On Tuesday, Nov. 18 at 6:00pm at the Concord Public Library and on Zoom, Leila Philip, author of Beaverland: How One Weird Rodent Made America, will speak about beavers, which play an outsized role in American history and its future. Sponsored by the Lincoln Land Conservation Trust, the Concord Land Conservation Trust, the Walden Woods Project, […]
Zach Fuerst, commercial director at Vineyard Offshore, will discuss the challenges facing the industry today and opportunities for the future in "Offshore Wind Energy: Overcoming Federal Headwinds" on Tuesday, Nov. 18 at 7:00pm via Zoom. For more information and registration, click here. Sponsored by Green Newton and CFREE, part of the Lincoln Green Energy Committee.
Give yourself a mental break and have some fun with other adults on Wednesday, Nov. 19 from 1:00–2:00pm in the Lincoln Public Library's Tarbell Room. All supplies are provided by the library. For ages 16+. Register here.
The Lincoln Film Society presents "Endless Summer Syndrome" (2023, directed by Kaveh Daneshmand; French with English subtitles) on Thursday, Nov. 20 at 6:00pm. A lazy late-summer weekend is disrupted by a shocking allegation when Delphine gets an anonymous call from her husband's colleague about an alleged affair with one of their adopted children.
The Walden Woods Project and Restore: The North Woods will co-host "Potential for Wolf Restoration in New England" with George Wuerthner on Thursday, Nov. 20 from 7:00–9:00pm on Zoom. Wuerthner will provide background on the Endangered Species Act as it relates to wolf restoration, how wolf restoration in Oregon and California has progressed, and its […]
Join the Lincoln Minute Men for a discussion with Lincoln resident Donald Hafner, author of Entangled Lives, Black and White: The Black Community, Enslaved and Free, in Eighteenth-century Lincoln, Massachusetts, on Sunday, Nov. 23 from 2:30–4:00pm in the Lincoln Public Library’s Tarbell Room. Copies of the book are available on reserve at the library or for purchase from the Lincoln […]
Like most star-crossed lovers, they came from vastly different worlds. Elaine Goodale, a white woman who grew up on a farm in the remotest part of the Berkshires, was a poet, writer, and teacher who’d come to the Dakota Territory in 1884 to teach Native American children. Ohíye S’a, or Charles Alexander Eastman, was […]
"The Teacher" Wednesday, Dec. 3 at 7:00pm, Bemis Hall Sunday, Dec. 7 at 1:30pm, Lincoln Public Library A Palestinian school teacher’s struggles to reconcile his commitment to political resistance with offering emotional support for his students and his romantic relationship with a volunteer worker. Directed by Farah Nabulsi. Presented by the GRALTA Foundation.
“Nothing Solid,” a semi-autobiographical, medical dark comedy based on Sharisse Zeroonian’s real-life experience with cyclic vomiting syndrome (a rare neurological brain-gut disorder), will be screened on Thursday, Dec. 4 at 6:00pm at the Lincoln Public Library. Zeroonian will be on hand to answer questions. Open to ages 16+.
Lincoln’s WordsMove Theater presents “Holiday Stories You Haven’t Heard,” a series of short, mostly humorous staged readings on Christmas and Hanukkah themes, on two dates in Lincoln: Friday, Dec. 5 at 12:30pm, Bemis Hall Thursday, Dec. 11 at 6:30pm, Lincoln Public Library Tarbell Room See www.wordsmove.org for play and cast details as well as additional […]
The First Parish in Lincoln will host its annual Touch of Christmas Fair on Saturday, Dec. 6 from 10:00am–1:00pm in the stone church. Browse decorated wreaths, centerpieces, and other Christmas decorations as well as jewelry from every decade, antiques and collectibles, handmade sweater mittens, stocking stuffers et al at the "re-gifting" table, and a children-only […]
Come to a workshop to make a holiday wreath from array of lush evergreen boughs on Saturday, Dec. 6 from 2:30-4:00pm inside the deCordova Museum. All materials provided. Click here to purchase tickets.