Attend the historic cocktail party of the year! Enjoy drinks and hors d'oeuvres, take guided tours of the exhibits, and listen to museum educators and reenactors discussing more intriguing topics of the 18th-century. Alcohol production [...]
Travel back in time and immerse yourself in crafts and activities from different decades. Try your hand at string art, decoupage, shrinky dinks, woven keychains, and more! Plus play with LEGOs, explore the museum, and [...]
Welcome to Historic Newton's Newton House Tour! Each year, Historic Newton presents the Newton House Tour to showcase historic homes in the city. Each private residence is carefully selected by a committee to exhibit how [...]
Welcome to Historic Newton's Newton House Tour! Each year, Historic Newton presents the Newton House Tour to showcase historic homes in the city. Each private residence is carefully selected by a committee to exhibit how [...]
Join us for a public reading of Frederick Douglass’ powerful address “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?”. Bring a picnic blanket, lawn chairs, and snacks to enjoy on the back lawn of [...]
In commemoration of the 250th anniversary of the American Revolution, walk through the city’s oldest burying ground to see the final resting places of Newtonians who were active in the conflict. Learn about General Michael [...]
Join us for a free, family-friendly day of fall fun! At Historic Newton’s Hayfest, travel back in time to 19th century Newton as you dip candles, press apples, churn butter, play games, and more. Registration [...]
Join Historic Newton, West Newton Cinema, and Newton Cultural Alliance for a film showing and panel discussion of the original film “An Uncommon Education: The Allen School”. The panel will feature key members of the [...]
Visit Newton’s oldest burying ground to explore a significant collection of colonial-era headstones and learn about funerary customs in New England. We will discuss the evolution of gravestone art, along with changing attitudes toward death [...]
Experience the historic Newton Cemetery, an important example of 19th-century rural cemetery design, and learn about the art and culture of mourning in the Victorian Era. We will see a variety of elaborate funeral monuments [...]
Since the time of first interactions between English settlers and the Native peoples of the Dawnland, the settler colonial project has focused on the continued dispossession of Indigenous homelands. Early land deed or transfer documents [...]
Many of us learn about school desegregation in the context of the mid-twentieth-century South: Brown v. Board of Education, Ruby Bridges, and the Little Rock Nine. Yet a century before that, young Black women in [...]