Category Archives: May 1

Nashua Art Tour: Main Street

Visit the public art of Nashua, New Hampshire, in person or virtually, with a free downloadable smartphone app. This 14-stop art tour on the free DISTRX app is available in English and Spanish.

The tour takes you on an easy-to-walk route along Main Street and side streets, showcasing historic and modern murals, as well as sculptures. Using the app on your smartphone, you can listen to a description of the history of the piece and its artist. The app also has written information and links for further research and exploration.

This free walking tour has been an especially valuable option as folks have practiced social distancing, as it is an outdoor activity that families or friends could experience at their own pace while following health guidelines.

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Date & Time: This tour is self guided and available anytime by downloading the Distrx app from any smartphone. The user can chose to explore the tour virtually from anywhere, but we encourage you to visit in person to see all the wonderful art our city has to offer! The tour is numbered in stops from 1-15 and can be completed in any order. 

Location: Nashua, NH

Driving Directions: Take US Route 3 North Everett Turkpike to Exit 5 East, to Kinsley Street, Left onto Elm Street.

Parking Instructions: To start at the beginning and follow in order, please make your way to 16 Elm Street and park at the Parking Garage--Free on Saturday and Sunday and Free after 5pm on weekdays. Otherwise payment can be made at kiosk.

Family-Friendly

Pet-Friendly

 

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Dinosaurs at Sholan Farms–Oh My!

Visit historic Sholan Farms for an exciting Story Walk featuring “Buying, Training and Caring for Your Dinosaur” by Laura Joy Rennert.

Project Apples and Sholan Farms offer young children an exciting opportunity to explore and learn about dinosaurs. Permanent enclosures at Sholan will encase our Story Walk. The book, “Buying, Training and Caring for Your Dinosaur” by Laura Joy Rennert, contains facts about dinosaurs and will keep children engaged as they travel from one station to another. Children and their caregivers can find the hidden plastic dinosaurs placed along the walking trail. Each hidden dinosaur will list 3 facts about that dinosaur species.

Leominster Project Apples is the Coordinated Family and Community Engagement (CFCE) program for our community. We serve young children (ages birth - *8) in our community. We are funded by a grant from the MA Department of Early Education and Care.

Date: Daily throughout May

Time: 9:00 am - 6:00 pm

Location: Sholan Farms, 1125 Pleasant Street, Leominster, MA 01453

Parking Instructions: Please see posted signs.

Family-Friendly

Pet-Friendly

Wheelchair accessible

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Brewster and the Birds: Walking Tour

A young William Brewster and his childhood friend Daniel Chester French explored the rivers and forests of Concord and observed birds - an ornithological interest which later manifested in both of their careers.

An early conservationist, Brewster knew that protecting birds meant protecting their habitats, and in 1890, he purchased land along the Concord River to protect old trees from developers. Brewster’s Concord home, October Farm, became the center of his noted ornithological work. Brewster and his assistant, constant companion, and the first African American landscape photographer Robert Gilbert carved trails through the woods around October Farm, explored the river, and created extensive documentation of Concord’s ornithology and ecology. Follow Brewster, French, and Gilbert’s trails through Concord’s human and ecologic history with a Concord Museum guide. 1-mile walk, mostly flat terrain, rain or shine.

Date: Saturday, May 1st, 2021

Time: 8:30 am - 10:00 am

Location: October Farm, Ball's Hill Road, Concord, MA

Weather Policy: The tour will run rain or shine unless otherwise communicated by the Museum.

Parking Instructions: Access with parking for five vehicles is at the end of Ball’s Hill Road off Monument Street. Please park only in the designated area and not on Ball’s Hill Road.

Space is limited to 12.

Family-Friendly

Reservations Required

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Celebrate May Basket Day at The Wayside Inn!

This May Day, families are invited to The Wayside Inn to learn about the 19th and 20th century May basket tradition, listen to a read-aloud about Henry David Thoreau, and take a short, guided walk around our garden and Josephine’s Pond. Supplies to make one take-home May basket and a nature journal will be provided to children participants.

Date: Saturday, May 1, 2021

Time: 10:00 – 10:45 a.m. OR 11:00 – 11:45 a.m.    

Location: The Wayside Inn, 72 Wayside Inn Rd, Sudbury, MA

Weather Policy: In the event of rain, the walking/touring portions of the program will be cancelled. Take-home activities will continue in a covered area at our site.

Parking: General parking is available in one of two lots across from Longfellow's Wayside Inn.

Special Instructions: For children ages 5 and up with accompanying caregivers. Please note that this is not a drop-off program.

Space is limited to 15 children per session. Accompanying caregivers are limited to 4 caregivers per registration

Family-Friendly, Restrooms available on site

Reservations required

Mrs. Coolidge gets a basket of flowers and a kiss (1927).

Source: Library of Congress, National Photo Company Collection

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