Date: Fri 09-Jul-1999

Publication: Ant

Author: SHIRLE

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Concord Museum Will Open Its Doors To Free Admission

CONCORD, MASS. -- As part of its summer celebration of history, the Concord

Museum will be open free of charge on Monday, July 19 and Monday, August 16

from 5 to 7 pm.

The Concord Museum's period rooms and galleries provide an engaging

introduction to Concord's history from Native American habitation and European

settlement through the 1775 battle at the North Bridge to the days of Emerson,

Thoreau, and the Alcotts, and through to the Twentieth Century.

The history galleries pose the question "Why Concord?" and lead visitors

through a hands-on process of historical inquiry by examining the people,

events and ideas which shaped this influential community's development.

On exhibit are the lantern that signaled Paul Revere's famous 1775 ride, Ralph

Waldo Emerson's entire study arranged as in 1882 when the author, poet and

philosopher died, and the largest collection of Thoreau's possessions in the

world, including the desk on which he wrote his most famous essay, "Civil

Disobedience" (first published 150 years ago).

The admission-free evening will also include an opportunity to see a special

exhibit, "The Concord Grape: An American Classic." Drawn from the archives of

Welch's in celebration of the 150th anniversary of the development of the

Concord Grape, this nostalgic and entertaining exhibit includes early

advertising art, soda fountain tin signs, magazine celebrity endorsements,

Howdy Doody and Davy Crockett jelly jars and video clips from the 1950s.

The Concord Museum is located at the intersection of Lexington Road and

Cambridge Turnpike. For further information, please call 978/369-9609.