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The rain date is Sunday, May 19.

Katharine Gibbs made sure that all of the campuses from Providence, Boston, New York, and beyond were in beautiful buildings in elegant parts of their cities. What could be more elegant than Back Bay in the spring?

Join a former Gibbs dean in a tour of the excellent sites of Gibbs in Back Bay. Whether you are a graduate, a history buff, or someone who has heard about Gibbs for years and wants to know more, this is a great treat!

You'll learn about our unique story, explore the space, and meet the makers who grow, catch, brew, raise, cultivate, bake, ferment, cook, and harvest their food. Exact meeting location will be emailed upon registration.

Uncover the many layers of King’s Chapel’s past, literally and figuratively, as you explore the church as both a historic and living place.

This tour focuses not only on the literal construction and adornment of the church, but also how its congregation over time has continually added meaning to the space. You'll learn about how changes over time — to the building, congregation, and landscape of Boston — have constructed how King’s Chapel is seen and understood as a historic place today.

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This tour will be repeated on Thursdays, May 23 and May 30.

We will welcome more than 2,000 visitors to our neighborhood. They will enjoy not only our hidden gardens, but also our shops, restaurants, and museums.

From its first garden tour since the club was founded in 1928, club members have opened their gardens every year on the third Thursday in May, even through the Depression and World War II. We hope you will enjoy the day visiting the nooks, crannies and charming spaces that make Beacon Hill special.

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The tour is rain or shine.

Learn why there is an 18th-century horseshoe in the permanent exhibits, how the Meeting House is indebted to a fire engine from New Hampshire, how Louisa May Alcott and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow supported the Meeting House’s preservation in the late 1800s, why William Lloyd Garrison didn’t, and how this building’s preservation story continues as it approaches its 300th birthday!

This program is made possible with funding from the Lowell Institute.

Thrill to the sights and sounds of an array of birds that inhabit Franklin Park each spring. All levels welcome. Bring binoculars.

Author Meenal Atul Pandya details the influence of Indians on Massachusetts history. Pandya has been writing about India and its culture for more than two decades, observing the lifestyle and issues that face the Indian diaspora.

It argues that northern Black children intersected shifting constructions of race and childhood, as a group upon which society experimented with treatments of the newly recognized social category of the child, and came to terms with the social and economic place of the nascent free Black community.

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This is a brown-bag lunch hosted by the Massachusetts Historical Society.