Changing things up for our 2022-2023 program season!

                     Please note the day, date, time, and location of each program.

 Tuesday, October 25, 2022
7:30 p.m. at the Arlington Historical Society – 7 Jason Street
CONSTANTS AND CHANGES IN SHARING ARLINGTON HISTORY: A 25-YEAR RETROSPECTIVE CONVEYED IN IMAGES
Richard A. Duffy
By popular demand, an encore presentation of the dynamic lecture that debuted in June 2022 as the capstone to the “My Stories” program series.  In 25+ years showcasing a vast array of topics on Arlington’s history, the ways of discovery and depth of resources have changed more than in any previous quarter-century. We’ve been handed golden keys to our past.  How do we use them to properly unlock its secrets? 

Tuesday, November 29, 2022
7:30 p.m. at Arlington Town Hall
LAKOTA AT LITTLE BIGHORN AND UKRAINE IN THE DONBAS
William E. Rapp, Ph.D.
Major General U.S. Army (Ret.)
Co-sponsored by Arlington Veterans Services
This talk will discuss the Lakota (Sioux) and Northern Cheyenne in the Great Sioux War of 1876-77 as they fought to retain their lands and way of life against the wave of Euro-American western migration.  We will then transition to a similar fight by the Ukrainians to repel the Russian invasion today.

Sunday, January 29, 2023
2:00 p.m. at the Arlington Historical Society – 7 Jason Street
MUSEUM EXHIBIT OPENING
“A FEW OF MY FAVORITE THINGS”
Enjoy the new exhibit, a behind-the-scenes tour of our renovated collection area . . . and celebrate the Society’s 125^th Anniversary.  There will be cake!

Wednesdays, February 8, 15 & 22, 2023
1:00 p.m. at the Jason Russell House
“WINTER WEDNESDAYS” RETURN!

February 8:  PRINCE HALL
Rosemarie Smurzynski

February 15:  A VALENTINE SPECIAL
The Singing Grandpops

February 22:  THE STATUE OF LIBERTY
Howard B. Winkler, former Society president.

Tuesday, March 28, 2023
7:30 p.m. at the Masonic Temple
OUR WASTEFUL SOCIETY:  DID WE DO BETTER “IN THE OLD DAYS”?  
Charlotte Milan
Town of Arlington Recycling Coordinator
Why do we have so much stuff? And what are we supposed to do about it when we’re done with it?  We’ll look at waste from historical and sociological perspectives. How did our predecessors manage trash? When did recycling become a thing? If there’s something we can re-learn from the past about reducing waste, let’s learn it now and fast!

Tuesday, April 25, 2023
7:30 p.m. at the Masonic Temple
THE BATTLE OF MENOTOMY
A. Michael Ruderman
Battle Green was an accident. Concord Bridge, a skirmish. But in the most brutal and deadly warfare of April 19, 1775, nearly 6,000 combatants fought hand to hand and house to house, the length and breadth of Menotomy.  At the Foot of the Rocks, the British “regulars” encountered their worst nightmare: a nascent Continental Army.

Tuesday, May 23, 2023
7:30 p.m. at Arlington Town Hall
Louise Ruma Ivers Memorial Lecture
DIMENSIONS OF ARLINGTON HISTORY VIEWED THROUGH THE LENS OF TODAY’S RACIAL RECKONING
Richard A. Duffy
Co-sponsored by the
Arlington Human Rights Commission
This illustrated lecture presents nuanced context for the ways in which Black, brown, and Indigenous peoples have been portrayed in presenting the history of Arlington. Sharing both dispiriting stereotypes and the inspiring work of allies in the cause of racial justice, this lecture is but one step in our contemporary journey towards improving historical assessment of our community’s evolution.