Chase away the winter blues and warm up with a romantic and festive evening of American and Irish traditional love songs in the folk tradition. Join hosts Barbara Cassidy and Eric Chasalow, and their special guests Monique Byrne and Andy Rogovin (Crowe’s Pasture)for a concert that will feature original songs written by both couples, as well as many familiar ones.

Acoustic Newton Coffeehouse: Love Songs in the Folk Tradition (rescheduled from 2/14)
Saturday, March 13, 8pm
Newton Cultural Center at City Hall, 1000 Commonwealth Avenue.

Tickets $10 adults/$5 students & seniors.  More info and tickets online.

Since 2008, the Global Education Leadership Fund (GELF) has raised over $85,000 to send 71 of our low-income students abroad on one of Newton Public Schools’ many travel programs. Without this scholarship program, our faculty-led travel opportunities would not be open to students whose parents struggle to make ends meet in Newton and Boston.

The GELF fundraiser on Saturday, March 21, at Newton North, will feature:

• 5 course gourmet tasting menu prepared by Chef Katya Salkever, including tropical shellfish ceviche, balsamic-braised short ribs, & more!
• Live music by Newton South’s very own Katani Sumner and band
• Fine wine & Sam Adams beer pairings. The beer will be carefully selected and donated by Jim Koch, co-founder of the Boston Beer Company, who will be present to explain the selections.
• Live auction
• Excellent company (150 of the coolest members of our community!)

  Learn more and buy your tickets online at the GELF website.

Williams School is celebrating its 140th year with a huge online auction beginning  March 1st.

We have restaurants, spas, fitness, and much much more! We also still have camp options for the summer.

Click here to browse and bid online from March 1 – 15.  

RACE, SPORT, AND SOCIETY: THE 19TH CENTURY BICYCLING CRAZE
Tuesday, March 3 (rescheduled from February 3)
7:00 PM
Durant-Kenrick House and Grounds, 286 Waverley Avenue.

From 1877 to 1896, the popularity of bicycles increased exponentially, and Newton was in on it from the start with popular destinations such as Norumbega, Chestnut Hill, Echo Bridge, and the Woodland Park Hotel.

Join Lorenz J. Finison in exploring the rise of Boston-area cycling through the lives of several participants, including Kittie Knox, a biracial twenty-year-old seamstress; Joseph Gardner Holmes, a Nonantum resident and a member of the all-black Bicycle Corps of the Sixth Massachusetts Volunteer Militia; and Abbot Bassett, a Newtonville resident and vocal cycling advocate for forty years.

In this free lecture, Finison will discuss the challenges facing these riders in a time of segregation, increased immigration, and debates about the rights of women. 

Newton’s main village center at the time of the City’s founding in 1688, and always a vital thoroughfare for traffic from Boston to the west, Newton Corner expanded again in the 1860s due to the railroad. A century later, the village’s commercial center was largely demolished to make way for the Turnpike extension.

Join Newton Corner residents Jay Walter and Keith Jones to learn about this area’s progression from rural farmland to commuter suburb, including the history of Farlow Park and the current efforts to restore it.

Thursday, February 26
7:00 PM
Newton Free Library, 330 Homer St.

Program is part of the 2015 Newton History Series, A City of Villages. Free and open to all. Co-sponsored by Historic Newton and the Newton Free Library.