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The Society asks the Tewksbury residents/members to attend and vote.
The Tewksbury Historical Society is a non-profit tax-exempt organization and cannot comment or endorse any vote of town meeting.
We do have as our mission to preserve Tewksbury history, to educate the people about Tewksbury history and to help people research Tewksbury history.
Tewksbury Public Schools Community Services Adult Education Division & Tewksbury Historical Society Offer to residents and school staff
"Pre-history to 1799" Local Tewksbury History {Course#5 - Instructor: Dave Marcus}
· Native American history · Pre-Tewksbury era · Founding of British Tewksbury · Massachusetts Revolutionary War - Battles of Lexington/Concord, Bunker Hill, & Evacuation Day This course will meet four evening in a classroom plus three field trips. While this is tailored to Community Education students ($60.00), a single (1) graduate school credit from Endicott College is offered ($140.00) to anyone interested.
Classes: Thursdays, May 17, 24, 31, June 7 6:30-8:30pm, Room B-13 TMHS Field Trips: Saturdays, May 19, 25-31*, June 2 10:00am - 3:00pm *Self guided field trip anytime May 25 - May 31
Some field trips may charge admission to various museums visited. Transportation is the responsibility of the students.
2012 Membership Drive Renew your membership! Please Click Here to print out a membership form and return it to: Tewksbury Historical Society P.O. Box 522 Tewksbury, MA 01876 Spring Fundraiser for the Building and Acquisition Fund "Henry David Thoreau Visits" Saturday, May 19, 2012 Tewksbury Senior Center 7:00 p.m. Ticket Prices: $9.00 per person. Groups of 10 or more bought in advance: $7.00 per person. Reservations may be made at TewksburyHistoricalSociety@MSN.com . Reserved tickets may be paid and picked up at the "WILL CALL" table. They may also be purchased in advanced at the Local History Room on any Tuesday from 3:30pm to 5:30pm. Proceeds will go to the Society's Building Acquisition Fund. This icon of Massachusetts and national history will be brought to life as he discusses his thoughts in Thoreau's first book, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers. Thoreau attended Harvard College starting at age 16 saving $5.00 by refusing his diploma. He stated, "Education often makes a straight-cut ditch out of a free meandering brook." Thoreau was fully admitted into that inner circle of which Emerson, Alcott, and Margaret Fuller were the leaders. Thoreau wrote his first book, "A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers" and it was published in 1849. Louisa May Alcott said, "The book is purely American, fragrant with the life of New England woods and streams and could have been written nowhere else." Richard Smith will bring to life the character of Thoreau who went down past Tewksbury during his eight days on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers of old Tewksbury. The MCC and the Tewksbury Cultural Council support this historical theatrical presentation.
Tewksbury Historic Gallery Opening Jon Ryan's Pub - Tuesday, June 5th, 2012 - 6:00pm
19th Annual Meeting of the Tewksbury Historical Society DATE CHANGE: Monday June 25, 2012 6:00 p.m. Location; Tewksbury Library Guest Speaker Keith Rauseo - General Ames Time in Tewksbury Open and free to the public
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