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Digging at Durant KenrickArcheologists explore 18-century life through
finds at Durant-Kenrick

Archeology is often imagined as an exotic enterprise where it’s not typically expected is amid the clamor and din of urban life. But a recent dig at an 18th-century house in Newton is a reminder that archeology is relevant everywhere - and that our own backyards can be rich with artifacts and history.Read the full Boston Globe article here





For Carl M. Cohen, a member of Historic Newton's Board, the Durant-Kenrick House and Grounds is more than a historic property that he's working with others to save. Carl lives literally next door, so he's witnessing first-hand the work builders, historians, landscapers, and archaeologists are doing week by week to save the home. Follow Carl's blog, The DKH Diary, here.


Thursday, January 26, 6:30 PM
HISTORIC NEWTON@NIGHT: A TRIBUTE TO ANNE LARNER

 Please join us for this special evening that will honor Anne Larner, Board President of Historic Newton and an outstanding leader and community activist. Also featuring Tufts University’s own singing sensation, The BEELZEBUBS, this event will include cocktails, a light supper and a chance to participate in an auction featuring radio personality, Matty Siegel of Kiss 108, as guest auctioneer. Click here to purchase tickets or to sponsor this event.

Proceeds from ticket sales will help underwrite a new education program in Anne Larner’s name at the newly renovated Durant-Kenrick House and Grounds.


Our Underground Railroad exhibit is temporarily closed to make way for our
improved and expanded new exhibition,
Confronting our Legacy: Slavery and Anti-Slavery in the North.
Please join us on February 16th at 5:30pm for an opening celebration!






The Jackson Homestead is a documented Underground Railroad site -- learn more.
The museum is included in the National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom
and Cycling Boston's tour of related Underground Railroad sites.

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