Our new “Untold Stories” exhibition explores the perspectives of often-overlooked communities involved and examines how the people of the Commonwealth commemorated, memorialized, and celebrated the important anniversaries of the first battle of the American Revolutionary War.
A panel discussion of the background and narrative of Kurt Russell shining a celebrity light on the Jason Russell House, from the players who made the visit a success. AHS Members: FREE Non-members: $10 Tuesday, April 28, 2026 7:30 p.m. – 7 Jason Street
This colorful, illustrated lecture on the Fessenden water-powered spice mill—which operated on Arlington’s Mill Brook in the mid-1800s—delivers surprising insights into the products, processes, and people of this long-forgotten enterprise. Arlington Historian Richard A. Duffy will present examples of both medicinal and culinary botanicals to anchor this business history, engaging the audience with aspects ranging […]
Often have been told in detail the bloody events that took place in Menotomy (Arlington) on the first day of the American Revolution. But how did Menotomy, then a rural precinct of Cambridge, recover from the shocking episodes and carry on while war was still raging mere miles away in Boston? AHS Members: FREE Non-members: […]
Hear the results of George Parsons’s research on our tusk-is it a mastodon or a wooly mammoth? AHS Members: FREE Non-members: $10 Tuesday, December 2, 2025 7:30 p.m. – 7 Jason Street George Parsons