Listen Participate Experience
Engage your curiosity with these live history shows. Music helps tell the tales of our times and those before us. Anne encourages audience participations. Shows can include age-appropriate activities.
These history shows are great for libraries, senior citizens, schools, historical societies, multi-generational programming and more.
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Recommended for adults
The First Big Dig Explore the building of the Hoosac Tunnel and marvel at the expense it entailed
Dreamed, created and crafted Designed for adults, attendees are involved in discussions spurred by images, stories and music. Audience members can sit back and enjoy or participate in discussions of events that are meaningful to them as we remember and learn more about New England’s industries. Local people, just like us, spurred innovations in industry and changed our society.
Irish Immigrants: Building America Songs and stories tell why so many Irish came here and what they did to survive.
Civil War: America in Strife Experience the lives of people during the Civil War through stories and music.
Recommended for younger folks
Drilling to New York grades K – 3: Keep little hands busy discovering how a nearly 5-mile tunnel was built in the 1900s.
Warp and Weft grades 4 – 8: Weave on a cardboard loom and investigate the early labor movement. **Accepted as a 2018 MassHousing program!**