Historical Talks/Presentations
Everlasting Love in Medford
Medford Senior Center 101 Riverside Ave., Medford, MAThe Medford Council on Aging welcomes historian Dee Morris of Medford for the presentation, "Everlasting Love in Medford." Romantic love has always been a part of Medford history. In 1777, Medford's young Abigail Bishop received a letter from Alexander Scammell, an officer in the Continental Army. He wrote, "You are ever present in my enraptured …
The Two Nerdy History Girls Ride Again
Virtual MAYou may know them as the Two Nerdy History Girls – authors Loretta Chase and Susan Holloway Scott, the originators of the infamous blog by that name. Tonight, the Medford Public Library presents the bestselling authors via Zoom. They address such questions as how do they find interesting tidbits of historical lore, which libraries of …
Lizzie Borden & John Best: Knowlton’s Trials that Gripped Boston
Charlotte & William Bloomberg Medford Public Library 111 High Street, Medford, MAThe Medford Historical Society & Museum begins its 2024 program season with "Lizzie Borden & John Best: Knowlton’s Trials That Gripped Boston’s South and North Shores," featuring speakers Douglas Heath and Alison Simcox. Hosea Knowlton is best known as the chief prosecutor of Lizzie Borden, whose 1893 trial for the murder of her parents created a …
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And Then They Came for Me: Remembering the World of Anne Frank
Balch Arena Theatre, Aidekman Arts Center, Tufts University 40 Talbot Ave., Medford, MA, United StatesThe Tufts University Department of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies presents a staged reading of "And Then They Came for Me: Remembering the World of Anne Frank," one of several “remembrance readings” coordinated by the National Jewish Theatre Foundation to commemorate International Holocaust Remembrance Day. "And Then They Came for Me ," written by James …
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The Power of Truth: Early Diversity in a Medford Neighborhood
Charlotte & William Bloomberg Medford Public Library 111 High Street, Medford, MAThe Medford Historical Society & Museum presents local historian Dee Morris with the Black History Month program, "The Power of Truth: Early Diversity in a Medford Neighborhood." Morris will introduce residents to the Revalyons, an early free Black family that lived in East Medford for many years. Thomas (born in 1777) and Margaret (born in …
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The Souls of Womenfolk: A Conversation with Alexis Wells-Oghoghomeh
Royall House & Slave Quarters 15 George St., Medford, MAThe Royall House & Slave Quarters invites you to a special Black History Month book talk with historian and author Alexis Wells- Oghoghomeh. Her 2021 book "The Souls of Womenfolk: The Religious Cultures of Enslaved Women in the Lower South" traces a bold history of the interior lives of bondwomen as they carved out an …
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Time’s Echo: On Art and Memory with Jeremy Eichler
Distler Performance Hall, Granoff Music Center, Tufts University 20 Talbot Ave., Medford, MA, United StatesTufts University welcomes author and critic Jeremy Eichler for a program on his recent book, "Times Echo: The Second World War, The Holocaust, and the Music of Remembance. Eichler, chief classical music critic of The Boston Globe, offers a genre-blurring piece of work on art, war and memory that has been named History Book of …
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Blood Bible: An American History
Charlotte & William Bloomberg Medford Public Library 111 High Street, Medford, MAThe Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society New England Chapter presents the program, "Blood Bible: An American History," with featured speaker DaMaris B. Hill. A poet and creative scholar, Hill is a professor in the Department of English, Creative Writing Program at the University of Kentucky. She will talk about the book she currently is working …
Mary Cassatt and the Women Impressionists
Virtual MAThe Medford Public Library is partnering with the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Tufts University to co-host the virtual presentation "Mary Cassatt and the Women Impressionists" by Jane Oneall. Oneall is an art historian and the president of Culturally Curious, an art education company. Register through the library's online calendar.
Patriots’ Day Celebration
Medford Square Riverside Avenue, Medford, MAThe City of Medford invites you to Medford Square for the annual Patriots’ Day celebration. Events begin at 10 a.m. at the Salem Street Burying Ground next to Riverside Plaza as tribute is paid to the soldiers who lost their lives during the Revolutionary War. Free activities will follow in the square. Around noon, Paul …