Upcoming Events

PUTNAM HOUSE & DAMON TAVERN

HOLIDAY OPEN HOUSE

DURING THE NORTH READING ANNUAL TREE LIGHTING

December 1, 2024 — 2PM to 4:30PM — 27 Bow Street

Past Events

People of the Parsonage — November 2024

Frank Carey Speaks — October 2024

Romeo Rembrance — July 2024

Digital Preservation — May 2024

Restoration of a Historic Home on the South Shore (Lee Colgan) — April 2024

A Drone’s Eye View of North Reading (Al Pereira) — March 2024

New England Lighthouses (Jay Hyland) — May 2023

WWII as the Men and Women of North Reading Knew It (Autumn Hendrickson) — April 2023

B-17 Crash Declassified Secrets Revealed (Eric Evans) — March 2023

A Brief History of Vaccines (Tim Burgess) — February 2023

The Richardson Light Infantry (Barry Stentiford) — November 2022

History of the Harold Parker State Forest (Andy Sherman) — May 2022

North Reading Speaks — April 2022

The History of the Saugus River (Kathy Wrynn) — February 2022

North Reading Company of Minit and Militia (Rich Stratton) — November 2021

Frederick Douglass: Abolitionist in Ireland (Tom Dalton) — February 2020

A Berlin Airlift Veteran Speaks (Ralph Dionne) — November 2019

Growing Up in North Reading in the 1940s/1950s (Virginia Slep) — November 2019

The Putnam Family at the Putnam House — July 2019

Vice Presidential Spouses (Richard Padova) — May 2019

Tales of North Reading (hosted by Gordon Hall) — April 2018

Photographs of Old North Reading (Al Pereira) — February 2018

Timekeeping in Early New England (Bob Frishman) — May 2017

Tales of North Reading (Grassroots performance) — April 2017

Chestnut Trees in America (Mark Meehl & David Lent) — February 2017

Gravestone Symbolism in New England (Elise Cerenga) — November 2016

Tour of the Daniel Putnam House and West Village School — October 2016

Upton Family Geneaology (Donald Upton) — May 2016

Tales of North Reading (hosted by Gordon Hall) — April 2016

Pharmacy in America (Tim Burgess) — March 2016

Barking Up Other People’s Trees (Tom Parker) — October 2015

Martin’s Brook Sanatorium (Clarisse Poirier) — November 2013

Interview with North Reading farmer Lyman Fancy — September 2013

A Tour of the West Village School and Sergant Flint House with Gordon Hall — 2013

Local Schoolchildren Visit the West Village School — 2012

Tales of North Reading: A Conversation with Town Residents — May 2008 (multipart)

Archaeological Investigations at Martin’s Landing/Edgewood Site — November 2008 (multipart)

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