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Lincoln Academy with Ian Spencer—Forensic art: Blending creativity and crime-fighting November 3 at 12:30 p.m. Come to Bemis Hall on Monday, Nov. 3 at 12:30 to hear Ian Spencer of the Lincoln Police Department discuss “Forensic Art: Blending Creativity and Crime-Fighting.” Bring a bag lunch. The Council on Aging provides beverages and dessert. The lectures…
Halloween activities for kids at the library Movies & Muffins — Friday, Oct. 24 at 3:30 p.m. Watch Halloween-themed short films based on the beloved children’s books Fletcher and the Falling Leaves and Dem Bones, and the “Little Bear’s Moonlight Serenade”TV episode. For ages 2 and up. Oogly Googly Halloween Puppet Show — Monday, Oct. 27 at 4 p.m. Come hear a Halloween…
The Lincoln-Sudbury Civic Orchestra (LSCO), the resident community/student orchestra at Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School, has openings for musicians for the 2014-2015 concert season.
deCordova winter exhibits opening The deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum’s first winter exhibit this year, PLATFORM 15: Oscar Tuazon, Partners, opened on October 8 and will be up until Sept. 1, 2015. Two more winter exhibits, Walden, revisited (featuring works by contemporary artists inspired by Walden Pond and Henry David Thoreau) and The Social Medium (largely inspired by a recent gift of…
Drumlin Farm offers winter CSA program Registration for the winter Community-Supported Agriculture (CSA) program at Drumlin Farm is now open. Winter CSA shareholders will receive eight distributions from early November through mid-February of vegetables from the Drumlin Farm root cellar, including garlic, onions, brussels sprouts, cabbage, potatoes, sweet potatoes, radishes, beets, winter squash and more….
In October, the Lincoln Public Library is the place for films from India. Last year we celebrated the centenary of Indian cinema, which, while older than the nation itself, continues to turn up exciting and thought-provoking surprises.
Mumbai is the home of India’s Hindi-language film industry, commonly known as Bollywood, which produces over 1,000 films (and sells more than 3.5 billion tickets) annually. With a giant like that—purveyor of glamorous stars, elaborate song sequences, and narrative incomprehensibility—dominating film production in India, it is not surprising that the more artistic, independent and socially engaged films get overlooked. “Beyond Bollywood ’14: The Many Faces of Indian Art Cinema” attempts to right that wrong by highlighting the overlooked.
The last and largest segment of the Lincoln Public Library’s fire suppression system is complete, and the library is grateful to residents for funding this important safeguard for staff and patrons. To say thank-you, the library will host a musical cabaret and a taste of a savory “Lincoln tart” provided by Aka Bistro on Wednesday, Oct. 8 from…
Here are the October activities sponsored by the Lincoln Council on Aging.
Enjoy old-time jazz with the Lincoln Trad Jazz Jammers
October 2 at 2:30 p.m.
If you ain’t been to one of these yet, find out what you’ve been missin’! Come celebrate the joy of jazz at Bemis Hall on Thursday, October 2 at 2:30 p.m. when the Lincoln Traditional Jazz Jammers will share with you their love of this hot and cool music in a delightfully spontaneous jam! If you find you just can’t sit still, go ahead and tap your toes or get up and dance as they belt out favorites we all know and love, like Ain’t Misbehavin’, Makin’ Whoopie and others. The musicians are mostly retirees, amateurs who give life to the music of the ‘20s, ‘30s and ‘40s at the Trad Jazz Jams at Bemis Hall, the library, and the Colonial Inn on Wednesdays.
Chaplin meets Beethoven
October 3 at 1 p.m.
Mark your calendars for Friday, October 3 at 1 p.m., at Bemis Hall when the COA will show The Immigrant, a silent film by Charlie Chaplin, accompanied by a live string group, Con Affeto, which includes Lincoln residents Laura Bossert and Terry King and others. Con Affeto will play music by Beethoven, Mozart, Kreisler and more. They have performed on New York music station WQXR and elsewhere in the region. This event is supported by the Friends of the Lincoln COA.
To celebrate the start of their 35th season, Classic Jazz at the Lincoln Library (CJALL) presented the Lincoln Public Library with “The Jazz Shelf,” a collection of books on classic jazz. The books were originally owned by CJALL founders Bill Poisson and Ed Williams, and current members Harold McAleer and Vern Welch added a few of…
Open house features Lincoln Minute Men, refurbished historic homeAt an open house on Saturday, Sept. 20, the Lincoln Minute Men will do musket-firing demonstrations at 10 a.m., noon and 1 p.m., as well as drills for children, fife and drum music, and demonstrations of sewing, spinning and colonial clothing throughout the day from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The event will take place at the Captain William Smith House in the Minute Man National Historical Park on Route 2A near Bedford Road (park in the Hartwell Tavern lot).
Lincoln Minute Men (soldiers, musicians and townspeople) will greet the public in colonial attire and welcome them into the Smith House, which has been refurbished thanks to the concerted effort of the Lincoln Minute Men and the support of friends through donations. The Minute Men worked with the National Park to locate and donate items similar to those that might have been found on that day in the three ground floor rooms of a New England house: the formal parlor, the keeping room and the kitchen. Come and see the walking wheel for spinning wool, the infant’s cradle with reproduction tick and blanket, the kitchen cupboard stocked with redware and pewter, items for cooking on the hearth, a tilt-top table set for tea, a gate-leg table set for Catharine and William’s dinner, a desk where the Smiths could pay bills and write correspondence, and much more.
Also open to the public on September 20 are two other “witness houses” to the events of April 19, 1775: the Hartwell Tavern, where there will be demonstrations of historic crafts and trades, and the Col. James Barrett House in Concord, where His Majesty’s 63rd Regiment of Foot will be displaying British uniforms of the period.