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Learn about upcoming events at the Harvard Historical Society or relive past events. Watch the pictures or the video record when available.
Harvard in the Revolution: A Cemetery Tour
Hear Harvard soldiers tell their stories.Saturday May 31, 2025
1:00 pm - 4:00 pm
(Rain date: June 1, 2025)
At the Harvard Center Cemetery, MA 01451
$5 Donation appreciated to support our public programming
There will be tours at 1:00 and 2:30 pm. No advance registration needed, but reservations for a particular timed tour can be made by emailing curator@harvardhistory.org
A Living History Cemetery Tour highlights Harvard soldiers in the Revolution. After an overview showing Harvard’s growing resistance to the British, hear six Harvard soldiers tell their stories of patriotism, unity, and endurance.
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Muskets and Minutemen: Arms of the Colonial Soldiers
An illustrated talk by Ed Sterling and Keith Hatfield.Was on
Thursday April 17, 2025
At the Harvard Historical Society, 215 Still River Road, Harvard MA 01451
Discover the muskets and rifles that were used during the American Revolution by the British and the Colonists. An illustrated talk by Ed Sterling and Keith Hatfield.
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Annual Meeting and Organ Concert 2024
Gavin Klein plays the Historic George Stevens OrganWas on
Tuesday December 17, 2024
At the Harvard Historical Society, 215 Still River Road, Harvard MA 01451
On Tuesday evening December 17, 2024, a Holiday Organ Concert follows our Annual Meeting. 7:00 for Annual Meeting, 7:30 for Concert.
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Presidential Pops 2024
October 23, 2024
Harvard on ABC 5 Chronicle
October 3, 2024
Hildreth Inventions History
September 26, 2024
History and Stories from Clinton Shores
June 9, 2024
Historic House Renovation
May 9, 2024
The Harvard Shakers, their barns and the worst agricultural land in Harvard
April 11, 2024
Mozart and Marteney Program and Annual Meeting
December 6, 2023
250th anniversary of the Boston Tea Party
September 9, 2023
Hildreth Second Graders Become Town Historians
June 22, 2023
Harvard in the First Half of the 20th Century
May 18, 2023
The Creation of the Wachusett Reservoir
April 27, 2023
The Cultural Landscape of the Harvard Shakers. What has Vanished and What Remains
October 20, 2022
Firefighting, Past and Present
September 15, 2022
Shaker Open House
June 26, 2022
Shaker Hidden Treasure
May 22, 2022
Organ Recital by Gavin Klein
May 15, 2022
Autoneers Frostbite Tour
October 17, 2021
L’Acadie!
October 8, 2021
A Common History Day
September 25, 2021
