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Recent and Upcoming Events
Museum
Hours - Winter 2009/10
the Third Sunday of the month...........1 to 4 PM
November 15th
December 20th
January 17th
February 21st
Adults: $5.00 ..... under 12 & over 65: $3.00
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Reading of the Declaration
of Independence
Saturday, July 18th at 10:00 AM
In front of the Edmund Fowle House
28 Marshall Street
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June 27th (Saturday) 1:00 PM
A Walking Tour -
"Architect Charles Brigham & his Buildings"
Meet at Marshall Street parking lot, across from the Edmund Fowle House,
28 Marshall St.
Join guides Daivid Russo(Watertown Historical Commision
Chair) and Mary C. Spiers(Historical Society of Watertown Corresponding/Recording Secretary) for a 1 and a half hour walking
tour in Watertown focusing on local renowned architect Charles Brigham and the buildings he designed.
The Tour price is $5.00 and is open to the public. For more information, call
Joyce at 781-899-7239
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September 20th (Sunday) 2 to 4 PM
John Root, Musician and Educator will provide a program on... Popular Music of the Gaslight Era (1890-1920)
features a diverse repertoire of instrumental and vocal musical styles
from the turn of the previous century. Everyone is invited to sing along and to experience the range of feelings evoked by
this music.
The songs' lyrics offer insights into the customs and values of these bygone days. Audiences also learn
how our country’s multicultural diversity at the turn of the previous century created unique musical styles that continue
to delight and inspire audiences around the world.
In the Watertown Free Public
Library
Funded in part by the Watertown Cultural Council
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November 17th (Thursday) - 7 to 8:30 PM to be determined
In the Watertown Free Public
Library
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Historical Society's March Public
Program
 THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF WATERTOWN INVITES YOU TO THEIR MARCH 2008 PUBLIC PROGRAM “It was a dark and
stormy night…” So begins the 1830 Bulwer-Lytton novel, “Paul Clifford.” 50 years earlier it was a
dark, if not stormy, midday in parts of New England as a mysterious pall fell over our region on the late morn-ing of May
19th, 1780. Candles were brought out at lunchtime and churches filled as many New Englanders thought that the Day of Judgement
had arrived. Was it retribution for the disruptions of the American Revolution – rag-ing at the time of the darkening?
Some Tories thought so. Was it a natural me-teorological phenomenon, explicable in the terms of modern science? You
can be the judge when you join the Historical Society of Watertown and historical weather researcher John Horrigan for a presentation
about “New England's Dark Day.” Mr. Horrigan offer his own speculations, reading from journals and accounts of
the day and relaying other accounts of dark days in America’s History. Join us in the Watertown Savings Bank
Room at the Watertown Free Public Library, 123 Main Street, on Thursday, March 20th at 7:00 PM.
Historic Bicycle Tour
May 24, 2007 - Public Program
Notable Watertown Citizens Tour of the Mount Auburn Cemetery - click here
Lowell Mills and American Textile Museum Bus Trip
September 21, 2007, Free Public Program
November 16, 2007 - Free Public Program
February Agenda / HSW Meeting
February 22, 2007 - Public Program
Walking Tour of the Building & Grounds of the Watertown Arsenal
Historic District Commission Meeting 9/27/06
Treaty Day - July 15 & 16, 2006
Waltham Historical Society Sept 12, 2006 - Program
Walking Tour - Saturday, November 4, 2006
May 3rd, last of Lecture Series
Walking Tour - Saturday March 24th
Click on the above links for more information
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