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.
Step back to the eve of the American Revolution and discover the foods that sustained Massachusetts households, soldiers, and farmers. Join the 18th Century Cook, Michael Duncan Smith, for an engaging afternoon exploring local foodways in the 1770s at the Main Library on Monday, November 17 from 6 – 7 PM!
Happy Native American Heritage Month! Join us on Thursday, November 20 from 7 – 8 PM in the historic Richardson Building for a special Quincy400 talk on “Native American Designs and Modern Crafts” led by Choctaw-Apache designer and professor, Sebastian Ellington Flying Eagle Ebarb. Light refreshments, including tea, will be provided.
Join us in the historic Richardson Building on Friday, September 19 from 10 AM – 12 PM for our Quincy 400: Literacy 40th Anniversary party! Thank you to all our volunteers and students over the years!
Join us Wednesday, Sept 24 at the Main Library from 6 – 7 PM to meet author Jeffrey Boutwell and learn about George S. Boutwell of Massachusetts, the Commonwealth’s youngest-ever governor in the 1850s. Author Jeffrey Boutwell and George Boutwell share a common ancestor, the indentured servant James Boutwell, who emigrated from England to Salem, Mass. in 1632.
