Featured Events

• June 21 2026

  Loons: A Call of Beauty, A Call of Action

  Henry David Thoreau described a loon's call as "Perhaps the wildest sound that is ever heard here, making the woods ring far and wide." Join us for a presentation about loons inspired by Thoreau's admiration for them at the Walden Pond Visitor Center Gallery on Sunday, June 21st, from 11 am to 12:30 pm.

  DCR Wildlife Biologist Jillian Whitney and Loon Preservation Committee Outreach Coordinator/Biologist Caroline Hughes will discuss Common Loons, their distribution and presence in Massachusetts—including at Walden—and how we can protect them.

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• June 23 2026

  Walden for Hire: Business Lessons from Henry David Thoreau

  Join author Ken Lizotte for a fascinating discussion of his new book, Walden for Hire: Business Lessons from Henry David Thoreau. While many associate Thoreau only with Transcendentalism, a love of nature, and his iconic work Walden, Ken's talk reveals a different dimension: Thoreau as an innovative strategic problem-solver and successful serial entrepreneur. Topics include:

  · Henry's lucrative curiosity.

  · Henry's success in diverse business arenas, e.g., farming, manufacturing, surveying, and marketing.

  · His long-lasting success as a best-selling author.

  · His ingenious profit-building methods were generated on his own terms.

  · His creative career independence decades before today's "gig economy."

  Come prepared to rethink everything you thought you knew about Thoreau and leave with practical, timeless strategies for carving out your own unconventional business path.

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• June 25 2026

  From Concord and Lexington: New Perspective on the Revolution

  The Concord Museum, in partnership with Lexington History Museums, presents an engaging program highlighting new research and evolving interpretations from the communities at the center of the start of the American Revolution. This conversation brings together Curator David F. Wood, whose work, Eyewitness to Revolution, draws from the Concord Museum’s renowned collection; Paul O’Shaughnessy, President of Lexington History Museums, whose institution recently published Revolutionary Stories; and historian and archaeologist Joel Bohy.

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• July 4 2026

  Fourth Of July Community Day

  Visitors can enjoy free admission to the Concord Museum on the Fourth of July and enjoy special family activities and food trucks. Hear a gallery talk on with Museum staff on the Revolution and its legacy at 12pm. Visitors will: - Enjoy free admission to see the original Paul Revere lantern and dozens of objects that witnessed the founding of our nation, - Explore the new special exhibition, Revolutionary Legacies, - Listen in on a gallery talk with museum staff, - Join fun family activities and enjoy food trucks.

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• July 9 2026

  Goodwin Band: Then Rain, Then Wind

  Goodwin will be performing their third studio release: “Then Rain, Then Wind.” Collaborating with poets across time and space, this album brings aged yet ever salient words to a new generation. Setting the poetry of Emily Dickinson, Rabindranath Tagore, Charles Baudelaire, Langston Hughes, and Li Qinghzhao to music,

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