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Hershey: Great American Chocolate Factory
Center at the Heights 300 Hillside Avenue, Needham Heights, MA, United StatesWhat better way to celebrate National Chocolate Day than by learning the history of Hershey Chocolate. We will watch the documentary Hershey: Great American Chocolate Factory and learn about the history, how the chocolate is made and other interesting facts you may not know. There will be a surprise treat made famous by Hershey Chocolate […]
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Open Meeting on Housing in Needham
Needham Public Library Community Room 1139 Highland Avenue, Needham, MA, United StatesThe Needham Housing Coalition wants to hear your thoughts about how Needham can address our housing crisis. The NHC is co-hosting this event with the Citizens’ Housing and Planning Association (CHAPA) as part of its Municipal Engagement Initiative (MEI). Our goal is to raise awareness and foster community engagement. Over the next year, Town Meeting […]
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 […]
White Christmas – No Pianist with Deb Block
Center at the Heights 300 Hillside Avenue, Needham Heights, MA, United StatesDo you recall the sheet music your parents or grandparents had tucked inside their piano benches? Those song sheets were produced and sold by “song pluggers” at Tin Pan Alley. Irving Berlin was one of those song pluggers. He composed and wrote the lyrics to I’m Dreaming of a White Christmas. In addition to learning […]