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October 2024
Abolitionist Practices: Then + Now
Tufts University Art Galleries presents the program "Abolitionist Practices: Then + Now," a panel discussion in conjunction with the current TUAG exhibition, "Tomashi Jackson: Across the Universe." Panelists will be Nia Evans, executive director of the Boston Ujima Project; Cierra Michele Peters, director of communications, culture and enfranchisement at the Boston Ujima Project; Dayna Cunningham, dean of the Tisch College of Civic Life at Tufts; and the artist, Tomashi Jackson. Just as Jackson’s work reckons with the overlooked portions of…
Find out more »The Life of Johnny Cash with Matt York
The Medford Public Library welcomes longtime New England musician/author Matt York to perform the songs of Johnny Cash and tell stories about Cash’s career spanning from the 1950s to his passing in 2003. He’ll discuss Cash’s emergence as a groundbreaking artist, his marriage to June Carter, and many of his other career highlights. In both 2022 and 2023, York was nominated for the Boston Music Award for Best Country Artist, and his album "Gently Used" was named one of Worcester…
Find out more »The Origins and Evolution of Project 2025
Project 2025 has been in the news lately, but for some, it seemed to come out of nowhere. In this online program co-sponsored by the Medford Public Library, join Professor Brian Conley of Suffolk University to delve into the history of this document and its origins during the Reagan years. Edwin Feulner, who led the Heritage Foundation when the book was first written as “Mandate for Leadership,” explains that the idea for such a policy book originated at a 1979…
Find out more »Virtual Author Talk: Even More Haunted Lighthouses of New England
The Medford Public Library is co-sponsoring the program Even More Haunted Lighthouses of New England with Jeremy D’Entremont, president and historian of the American Lighthouse Foundation. Lighthouses and ghost stories often seem to go hand in hand. In previous programs, D’Entremont has discussed the lovelorn spirit known as Ernie at Connecticut’s New London Ledge Light, the piano playing ghost of Maine’s Seguin Light, and the mysterious Woman in White in the Isles of Shoals, among others. This time, who knows what…
Find out more »November 2024
What’s Faith Got to do With It? A Personal History
The Medford Historical Society & Museum presents "What’s Faith Got to do With It? A Walk of Faith, A Curious Mind, and A Courageous Heart: A Personal Look at My Journey to Shiloh Baptist Church” with Pastor Gerald E. Bell. This presentation at the library will focus on the rich 127-year history of Shiloh Baptist Church as a cornerstone institution in the African American community in West Medford, and on the future of this important house of worship in Medford.…
Find out more »African Art Lecture Series
The Medford Public Library concludes 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 will focus on 21st century African photography, looking at photos currently on exhibit at the Fitchburg Art Museum, "Africa Rising," as well as that part of the backstory centered on…
Find out more »December 2024
Early Archaeology of Medford and Greater Boston
The Medford Historical Society & Museum presents "Deep Time: The Early Archaeology of Medford and Greater Boston," a program at the library with Suanna Crowley. Known as “Dr. Dirt,” Crowley is a geoarchaeologist and researcher who has worked across the globe – but lives right here in Medford. Her work is focused on the dynamic environmental and climatic processes that preserve the archaeological record. This landscape legacy shapes and informs our understanding of the complex history of the Indigenous peoples…
Find out more »African Art Lecture Series: Forms and Materials
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 "Learning to Look: Forms and Materials." The African art that is most familiar in the west are carvings; 2-D design was equally important. It took the form of wall-painting,…
Find out more »January 2025
African Art Lecture Series: Contrasting Cultures, Styles
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 "Art in Cultural Context: Contrasting Cultures – Contrasting Styles - The Dogon of Mali and the Yoruba of Nigeria." The Dogon, living in the harsher world of the Western Sudan,…
Find out more »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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