Wellington Area Walking History Tours
Meet at the intersection of Riverside Ave and Middlesex Ave. Join Historian Dee Morris for a lively and informative tour of East Medford’s Wellington Area. Learn about the farmers, craftsmen, […]
Wellington Area Walking History Tours
Meet at the intersection of Riverside Ave and Middlesex Ave. Join Historian Dee Morris for a lively and informative tour of East Medford’s Wellington Area. Learn about the farmers, craftsmen, […]
Wellington Area Walking History Tours
Meet at the intersection of Riverside Ave and Middlesex Ave. Join Historian Dee Morris for a lively and informative tour of East Medford’s Wellington Area. Learn about the farmers, craftsmen, […]
Author Visit with Sarah Boyer
Join author Sarah Boyer as she talks about her work as the oral historian at the Cambridge Historical Commission and her new book “Coming Out, Becoming Ourselves: Lesbian Stories from […]
Here’s Early Wellington: A Community Focused on Success!
Join local historian Dee Morris as she explores the history of the Wellington neighborhood. Embracing the most eastern part of Medford, this neighborhood honors the Wellington brothers who farmed the […]
Database of the Month: Microfilm and Medford Daily Mercury Collection
Join Head of Reference Services, Zoey, to learn more about how to use the microfilm machine and how to access the Medford Daily Mercury Collection. Registration begins April 1. […]
The Power of Truth: Early Diversity in a Medford Neighborhood
Join historian Dee Morris as she introduces residents to the Revalyons: an early free Black family (1828) that lived in East Medford for many years. Their final resting place is […]
A Salem Witch with Daniel Gagnon
Historian Daniel A. Gagnon will discuss his recent biography of Salem Witch Trials victim Rebecca Nurse, A Salem Witch: The Trial, Execution, and Exoneration of Rebecca Nurse. The author will take questions from […]
A Boston Harbor Island Adventure with Stephanie Schorow
In 1891, four intrepid women from Lowell sailed to a remote island in Boston Harbor for a 17-day escape from New England’s prim and proper society. Calling themselves the Scribe, […]
The Story of Sarah Bradlee Fulton with Laura R. Duggan
“The Story of Sarah Bradlee Fulton” tells the story of Medford’s very own Revolutionary War Heroine. Nicknamed “The Mother of the Boston Tea Party,” Sarah both suggested and disguised the […]