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May 2025
Sarah Bradlee Fulton Statue Benefit
Looking Back at Medford History, Inc., is presenting an event at the library to raise funds for its ongoing project to commission and install a bronze statue of Sarah Bradlee Fulton, the Revolutionary War heroine from Medford, at City Hall. The nonprofit organization has raised about one-half of the needed funds and has hired sculptor Robert Shure of Skylight Studios in Waltham to create the statue. He will bring a 24-inch clay rendering of the statue tonight. Anthony Sammarco, a…
Find out more »June 2025
The American Revolution: Catalyst for Fundamental Changes
The Medford Historical Society & Museum presents a program at the library, "The American Revolution: Catalyst for Fundamental Changes," with historian James Bennett. Did Medford have an American Revolution? The city's experience of the American Revolution as a war is a well-documented and proud chapter of the community’s history. But to what extent was there a revolution in the hearts and minds of Medford’s people of the kind that John Adams described in 1918 when he wrote: “But what do…
Find out more »Royall House Tours Opening Day
The Royall House & Slave Quarters reopens today for its 2025 tour season. The museum will offer guided tours at 1, 2 and 3 p.m. each Saturday and Sunday through mid-October. Admission for guided tours of the mansion is $15 for adults, and $10 for seniors and students. Admission is always free for Royall House & Slave Quarters members; for children age 12 and under; for Massachusetts Teachers Association members and retirees; and for active duty military personnel and their…
Find out more »The Mansion on High Street: A History
As part of the Medford Public Library's 150th Anniversary Celebration, historian Dee Morris presents the talk, "The Mansion on High Street: A History." In 1875, the Magoun family sold their mansion to the Town of Medford for $1. The town pledged to use it “for the purpose of a free public circulating library with a free public Reading Room and Art Gallery.” The building served as the Medford Public Library until 1957. Morris will share great stories about the legendary…
Find out more »Library Neighborhood Historical Walking Tour
As part of the Medford Public Library’s 150th Anniversary Celebration, historian Dee Morris is leading a walking tour of the library neighborhood, highlighting history, stories and architecture. Meet on the Cummings Terrace patio on the Hillside Avenue side of the library. Register through the library's online calendar. Morris will lead this tour again at 10 a.m. on July 19 and September 20, both Saturdays.
Find out more »Exhibition Opening: Migration – The Ongoing American Revolution
The Medford Historical Society & Museum invites you to the opening of the exhibition "Migration: The Ongoing American Revolution," a celebration of Medford's migrant and immigrant heritage. Featuring interviews with Medford residents telling their stories of migration, the exhibit will demonstrate how migration and immigration continue to enrich the city of Medford today, as they have in the past. Visitors are welcome to visit the exhibit every Sunday from 1 to 4 p.m. through the fall. The exhibition is free…
Find out more »July 2025
Library Neighborhood Historical Walking Tour
As part of the Medford Public Library’s 150th Anniversary Celebration, historian Dee Morris is leading a walking tour of the library neighborhood, highlighting history, stories and architecture. Meet on the Cummings Terrace patio on the Hillside Avenue side of the library. Register through the library's online calendar. Morris will lead this tour again at 10 a.m. on September 20.
Find out more »September 2025
Library Neighborhood Historical Walking Tour
As part of the Medford Public Library’s 150th Anniversary Celebration, historian Dee Morris is leading a walking tour of the library neighborhood, highlighting history, stories and architecture. Meet on the Cummings Terrace patio on the Hillside Avenue side of the library. Register through the library's online calendar.
Find out more »October 2025
Sarah Bradlee Fulton Day
Looking Back at Medford History Inc., in cooperation with the City of Medford, invites you to the fifth annual Sarah Bradlee Fulton Day in tribute to the American Revolutionary War heroine from Medford. The event will feature a historical walk led by Dee Morris (starting at 10 a.m. at the Salem Street Burying Ground); a reading of the poem "The Midnight Walk and Row of Sarah Fulton" by Day Farenga and City Council president Zac Bears; the performance of an…
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