What drove Bathsheba Spooner, a woman from elite eighteenth-century New England society, to conspire with American and British soldiers to murder her husband during the American Revolution? Join historian Andrew Noone to explore the sensational true-crime story of a cold husband, a lovestruck teenager, British prisoners of war, and a beautiful, possibly unstable woman caught...
Explore more than three centuries of Lexington’s history on a walking tour of the historic Old Burying Ground, where skulls and crossbones, willow trees, and urns reveal how attitudes toward death have changed through the centuries. Discover the evolution of mortuary art and meet some of Lexington’s most notable residents along the way. The one-mile...
Real-life husband and wife Paula Plum and Richard Snee star in A.R. Gurney's Love Letters, a Pulitzer Prize finalist for Drama about two friends and the letters they exchange over a lifetime. Andrew Makepeace Ladd III and Melissa Gardner write to each other for nearly fifty years — from birthday party thank-you notes of childhood,...
Explore more than three centuries of Lexington’s history on a walking tour of the historic Old Burying Ground, where skulls and crossbones, willow trees, and urns reveal how attitudes toward death have changed through the centuries. Discover the evolution of mortuary art and meet some of Lexington’s most notable residents along the way. The one-mile...
Join us for a ghostly candlelight tour of Lexington’s oldest graveyard, where the spirits of the past bring their stories back to life. Hear from figures including John Parker, leader of the Lexington militia on April 19, 1775, and Sarah Childs, who lost six children during an epidemic in 1778. For ages 5 and up;...
Explore more than three centuries of Lexington’s history on a walking tour of the historic Old Burying Ground, where skulls and crossbones, willow trees, and urns reveal how attitudes toward death have changed through the centuries. Discover the evolution of mortuary art and meet some of Lexington’s most notable residents along the way. The one-mile...
Join pianist Ana Glig, contralto Vira Slywotzky and special guest Miriam Eckelhoefer, cellist, on a joyous and moving musical journey celebrating women composers past and present. Revel in the sumptuous sound worlds of Alma Mahler, Meri Davitashvili, Florence Price, Martha Redbone, Sylvia Filus, Lori Laitman, Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel, Vivian Fung, Mary Ann Howe, Dina Pruzhansky,...
