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Spring market on Saturday

LincFam will host a Spring Market at the Pierce House on Saturday, April 5 from 9:00am–1:00pm with local food, handmade jewelry and artworks, flowers, and folk music with Art Grossman. Click here for details on vendors.

COA&HS activities this month

For a full list of Council on Aging & Human Services events — including clinics, exercise classes, regular meetings of interest groups, and online chats with town officials — see the COAHS’s newsletter page. Call 781-259-8811 or email gagnea@lincolntown.org for Zoom links and other information.

• Lincoln’s Doo Wop group will host a concert and cereal drive on Thursday, April 10 at 3:30pm in Bemis Hall. Please bring boxes of cereal to benefit the Lincoln Food Pantry

• Ray Anthony Shepard, Lincoln’s representative to the Special Commission on the 250th Anniversary Celebration of the American Revolution, will read from his work-in-progress, The Forgotten Patriots of Color: A Story of Local Black & Brown Patriots, on Friday, April 11 at 12:30pm in Bemis Hall.

• “The Nettle Dress: A Tale of Love & Healing” (68 minutes) will be shown on Thursday, April 25 at 12:30pm. After the death of his beloved wife, textile artist Allan Brown spent seven years making a dress by hand just from the fiber of locally foraged stinging nettles.

Two plant sales coming up

• The ordering deadline for the Middlesex Conservation District’s 2025 Spring Plant Sale is Monday, April 21 with pickup and cash sale on Friday, May 2 from 4:00–7:00pm, and Saturday, May 3 from 9:00am–1:00pm at Farrington Nature Linc. Click here to order.

• The Lincoln Land Conservation Trust will hold its annual plant sale on Sunday, May 18 from 11:00am–1:00pm at Lincoln Station. There will be a selection of native perennials and shrubs for (no pre-orders) — click here to see the list of available plants. LLCT membership contributions support the sale and planting efforts on conservation land.

Third-grader wins statewide contest

xLincoln School third-grader Saige Hamilton has won the Massachusetts School Library Association’s statewide 2025 Bookmark Contest for second- and third-graders in Division 2. Saige is the daughter of Lincoln METCO director Marika Hamilton. Students from schools across the state submitted designs for a bookmark themed “Find Your Path in the Library.” It was the first time Lincoln School participated. 

Gropius House tour and walk

Come see “A New Kind of Architecture in Harmony with Nature” on a tour of the historic Gropius House (68 Baker Bridge Rd.) on Sunday, April 27 from 10:00–11:30am. Walter Gropius (1883-1969) founded the Bauhaus school that united art, nature, and technology. The tour of his 1938 Lincoln home followed by a walk in the grounds reveal design strategies that have returned to architectural importance for sustainable design in the 21st century. Click here for tickets.

Get ready for Club Codman

Dust off your wigs, platforms, and polyester because Club Codman is coming to Codman Farm on Saturday, May 31 at 8:00pm. It’s an adults-only dance party to benefit Codman Community Farms with great music and great drinks. Purchase tickets here.