North Reading Historical and Antiquarian Society Upcoming Events
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27th Annual Apple Festival
Saturday, September 17, 2022 (Rain date: September 18, 2022) Grounds of the Reverend Putnam House, 27 Bow Street The Festival will include local vendors, an apple pie contest, Historical Society merchandise, local entertainment, original artwork, children’s games and pony rides. Historical buildings will be open to the public. The Sidney bicycle will be on display. |
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Pot Luck Supper - Show and Tell
October 13, 2022 6:30 PM Pot Luck 7:00 PM Meeting
Location: Edith O’Leary Senior Center, Third Meeting House,
155 Park Street
Here is your chance to share your favorite dish and meet friends at the Societ first member event of the season. |
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“Richardson Light Guard Militia”
By Barry Stentiford
Thursday, November 10, 2022
7:00 PM meeting
7:30 presentation
Location: Edith O’Leary Senior Center, Third Meeting House,
157 Park Street
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Holiday Open House
Sunday, November 27*, 2022
North Reading’s historic buildings, including the Rev. Daniel Putnam House, the West Village Schoolhouse, and the Farm Museum will be open from 2 to 4:30 p.m. on Sunday, Nov. 27 for Reading-North Reading Chamber of Commerce’s annual holiday tree-lighting on the North Reading Town Common.
There will be warm drinks and goodies, as well as a fireplace to keep visitors warm in the fully decorated Putnam House. Get into the holiday spirit and take a look through one of North Reading’s oldest and most important homes. The North Reading Historical & Antiquarian Society will display its antique dollhouses. Make sure to take a look at some of the North Reading gifts while you’re at the Putnam House.
The Putnam House will be fully decorated for the season and will have gifts for sale, including North Reading-themed Christmas gifts, such as maps, notecards, and pewter ornaments.
And that’s not all. Check out the Farm Museum and learn about the town’s agricultural past, and visit the Sgt. Flint House, the Tin/Cobbler Shop, the West Village Schoolhouse and the town’s first meetinghouse on the Putnam House grounds.
On Sunday, Nov. 27, make sure to take a glimpse of North Reading’s past in the important buildings and displays before enjoying the annual festival on the Common.
Note: Due to the low ceilings in the Putnam House so we can welcome you safely during this covid season, masks are required while inside the house and there will be a limit to the number of people in the house at one time
If you have any questions, please contact the Society at 978-664-1066 or email to info@nreadinghistory.org
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A Victorian Christmas
Saturday/Sunday December 3/4, 10/11, and Dec. 17/18, 2022 The Putnam House decked out for the holidays is a sight to see and enjoy. Our Victorian Christmas is a beauty to behold. And there is "last minute" Christmas shopping, too. |
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History of Vaccines Through the Years
By Tim Burgess
Thursday, February 9, 2023
7:00 PM meeting
7:30 presentation
**Location: Activity Room, Flint Memorial Library,
147 Park Street
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“Antique Roadshow, North Reading Style”
By Ron Wackowsky
Thursday, March 9, 2023
7:00 PM meeting
7:30 presentation
**Location: Activity Room,
Flint Memorial Library,
147 Park Street
Antiques and Heirloom Appraisal Night March 9
Do you have an antique or family heirloom and are you curious about its potential worth? The North Reading Historical and Antiquarian Society will host appraiser and auctioneer Ron Wackowski on Thursday, March 9 at the Flint Memorial Library’s Activity Room, 147 Park Street. Wackowski will appraise items that attendees bring to the event.
Ron is a certified appraiser and auctioneer with 40+ years experience in the antiques trade, and is also the owner and operator of Queen’s Falcon Antiques in Lawrence, Andover Antiques, and BiState Auctions.
There is a limit of two items per person and appraisals will cost $3 per item. Wackowski will begin appraising items at 7:30 p.m. The North Reading Historical and Antiquarian Society will host a short business meeting at 7 pm. preceding the appraisals.
For more information contact Ginny Mills at (978) 857-6138 or info@ nreadinghistory.org
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"North Reading & Reading Residents in World War II"
by Autumn Hendrickson
Thursday, April 13, 2023
7:00 PM meeting
7:30 presentation
**Location: Activity Room, Flint Memorial Library,
147 Park Street
Election of Board
* please remember a quoram is needed to vote in next years slate of officers
Local Reading resident, Autumn Hendrickson is working on a project, "Readings Boys”, which aims to tell the stories of the men and women from Reading and North Reading (who lived in either town before, during, or after the war) that served in World War II. She has discovered upwards of 500 individuals, most of whom have long since passed away.
Her talk on the project will cover the journeys of a handful of North Reading and Reading men and women through the seas, skies, and battlegrounds of the Second World War. From the deck of the USS Indianapolis underway deep in the Pacific during the precarious weeks following the bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, the disease-ridden POW camps where Americans who surrendered to the Japanese at the fall of the Philippines were shoved together, a top secret reconnaissance mission carried out by US Marines and Australian troops in the Pacific, the consequences of the fierce Japanese commitment to the kamikaze attack off of Okinawa in the spring of 1945, to the advance across the vast Pacific and the lesser known fighting in New Guinea. From the skies over Europe where the bomber boys dropped metal rain onto the many beating hearts of Nazi Germany, the first bloody waves of Omaha Beach, the 101st Airborne Division as it repeatedly threw itself from the sky
The North Reading Historical and Antiquarian Society will hold a short business meeting at 7 pm. preceding the presentation.
For more information contact the Society at (978) 664-1066 or info@nreadinghistory.org
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“New England Lighthouses”
By TBA
Thursday, May 11, 2023
7:00 PM meeting
7:30 presentation
Location: Edith O’Leary Senior Center, Third Meeting House,
157 Park Street
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Memorial Day Open House
Monday, May 29, 2023
9:00 AM – 1:00 PM
Reverend Daniel Putnam House, 27 Bow Street
Damon Tavern, 21 Bow Street
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Society Annual Meeting and Dinner
Thursday, June 8, 2023
6:30 PM
** Location: To Be Determined
Social at 6:30 PM, Dinner at 7:00 PM Meeting to Follow
Annual Reports
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Strawberry Festival
Saturday June 24, 2023
12:30 PM – 3:30 PM
Reverend Daniel Putnam House, 27 Bow Street
The new summer event will include free strawberry shortcake, though donations will be accepted to help defray the cost. The Strawberry Festival will also feature cornhole games and attendees can visit the historic buildings on the Putnam House grounds, including the Rev. Daniel Putnam House, Farm Museum, West Village Schoolhouse, Sgt. Flint House, and First Meeting House.
In case of inclement weather, a rain date is for the same time on Sunday, June 25.
For more information email info@nreadinghistory.org
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