Bearing Witness: Liberating Concentration Camps of the Holocaust

Sunday, April 1, 2012 at 2pm
Morse Institute Library
14 E. Central Street

The Natick Historical Society will present Bearing Witness, the moving and provocative story of the American soldiers who liberated the concentration camps of the Holocaust.  Alan Rosen, Co-Producer and Liberator, will lead a guided discussion after the screening.  The concentration camp liberators and the one survivor who appear in Bearing Witness do so because they want to speak out against discrimination, intolerance, and injustice. The hope the stories they tell about this time in history will make a difference in how people behave toward one another in all the times to come.

Bill Littlefield to Speak in Natick

Sunday, March 4, 2012 at 2pm
Eliot Church
45 Eliot Street, Natick. 

Organized by the Friends of the Bacon Free Library and presented in partnership with the Eliot Church and the Natick Historical Society:

Bill Littlefield, nationally known author and veteran sports commentator. Bill hosts National Public Radio's “Only A Game”, a weekly one-hour sports magazine. He is the writer-in-residence at Curry College in Milton, MA, where he has been a humanities professor since 1976.

Bill Littlefield has won six Associated Press Awards, and has been celebrated as one of Boston's "Literary Lights" by the associates of the Boston Public Library. He lives in Needham, Massachusetts, with his wife Mary Atlee and their daughters Amy and Alison.

Grant awarded by MathWorks

The Natick Historical Society is pleased to announce that it has received a grant from MathWorks to support the new Henry Wilson exhibit which opened on October 2, 2011. The support from Mathworks will go specifically to designing and developing interactive elements for the new exhibit which may include puzzles, life size cut out figures and an interview game.

The Henry Wilson Story

Sunday, November 6 2pm
at The Morse Institute Library
14 E. Central Street, Natick
Lebowitz Meeting Room

Jack Myers is author of three volumes, Henry Wilson and the Coming of the Civil War, Senator Henry Wilson and the Civil War, and Henry Wilson and the Era of Reconstruction.

Myers reminds us that “Wilson interacted with all the noteworthy political, religious, military and educational leaders of his time and information about his life and contributions is noted in their papers.  In himself, Wilson is one of the most important national figures to represent Massachusetts, although never sufficiently appreciated and promoted.”

Grand Opening of the Henry Wilson Exhibit

Sunday, October 2, 1pm – 5pm

Help celebrate Henry Wilson’s bicentennial at a town-wide tribute to this extraordinary man: Natick shoemaker, abolitionist Senator from Massachusetts and Vice President under Grant.

1:00pm  Grand Opening of Wilson Exhibit at the Museum in the Bacon Free Library, Route 16, South Natick. The museum will remain open until 5pm.

2:30pm  Commemorative Ceremony at the Wilson Gravesite presented by the Trustees of Dell Park Cemetery and the Henry Wilson Regiment—the 22nd Massachusetts Re-enactors.
Old Dell Park Cemetery, Pond Street

From 2pm to 5pm Visit sites on your schedule

Open House at Henry Wilson’s home (current home of Irwin Engineers)
33 West Central St, Natick--Park on West Central St, east bound side

Open House at Henry Wilson’s Shoe Shop with working cobbler on site
181 West Central Street, corner of Mill Street--Parking lot off W. Central