Ekua Holmes, An Afternoon with Authors and Illustrators
Ekua Holmes, the author and illustrator of Black is a Rainbow Color, is coming to the Museum this Sunday (December…
The Robbins House: A School. Sugar. A Slave Bell.
The Robbins House in collaboration with the Concord Free Public Library present: A School. Sugar. A Slave Bell. A Presentation…
Concord Festival of Authors: The Robbins House presents Ray Shepard, author of A Long Time Coming
CONCORD FESTIVAL OF AUTHORS 2023 Ray Shepard author of A Long Time Coming A Lyrical Biography of Race in America…
Caribbean Americans & Politics: Celebrating 50 Years of the Caribbean American Carnival in Boston
Thursday, 24 August | 6:00 PM Caribbean Americans & Politics: Celebrating 50 Years of the Caribbean American Carnival in Boston…
Juneteenth Childrens’ Art Event
Looking ahead to the weekend before Juneteenth, we are planning a childrens' art event. Details to follow.
Juneteenth Celebration
Looking ahead to Juneteenth 2023, we are planning a joyous, family friendly celebration that includes food and music. Details to…
Dr. Jill Ogline Titus Speaks On Gettysburg 1963: Civil Rights & Black History in An Iconic American Town
Join us at The Concord Museum with Dr. Jill Titus who will speak on her book Gettysburg 1963: Civil Rights,…
The Other Side by Jaqueline Woodson Storywalk at The Robbins House
Family friendly event! Come walk the grounds of The Robbins House while reading The Other Side by Jacqueline Woodson at…
Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month Solidarity Event: Screening of Far East Deep South
In celebration of Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month, The Robbins House is co-sponsoring an event with The…
A Celebration Honoring The 200th Anniversary of The Birth Concord’s Native Daughter Ellen Garrison, Educator, and Activist
For the first time in 200 years, on April 14, 2023, Concord will publicly honor and celebrate the birth of…
![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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