Royall House & Slave Quarters
Royall House Spring Clean-up Day
Royall House & Slave Quarters 15 George St., Medford, MAIt's time to prepare the Royall House & Slave Quarters grounds for the museum's 2023 season. Spring clean-up tasks will include general raking, weed pulling, and sprucing up of the property. Volunteers are asked to bring a rake if you have on; if not, there will be some on hand. For more information, please email …
Royall House Tours Opening Day
Royall House & Slave Quarters 15 George St., Medford, MAThe Royall House & Slave Quarters reopens today for its 2023 tour season. The museum will offer guided tours at 1, 2 and 3 p.m. each Saturday and Sunday through October 15. No reservations are required. Admission for guided tours of the mansion is $10 for adults; $8 for seniors; $5 for students; $2 for …
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 …
Royall House Tours Closing Day
Royall House & Slave Quarters 15 George St., Medford, MAThe Royall House & Slave Quarters concludes its 2023 guided tour season today. Tours are offered at 1, 2 and 3 p.m. No reservations are required. Admission for guided tours of the mansion is $10 for adults; $8 for seniors; $5 for students; $2 for EBT or WIC cardholders; and free for children age 12 …
Acorns & Octavia with Kaitlin Smith
Royall House & Slave Quarters 15 George St., Medford, MADid you know that you can eat acorns, and that they're incredibly nutritious? Did you know that Octavia Butler wanted us to eat acorns, too? At the Royall House & Slave Quarters workshop "Acorns & Octavia," you will learn more about the fun, fascinating and filling (!) world of acorn harvesting, processing and consumption. Workshop …
Black Walnut Tie-Dye Workshop
Royall House & Slave Quarters 15 George St., Medford, MAThe Royall House & Slave Quarters invites teens and adults to a Black Walnut Tie-Dye Workshop with textile artist Stephen Hamilton, who will lead the instruction using abundant black walnuts growing on the museum grounds to explore African tie-dye techniques. As a Black American trained in traditional West African artforms, Hamilton treats the acts of …
Royall House Fall Clean-up & Volunteer Reception
Royall House & Slave Quarters 15 George St., Medford, MAThe Royall House & Slave Quarters invites volunteers to lend a hand at its annual Fall Garden Clean-Up. Grab your rakes (or use one provided) and join friends and neighbors for this fun work morning. The grounds looked great this year because of all the rain, but now it's time to rake up those leaves …
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Reclaiming Our Hands
Alumnae Lounge, Aidekman Arts Center, Tufts University 40 Talbot Ave., Medford, MA, United StatesOver the summer, artist Stephen Hamilton collaborated with the Royall House & Slave Quarters to offer "Reclaiming Our Hands," a seven-week program to teach African textile arts to Black students from throughout Greater Boston. Today, Tufts University's Center for the Study of Race and Democracy will host a conversation with Hamilton and RHSQ executive director …
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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Out of Breath: Slavery, Ventilation, and the Emergence of Epidemiology
Royall House & Slave Quarters 15 George St., Medford, MAThe Royall House & Slave Quarters welcomes Tufts University's Center for the Study of Race and Democracy and the Tufts Center for Black Maternal Health and Reproductive Justice for a lecture and conversation on slavery, its legacies, and the medical humanities. Keynote speaker will be Dr. Jim Downs, author of "Maladies of Empire: How Colonialism, …
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