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Special Event
Event
“Radical Spirits: The Material Culture of Drinking at Minute Man National Historical Park” with Nikki Walsh
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Fee:
Free.Location: LAT/LONG: 42.458868, -71.353605
The lecture will take place in the Goodwin Forum room of the Concord Free Public Main Library at 129 Main Street, Concord, MA. Please visit the library webpage for parking and accessibility information.
Dates & Times
Date:
Sunday, March 24, 2024
Time:
2:00 PM
Duration:
1 hour and 30 minutes
Type of Event
Other
Partner Program
Talk
Description
Sunday, March 24, 2024
2:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.
Concord Free Public Library
Free and open to the public
2:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.
Concord Free Public Library
Free and open to the public
Join the Friends of Minute Man National Park for their free annual winter lecture series! Punch bowls, and tankards, and bottles, oh my! Join Minute Man National Historical Park’s museum curator Nikki Walsh for a lecture about the material culture related to drinking in the park’s collections. This lecture will focus on 18th-century drinking culture and include aspects of drink in earlier and later periods of history.
Nikki Walsh is the curator of Minute Man National Historical Park. Nikki has worked for the National Park Service since 2009 and has worked with over 45 parks as a Museum Specialist in the Northeast Region. Her area of expertise is material culture and decorative arts of 18th-century New England. She received a B.S. in Public History and Geology from Salem State University and an M.A. in Historical Archaeology from Boston University. She has been at Minute Man since 2018 and first fell in love with the park on a school field trip in 5th grade.
For more information, please visit the Friends of Minute Man website at https://friendsofminuteman.org/events.
The Winter Lecture Series is co-sponsored by Friends of Minute Man, Minute Man National Historical Park, and the Concord Free Public Library.
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