Revolutionary Valley Regional Tourism Council

Native Gardens By Karen Zacarías Directed by Giovanna Sardelli
2023-01-09 19:00 - 21:00, 2023-01-10 19:00 - 21:00, 2023-01-11 19:00 - 21:00, 2023-01-12 19:00 - 21:00, 2023-01-13 19:00 - 21:00, 2023-01-14 19:00 - 21:00, 2023-01-15 19:00 - 21:00, 2023-01-16 19:00 - 21:00 UTC and 4 more dates | Merrimack Repertory Theatre, 50 E Merrimack St, Lowell, MA, 01852, United States
Good fences make good neighbors . . . right?

A millennial, Latinx couple moves in next door to a white, baby boomer couple in Karen Zacarías’ topical new comedy. After some good-natured ribbing over gardening styles–traditional designs versus the eco-friendlier native plants–the couples find themselves at odds over an unexpected property line dispute. A dispute that explodes into a host of verbal jabs and blows over race, culture, privilege, and the meaning of neighborly behavior.

Liberty and Loyalty: Embroidered Coats of Arms in an Age of Revolution
2023-01-10 18:00 - 19:30 (America/New_York) | Concord Museum, Concord Museum, 53 Cambridge Tpke, Concord, MA, 01742, United States
In 1775, Mary Jones of Weston Massachusetts watched her life collapse around her as her family, all supporters of the British Crown, fled their homes and had their immense fortune confiscated during the Revolution. Among what she had left to remember them was a mostly finished needlework sampler displaying the Jones family coat of arms. Years later, she returned to Massachusetts and settled in Concord, where this sampler now resides in the collection of the Concord Museum.
Erica Lome, PhD, Associate Curator at Historic New England, uses this needlework as a starting point to survey the history of embroidered coats of arms worked in Boston in the late eighteenth century. More than an accomplishment of a genteel education, heraldic needlework was created by young women to document their family genealogy, a practice that endured through war, exile, and independence. Join us to hear more stories about needlework, women, family, and legacy in an age of Revolution.
Please register in advance for this program.
Featured Image: Needlework by Mary Jones, 1760-1770. Concord Museum Collection, Gift of Cummings E. Davis; T900.

Reckoning with Monuments in the North: A Conversation with W. Ralph Eubanks
2023-01-18 19:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | Concord Museum, Concord Museum, 53 Cambridge Tpke, Concord, MA, 01742, United States
Though there are no statues honoring the Confederacy to be found in Boston and Cambridge, award-winning author W. Ralph Eubanks discusses the historic memorials that obscure the achievements of Black Americans. Join us for a wide-ranging conversation with the Mississippi native on his experience spending a year surrounded by the monuments of the American North and his recently published book, A Place Like Mississippi, on the landscape and literature of his homeland .
W. Ralph Eubanks is the author of A Place Like Mississippi, published in 2021 by Timber Press. A Place Like Mississippi takes readers on a complete tour of the real and imagined landscapes of Mississippi that have inspired generations of authors. This is a book that honors and explores the landscape of Mississippi and the Magnolia State’s history and reveals the many ways this landscape has informed the work of some of America’s most treasured authors.
Forums are supported in part by the Sally Lanagan Fund.
Please register online in advance at https://concordmuseum.org/events/reckoning-with-monuments/

Letters From Home
2023-01-18 19:00 - 2023-02-05 21:00, 2023-01-19 19:00 - 2023-02-06 21:00, 2023-01-20 20:00 - 22:00 (America/New_York) | Merrimack Repertory Theatre, Merrimack Repertory Theatre, 50 E Merrimack St, Lowell, MA, 01852, United States
EAST COAST PREMIERE: With humor, passion, and a touch of Shakespeare, Kalean Ung weaves together her Cambodian family’s refugee story with her own as a bi-racial, second-generation American. Inspired by family member’s letters sent to her father from refugee camps after the Cambodian genocide, Letters from Home unearths the myths and mysteries of her family’s past as a ritual for intergenerational healing.

Lincoln Memorial Illustrated Family Program
2023-01-21 10:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York) | Concord Museum, Concord Museum, 53 Cambridge Tpke, Concord, MA, 01742, United States
Drop by the Concord Museum’s Lyceum to learn about monuments and leaders through sculpture and drawing.
Stop in to see the Museum’s current exhibition, The Lincoln Memorial Illustrated. One of the most revered and visited sites in Washington, D.C. and in the nation, the Lincoln Memorial is now a century old. Dedicated on May 30, 1922, it was designed by architect Henry Bacon and Concord sculptor Daniel Chester French, and it has served as a gathering place for some of the most significant and symbolic events of the past one hundred years. It has come to represent the nation’s hopes and challenges, providing an iconic backdrop for civic expression relating to democracy and human rights. To celebrate its centennial, this exhibition explores the planning and construction of the Lincoln Memorial through illustrations, sculpture, archival materials, and ephemera, and it traces its role as a symbolic site in illustrations, political cartoons, and popular culture.
Free with Museum admission. Members visit free.
