Upcoming Lectures & Talks
2 upcoming lectures and talks from Medford Historical Society, with dates, venues and ticket links taken from the organization’s own pages and refreshed weekly. All lectures in Greater Boston →
Sat Oct 31 · 1:00pm
J. Jeremiah Breen, president of the Middlesex Canal Association, speaks on the canal as part of an interstate water highway essential to the Industrial Revolution in Massachusetts. Chartered in 1793, the 27-mile canal ran from the Charles River at Boston to the Merrimack at what is now Lowell, with 20 locks and eight aqueducts. The corporation was liquidated in 1853, having lost out to the railroad.
Thu Nov 12 · 7:00pm
Dennis J. Curran, a retired justice of the Massachusetts Superior Court, looks at Abraham Lincoln's leadership: how, as a politician, he mastered communication and compromise, and how, as a leader, he set a goal and reached it by tempering responsibility and determination with compassion and hope. Curran argues that at moments of great challenge Lincoln summoned his “better angels” to enlarge the lives of others.