Join us on Thursday, Dec 18 and explore the compelling story of the Anti-Profanity League (APL), a unique social reform movement born in South Shore Massachusetts at the turn of the 20th century presented by historian Evan Christensen!
Celebrate the last of #Quincy400 with us at the Thomas Crane Public Library on Tuesday, December 2 from 6:30 – 8 PM with geologist Kevin Czaja as we get up close and personal with the Library’s very own Charles A. Claflin Geological and Mineral Specimen Collection & the F. Wesley Fuller Geological Specimens Collection!
Join us at the Main Library on Tuesday, Oct 21 from 6 – 8 PM for a history talk from author and historian Laurence Cotton on iconic landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted.
Join us at the Main Library on Saturday, October 25 from 2 – 4 PM as we welcome back Joe Alberti and Genoa Davidson who will speak about their forthcoming play, My Dearest Friend, which depicts the life of John and Abigail Adams based on their letters.
Join us at the Main Library on Wednesday, October 29 from 6 – 7:30 PM as City of Quincy’s Director of Historic and Heritage Resources, Bob Damon, and Quincy Historical Society’s Executive Director, Alexandra Elliot, discuss a history of Quincy eats! Attendees are invited to bring a favorite culinary memory from Quincy (max 60 words please) and Alexandra and Bob will share some of them out at the end of the program.
Join us at the Main Library on Thursday, October 30 from 7 – 8:30 PM for a local history and medical talk presented by the Abigail Adams Historical Society (AAHS), stewards of the birthplace of Abigail Adams, on “Abigail Adams Smith and the Historic Treatment of Breast Cancer in Colonial America” with expert, Dr. David Jones.
Join us at the Main Library on Thursday, November 6 from 6 – 7 PM as author Mary Lahaj shares a previously untold chapter of Quincy’s rich history — one rooted in perseverance, faith, and community. Her book traces the journey of her family’s immigrant generation and the first-born American generation as they worked together to realize a dream: building a mosque for future generations.
Genealogy Club returns on Thursday, November 13 from 6 – 7 PM in the historic Richardson Building for a talk on historic handwriting and calligraphy from historian Graeme Marsden!
Join us on Saturday, June 28 for a Quincy 400: Pride Month Tea & Trivia from 2:30 – 3:30 PM at the Main Library! Light refreshments such as tea will be available.
Join us on Tuesday, June 10 from 7 – 8 PM for our next Quincy 400 Lecture Series: American Treasures with Stephen Puleo at the Main Library.
