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Needham History Center & Museum
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Going Back to T-Town
Needham History Center & Museum 1147 Central Ave., Needham, MA, United StatesA book talk with author Carmen Fields. October 11 - 7:00pm Needham History Center 1147 Central Avenue, Needham Countless young people in the Midwest, South, and Southwest went to dances and stage shows in the early to mid-twentieth century to hear the territory bands play. Territory bands traveled from town to town, performing jazz and […]
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“Remember Me to All the Friends”
Needham History Center & Museum 1147 Central Ave., Needham, MA, United StatesIn 1862, George W. Harwood of North Brookfield enlisted for three years with the 36th Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteers. This book is the collection of letters he wrote home. His regiment traveled with the 9th Corps under General Ambrose E. Burnside through MD, VA, KY, MS, and TN. The 9th Corps was sometimes referred to […]
Global History with Dr. Lanny Bruce Fields: Su Shi and Aging
Center at the Heights 300 Hillside Avenue, Needham Heights, MA, United StatesSu Shi (1037-1101) is widely regarded as one of the most accomplished figures in Chinese Literature. Join us for this fascinating program highlighting the life of the Chinese calligrapher, essayist, gastronome, pharmacologist, poet, politician, and travel writer during the Song dynasty. Dr. Fields is a history professor who taught at California State University at San […]
The USS Bunker Hill with Bob Begin
Center at the Heights 300 Hillside Avenue, Needham Heights, MA, United StatesThe USS Bunker Hill was an aircraft carrier which saw extensive action in the Pacific during World War Two. Built in Quincy, MA and launched one year after the attack on Pearl Harbor, she would be the victim of Kamikaze attacks off Okinawa on May 11,1945. Suffering heavy casualties and damage, her crew would keep […]
Michael Brophy Presents The Orphan Train Movement
Center at the Heights 300 Hillside Avenue, Needham Heights, MA, United StatesFrom 1854 to 1929, over 200,000 children were transported by train from New York to the Midwest and beyond and adopted by new families. The program was organized by reformers in New York in an attempt to both remove them from the squalor and poverty of the city and help provide labor for farms out […]
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The Boston Tea Party – in Boston, and also Needham!
Needham History Center & Museum 1147 Central Ave., Needham, MA, United StatesA talk by Gloria Greis. December 10th at 2:00 pm. at the Needham History Center, 1147 Central Avenue. On the night of December 16, 1773, a group of thinly-disguised Sons of Liberty swarmed onto the ships in Boston harbor and threw the costly chests of tea overboard, in protest to the new British tea tax. […]