Robbins House Family Trees Exhibit Debut
With the support of MassHumanities and the Institute of Museum and Library Services, a new exhibit was introduced in the…
How we got the story of Ellen Garrison Jackson Clark and her courageous, unsung life – Los Angeles Times
So look at you Ellen Garrison Jackson Clark — dead 129 years but still staring down injustice.
California Senate Certificate of Appreciation Awarded to The Robbins House
In celebrating Juneteenth with a ceremony to install a marker on Concord civil rights activist Ellen G.J. Clark’s gravesite in…
Harvard Artist-in-Residence Creates Dance about Freedom and Ownership of Property and Self
Nailah Randall-Bellinger, choreographer and commissioned artist in residence at Harvard University, is creating a dance that focuses on the African American experience within the context of freedom and ownership of property and self.
African American History of Concord Bike Tour
Tours are available through the Concord Visitor Center Call 978-318-3061 or email visitors@concordma.gov to request your date and time. Adults…
The ‘Rosa Parks of Concord MA,’ discovered in an unmarked grave in Altadena 129 years after her death – Los Angeles Times Video Report
Repost from the LA Times By Jorge Garcia July 26, 2021 11:30 AM PT It was recently revealed that Ellen Garrison…
Bemis Lecture on the Slavery History of Lincoln MA by Elise Lemire
This Bemis Lecture, co-sponsored by the Lincoln Historical Society, was given on the first Juneteenth observed as a federal holiday. The lecture was given on Zoom due to the Covid-19 epidemic. Note that the images shown are subject to copyright.
The Letters of Ellen Garrison
See the YouTube recording of scholars Maria Madison (The Robbins House & Brandeis University) and Sandy Petrulionis (State University of PA at Altoona)…
Juneteenth Opening of The Robbins House
June 19-September 6: Open 6 days/wk (closed Tuesdays) September 10-October 31: Open Fri./Sat./Sun. & Indigenous Peoples’ Day From 11 AM–4…
![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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