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March 2023
War in Ukraine: What’s Next?
The Medford Senior Center presents Henry Quinlan giving a presentation on the war in Ukraine titled, “Consequences Expected and Unexpected: What’s Next?” He will examine the origins of the war, the status of the war today, options for ending it, and discuss whether America is fighting a proxy war. Quinlan has more than 35 years experience dealing with the former Soviet Union and Russia, including living in Moscow for five years. Reserve your seat by calling the Senior Center at…
Find out more »Getting to Know Amelia Earhart
The Medford Historical Society & Museum presents “Getting to Know Amelia Earhart” in Bonsignore Hall at the Charlotte & William Bloomberg Medford Public Library. The program will feature an inside perspective on the onetime Medford resident aviator from Medford School Committee member Melanie McLaughlin, who was the associate producer on the PBS American Experience Amelia Earhart biography, “The Price of Courage.” It will include a screening of the 60-minute documentary, as well as a presentation on the research involved, including…
Find out more »April 2023
Teaching White Supremacy: A Conversation with Donald Yacovone
The Royall House and Slave Quarters presents an evening with historian Donald Yacovone, author of "Teaching White Supremacy: America's Democratic Ordeal and the Forging of Our National Identity." In the book, Yacovone shows the clear evidence of white supremacy's deep-seated roots in our nation's educational system through an in-depth examination of America's wide assortment of texts, from primary readers to college textbooks, from popular histories to the most influential academic scholarship. Sifting through a wealth of materials from the colonial…
Find out more »Murder at Harvard Medical School
The Medford Historical Society & Museum presents a talk by Dennis J. Curran, a retired justice from the Massachusetts Superior Court, on the 1850 Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court case Commonwealth v. Webster. This case, about the murder of Boston physician George Parkman at Harvard Medical School, established the legal principal “proof beyond a reasonable doubt,” a requirement since adopted by most other states. This was the first trial to use forensic science, forensic evidence, forensic experts and dental forensic evidence…
Find out more »Culturally Curious: Rene Magritte
The Medford Public Library concludes its monthly eight-part Zoom series on art appreciation with Jane Oneail, the founder of Culturally Curious, an arts education consulting firm specializing in art appreciation programs. Today's session is "The Surreal World of Rene Magritte," a Belgian artist. Jane Oneail holds a master’s in art history from Boston University and a master’s in education from the Harvard University Graduate School of Education. Please note that this date is a change from the originally scheduled date…
Find out more »Medford’s Compass Points: North Medford
Historian Dee Morris introduces a four-part series, "Medford's Compass Points," in which she will discuss the city's four "cardinal point" neighborhoods, starting with North Medford. Also known as Fulton Heights, North Medford embraces a rocky terrain dotted with many compact homes that date to the 1920s. Close by the Middlesex Fells Reservation, this tree-filled neighborhood features curving streets named for the governors of Massachusetts. The shore of Wright’s Pond was once supported Filmland City, a silent film enterprise that hoped…
Find out more »May 2023
Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist’s Memoir of the Jim Crow South
The Medford Historical Society & Museum welcomes Patsy and Mitchell Rembert and author Erin I. Kelly to discuss Winfred Rembert’s memoir, "Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist’s Memoir of the Jim Crow South," which in 2022 was awarded a Pulitzer Prize in biography. This program will include slides of Rembert’s remarkable paintings on leather. Rembert grew up in Cuthbert, Georgia, where he picked cotton as a child. As a teen-ager, he got involved in the civil rights movement and…
Find out more »History Book Group: Deliberate Cruelty
The History Book Group, co-sponsored by the Medford Public Library and Medford Historical Society & Museum, continues it True Crime Series with a meeting to discuss "Deliberate Cruelty: Truman Capote, The Millionaire’s Wife, and the Murder of the Century" by Roseanne Montillo. Register through the library's online calendar.
Find out more »Medford’s Compass Points: South Medford
Historian Dee Morris continues her four-part series, "Medford's Compass Points," in which she discusses the city's four "cardinal point" neighborhoods. Today's focus will be on South Medford. Following Main Street from Medford Square and going past the 18th-century Royall House and Slave Quarters, you quickly arrive in the heart of South Medford. This densely populated neighborhood sits on a level plain except for the gradual rise of Winter Hill. Here in the 1880s, Mystic Trotting Park offered exciting harness races…
Find out more »Brooks Estate Lecture
The Medford-Brooks Estate Land Trust introduces a new lecture series with the program, "Medford’s Brooks Estate: A Gift from the Past, a Legacy for the Future," an illustrated talk by M-BELT president Tom Lincoln. The Brooks Estate is 50 acres of conservation land, graced by Brooks Pond, wooded walking trails, and the historic Shepherd Brooks Manor and Carriage House. Owned by the residents of Medford since 1942 and permanently protected in 1998, the property is located on the northwest corner of…
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