Historical Talks/Presentations
‘Coming Together’ with Frederick Law Olmsted
Charlotte & William Bloomberg Medford Public Library 111 High Street, Medford, MAThe Medford Historical Society & Museum present the program “ 'Coming Together' with Frederick Law Olmsted," with speaker Isabel Schulman of Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site in Brookline. As the nation's first landscape architect, Olmsted designed parks with purpose: to better connect people with their health, their spirit, with nature and with each other. …
Walking Tour: The South Medford Experience
South Medford Main Street, Medford, MAMedford historian Dee Morris's summer walking tour for 2023 is "The South Medford Experience," where famous horse racing tracks became a community of homes. In the summer of 1866, two investors threw open the gates of Mystic Trotting Park to a crowd in love with harness racing. The South Medford race track, supplied with over …
Medford’s Compass Points: East Medford
Medford Senior Center 101 Riverside Ave., Medford, MAHistorian 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 East Medford. Stories about East Medford often highlight the Mystic River. Thatcher Magoun and his skilled craftsmen began in 1803 to build wooden ships on the banks of this serpentine …
The South Medford Experience: Mystic Trotting Park
Charlotte & William Bloomberg Medford Public Library 111 High Street, Medford, MAMedford historian Dee Morris's summer history program for 2023 is "The South Medford Experience," where famous horse racing tracks became a community of homes. In the summer of 1866, two investors threw open the gates of Mystic Trotting Park to a crowd in love with harness racing. The South Medford race track, supplied with over …
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Reading Frederick Douglass Together
Royall House & Slave Quarters 15 George St., Medford, MAThe Royall House and Slave Quarters is hosting its first-ever Reading Frederick Douglass Together program on the museum grounds. Community members are invited to gather on the lawn in front of the historic Slave Quarters building to read/listen to Douglass's "What, To The Slave, is the Fourth of July?" to honor the long history of …
Film: The Story of Sarah Bradlee Fulton
Charlotte & William Bloomberg Medford Public Library 111 High Street, Medford, MAThe Medford Public Library presents "The Story of Sarah Bradlee Fulton," a film written by and featuring Laura Duggan and produced at Medford Community Media. This one-woman performance tells the story of a Medford woman known as “The Mother of the Boston Tea Party.” Medford’s Fulton Street is named in her honor. Laura Duggan, a …
Walking Tour: The South Medford Experience
South Medford Main Street, Medford, MAMedford historian Dee Morris's summer walking tour for 2023 is "The South Medford Experience," where famous horse racing tracks became a community of homes. In the summer of 1866, two investors threw open the gates of Mystic Trotting Park to a crowd in love with harness racing. The South Medford race track, supplied with over …
Medford’s Compass Points: West Medford
Medford Senior Center 101 Riverside Ave., Medford, MAHistorian Dee Morris concludes 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 West Medford, known for beautiful homes and strong-minded people. Starting in the 17th century, the influential Brooks family created the signature estate in this lovely neighborhood. Norwood P. Hallowell (1839-1914), …
100 Years of Boston Comedy
Medford Senior Center 101 Riverside Ave., Medford, MAThe Medford Council on Aging welcomes veteran arts journalist Nick Zaino for a talk exploring Boston’s long history of comedy, from vaudeville to YouTube, highlighting some of the personalities that have defined laughter in America for 100 years. Fred Allen found inspiration at the Boston Public Library to start his vaudeville career. Bob and Ray …
The ‘Me’ Decade: A 1970s Cultural Review
Medford Senior Center 101 Riverside Ave., Medford, MAThe Medford Council on Aging presents "The 'Me' Decade," a cultural review of the 1970s through music. This multimedia presentation features live acoustic music and audience singalongs, coupled with audio and video clips showing the best (and sometimes the worst) of the 1970s. There was no shortage of musicians willing to comment on the cultural happenings …