250 America
Each month here at C. Devon’s Homes we will highlight events commemorating this in the Boston area and all over New England:
Saturday, March 8th 7:00-9:00pm
Alarmed in Lexington
Step back in time to experience the anxious hours before the start of the American Revolution. It's past midnight on April 19th, 1775, and Paul Revere has just left the home of Lexington's minister, Jonas Clarke, with news of an impending British attack. This leaves the home's occupants to take in the news and prepare for what is to come. In a series of three short plays by playwright Debbie Wiess, see how John Hancock and Samuel Adams, leaders of the Revolution, Dorothy Quincy and Lydia Hancock, John's family, and Jonas and Lucy Clarke, town leaders, process the impending crisis as they prepare for war in the very rooms in which these conversations took place two hundred and fifty years ago.
Hancock-Clarke House, 36 Hancock St, Lexington, MA 02420, USA map
$20 Lexington Historical Society members, $25 nonmembers.
Thursday, March 13, 2025 from 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Westford Museum
2 Boston Road, Westford, MA, 01886
Suggested Donation:** $10 per person
Whose Revolution: Special Exhibition Opening Day
Date: March 28, 2025
Time: 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Location: Concord Museum, 53 Cambridge Turnpike, Concord, MA
Description: The first of three 250th special exhibitions at the Concord Museum, 'Whose Revolution' will highlight the competing and contradictory meanings of revolution during the period leading up to the war. Through maps, documents, furniture, and other objects, this exhibition will explore the gradual shifts that led to broader support for independence.
The Concord Orchestra, conducted by Music Director Zeke Fetrow, is thrilled to perform “American Heritage” concerts as part of the Concord250 celebration. Performances are on Saturday, March 29 at 8:00 p.m. and Sunday, March 30 at 2:30 p.m. at the Performing Arts Center at 51 Walden. We are excited to present a world premiere of A Beacon of Hope by Jeff Beal, commissioned by the orchestra for the celebration! Jeff Beal, the composer of the new work, is an Emmy-winning composer of soundtracks for films and television.
Saturday, March 29, 2025 - 8:00 am - 5:00 pm
Thursday, March 13, 2025 from 7:00 - 8:30pm
Lexington Historical Society
Deborah Sampson, the first woman to enlist, fight, and be honorably discharged from the American Military, captivates audiences in an hour-long program chronicling her life. An indentured servant by age five, Deborah grew up in a man’s world, where women were naught but second-class citizens. Without the ability to vote or to own property, Deborah knew her options were limited; breaking the rules may be necessary to accomplish a greater goal in life. As a self-educated masterless woman, she felt a higher calling, and in the final years of the American Revolution, Deborah bound her chest. tied back her hair, and enlisted in the 4th Massachusetts Regiment of the Continental Army, as “Robert Shurtlieff.” The American Heroine takes you back in time!
History At Play (HAP) was founded in 2010 by Artistic Director Judith “Jude” Kalaora to chronicle the lives of influential and often forgotten women. Offering solo and ensemble immersive living history productions, HAP is woman-owned and operated and committed to employing artists from the region. Kalaora is a professional educator, writer, and living historian. She graduated from Syracuse University and attended the Globe Education Program of Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre of London, England.
Tuesday, March 18th, 2025 from 7:00 to 8:00 PM Book Chat on Poor Richard’s Women at Lexington Historical Society.
Behind any founding father are numerous founding mothers, sisters, and lovers. Benjamin Franklin had a large cast of women in his life, most importantly his wife of 44 years, Deborah Read Franklin. While frequently absent from the historical narrative due to their frequent time apart, Deborah was an important witness to and active participant in the political workings of the early Revolution, running the family businesses and raising a family in tumultuous times with her husband often away. Then, as Franklin traveled the globe, his social circle also expanded to include landladies and liaisons in London and Paris. Join us to discuss Nancy Rubin Stuart’s exploration of history’s forgotten heroines with longtime Book Chat member and women’s history historian Mary Keenan.
$10 Historical Society members, $15 nonmembers
Please note that due to construction at the Depot, Book Chats for the 2024-25 season will take place in the archives and Research Center at Munroe Tavern.