NHS Programs

SCHEDULE

Programs will usually be held on the fourth Friday of the month at the Historical society, but check back here closer to the event for any changes due to winter storms or other events.

CURRENT YEAR PROGRAMS

Click/tap on the following button for a smartphone friendly summary of all current year programs

Summary
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Curremt Year Programs

Alternatively, a summary of all 2025 - 2026 programs in PDF form can be found here. All programs are free and open to the public unless otherwise stated.

For more information, contact us at: Info@NorthboroughHistoricalSociety.org or 508.393.6298.

UPCOMING PROGRAM DETAILS

Date: October 24, 2025

Time: 7:00 p.m.

Place: The Historical Society Building, 52 Main St., Northborough.

Title: Ben Franklin and the Road to Independence

Description: Portrayed by Tim O'Connor, Dr. Benjamin Franklin, thrice a Postmaster in America, will discuss the importance of the Post in America's growth, political discontent, revolution, and eventual freedom. Colonial letters will be shown illustrating these points in a very granular approach.

PAST PROGRAMS

Date	Title (click to see program details)
PROGRAMS 2025 - 2026 : HTML or PDF
26-Sep-25	Hidden Illness in the White House: Patient Confidentiality vs. the Public Good
PROGRAMS 2024 - 2025 : HTML or PDF
16-May-25	The Original Bucky Lew. Basketball’s First Black Professional Player
25-Apr-25	Northborough During the Revolutionary War
28-Mar-25	White Cliffs, an Architectural Marvel
28-Feb-25	The USGS Stream Stats Program
24-Jan-25	The Agricultural Branch Railroad
06-Dec-24	Beaver Meadows to Farmed Wetlands and Back
25-Oct-24	Meet the unsung heroine behind the new deal: Frances Perkins - PART 2
27-Sep-24	Backyard Astronomy
PROGRAMS 2023 - 2024 : HTML or PDF
17-May-24	Major Taylor: The Worcester Whirlwind
26-Apr-24	The Blizzard of ’78
22-Apr-24	Meet the unsung heroine behind the new deal: Frances Perkins - PART 1
22-Mar-24	The Summer of 1787: Writing the US Constitution
23-Feb-24	Landmark Civil Rights Legislation of the Mid 1960s
26-Jan-24	Underground History at Blackstone National Park
01-Dec-23	Byzantine and Russian Icons
27-Oct-23	The Great Boston Fire: The Inferno that Nearly Incinerated the City
22-Sep-23	The Family Nurse: Home Medical Care in the Early Nineteenth Century
PROGRAMS 2022 - 2023
19-May-23	Eleanor Roosevelt – The First Lady of The World
28-Apr-23	19th Century Medicine: Doctors and Their Times
24-Mar-23	Northborough’s Nineteenth Century Lyceum
24-Feb-23	Code Breaking
27-Jan-23	The Local Historic Districts of Northborough
02-Dec-22	The Unsung Heroes Who Helped Break Baseball’s Color Barrier
28-Oct-22	Challenger: Soaring with Christa McAuliffe
23-Sep-22	The Burnett Garfield House
PROGRAMS 2021 - 2022
20-May-22	Mark "The Bird" Fidrych: Flyer-1 \| Flyer-2
22-Apr-22	Third Parties in America 1860 to 2016
25-Mar-22	Bathsheba Spooner - A Revolutionary Murder Conspiracy
25-Feb-22	The Burnett Garfield House - Canceled due to winter storm
28-Jan-22	Third Parties in America - Rescheduled to April due to COVID-19
03-Dec-21	The Vikings. An Icelandic Saga
22-Oct-21	The First Year
24-Sep-21	Lucy Stone
PROGRAMS 2020 - 2021
n/a	All programs canceled due to COVID-19
PROGRAMS 2019 - 2020
22-May-20	Program canceled due to COVID-19
24-Apr-20	Program canceled due to COVID-19
27-Mar-20	Program canceled due to COVID-19
28-Feb-20	The Scholar and the Slaves
24-Jan-20	The Collings Foundation
06-Dec-19	Mysteries From Our Museum
25-Oct-19	Wicked Pissed: New England’s Most Famous Feuds
PROGRAMS 2018 - 2019
17-May-19	A Night at the Museum
26-Apr-19	Murder Mystery
22-Mar-19	A Visit with Louisa May Alcott
22-Feb-19	Eating Out
25-Jan-19	How many Historical Markers have you seen in Northborough?
07-Dec-18	Traditions of Yesteryear
26-Oct-18	Spreading Beauty
28-Sep-18	Appalachian Mountain Club: Leaders in the Outdoors Since 1876 (no flyer)
PROGRAMS 2017 - 2018
18-May-18	Fill ‘Er Up!
27-Apr-18	The Cuban Missile Crisis: 13 Days at the Brink of Nuclear Warfare (no flyer)
23-Mar-18	An Evening with General and Mrs. Ulysses S. Grant
23-Feb-18	The Doctors are In!
26-Jan-18	The Ride of Their Lives
01-Dec-17	A Victorian Christmas
27-Oct-17	Rounders To Baseball
22-Sep-17	All Aboard!
PROGRAMS 2016 - 2017
19-May-17	Photo Mysteries: Family Histories
07-May-17	Northborough In The Trenches
28-Apr-17	The Building of the Aqueduct
31-Mar-17	The Molasses Flood of 1919
24-Feb-17	TORNADO!
27-Jan-17	Mapping it Out
02-Dec-16	A Portrait of the Victorian Age
28-Oct-16	A Look Down the Road: Historic Route 20
PROGRAMS 2015 - 2016
27-May-16	What Do YOU Remember?
22-Apr-16	The Lost Art of Etiquette
18-Mar-16	To the Rescue!
26-Feb-16	Who Lyeth Here?
22-Jan-16	A Night of History, a Night of Song
04-Dec-15	A Date Which Will Live in Infamy
23-Oct-15	An Evening with Mark Twain
25-Sep-15	A Night at the Museum
PROGRAMS 2014 - 2015
20-May-15	American Harmony - Step back in time…
24-Apr-15	Listen my children and you shall hear…
27-Mar-15	Myth, Legend, Obscurity
27-Feb-15	Take a Walk through History (the old Connecticut Path)
23-Jan-15	Who was Wilder Bush?
05-Dec-14	Cooking by the Book in New England
24-Oct-14	Titanic
26-Sep-14	1912-1920: the Era of the 19th Amendment
PROGRAMS 2013 - 2014
16-May-14	Luanne Crosby, music from the Civil War
25-Apr-14	Money, Money, Money – Making a Living in the 19th Century

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