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    • Museum of Old Newbury Guided Tours – August, September, October, 2025

    Museum of Old Newbury Guided Tours – August, September, October, 2025
    Museum of Old Newbury 98 High Street, Newburyport, MA, United States
    Museum of Old Newbury 98 High Street, Newburyport, MA, United States

    Museum of Old Newbury  

    Museum of Old Newbury 98 High Street, Newburyport, MA

    Our friendly, knowledgeable tour guides share fascinating stories in each of the museum’s period rooms and galleries. You will walk through this Federal-period house, from its 1808 beginning as a ship captain's home to its ownership by multiple generations of the Cushing family. See parts of the home as it was lived in, as well...

    Free – $10

    Museum of Old Newbury Guided Tours – August, September, October, 2025

    Museum of Old Newbury Guided Tours – August, September, October, 2025
    Museum of Old Newbury 98 High Street, Newburyport, MA, United States
    Museum of Old Newbury 98 High Street, Newburyport, MA, United States

    Museum of Old Newbury  

    Museum of Old Newbury 98 High Street, Newburyport, MA

    Our friendly, knowledgeable tour guides share fascinating stories in each of the museum’s period rooms and galleries. You will walk through this Federal-period house, from its 1808 beginning as a ship captain's home to its ownership by multiple generations of the Cushing family. See parts of the home as it was lived in, as well...

    Free – $10

    Museum of Old Newbury Guided Tours – August, September, October, 2025

    Museum of Old Newbury Guided Tours – August, September, October, 2025
    Museum of Old Newbury 98 High Street, Newburyport, MA, United States
    Museum of Old Newbury 98 High Street, Newburyport, MA, United States

    Museum of Old Newbury  

    Museum of Old Newbury 98 High Street, Newburyport, MA

    Our friendly, knowledgeable tour guides share fascinating stories in each of the museum’s period rooms and galleries. You will walk through this Federal-period house, from its 1808 beginning as a ship captain's home to its ownership by multiple generations of the Cushing family. See parts of the home as it was lived in, as well...

    Free – $10

    • Fashioning for Freedom: Layers of Liberty

    Hamilton Hall 9 Chestnut Street, Salem, MA, United States
    Hamilton Hall 9 Chestnut Street, Salem, MA, United States

    Hamilton Hall  

    Hamilton Hall 9 Chestnut Street, Salem, MA

    Join History Alive and Hamilton Hall for a celebratory, historical runway of Black creativity and activism. Discover the stories of abolitionists, artists, and entrepreneurs (including members of the Remond family, Anna Douglass, Charlotte Forten and Edmonia Lewis) who helped shape American history. Explore the ways that these creative and talented historical figures "fashioned" their own...

    • Profoundly Vulnerable: The Story of Four Witchcraft Accusations

    Profoundly Vulnerable: The Story of Four Witchcraft Accusations
    Virtual MA, United States
    Virtual MA, United States

    Virtual  

    Virtual MA

    Join us on March 5th for our first virtual lecture of 2026, “Profoundly Vulnerable: The Story of Four Witchcraft Accusations,” presented in celebration of the 39th annual Women’s History Month. There were many reasons why a woman in seventeenth-century New England might be accused of witchcraft, but those who were alone, poor, and, perhaps, quarrelsome...

    Free

    Profoundly Vulnerable: The Story of Four Witchcraft Accusations

    Profoundly Vulnerable: The Story of Four Witchcraft Accusations
    Virtual MA, United States
    Virtual MA, United States

    Virtual  

    Virtual MA

    Join us on March 5th for our first virtual lecture of 2026, “Profoundly Vulnerable: The Story of Four Witchcraft Accusations,” presented in celebration of the 39th annual Women’s History Month. There were many reasons why a woman in seventeenth-century New England might be accused of witchcraft, but those who were alone, poor, and, perhaps, quarrelsome...

    Free

    Women of Agriculture Hike at Appleton Farms

    Appleton Farms 219 County Road, Ipswich, MA, United States
    Appleton Farms 219 County Road, Ipswich, MA, United States

    Appleton Farms  

    Appleton Farms 219 County Road, Ipswich, MA

    Join us to celebrate International Women’s Day at Appleton Farms! Women have shaped Appleton Farms for centuries: from Indigenous women who were the primary farmers and preservers of food, to Joan Appleton and her ancestors, to our current Trustees staff farmers. Learn about these women and the grit it takes to thrive as a woman...

    $25

    • Free First Wednesday: Grandparents Day Festival at Wenham Museum

    Wenham Museum 132 Main St., Route 1A, Wenham, MA, United States
    Wenham Museum 132 Main St., Route 1A, Wenham, MA, United States

    Wenham Museum  

    Wenham Museum 132 Main St., Route 1A, Wenham, MA

    Celebrate Grandparents’ Day at Wenham Museum! 🎉 Make memories together on Wednesday, September 9! Enjoy FREE museum admission and spend the day exploring the galleries, creating together, and celebrating the special bond between grandparents and grandchildren. What’s happening: 🖼️ Explore the Museum’s galleries together 🎨 Get creative with hands-on crafts 🖼️ Decorate your own picture...

    Free

    Growing Together: Seed Saving and Collecting Workshop

    Stevens-Coolidge House & Gardens 153 Chickering Road, North Andover, MA, United States
    Stevens-Coolidge House & Gardens 153 Chickering Road, North Andover, MA, United States

    Stevens-Coolidge House & Gardens  

    Stevens-Coolidge House & Gardens 153 Chickering Road, North Andover, MA

    Discover the timeless practice of seed saving and learn how gardeners have preserved plant diversity for generations. This workshop explores techniques for collecting, storing, and sharing seeds, with practical guidance for selecting healthy plants, harvesting seeds, and maintaining resilient gardens. Whether you are a beginner or an experienced grower, you’ll gain the knowledge and confidence...

    $24 – $30

    Adult Lecture Series: Laying their Hands to the Spindle: Women’s Spinning Protests, 1768-1770

    Wenham Museum 132 Main St., Route 1A, Wenham, MA, United States
    Wenham Museum 132 Main St., Route 1A, Wenham, MA, United States

    Wenham Museum  

    Wenham Museum 132 Main St., Route 1A, Wenham, MA

    Women, Spinning, and Resistance: Stacey Fraser In the years leading up to the American Revolution, New England women played an important role in resisting British policies through their everyday lives and work. On August 31, 1769, forty-five women in Lexington, Massachusetts, gathered for a spinning protest—one of more than sixty such demonstrations held throughout New...

    Behind the Scenes: A New England Servant Life Guided Tour

    Stevens-Coolidge House & Gardens 153 Chickering Road, North Andover, MA, United States
    Stevens-Coolidge House & Gardens 153 Chickering Road, North Andover, MA, United States

    Stevens-Coolidge House & Gardens  

    Stevens-Coolidge House & Gardens 153 Chickering Road, North Andover, MA

    Step beyond the formal rooms and into the working heart of the home for a guided house tour focused on servant life at Stevens-Coolidge House & Gardens. Once transformed from a simple farmhouse into a gentleman’s estate of the Country Place Era in the 1910s-1930s, Ashdale Farm relied on a dedicated household staff to maintain...

    $6 – $20

    • Growing Together: Fall Planting & Garden Cleanup

    Stevens-Coolidge House & Gardens 153 Chickering Road, North Andover, MA, United States
    Stevens-Coolidge House & Gardens 153 Chickering Road, North Andover, MA, United States

    Stevens-Coolidge House & Gardens  

    Stevens-Coolidge House & Gardens 153 Chickering Road, North Andover, MA

    Prepare your garden for winter while setting the stage for a healthier, more productive spring. This lesson explores what to cut back, what to leave standing for wildlife, what, how and when to plant in fall, and simple ways to protect your soil and perennial plants through the colder months. Participants will also learn how...

    $24 – $30

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