The following organizations have generously sponsored the Framingham History Centers programs and events. For information on how your business or organization can also sponsor our activities, please call the Director, Annie Murphy, at 508-626-9091 or director@framinghamhistory.org.
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Parking: Because of Center common construction, please park in the Village Hall lot (2 Oak St.) or behind the Jonathan Maynard Building (14 Vernon St.)
Framingham Remembers...The Civil War
Location: Edgell Memorial Building/ 3 Oak Street
Hours: Open Wednesdays-Saturdays 1:00pm-4:00pm
Admission: Free for FHC Members, $5 for Non-Members
"Be Swift My Soul" A Salon with Julia Ward Howe
Date – Sunday, February 12, 2012
Time – 1:30 – 3:00
Location – Heineman Ecumenical Center, Framingham State College
Join Libby Frank as she portrays Julia Ward Howe - a woman who produced perhaps the most stirring and recognizable lines of music in U.S. history. Julia was transformed from a wealthy New York belle to a Boston writer and abolitionist in the decades leading up to the Civil War. As the wife of reformer Dr. Samuel Gridley Howe, Director of the Perkins Institute for the Blind - she entertained and visited with poets, politicians, reformers, writers and exceptional women.
Libby will present Julia as the host of a salon that might have included H.W. Longfellow, Edgar Alan Poe, Florence Nightingale, Margaret Fuller, Charles Sumner and Charles Dickens among others. These acquaintances along with her travels abroad, her love of language and music all gave birth to the compelling verses of the Battle Hymn of the Republic which were first sung in Framingham at the Plymouth Church nearly 150 years ago – February 22, 1862. Music of the era will be performed. Refreshments served following the performance at the Alumni House, 42 Adams Rd., Framingham
Memory and Meaning Series
Making History/Making Place: New England's Search for a Useable Past
Location: Edgell Memorial Library/ 3 Oak Street
Date: Sunday, January 22, 2012
Time: 2:00-3:30 p.m.
Admission: $5 FHC Members and students /$10 for Non-Members
Presented by: Bill Hosley, President Terra Firma Associates - cultural resource consultant, planner, teacher, writer and photographer
This program connects us with artists and antiquarians who used collections, monuments, story-telling and the built environment to preserve, protect, and promote the New England places they loved.
Click here to for more information and to puchase tickets online
Click here for more information and to puchase tickets online.
Civil War Living History Encampment
Location: Starts at the Old Academy Building, 16 Vernon St.
Date: May 4-6, 2012
Location:Framingham’s Centre Common
Union and Confederate soldiers will set up camp, perform artillery demonstrations, drills and medical scenarios. There will be a Saturday Night contra dance at the Village Hall also located on the Common, as well as activities related to the Civil War exhibition Framingham Remembers…The Civil War at the Edgell Memorial Library. This Library, which is the town’s civil war memorial, will be rededicated during the weekend activities and three local authors will be signing recently published books on Framingham’s Civil War history.
We are a non-profit organization that depends largely on memberships and donations to perform our mission of preserving and sharing Framingham's unique history and culture. Please join us or
"You have no idea how grateful I am to you. You have made a difference in my life…now I have some information on my family that I feel is correct to go by. I wouldn't have been able to get the information without you.
When I first started my family tree I did not even know (my grandfather's parents' name) so I just hit that wall and could not find out any more on them but as I see now I was going down some of the wrong paths. This information should open up a couple of paths for me. I do thank you from the bottom of my heart."
