Time to Celebrate Ellen!
Ellen Garrison Day in Concord! Come join us and celebrate and afternoon of words, music, art and song as we…
From Pasadena to Concord: Telling The Whole Story
Pasadena city leader Veronica Jones comes to speak in Concord about their work honoring Black history. 4/13. 2pm at The Concord Free Public Library’s William Munroe Special Collections
A Fight for Freedom: Patriots of Color Walking Tour
In this 90 minute walking tour we will examine the known history and stories of these Patriots of Color who…
Women of the Great Field: The Robbins and Garrison Women and their Neighbors
Women’s History discussion with The Robbins House on the history of the women residents of the Great Field, a predominantly…
Black History in Concord: The Robbins House and Ellen Garrison
Learn about the history of The Robbins House and the stories of the Robbins and Garrison families, and Ellen Garrison’s…
Walks with Ellen
In honor of Black History Month, join us for #WalksWithEllen. Over the next several weeks, we will be posting from…
Call for Art – Fight for Freedom
This Monday, January 8, is the deadline to submit your proposal for temporary public art in Concord Center. Up to…
Civil Disobedience
Please join us for our annual Civil Disobedience program to honor Dr. Martin Luther King! Hear from Robbins House President…
The Robbins House Wishes you a Happy and Healthy New Year
The oldest existing mention of slavery in Massachusetts was recorded in 1638, when Africans arrived in the colony on the…
Support The Robbins House this Giving Tuesday
Dear Friends, As a prominent African American historic site, The Robbins House is singularly positioned to foster broader education and…
![Did you know that April is National Poetry Month? We have you covered with a little Robbins house trivia. Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote a poem entitled Peter’s Field. Peter’s Field most likely referenced Peter Hutchinson, who was the last African American owner of The Robbins House. Peter purchased the home in 1852 and lived with his wife, Nancy, and several of their children in the home until 1868. Emerson described Peter’s farm, and by extension the original area of farmland attached to The Robbins House out in the Great Field like this:
KNOWS he who tills this lonely field
To reap its scanty corn,
What mystic fruit his acres yield
At midnight and at morn?]
That field by spirits bad and good,
By Hell and Heaven is haunted,
And every rood in the hemlock wood
I know is ground enchanted.
[In the long sunny afternoon
The plain was full of ghosts:
I wandered up,
I wandered down,
Beset by pensive hosts.
For in those lonely grounds the sun
Shines not as on the town,
In nearer arcs his journeys run,
And nearer stoops the moon.
There in a moment I have seen
The buried Past arise;
The fields of Thessaly grew green,
Old gods forsook the skies.
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