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January 1, Tuesday, 11:30am – 1pm, First Flag Raising, at Prospect Hill, 93 Highland Avenue, City Hall Concourse, Somerville, Massachusetts. Presented by the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Massachusetts. Family Friendly.
January 5, Saturday, 10am, New Visitor Tour of the New England Historic Genealogical Society, 99 – 101 Newbury Street, Boston, Massachusetts. FREE to the public, orientation and tour of the NEHGS research facility. No need to be a member. Attendees are welcome to stay and use the library following the tour. No registration necessary.
January 5, Saturday, noon, Getting The Most From Your DNA Results, at the East Bridgewater Public Library, 32 Union Street, East Bridgewater, Massachusetts. Hosted by the Plymouth County Genealogists, Inc., and presented by Richard Reid.
January 5, Saturday, 2pm, The History of the Warren House, at the Jamaica Plain Branch Library, 30 South Street, Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts. Presented by the Jamaica Plain Historical Society and Maddie Webster, PhD Student at Boston University. Free to the public.
January 8, Tuesday, 6:30pm, The Crusade for Women’s Suffrage, at the Exeter Historical Society, 47 Front Street, Exeter, New Hampshire. www.exeterhistory.org Curator Barbara Rimkunas will present the suffrage and anti-suffrage women’s movements of the early twentieth century. Refreshments at 6:30. Program at 7pm. $5 suggested donation.
January 9, Wednesday, 6pm, The Family Tree Toolkit: A Conversation with Kenyatta D. Berry, at the New England Historic Genealogical Society, 99 – 101 Newbury Street, Boston, Massachusetts. FREE to the public, with book sales and book signing, with a reception to follow. Register here: https://my.americanancestors.org/single/eventDetail.aspx?p=984
January 10, Thursday, 5:30pm, “I am an honest woman”: Female Revolutionary Resistance along the New England Seacoast, at the Newport Historical Society Resource Center, 82 Touro Street, Newport, Rhode Island. Presented by Dr. Emily Murphy of the Salem Maritime National Historic Site. Free to the public. Snow date January 24.
January 11, Friday, 8pm, Twelfth Night Ball, at the Wayside Inn, Sudbury, Massachusetts. Sponsored by the Sudbury Companies of Militia and Minute, with music by the Colonial Minstrels with Jacob Bloom calling the dances. $40 per couple, $20 per person at the door. $32 per couple, $16 per person if you prepay before January 9th by sending a check to Sudbury Companies of Militia and Minute, PO Box 187, Sudbury, MA 01776. Reservations for dinner at the Inn may be made by calling 978-443-1776.
January 12, Saturday, 10am – noon, DNA Interest Group: Genetic Genealogy Standards, at the American Canadian Genealogy Society, 4 Elm Street, Manchester, New Hampshire. Members free, non-members $5. WiFi available, bring your own laptop. Please park in the ACGS’s designated spaces. Questions? Email acgs@acgs.org with DNA in the subject line.
January 12, Saturday, 1:30pm, Women’s Work: Grandma Ran a Boarding House and Momma Brewed Beer, at the Wayland Public Library, 5 Concord Road, Wayland, Massachusetts. Presented by genealogist Charlene Sokal, sponsored by the Massachusetts Society of Genealogists, Middlesex Chapter. Free to the public.
January 12, 19 and 26, Saturdays, 2pm – 4pm, Building Your Genealogical Skills, at the New England Historic Genealogical Society, 99 – 101 Newbury Street, Boston, Massachusetts. $75. Presented by Ann Lawthers. Register here: https://my.americanancestors.org/single/eventDetail.aspx?p=970
January 12, Saturday, 1pm – 4pm, Twelfth Night Stories, at the Lafayette- Durfee House, 94 Cherry Street, Fall River, Massachusetts. Come learn about the colonial tradition of Twelfth Night. Family Friendly.
January 12, Saturday, 1:30pm, Women’s Work: Grandma Ran a Boarding House and Momma Brewed Beer, at the Wayland Public Library, 5 Concord Road, Wayland, Massachusetts. Sponsored by the Middlesex Chapter of the Massachusetts Society of Genealogists http://msoginc.org Free to the public. Presented by genealogist Charlene Key Sokal.
January 12, Saturday, 6pm, The Great Gatsby Ball, at the Fairmont Copley Plaza, 138 Saint James Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts. Tickets $75 ($125 VIP) from vintagedancers.org The ball will include dance classes with popular 1920s dances, live music, amusements and performances from the 1920s, small bites, and a cash bar.
January 15, Tuesday, noon, Connecticut Architecture: Stories of 100 Places, at the Connecticut Old State House, 800 Main Street, Hartford, Connecticut. Presented by architectural historian Christopher Wigren. Free to the public.
January 15, Tuesday, 5:15pm, Camp Benson and the “GAR Camps”: Recreational Landscapes of Civil War Memory in Maine 1886 – 1910, at the Massachusetts Historical Society, 1154 Boylston Street, Boston, Massachusetts. Presented by C. Ian Stevenson of Boston University, with comments by Ian Delahanty of Springfield College. Free to the public. Registration required at seminars@masshist.org of call 617-646-0579.
January 15, Tuesday, 6pm, Dark Tide: The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919, at the Boston Public Library, Rabb Lecture Hall, 700 Boylston Street, Boston, Massachusetts. Presented by author Stephen Puleo on the anniversary of the Great Molasses Flood on January 15, 1919. Free to the public.
January 15, Tuesday, 7pm, Benedict Arnold: Patriot and Traitor? At the Merrimack Public Library, 470 Daniel Webster Highway, Merrimack, New Hampshire. Presented by George Morrison. Free to the public.
January 16, Wednesday, 10am, New Visitor Tour, 99 – 101 Newbury Street, Boston, Massachusetts. FREE to the public, orientation and tour of the NEHGS research facility. No need to be a member. Attendees are welcome to stay and use the library following the tour. No registration necessary.
January 16, Wednesday, 6pm, Cummings Center Walking Tour 1, at the Cummings Center, Beverly, Massachusetts. Walk and step back in time through the history of the United Shoe Machinery Company. There will be 15 stops on the first floor of the 100 building. Meet at the corner of Acapulco's. $10 non-members, free for members of Historic Beverly.
January 18, Friday, 7pm, Plimoth After Dark: Pens & Pints, at Plimoth Plantation, 137 Warren Avenue, Plymouth, Massachusetts. $15 members, $18 non-members. Tickets at www.plimoth.org
January 20, Sunday, 2pm, Genealogy: Researching the History of Your House, at the Portsmouth Public Library, 175 Parrott Avenue, Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Presented by genealogist and house historian Marian Pierre-Louis, sponsored by the Ranger Chapter of the DAR. Free to the public.
January 21, Monday, 10am - 5pm, MLK Day Open House at MFA Boston, at the Museum of Fine Arts, 465 Huntington Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts. Surround yourself with history, art and culture with an array of programs, performances and activities for all ages. Family friendly. Tours in Spanish and American Sign Language will take place throughout the day. Tickets at www.mfa.org
January 21, Monday, 10am, MLK Day 2019: Walking the Afro-Am Heritage Trail, at the Sojourner Truth Memorial Park, Park Street, Northampton, Massachusetts. Family Friendly. Free to the public.
January 21, Monday, 1pm, A Day of Celebration and Service in Honor of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., at Mecalf Hall, George Sherman Union, Boston University, 775 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts. Presented by Mayor Martin J. Walsh, Boston Youth Symphony Orchestras, The Museum of African American History, and Boston University. Free to the public.
January 22, Tuesday, 4:30pm, Stories of the Millyard, at the Manchester Historic Association Millyard Museum, 200 Bedford Street, Manchester, New Hampshire. Ralph Sidore will share the rise of Pandora Industries, his family's business, which settled in Manchester in 1940. At its peak Pandora turned out 60,000 knitted sweaters a week. Free to the public. Please register in advance at this link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/stories-of-the-millyard-tickets-54353368388
January 22, Tuesday, 7pm, Lest We Forget – Marlborough’s Contribution to WWI, at the Peter Rice Homestead, 377 Elm Street, Marlborough, Massachusetts. Presented by the Marlborough Historical Society and Bob Kane. Free to the public.
January 23, Wednesday, 6pm, Privateer Trail Virtual Walking Tour, at Historic Beverly, 117 Cabot Street, Beverly, Massachusetts. Experience a walking tour from the comfort of the museum at Memorial Hall in the Cabot House. Journey through Beverly (virtually!) to visit the homes and businesses of some of Beverly's most famous privateers. $10 for non-members, free for members of Historic Beverly.
January 23, Wednesday, 6:30pm, New England Lighthouses and the People Who Kept Them, at the Rye Public Library, 581 Washington Road, Rye, New Hampshire. Presented by Jeremy D’Entremont. Free to the public.
January 26, Saturday, 9:30 – 3pm, Thirty Years of the Great Migration Study Project, at the New England Historic Genealogical Society, 99 – 101 Newbury Street, Boston, Massachusetts. Presented by Robert Charles Anderson, Ian Watson, and Peter Van Demark. Cost $85. Morning refreshments and lunch included. The seminar will end from 3:30 – 4:30 (FREE) with a book sale and book signing of the newest book in the series Puritan Pedigrees: The Deep Roots of the Great Migration to New England. Register here: https://my.americanancestors.org/single/eventDetail.aspx?p=971
January 26, Saturday 10am - 1pm, Hardcore Hearth Cooking with Kathleen Wall, at Plimoth Plantion, 137 Warren Avenue, Plymouth, Massachusetts. $140 members, $215 nonmembers. Tickets at www.plimoth.org Learn how to prepare a 17th century meal in one of the reproduction 17th century homes.
January 26, Saturday, 1pm, New England Quilts and the Stories They Tell, at the Abbott Library 11 Soonipi Circle, Sunapee, New Hampshire. Presented by Pam Weeks. Participants are invited to bring one quilt for identification and/or story telling. Free to the public.
January 26, Saturday, 2pm, Harp Program Celebrating Robert Burns – Burns Day, at the Kimball Jenkins Estate, 266 North Main Street, Concord, New Hampshire. Celebrate your Scots heritage with NHSCOT. Jane Wilcox Hively and Jonathan Hively will perform. This is part of NHSCOT’s Scottish Heritage Lecture Series. Free to the public. Contact info@nhscot.org with questions.
January 26, Saturday, Hardcore Hearth Cooking, at Plimoth Plantation, Plymouth, Massachusetts. Presented by culinarian Kathleen Wall. $140 for members, $215 for non-members. Purchase tickets at www.plimoth.org contact ccoleman@plimoth.org
January 27, February 24, and March 24, Native Voices: Recovering American Histories, at Historic Deerfield, 80 Old Main Street, Deerfield, Massachusetts. A winter free lecture series. Tickets at www.historic-deerfield.org
January 27, Sunday, 2pm, Songs of Emigration: Storytelling Through Traditional Irish Music, at the Tucker Free Library 31 Western Avenue, Henniker, New Hampshire. Presented by musician Jordan Tirrell-Wysocki. Free to the public.
January 27, Sunday, 3pm, Colonel Robert Gould Shaw: From Brook Farm to Glory, at the Theodore Parker Unitarian Universalist Church, 1859 Centre St., West Roxbury, Massachusetts. Join historian Richard Smith for an entertaining lecture on the life of Robert Gould Shaw, the commander of the 54th Massachusetts Colored Infantry, hero of the 1989 movie “Glory”. Sponsored by the New Brook Farm Association.
January 27, Sunday, 4pm, Liberty is Our Motto!: Songs and Stories of the Hutchinson Family Singers, at the Congregational Church of Amherst, 11 Church Street, Amherst, New Hampshire. Presented by Steve Blunt as John Hutchinson. Free to the public.
January 29, Tuesday, 6:30pm, “In Flew Enza”: The 1918 Flu Epidemic, at the Richard Salter Storrs Library, 693 Longmeadow Street, Longmeadow, Massachusetts. Presented by the Longmeadow Historical Society, with Reba Jean Shaw-Pichette, the curator of the Shelburne Historical Society Museum. Free to the public. Please register at www.longmeadowlibrary.org
January 31, Thursday, 6pm, The Great Molasses Flood Revisted: Misremembered Molasses, at the Old South Meeting House, 310 Washington Street, Boston, Massachusetts. Tickets at www.masshist.org Sponsored by the Massachusetts Historical Society and the Old South Meetinghouse. Pre-talk reception at 5:30. Free to the public, pre-registration recommended. Funded by the Lowell Institute.
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