Reposted from HuffPost By Maria Madison, ScD Whether through a painting, artifact or object, thoughtful museums and historic sites share…
A recent New York Times article, “‘Sisterhood’ Felt Meaningless. So My Sisters and I Got in the Car.” details the road trip taken by three sisters to women’s history sites in search of feminism in our current political climate – ending with the story of Ellen Garrison at the Robbins House.
The Robbins House recently installed a timeline of the long Civil Rights movement listing local, state and national events. We invite visitors to let us know what current events they’d add, since our timeline ends in 2017 but will stand in front of the Robbins House for years to come. Much has happened just in the few months since the outdoor exhibit was installed. Here is a response we just received:
Two hundred years after Henry David Thoreau’s birth, a distinguished panel considered Thoreau’s lessons for today’s environmental policy, civil disobedience, and our relationships with the natural world. Laura Dassow Walls highlighted the event with her new biography, Henry David Thoreau: A Life.
September 2017
Emma Hodgdon, who has interned for The Robbins House for two summers now, returns to her junior year as an English major at Tufts University next week.
Robbins House board members attended the 2017 Conference of the Association of African American Museums in Washington DC, thanks to our Institute for Museum and Library Services grant.
While visiting California last week, Robbins House president Maria Madison took time out to visit the Mountainview Cemetery in Pasadena / Altadena, where we knew Ellen Garrison was buried. Here’s what she found out…
Many people know Jayne Gordon as the Concord historian, leading tours around town, answering questions and conducting classes that focus on the town’s rich history. But as those who know her would be quick to point out, Concord historian is much too narrow a description for who she is and what she does…
