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Add EventMassDestruction returns once again to the Charles River Museum of Industry and Innovation to bring you an entire day of mechanized mayhem! Expect to see Boston's brightest put their metal to the metal as 3-pound and 1-pound robots clash in our Pyramid of Pain! MassDestruction brings you only the finest of remote control destruction! Standard […]
Opening this Wednesday. This Labor Day, the Charles River Museum of Industry and Innovation celebrates workers and their contributions to the development of the United States with the new exhibition "When Waltham Strikes." Did you know that the first industrial labor strike was staged at the site of our museum by women working at the […]
New exhibit! Waltham's Labor History and the First Industrialized Strike in America. The public are encouraged to attend. Light refreshments will be served.
The labor movement in the United States is a bulwark of democracy and a driving force for social and economic equality. Yet its stories remain largely unknown to Americans. Robert Forrant and Mary Anne Trasciatti edited a collection of essays focused on nationwide efforts to propel the history of labor and working people into mainstream […]
“Acclaimed multi-instrumentalist/singer-songwriter” and “Nashville Songwriter Hall of Fame nominee” are just a couple of many descriptors one could attach to Darrell Scott. You might also in part define Scott by the company he keeps, whether he’s producing albums for country hitmakers like the Zac Brown Band, performing as a member of Robert Plant’s Band of Joy […]
From suffragette to war worker – and military ranks open to women, presented by Chet Michalak, Raytheon historian and archivist. The suffragette movement ends the 100-year struggle for women’s rights in 1920 and is followed by a home front effort that dramatically increases the ranks of female war workers. The call goes out for women […]
Kater's originality as an artist likely stems from the fact that there's no one else who can claim the same deep, varied array of experiences and heritage. She draws on influences rooted in Quebec, the Caribbean, and Appalachia, her ties to the Canadian folk music scene, her college years spent soaking up Appalachian music in […]
From her formative work as part of singer/songwriter string band phenoms The Stray Birds to her growing catalog of solo albums, Maya de Vitry radiates joy while extolling the transformative power of community. Fiercely committed to personal growth as a means of artistic evolution, her 2024 album "The Only Moment" is her gently defiant testament […]
For two days in November 1872, a massive fire swept through Boston, leaving the downtown in ruins and the population traumatized. Coming barely a year after the infamous Chicago fire, Boston’s inferno turned out to be one of the most expensive fires per acre in U.S. history. Yet today few are aware of how close […]
An evening of diverse personal stories from Waltham that will make you laugh, cry and forge connections with your community and each other. A cast of six tellers will share true 6-8 minute stories about memorable experiences in their lives. All live, work or have close ties to the city so will help bond the […]
This presentation will explain what industrial archeology is. It will trace the history of the field, from its beginnings in England in the 1950s and the founding of the U.S. Society for Industrial Archeology in 1971, to the present, and describe some of its contributions, like the early surveys of historic textile mills. It will […]
Fronted by three sisters—Rebecca on acoustic guitar, Kat on the keys, Rachael on electric guitar, and all three on vocals—Canton, Massachusetts’ Wolff sisters were raised on steady diet of Bob Dylan, The Band, and Little Feat. Their music is honest yet genre-defying, rooted in traditional storytelling that puts a decidedly New England spin on Americana […]
