Embrace Boston

Needham Public Library Community Room 1139 Highland Avenue, Needham, MA, United States

Imari Paris Jeffries, president and CEO of Embrace Boston – the organization responsible for one of the nation’s newest and most powerful memorials to Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King – tells how the sculpture was conceived, created and received. Mr. Jeffries also discusses Embrace Boston’s ongoing work toward a more equitable city […]

A History of Boston

Needham History Center & Museum 1147 Central Ave., Needham, MA, United States

A talk by author Daniel Dain. February 4 at 2:00 pm at the Needham History Center. Boston is today one of the world’s greatest cities, first in higher education, hospitals, life science companies, and sports teams. It was the home of the Great Puritan Migration, the American Revolution, the Industrial Revolution, the first civil rights […]

Art Critique Night with Frank Costantino

Needham Public Library 1132 Highland Avenue, Needham, MA, United States

Please join Needham Art Association for an educational and engaging critique session of work by our members. Watercolor painter Frank Costantino will provide feedback based on visual impact, interpretative qualities of subject, color and value usage.  This event is free and open to the public, although only current NAA members may submit work to be […]

Free

School Committee Meeting

Broadmeadow Performance Center 120 Broadmeadow Road, Needham, MA, United States

The Needham School Committee meets at Broadmeadow School for a regular session. This program will air LIVE on the Needham Channel Education Channel and HD Channel.

Author Talk by Andrew Noone • Bathsheba Spooner: A Revolutionary Murder Conspiracy

Center at the Heights 300 Hillside Avenue, Needham Heights, MA, United States

Noone's book details the most sensational crime of the Revolution. The title character, when five months pregnant, was hanged (despite protests to Boston) alongside her three British and American accomplices. Spooner, John Adams’ second cousin, was the first woman executed in the new U.S., the instigator behind the nation’s premier capital case. Cost: Free To […]

Women’s Impact Network Morning Meetup

One Wingate Way 235 Gould Street, Needham

Join the Charles River Regional Chamber’s Women’s Impact Network for a morning networking event at One Wingate Way in Needham, MA. Make connections with professional women from throughout our region while enjoying coffee and light breakfast compliments of our hosts. Free, open to chamber members & nonmembers

Free

The History of the Baker Chocolate Company

Center at the Heights 300 Hillside Avenue, Needham Heights, MA, United States

In 1765, Dr. James Baker of Dorchester stumbled upon Irishman John Hannon crying on the banks of the mighty Neponset River. Hannon, though penniless, possessed the rare skills required to create chocolate, a delicacy exclusive to Europe, and Baker, with pockets bursting, wished to make a name for himself. Using a mill powered by the […]