Coming up in April Here’s what’s in store for April at Lynn Museum / LynnArts – Lynn and the Great War: At Home and Abroad Please join us on Tuesday, April 3rd at for the opening of our exhibit: Lynn and the Great War: At Home and Abroad. Learn how Lynn influenced and was…
3/21/18 From the Lynn Historical Commission – The 8th annual Lynn Historical Commission’s Significance Awards nomination season is underway. Between now and noon, Friday April 13, the Lynn Historical Commission is accepting nominations for the June 5 Awards ceremony. The Significance Awards are bestowed each year to a deserving example of historic preservation in Lynn.…
You can attend a brief lecture on this moment in Lynn History at the Lynn Museum, Monday, February 26 at 5:30pm. From community organizer Michelle Guzmán – On February 28th, 1860, women workers at the shoe and textile factories in Lynn walked the streets in a procession along with men to demand equal pay for…
Frederick Douglass returns to Lynn this week to attend his 200th birthday party at City Hall The Wednesday, Feb. 14, celebration honors Douglass, who came to Lynn in 1841 as a 23-year-old runaway slave, settled here with his wife and young children, and left six years later a famous abolitionist. Mayor Thomas McGee will…
Coming up in February at Lynn Museum / LynnArts Saturday, February 3rd, 5:30-8:30, LynnArts will present the opening of their new exhibit Art of the Mack, an exhibition of footwear based artwork in support of Mack’s Soles, a non-profit organization who accepts donations of worn shoes and refurbishes them to donate to the homeless. They…
6/26/17 Winn Hacket of the Little Theatre School on Lynnfield Street is trying to find out the local history behind this antique merry-go-round/carousel: “I bought Little Theatre School located at 503 Lynnfield Street, Lynn several years ago. The school came with a working antique merry-go-round. I want to find out more about its place in…
The shoe industry, GE, WPA, the Highlands, Lynn Hospital – the story of Abraham Megerdichian and family is connected to current exhibits at the Lynn Museum. Photo gallery below story Story and photos contributed by Robert Megerdichian, son of Abraham – When my sisters and I were young my father Abraham (Abe) and my mother…
10.24.16 During Pirates Day in Lynn Woods earlier this month, I ran into Karen Searles from Friends of Lynn Woods and she kindly offered to share this story with Happens readers – Fanny Campbell was a young woman who lived in Lynn, Massachusetts in 1776. She was just an ordinary colonial woman. But she…
9.22.16 On Sunday, September 18th, 2016 people gathered in front of a home on Western Ave. not too far from the *Lydia Pinkham factory. The home is where Lydia Pinkham once lived and where she began making her Vegetable Compound for women. Since 2001, it has been the residence of Karen and Michael Malionek, who have…
This past weekend, June 3rd, 4th and 5th 2016, was another installment of the commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the Civil War. The series actually continues next year with even more events. The detailed schedule was posted in advance, here. Participants of course included the G.A.R. (Grand Army of the Republic) / Gen. Lander…