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Add EventGuitar-driven grit, soul, silence and muscle—at times electrifying, dynamic—Porter’s voice blends and fuses with his fret work. Some folks are lucky to find what they love to do at an early age and quietly settle in for the long haul expanding and developing their work over the arc of a lifetime. Willy Porter is one […]
Ashton, Forestdale, Peacedale, Cabotville, Hopedale, Uxbridge, Millville and Slatersville, of course. Along our New England rivers there are more than a hundred small factory villages. Following familiar patterns, they are […]
Registration required to participate in the Rube Goldberg Machine Contest! Watch the contestants throughout the day! Included with Museum Admission Open To Grades K-12 Plus Anyone 18+ May Now Compete!
This Mill Talk explores how failure functions not as a setback, but as an essential tool in the design and construction of successful Rube Goldberg Machines, highlighting how misfires, breakdowns, and unexpected outcomes inform engineering decisions, improve reliability, and foster creative problem-solving. Zach Umperovitch is a three-time Guinness World Records holder, a National Rube Goldberg […]
A Week-Long Build In The Museum Main Gallery! Zachs Contraptions Starting on Monday, March 30th, and continuing through Friday April 3rd Rube Goldberg Machine Build in the Museum Main Gallery FREE with Museum Admission Using parts and pieces found here at the Museum, as well as in his own collection, master contraption builder Zach Umperovich […]
Rachel Sumner & Traveling Light are a Boston-based string band making music that blends folk tradition with feminist storytelling, poetic detail, and just enough grit. At the center is Sumner’s songwriting—rooted in history, myth, and personal reckoning—carried by close harmonies, upright bass, acoustic guitar, and fiddle. The trio features Kat Wallace on fiddle and vocals […]
How refurbished technology can close the digital divide. In this conversation, Dylan Zajac will explore where old electronics really end up, the environmental and social costs of e-waste, and how Computers 4 People is building a scalable model to turn discarded technology into opportunity. The discussion will cover digital equity, sustainability, and what it takes […]
The 10th Anniversary Breezers Ball—a special "Thank You" to Waltham—will be a wonderful party to celebrate and thank Waltham for being such a great place to live and to work. This year's theme is "Bloom Where You Are Planted."
Two-fifths of the multi-award-winning band Ward Hayden and the Outliers prove that it's not the numbers that count, but the music. Ward Hayden has fronted his band The Outliers for […]
The clockmaking tradition carried out by Chelsea Clock Company traces it’s roots back to the founding of the Harvard Clock Company in 1880 by Joseph Eastman. This talk will trace […]
Coal was the main fuel for industry, utilities and domestic life in metropolitan Boston between roughly 1820 and 1970, including the core years of the Industrial Revolutions. During this period, coal accounted for the majority of Boston’s energy supply and provided energy to Boston’s homes, factories, foundries, power plants, shipyards and other operations. Coal also […]
Formed in the fog of the timeline around the fall of the Twin Towers, the death of Elliott Smith, the peak influence of Pitchfork and the dawn of the iPod, […]
