Events

UPCOMING

See below for our Fall 2024 and Spring 2025 programs Co-sponsored by the Charlotte and William Bloomberg Medford Public Library. All programs will take place at 111 High Street, Medford.

Help a family in need in Medford at the holidays! MHSM Toy Drive

Support The Medford Family Network. There are two ways to donate toys:
- Bring an unwrapped toy to MHSM (10 Governors Avenue) on any Sunday between 1:00 and 4:00 from now through Dec 15^th
- Bring a new, unwrapped toy to the program on the Early Archaeology of Medford on Dec. 3. This at the Library at 7:00 p.m. – see more below. Your donation will be gratefully received!
Please consider making a donation to MHSM via this easy online form.

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Tuesday, December 3: Deep Time:
The Early Archaeology of Medford and Greater Boston
Speaker: Suanna Selby Crowley, Archeologist
Walk through deep time and learn more about the archaeology of Medford and Greater Boston. Suanna Crowley, also known as “Dr. Dirt,” is a geoarchaeologist and researcher who has worked across the globe – but lives right here in Medford! Her work is focused on the dynamic environmental and climatic processes that preserve the archaeological record. This landscape legacy shapes and informs our understanding of the complex history of the Indigenous peoples who have lived here for millennia. This illustrated talk will highlight multiple topics of archaeological interest and describe new research.

Programs in 2025

Thursday, January 30, 2025
“Gandhi’s American Friend: The Untold Story of Richard Gregg”
Speaker: John Wooding, Emeritus Professor, Political Science, University of Massachusetts, Lowell

Richard Gregg was Gandhi’s confidant and friend for more than twenty years. He was American activist and writer whose social philosophy and ideas would influence Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and many other pacifists and activists throughout the twentieth century. He was the son of a congregationalist minister who was born and lived in Medford. Gregg was educated at Harvard University he worked as a labor lawyer and arbitrator in Boston and Chicago before moving to India to work and study with Gandhi. He returned there many times. This is his story.
Sign up coming soon.Thursday, February 20, 2025
“Defining Moments”

Speaker: Dave McGillivray, Race Director of the B.A.A. Boston Marathon and Motivational Speaker

Everyone has a story to tell. For Dave McGillivray, it was his strong desire to be an athlete that led him to run across the country in 1978 at age 23. That 80-day trek across the United States led to a life of pushing himself both mentally and physically. McGillivray has been race director of the B.A.A. Boston Marathon and has directed many of the country’s most prestigious races, such as the 2004 and 2008 U.S. Women’s Olympic Marathon Trials, the 1990 ITU Triathlon World Championship, the TD Beach to Beacon 10K, the ASICS Falmouth Road Race, and numerous other races.

Dave’s story all starts in Medford – his hometown. It was the days he spent on the field and the track in Medford as a young boy that set the stage for his life on the run. Dave was the valedictorian of his graduating class at Medford High School. The track at Hormel Stadium bears his name and he is part of the Medford Mustang Hall of Fame. Dave continues to organize a road race, Run Medford, to benefit the community.
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Thanks to the Medford Arts Council for supporting MHSM

“These programs are supported in part by a grant from the Medford Arts Council, a local commission that is supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council and the City of Medford.”

The Power of Truth: Early Diversity in Medford, February 2024
Murder at the Harvard Medical School, April 2023
Black Heritage Trail Virtual Tour, February 2022