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Codman Estate arts fair on Saturday

The annual Codman Estate Fine Arts & Crafts Festival takes place on Saturday, Sept. 10 from 10 am. – 4 p.m. Now in its 40th year, the event features the work of nearly 100 local artisans. Work includes painting, woodworking, food products, jewelry, photography, glass, clothing, metalwork, and more. Enjoy live entertainment, a food court, and first-floor tours of the Codman Estate. Member tickets are free; nonmember tickets are $5. Click here to buy tickets.

Author talk by Anita Harris

“The View from Third Street: Anita Harris and the Harrisburg Independent Press: is the title of an author talk at the Lincoln Public Library on Saturday, Oct. 1 at 3 p.m. The View From Third Street is an unconventional memoir draws on Harris’s experiences as cofounder of the Harrisburg Independent Press, a weekly alternative newspaper that covered the 1972 trial of the Harrisburg Seven — nuns and priests stood accused of conspiring to kidnap Presidential Advisor Henry Kissinger and blow up underground heating tunnels in Washington, D.C. A limited number of autographed copies will be available for purchase. Refreshment will be served.

Lyric opera concert at Gropius House

The Gropius House will host “Lyric Opera Revisited: A Musical Evening with Ben Schwendener and Carley De Franco” on Sunday, Oct. 2 from 4:30–6:00 p.m. The Gropius family enjoyed a wide variety of musical genres including innovative interpretations of classical music. Enjoy an evening of music with opera singer Carley DeFranco and pianist Ben Schwendener, whose sounds combine lyrical operatic improvisations based on natural geometric design, contemporary poetry, and Bach are some elements serving their inspired sound. Click here to buy tickets (members $65, nonmembers $75).

Sing in the First Parish choir

Residents are invited to sing for the First Parish in Lincoln choir, which meets every Thursday night from 7-8:30 p.m. in the parish hall (stone church) and Sunday mornings at 9 a.m. The choir welcomes those of high school age and older from all religious backgrounds and abilities. The anthems draw from diverse genres including sacred harp, gospel, Renaissance, baroque, contemporary, jazz, and folk. Singers use masks unless they take a rapid test at the start of rehearsal. For more information, email mirandaloud574@gmail.com. 

Lincoln’s Beekman wins recognition

Emily P. Beekman of Lincoln was included in the 2023 edition of the Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch in America for her work in elder law, litigation – trusts and estates, and trusts and estates.  She was first listed in 2021. Beekman is an associate in Mirick O’Connell’s trusts and estates group with a focus in estate planning, estate and trust administration, and tax planning. 

Locke awarded deCordova’s Rappaport Prize

Steve Locke is the winner of the deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum’s Rappaport Prize. Spanning painting, drawing, sculpture, and installation, Locke’s artistic practice critically addresses the history of western art and interrogates the connections between desire, identity, and violence. Locke has exhibited extensively, including solo exhibitions at the Institute for Contemporary Art in Boston and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, where he showed Three Deliberate Greys for Freddie: A Memorial for Freddie Gray (2019). Locke, a professor of fine art at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, N.Y., received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2020. A free lecture is planned at the deCordova in spring 2023.