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Ghosts of Somerville
Oct 19
Ghosts of Somerville
Duo Maresienne: Celebrating Bach
Oct 19
Duo Maresienne: Celebrating Bach
Haunted Histories Walking Tour
Oct 25
Haunted Histories Walking Tour
A Dream from the Water's Eye/Dance performance by Cindy Ramirez
Oct 29
A Dream from the Water's Eye/Dance performance by Cindy Ramirez
Secret Quarries of Somerville
Nov 1
Secret Quarries of Somerville
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Look what I saw in Powder House Park! This robot said he is the reincarnation of a science fiction writer who lived right next to this park at one time while he taught at Boston Medical School, wrote a novel Stars, Like Dust and compiled his robot st
If you can guess the answer to this question, don't comment below! You can use the last name in all caps as a discount code for 15% off the Somerville Museum's 100th Anniversary retrofuturist cocktail fundraiser bash "Rewind, Record, PLAY!"
Color Musings on Imagined Barcodes By Lynn Cannici (Porcelain and underglazes, 2024–2025) Shelf by Justin Farnsworth Inspired by Barbara Jo’s @barbarajo________ Barcode show in Somerville (2022), this work reimagines barcodes as playful
Can you find the barcode on this train? Kartrak, invented by David Collins in 1959 was a colorful barcode system used to track railway cars including the Boston and Maine railway that ran through Somerville. Peter Collins (son of the father of Barco

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