University welcomes author and critic Jeremy Eichler for a program on his recent book, "Times Echo: The Second World War, The Holocaust, and the Music of Remembance. Eichler, chief classical music critic of The Boston Globe, offers a genre-blurring piece of work on art, war and memory that has been named History Book of the Year by The Sunday Times of London. Published by Knopf in 2023 yet “already classic” (Samuel Moyn, Yale University), the book proposes new ways…
Find out more »Blood Bible: An American History
The Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society New England Chapter presents the program, "Blood Bible: An American History," with featured speaker DaMaris B. Hill. A poet and creative scholar, Hill is a professor in the Department of English, Creative Writing Program at the University of Kentucky. She will talk about the book she currently is working on, "Blood Bible: An American History." The brook bridges personal stories with archival materials, and wrestles with how we historically and collectively claim belonging. It…
Find out more »March 2024
Mary Cassatt and the Women Impressionists
The Medford Public Library is partnering with the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Tufts University to co-host the virtual presentation "Mary Cassatt and the Women Impressionists" by Jane Oneall. Oneall is an art historian and the president of Culturally Curious, an art education company. Register through the library's online calendar.
Find out more »April 2024
Patriots’ Day Celebration
The City of Medford invites you to Medford Square for the annual Patriots’ Day celebration. Events begin at 10 a.m. at the Salem Street Burying Ground next to Riverside Plaza as tribute is paid to the soldiers who lost their lives during the Revolutionary War. Free activities will follow in the square. Around noon, Paul Revere arrives on horseback, re-enacting his famous ride through Medford on the way to Lexington. He'll make a stop at Captain Isaac Hall’s former home…
Find out more »History of Nintendo Playable Museum
The Medford Public Library invites you to visit a playable Nintendo museum for all ages. Players will learn about how Nintendo started and see how the iconic console evolved to where it is today. All Nintendo systems from NES to Switch will be available to play throughout the exhibit on old-school CRT TVs. No sign-up needed; just drop in between noon and 3 p.m.
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