Native Gardens By Karen Zacarías Directed by Giovanna Sardelli
2022-12-28 19:00 - 21:00, 2022-12-29 19:00 - 21:00, 2022-12-30 19:00 - 21:00, 2022-12-31 19:00 - 21:00, 2023-01-01 19:00 - 21:00, 2023-01-02 19:00 - 21:00, 2023-01-03 19:00 - 21:00, 2023-01-04 19:00 - 21:00 UTC and 7 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.
