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Walden for Hire: Business Lessons from Henry David Thoreau

6/23/26 6:00 pm EDT
Concord Free Public Library- Goodwin Forum Walden for Hire: Business Lessons from Henry David Thoreau
129 Main Street
Concord, MA
United States

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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From Concord and Lexington: New Perspective on the Revolution

6/25/26 7:00 pm EDT
Concord Museum From Concord and Lexington: New Perspective on the Revolution
53 Cambridge Tpke, Concord, MA 01742
Concord
United States
Contact: Kaylee Kelley

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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Concord Conservatory of Music Presents: Fabiola Méndez & William Cumpiano

6/25/26 7:00 pm EDT
Concord Conservatory of Music Concord Conservatory of Music Presents: Fabiola Méndez & William Cumpiano
1317 Main Street
Concord, MA
United States
Contact: Sara Seng

An Evening of Music, Craft, and Cultural Tradition.  Experience a unique night that brings together two extraordinary artistic voices: Puerto Rican cuatro player and composer Fabiola Méndez and master luthier William Cumpiano. Enjoy a live performance from Fabiola alongside an intimate fireside conversation with William on instrument building, cultural heritage, and the evolving story of the cuatro.

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Fourth Of July Community Day

7/4/26 9:00 am EDT
Concord Museum Fourth Of July Community Day
53 Cambridge Tpke, Concord, MA 01742
Concord
United States
Contact: Kaylee Kelley

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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Goodwin Band: Then Rain, Then Wind

7/9/26 6:30 pm EDT
Concord Museum Goodwin Band: Then Rain, Then Wind
53 Cambridge Tpke, Concord, MA 01742
Concord
United States
Contact: Kaylee Kelley

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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Thoreau Gallery Talk

7/10/26 12:00 pm EDT
Concord Museum Thoreau Gallery Talk
53 Cambridge Tpke, Concord, MA 01742
Concord
United States
Contact: Kaylee Kelley

Tour the heart of the Concord Museum’s collection of objects used and made by Henry David Thoreau in the galleries, which display more Thoreau objects than have previously been on permanent display, and learn about his life in Concord and two years at Walden Pond. Free with Museum admission. Members visit free.

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A Walk in Thoreau’s Concord

7/11/26 11:00 am EDT
Concord Museum A Walk in Thoreau’s Concord
53 Cambridge Tpke, Concord, MA 01742
Concord
United States
Contact: Kaylee Kelley

Henry David Thoreau is known for the two years he spent living at Walden Pond.  Did you know that he lived in other homes in Concord throughout his life?  Take a tour of the domestic side of Thoreau’s wholly human life, visiting the homes where he lived and hearing the stories told of him by family and friends. $15 Members | $25 Non-Members. Includes same-day admission to the Concord Museum.

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Revolutionary Legacies | History Happy Hour

7/16/26 6:30 pm EDT
Concord Museum Revolutionary Legacies | History Happy Hour
53 Cambridge Tpke, Concord, MA 01742
Concord
United States
Contact: Kaylee Kelley

Celebrate the Museum’s special exhibition, Revolutionary Legacies, with a special guided tour following a festive happy hour of wine, beer, and light refreshments in the Museum’s courtyard. Reflect on the nation’s founding principles, their continuous reinterpretation over the past 250 years, and consider what they mean today through textiles, ceramics, and relics from the 19th century. Your ticket includes drinks outside in the courtyard before the tour, which begins at 7:15 pm. $15 Members | $25 Non-Members

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"Slow Wood: Greener Building from Local Forests" with Brian Donahue

7/20/26 7:00 pm EDT
The Walden Woods Project "Slow Wood: Greener Building from Local Forests" with Brian Donahue
44 Baker Farm Rd
Lincoln, MA
United States
Contact: Samantha Corron

Join us for a presentation on Brian Donahue’s latest book, "Slow Wood: Greener Building from Local Forests."

About the presentation: Can we reconnect housing to sustainably managed local and regional forests? Through the colonial period, houses were mostly constructed and heated directly from local woodlands—Walden Woods was a notable example.

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Walt Whitman’s American Dream

7/23/26 6:30 pm EDT
Concord Museum Walt Whitman’s American Dream
53 Cambridge Tpke, Concord, MA 01742
Concord
United States
Contact: Kaylee Kelley

As the country celebrates its 250th Anniversary, enjoy a staged reading and discussion of the new play, "Walt Whitman’s American Dream" by Sarah Vander Schaaff, directed by Brendon Fox, Artistic Director of the renowned Peterborough Players. A juicy biopic, the play stirs the bigger questions still at the heart of our experience; the ensemble of characters includes Concord’s own, Ralph Waldo Emerson.

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    The Spring Issue is Here!

    Patriots' Day is almost here, and this issue of Discover Concord brings you a list of events, the parade route, and much more to make your celebration special.  Also in this issue is an in-depth look at the new PBS documentary "Henry David Thoreau," a fascinating piece on how the Concord Lyceum came to be, and a look at how Massachusetts civilians on the homefront managed the challenging months of January - May 1776. Freedom's Way National Heritage Area is launching an exciting program you won't want to miss called "Declaring Independence: Then & Now" in more than 20 towns across Massachusetts. With two special fold-out inserts,  maps, lists of shops, and so much more, you'll want to get your copy early!
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