The Thoreau Society Annual Gathering
Thoreau and Diversity: People, Principles, and Politics with Keynote Speaker Dr. Ibram X. Kendi George Schaller, the 2020 recipient of…
Thoreau and Diversity: People, Principles, and Politics
The Thoreau Society Virtual Annual Gathering – Featuring Keynote Speaker Ibram X. Kendi Interviewed by The Robbins House’s Maria Madison…
Cuban Plantation “Slave Bell” Comes to the Robbins House by Way of The Belmont Hill School
Students at the Belmont Hill School for Boys recently researched the history of the bell that has towered over their…
The Terrible Power of the Constitution’s Three-Fifths Clause
Historic New England • Co-sponsored by the Lincoln Historical Society and The Robbins House Tuesday, June 22 • 7-8 pm • Virtual Program…
The Letters of Ellen Garrison
Concord Museum Virtual Event Co-sponsored by The Robbins House Register here https://concordmuseum.org/events/the-letters-of-ellen-garrison/. Ellen Garrison, the daughter and granddaughter of men…
Site of Harriet Tubman’s Lost Maryland Home Found
Tuesday morning state and federal officials announced that Schablitsky, guided in part by the coin, believes she has found the site where Tubman lived with her parents and several siblings during formative teenage years before she escaped enslavement.
Statement Against Recent and Historical AAPI Violence
The Robbins House stands in solidarity with the AAPI (Asian, Asian American, Pacific Islander, and South Asian) community as it…
Every Saturday in March – Women of Concord Walking Tour
Offered by the Concord Visitor Center in partnership with the The Robbins House and Concord Museum. Saturdays March 13, 20,…
Women of Color Dolls that tell HERstory
Created by Maritere Rivera Mix, Teacher & Lifelong Maker SEWcialstudies.org • madebymix.etsy.com $20 Cut & Sew Doll Kit • $40…
![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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