Concord Cultural Council Helps Celebrate Robbins House Move
The Concord Cultural Council awarded the DGP a $400 grant for expenses involved with putting on a town-wide celebration as we moved the Robbins house from it’s second location on Bedford St. to it’s final resting place on Monument St., across from the North Bridge and Old Manse, on May 21st, 2011. This same celebration commemorated the Toni Morrison Bench also awarded to the Robbins...
Read MoreBill Barber’s Matching Challenge
Last few days to meet Bill Barber’s matching fund challenge! Time runs out on July 4th! He will match, dollar for dollar, any donations up to $5,000.00 that come in by July 4th! Here’s your chance to double any money you donate to our tax-deductible Drinking Gourd Project – send your donation to:The Drinking Gourd Project, IncP.O. Box 506Concord MA 01742…or donate...
Read MoreA Small Bench by the Side of the Road: Elise Lemire on Remembering Concord’s History of Slavery
In this post, Penn Press author Elise Lemire describes a community’s efforts to bring its history of slavery to light. Read the article on the Penn Press...
Read MoreBook Signing on Saturday, July 9
Book Signing Saturday, July 9, 2011 at 7:30-9:00 pm Book Signing at Masonic Temple (Downstairs) 1. Gayle Moore, Wild Harmonies2. Thomas Potter, Sensual Harmonies3. Albena Bakratcheva, The Call of the Green: Thoreau and Place-Sense in American Writing; Rochelle Johnson, Passions for Nature: Nineteenth-Century America’s Aesthetics of Alienation. University of Georgia...
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