Join Mount Auburn docent and Somerville resident Robin Hazard Ray for a walking tour of America’s first “garden” cemetery! Established in 1831, the cemetery boasts not only a sublime landscape and abundant wildlife but also a formidable roster of former Somerville residents.
Come visit the city’s oldest cemetery (1804) as part of the City’s October Monster Mash festival. At each gravesite, a ghost will engage in conversation about their life in Somerville’s past. Learn more about Somerville from some of those who lived it! All ghosts are friendly! Promise!
A neighborhood just west of Davis Square was, for much of the 20th century, home to a Black community. Availability of new homes on inexpensive land drew Black migrants and immigrants from the American South, Nova Scotia, and the West Indies, who lived in this neighborhood alongside white European, specifically Italian, immigrants. Hear the histories of early families on Cameron Avenue, Elmwood Street, and Harrison Street, discussing the intertwined histories of migration, labor, and the city streets themselves.
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THE POWDER HOUSE, MILK ROW CEMETERY & PROSPECT HILL TOWER will be open to the public on select dates and times from May through October, as part of HISTORY ON THE LINE, a series of exhibitions and programs organized by the Somerville Museum and funded by the Massachusetts Office of Travel and Tourism’s MA250 initiative and the City of Somerville.
Select THURSDAYS 6-8 pm
Select SATURDAYS 10 am-12 pm
THE POWDER HOUSE, MILK ROW CEMETERY & PROSPECT HILL TOWER will be open to the public on select dates and times from May through October, as part of HISTORY ON THE LINE, a series of exhibitions and programs organized by the Somerville Museum and funded by the Massachusetts Office of Travel and Tourism’s MA250 initiative and the City of Somerville.
Join Kristen Gresh, Estrellita and Yousuf Karsh Senior Curator of Photographs, MFA Boston, for a panel discussion with a group of photographers about the range of their creative practices in Common Ground: Photography, Place, and Community.
