PAST EVENT The Lioness of Boston
Join Author Emily Franklin on her new novel The Lioness of Boston By the time Isabella Stewart Gardner opened her Italian palazzo-style home as a museum in 1903 to showcase her collection of old masters, antiques, and objects d’art, she was already well-known for scandalizing Boston’s polite society. But when Isabella first arrived in Boston […]
PAST EVENT Winslow Homer, American Passage
Join Author Bill Cross on his new book, Winslow Homer, American Passage Bill Cross tells the stories of American whose works are known, but whose lives are not. On this visit to North Hill he will speak about the subject of his book Winslow Homer: American Passage. The Washington Post called his tale of Homer, […]
PAST EVENT North Hill and Needham Open Studios!
This year, for the first time, North Hill is participating in Needham Open Studios, an art walk featuring the creative works of artits throughout the Town of Needham. On view in our main gallery see the art of Laurie Kaplowitz along with works from North Hill resident artists and team members in our Wellspring Landing […]
PAST EVENT Remember the Ladies with Johnny Kinsman
Monday, May 22 at 11 AM Even older than this great nation is the flawed adage that behind every great man is a great woman, but if the origin story of the United States proves anything, it’s that our success has come not from great women behind men, but beside them. While Jefferson declared our […]
PAST EVENT Sharkey, with author Gary Bohan
Tuesday, May 9 at 2 PM Sharkey was an unusually gifted, trained sea lion who shared the stage with practically every important performer of the first half of the 20th century—from Bob Hope to Ella Fitzgerald, from Broadway to Hollywood and beyond. For decades, Sharkey and his flippered colleagues traveled the world with stops at […]
PAST EVENTHow Dickens Helped Bring Christmas to Boston
How Dickens Helped Bring Christmas to Boston Wednesday, November 30th at 2PM Readings and performances of Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol” have played an integral part in winter holiday festivities since longer than most of us can remember. What fewer people know, however, is that the British literary superstar and his popular novella actually helped […]
PAST EVENT Etchings by Sidney Hurwitz with portraits of Sidney by Penelope Jenks
Etchings by Sidney Hurwitz with portraits of Sidney by Penelope Jenks October, November and December in the Art Gallery Sidney Hurwitz was born in Worcester in 1932. He studied at the School of Worcester Art Museum, received his B.A. from Brandeis, and his M.A. from Boston University. He continued his studies with a Fulbright Fellowship […]
PAST EVENT Lifeline: My Year in Quarantine with Hildegard Von Bingen, with Soprano Ann Moss
Lifeline: My Year in Quarantine with Hildegard Von Bingen, with Opera Soprano Ann Moss TUESDAY, OCTOBER 19, 4 PM A modern-day interpretation of the music of Hildegard Von Bingen (the first documented Woman Composer!) distilled through the lens of Ms. Moss’ experiences in quarantine. For Lifeline, she has partnered with musicians around the country to […]
PAST EVENT —– Women and Children First
Women and Children First: The Remarkable Life of Dr. Susan Dimmock TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 2021 , 11 AM A PowerPoint lecture by Susan Wilson, from her biography-in-progress To her contemporaries in Boston of the 1870s, Susan Dimmock was well known as a strong, selfless innovator in American medicine — one of the first group of […]
PAST EVENT The Chinese Exclusion Act
The Chinese Exclusion Act with North Hill Resident Tom Chin TUESDAY, OCTOBER 26, 10 am. Have you ever wondered why there were so few working class Chinese, yet so many laundries and restaurants during the 1900s through the 1950s? Come to this lecture and find out. Around the time The California Gold Rush began (1849), […]