Historical research, by Auburndale resident Bill McEvoy is being featured in the Watertown News. McEvoy researched and profiled nine nurses and fifteen Clergy who served in the Civil War and are buried at the Mount Auburn Cemetery. The nine nurses were featured as part of National Nurses Week. McEvoy is…
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Newton’s Cappella Clausura will celebrate the finale of its 2022-2023 season with a history-making event: Three Women on May 7 at 4PM at Emmanuel Church (15 Newbury Street, Boston). Join us, Suffrage100MA, the Boston Women’s Heritage Trail, and other local partners as we celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Boston…
Historic Newton will hold its 40th annual House Tour on May 21, noon to 5PM, highlighting historic spaces modernized for family life. Homes on this in-person tour include a Queen Anne Victorian with a turret and a former mill worker’s cottage. See how homeowners have made creative renovations, and come…
On the rainy final day of April, the League of Women Voters of Newton (LWVN) held its second Civics Challenge. The first was in March, 2020, and then the pandemic struck, delaying a sequel until last Sunday’s match in the Cabot Elementary School cafeteria. Four “teams” — a total of…
Tiziana Dearing, host of WBUR’s Radio Boston, will be the keynote speaker at Newton Inspires, this Thursday, May 4 at 6:00PM at Newton South High School. Newton Inspires, a fundraiser for the Newton Schools Foundation, features these other notable Newtonians describing their inspirations and sharing stories and insights: Participants may…
An immersive multimedia Holocaust exhibit — The Cattle Car: Stepping In and Out of Darkness — was available at City Hall for the public to experience over this last weekend and for Newton high-school students to experience on Monday and Tuesday. It consists of a replica of a cattle car…
The Cabot Park Black History Lecture series will continue on May 1 at noon with a talk by Harvard Divinity School professor and author, Dr. Terrence Johnson, who will speak on Racism and Spirituality. The event, in the Community Room at Cabot Park Village (280 Newtonville Ave.), is free and open to the public.…
The Newton Conservators invite you to an online webinar about the geological history of Newton and Eastern Massachusetts, on April 19, 7PM-8:30PM. Register here. Newton’s rocks are like ancient scrolls for those who can interpret them, telling fascinating stories of continental collisions, high mountains forming, explosive volcanic eruptions, and evidence…
Historic Newton and the Wellesley Historical Society are hosting a walking tour of Lower Falls on April 23 at 2PM-3:30PM for adults and teens. It will focus on how the Charles River once powered nationally renowned paper mills. Also see the village that early residents built, including St. Mary’s Church…
Indigenous Peoples Day Newton, a group dedicated to uplifting the voices of Indigenous people in Newton and beyond, will host Honoring our Ancestors, a five-course Ho-Chunk dinner by renowned chef Elena Terry, on Saturday, May 6, 6:30PM-9PM at Eliot Church of Newton UCC (474 Centre Street, Newton Corner). The event is open to…