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April 2020
Postponed: The Last & Living Words of Mark
Due to the coronavirus outbreak, the Royall House & Slave Quarters has canceled all tours and programs through April, including this talk by the poet and independent scholar Catherine Sasanov on "The Last & Living Words of Mark: Following the Clues to the Enslaved Man’s Life, Afterlife, and Community."
Find out more »July 2020
Virtual Women’s Suffrage Rally
Celebrating 100 years of suffrage for women, the West Medford Community Center presents a Virtual Suffrage Rally set in 1920. The event will feature local historian Dee Morris and Medford friends, with songs by vocalist Stacie Clayton of Medford. The women’s suffrage movement was a decades-long fight to win the right to vote for women in the United States. It took activists and reformers nearly 100 years to win that right, but on August 18, 1920, the 19th Amendment to…
Find out more »August 2020
Brooks Estate Guided Walk
The Medford-Brooks Estate Land Trust (M-BELT) and the Medford Recreation Department invite you to an outdoor guided walk and tour of the grounds at the Shepherd Brooks Estate. Join the tour for some socially-distanced exercise and history of this wonderful Medford landmark. Those who choose to stay for an indoor tour of the Shepherd Brooks Manor post-walk can do so. Tours will be in groups of four and masks are required while indoors. Please pre-register at medfordrecreation.org. M-BELT is a…
Find out more »September 2020
Letters to Medford Screening
As part of CACHE's Circle the Square event, the Medford Historical Society & Museum invites you to view a screening of the 2016 production of “Letters to Medford” by Two Roads Performance Projects. The play was inspired by a “Letter to Future Medford 2055” that the historian Charles Brooks wrote in his "History of Medford" book in 1855. See the main hall of the Historical Society transformed as history and the present collide when Charles Brooks, Lydia Maria Child, and…
Find out more »Breaking News 1920! Pioneer Women Voters
In another program commemorating the 100th anniversary of women's suffrage, the West Medford Community Center and historian Dee Morris are hosting a re-creation of Election Day 1920, when many women celebrated voting for the first time. The program will be carried live on Medford Community Media (Comcast Ch. 3, Verizon Ch. 47) and the Medford Community Media website (medfordtv.org) and livestreamed on Facebook.
Find out more »Acts of Rebellion & Envisioning a New Society
The Royall House & Slave Quarters invites you the virtual program "Acts of Rebellion & Envisioning a New Society: A Conversation with Drs. Vincent Brown and Timothy McCarthy." During this dynamic and exciting conversation, Drs. Brown and McCarthy will discuss the role of protests and revolts in shaping Black resistance and freedom movements from slave rebellions in the 18th-century Atlantic world to the Black Lives Matter Movement today. This talk is co-sponsored by The Charles Warren Center for Studies in…
Find out more »MHSM Annual Meeting/Elizabeth Short Talk
The Medford Historical Society & Museum is conducting a Virtual Annual Meeting this year, due to COVID-19 restrictions on public gatherings. The program will include a presentation by speaker Mary Pacios on Elizabeth Short, a k a the “Black Dahlia,” who spent her early life in Medford. An author, artist, and a childhood friend of Elizabeth Short, Pacios will discuss her lifelong research on the infamous 1947 murder in Los Angeles. This meeting will be held live on Zoom; please…
Find out more »October 2020
Halloween: A Haunted History
The Friends of the Medford Library present "Halloween: A Haunted History," a Zoom presentation with Dustin Pari. Ah, Halloween. Autumnal breezes, crisp leaves, and pumpkin-flavored everything! What is it about this time of year that is so enchanting, so mystifying? In this lecture, Dustin Pari sheds some light on the spooky shadows of Halloween history and lore. Ghost stories? He has some of those, too. With over 25 years of experience researching the unknown, Dustin Pari brings exciting and positive lectures…
Find out more »A Tale of Two Colonies
The Medford Historical Society & Museum invites you to "A Tale of Two Colonies: Plimoth and Massachusetts Bay in the 17th Century," a 1620 Anniversary Lecture with historian Stephen Kenney presented via Zoom. Most visitors to Massachusetts know that the “Pilgrims” arrived in Plimoth aboard the Mayflower in 1620. Less well known is the landing of a “Puritan” fleet 10 years later, carrying a royal charter establishing the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Join Kenney, director of the Commonwealth Museum at the…
Find out more »Brooks Estate Guided Walk
The Medford-Brooks Estate Land Trust (M-BELT) invites you to an outdoor guided walk and tour of the grounds at the Shepherd Brooks Estate. Join the tour for some socially-distanced exercise and history of this wonderful Medford landmark. Pre-registration is required and the walk will be limited to 12 people. Small group tours of the Shepherd Brooks Manor will follow the completion of the walk (approximately 45 minutes). To register for the walk, send an email to inquiries@brooksestate.org. M-BELT is a…
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