Victorian Science and the Beyond: Ethereal Evening Tours

The spirit-world around this world of sense Floats like an atmosphere, and everywhere Wafts through these earthly mists and vapours dense A vital breath of more ethereal air. -From “Haunted Houses” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Scientific discovery – and the promise of glimpsing the world beyond our perception – captured the imaginations of 19th century Americans. Join Longfellow House-Washington’s Headquarters for a special evening of historic house tours exploring the intersections of Victorian scientific thought, the lure of the supernatural, and their echoes today. 50-minute tours will invite participants to examine the unknown as we consider the Longfellow family’s entanglements with forensics and phrenology, early views of outer space, the spiritualism movement, and their pioneering use of ether anesthesia. Tours at 5:00, 5:30, 6:00, and 6:30 Please note: This tour will include sensitive but frank discussions of 19th century violence, medical procedures, and drug use. Please use discretion when registering. <a href="https://forms.office.com/pages/responsepage.aspx?id=urWTBhhLe02TQfMvQApUlEDRu22MNudDkv_g-gZckuJUMlU2QzBZOFpFTDhHRzFPRklSN1c0VEQ4TS4u&amp;route=shorturl">Registration</a>

Longfellow House-Washington's Headquarters

In Search of Darby Vassall: Tour of Cambridge & Beyond

Partner program led by Denise Washington and Joel Mackall - A Denise Plays Hard Event Travel by trolley in greater Cambridge between seven stops with Denise Washington (a descendant of Darby Vassall) and educator Joel Mackall. Each stop reflects a key location in the life of Darby Vassall (1769-1861), a lifelong community activist who endured slavery and seized freedom with his family in Revolutionary Cambridge. Early dinner provided after the tour. Meets at Longfellow House-Washington's Headquarters.

Virtual Presentation: Black History at the Vassall Estate

A new landmark study of Black History at the Vassall Estate&nbsp;documents and analyzes the Black experience at 105 Brattle Street (now Longfellow House–Washington’s Headquarters National Historic Site) and in the wider Cambridge community from the mid-1700s to the mid-1800s. Join the study’s authors Caitlin DeAngelis, Carla Martin, Rayshauna Gray, Aabid Allibhai, and Eshe Sherley for a virtual presentation on Thursday, September 25, 2025, at 6:00-7:00 pm. They’ll introduce the study, share key findings, and take you behind the scenes of their research and writing process. This study is remarkable not only for the history it documents—much of it appearing in print for the first time—but also for the breadth of research behind it. In partnership with lineal descendants of the Black Vassalls, the authors consulted sources spanning New England, the United Kingdom, and the Caribbean over the course of more than three years. Research of this scale is rare, and even more rarely presented in a format accessible to all readers. All registrants will receive a digital copy of the final study upon completion, and it will also be made available online. The virtual presentation on September 25 is free and open to all,&nbsp;<a href="https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/i_MCDJx9Rx2b4W2TzwestQ#/registration">but advance registration is required.</a>

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Concert: Juventas New Music Ensemble

The <a href="https://www.nps.gov/long/planyourvisit/summer-festival.htm">Longfellow Summer Arts Festival</a> brings music, poetry, and community to the East Lawn of the Longfellow House on Sunday afternoons through the summer. All events are free and open to the public. A free outdoor concert of contemporary music for clarinet, violin, &amp; piano. Celine Ferro, clarinet Ryan Shannon, violin Julia Scott Carey, piano   Miguel del Aguila (b 1957), Tango Trio (2015) Gwyneth Walker (b. 1947), Fantasy Etudes (1992) Rachel Panitch (b. 1984), Edge of the Marsh (2018) Brittney Benton (b. 1999), Memory (2019) Oliver Caplan (b. 1982), Prayer for Peace (2025) Valerie Coleman (b. 1970), Sonatine (2014) Quinn Mason (b. 1996), Two Fleeting Daydreams (2015) Juventas New Music Ensemble is a dynamic contemporary chamber group with a special focus on emerging voices. They reimagine classical music as a vibrant living art form, uplifting rising voices and bringing audiences music from a diverse array of composers that live in today’s world and respond to our time. Juventas has earned a reputation as a curator, with a keen eye for new talent. Since our founding in 2005, they have performed the music of over 300 living composers. Our musicians champion these artists with exceptional professional performances that open doors.

Family Saturday

On the East Lawn of the Longfellow House our Rangers will provide arts, crafts and lawn games for kids and families to enjoy! The lawn is fenced in and set away from the street. Tables and chairs are provided by staff and shade is provided by the large linden tree. The event is free; no reservations are required.

Longfellow House Washington's Headquarters

Concert: Luke Walker

The <a href="https://www.nps.gov/long/planyourvisit/summer-festival.htm">Longfellow Summer Arts Festival</a> brings music, poetry, and community to the East Lawn of the Longfellow House on Sunday afternoons through the summer. All events are free and open to the public. This concert is presented in partnership with the <a href="https://college.berklee.edu/events/summer">Berklee Summer in the City</a> concert series. Luke Walker is an award-winning cellist currently studying at Berklee College of Music, where he is pursuing a degree in performance and composition. A former student at Juilliard, Walker is a member of the Boston Civic Orchestra and has performed alongside renowned musicians such as Ray Chen and Cristian Măcelaru. His distinctive sound blends technical mastery with creative expression, earning him recognition as a rising talent in the classical music world.

Longfellow House Waashington's Headquarters

Golden Rose Poetry Award: Martha Collins

The&nbsp;<a href="https://www.nps.gov/long/planyourvisit/summer-festival.htm">Longfellow Summer Arts Festival</a>&nbsp;brings music, poetry, and community to the East Lawn of the Longfellow House on Sunday afternoons through the summer. All events are free and open to the public. This concert is presented in partnership with the&nbsp;<a href="https://nepoetryclub.org/">New England Poetry Club</a>. The Golden Rose, one of America’s oldest literary prizes, was inaugurated in 1919 by the Second Church of Boston as a way to celebrate May Day by holding a poetry tournament in the style of the French Provençal poets who vied in “Les Jeux Floraux” in the Middle Ages. The rose was styled after the Gold Rose for which the French poets vied and which is now kept in the Cluny Museum in Paris. The New England Poetry Club continues that tradition by awarding the Rose to the poet, who by their poetry and inspiration to and encouragement of other writers, has made a significant mark on American poetry. The Club has traditionally given the prize to a poet with some ties to New England so that a public reading may take place. The name of the poet is inscribed on the box alongside the names of all the previous recipients. The 2025 Golden Rose recipient,&nbsp;Martha Collins&nbsp;has published eleven books of poetry, most recently&nbsp;Casualty Reports&nbsp;(Pittsburgh, 2022) and&nbsp;Because What Else Could I Do&nbsp;(Pittsburgh, 2019); the latter won the Poetry Society of America’s William Carlos Williams Award. Other publications include three volumes of poetry that focus on race (Blue&nbsp;Front,&nbsp;White Papers, and&nbsp;Admit One: An American Scrapbook); five co-translated volumes of Vietnamese poetry, including&nbsp;Dreaming the Mountain&nbsp;by Tuệ Sỹ (with Nguyen Ba Chung; Milkweed, 2023), a PEN America award finalist; and several co-edited anthologies, including&nbsp;Into English: Poems,Translations, Commentaries&nbsp;(with Kevin Prufer; Graywolf, 2017). Collins founded the UMass Boston creative writing program and for ten years served as Pauline Delaney Professor of Creative Writing at Oberlin College, where she was an editor of FIELD magazine and the Oberlin College Press. Two books are forthcoming:&nbsp;Word Work: Essays, Poems, Reflections&nbsp;from Tiger Bark in 2025, and&nbsp;Like Her Body the World: Selected Early Poems&nbsp;from Unbound Edition in 2027. Her website is marthacollinspoet.com. &nbsp; With special musical guest&nbsp;Elizabeth Burke. Burke received her Music Degree in violin performance with an emphasis in string pedagogy from the Longy School of Music. She&nbsp;plays jazz, old-time, and bluegrass music and performs as an improvisational violinist.

Poetry Reading: Richard Blanco

The <a href="https://www.nps.gov/long/planyourvisit/summer-festival.htm">Longfellow Summer Arts Festival</a> brings music, poetry, and community to the East Lawn of the Longfellow House on Sunday afternoons through the summer. All events are free and open to the public. This concert is presented in partnership with the <a href="https://nepoetryclub.org/">New England Poetry Club</a>. Selected by President Obama as the fifth Presidential Inaugural Poet in U.S. history, Richard Blanco was the youngest, the first Latinx, immigrant, and gay person to serve in that role. In 2023, Blanco was awarded the National Humanities Medal by President Biden from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Born in Madrid to Cuban exile parents and raised in Miami in a working-class family, Blanco’s personal negotiation of cultural identity and the universal themes of place and belonging characterize Blanco’s many collections of poetry, including his most recent, <a href="https://richard-blanco.com/books/homeland-of-my-body/">Homeland of My Body</a>, which reassess traditional notions of home as strictly a geographical, tangible place that merely exist outside us, but rather, within us. He has also authored the memoirs <a href="https://richard-blanco.com/books/for-all-of-us-one-today/">FOR ALL OF US, ONE TODAY: AN INAUGURAL POET’S JOURNEY</a> and <a href="https://richard-blanco.com/books/the-prince-of-los-cocuyos/">THE PRINCE OF LOS COCUYOS: A MIAMI CHILDHOOD.</a>  Blanco has received numerous awards, including the Agnes Starrett Poetry Prize, the PEN American Beyond Margins Award, the Patterson Prize, and a Lambda Prize for memoir. He was Woodrow Wilson Fellow and has received numerous honorary degrees. Currently, he serves as Education Ambassador for The Academy of American Poets and is an Associate Professor at Florida International University. In April 2022, Blanco was appointed the first-ever Poet Laureate of Miami-Dade County.

Longfellow House - Washington's Headquarters

Concert: Pete Smith with Gregory Ryan

The <a href="https://www.nps.gov/long/planyourvisit/summer-festival.htm">Longfellow Summer Arts Festival</a> brings music, poetry, and community to the East Lawn of the Longfellow House on Sunday afternoons through the summer. All events are free and open to the public. New York City-based guitarist Pete Smith (and H.W. Longfellow descendant) returns to the Longfellow House with bassist Gregory Ryan to play a free concert on the lawn at 3:00 pm. The duo will be performing choice standards from the jazz and American Songbook traditions, including compositions by Billy Strayhorn, Cole Porter, Cedar Walton, Jerome Kern, Charlie Parker as well as music from Brazil and Cuba. Spend a lovely afternoon in the shade with us, listening to the sweet sounds of this exceptional duo. Pete Smith is a New York City-based guitarist who performs in a wide range of musical settings. As a founding member of Grupo los Santos (Santos4tet), a vanguard Afro-Cuban and Brazilian-style quartet, he has played New York’s Town Hall and concerts throughout the U.S., Cuba &amp; Austria. He has performed at the Berlin Jazz Festival and Montreal Jazz Festival, as well as concerts in thirty countries throughout Europe, Eastern Europe, Africa and Asia. He has worked with Norah Jones, trumpeter Donald Byrd, Cuban trombone master Juan Pablo Torres, Andrew Hill, Kat Edmonson, Vince Giordano &amp; the Nighthawks, the Moonlighters, Madeline Peyroux, Natalie Merchant and Huun-Huur-Tu, and is a member of Michael Feinstein’s Carnegie Hall Big Band. In 2023 he traveled to Congo-Kinshasa (DRC) as a member of the band Opius Bliss—as cultural ambassadors for the US Embassy—to perform for and teach, play and dialogue with local musicians in Kinshasa and Kisangani. 2023 also saw the release of Santos4tet's 4th album "Santos 4". In 2024, Santos4tet was the recipient of a JazzRoad Touring Grant from SouthArts, funded by the Doris Duke Foundation and the Mellon Foundation, which supported their 5-city tour of the Sountheast. Pete will be recording a new album with bassist Sean Smith (The Smith Duo) in 2025. New York City native Gregory Ryan has established himself as an in-demand sideman on both acoustic and electric bass. His big supportive sound, swinging style, and complete understanding of harmony and his role on the bandstand combine to create his ability to make even the most complex modern composition swing in the tradition of the great bass players. At home in a variety of musical worlds — accomplished in Brazilian, Cuban, funk, and mainstream jazz styles — he performs in festivals and concerts worldwide. His Latin Jazz resumé includes performances with the Lincoln Center Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra, Arturo O’Farrill, Papo Vazquez’ Pirates Troubadours, Yosvany Terry and Brazilian Jazz artists Helio Alves and Maucha Adnet. Mr. Ryan has appeared with pianists James Williams, Mulgrew Miller, Harold Mabern, and Benny Green; guitarists Jim Hall and Pat Martino; vocalists Karrin Allyson and Dena DeRose; and numerous jazz luminaries including Eric Alexander, Regina Carter, Billy Harper, Tom Harrell, and Albert “Tootie” Heath, among many others.

Poetry Reading: Diannely Antigua and Stephanie Burt

The&nbsp;<a href="https://www.nps.gov/long/planyourvisit/summer-festival.htm">Longfellow Summer Arts Festival</a>&nbsp;brings music, poetry, and community to the East Lawn of the Longfellow House on Sunday afternoons through the summer. All events are free and open to the public. This concert is presented in partnership with the&nbsp;<a href="https://nepoetryclub.org/">New England Poetry Club</a>. Diannely Antigua&nbsp;Diannely Antigua is a Dominican American poet and educator, born and raised in Massachusetts. She is the author of the collections&nbsp;Ugly Music&nbsp;(YesYes Books, 2019), which was the winner of a 2020&nbsp;<a href="https://www.whiting.org/awards/winners/diannely-antigua">Whiting Award</a>, and&nbsp;Good Monster&nbsp;(Copper Canyon Press, 2024). She received her MFA at NYU and has received fellowships from the Academy of American Poets, CantoMundo, Community of Writers, and the Fine Arts Work Center Summer Program. From 2022-2024, she was the 13th Poet Laureate of Portsmouth, NH, the youngest and first person of color to receive the title. She currently teaches in the MFA Writing Program at the University of New Hampshire as the Nossrat Yassini Poet in Residence. &nbsp;Stephanie Burt&nbsp;is a poet, literary critic, and professor. In 2012, the&nbsp;New York Times&nbsp;called Burt “one of the most influential poetry critics of her generation.”&nbsp;Burt grew up around Washington, DC and earned a BA from Harvard and PhD from Yale. Burt’s books include&nbsp;We Are Mermaids&nbsp;(2022),&nbsp;After Callimachus&nbsp;(2020),&nbsp;Advice from the Lights&nbsp;(2017),&nbsp;Belmont&nbsp;(2013),&nbsp;Parallel Play&nbsp;(2006), and&nbsp;Popular Music&nbsp;(1999). Burt’s works of criticism include&nbsp;The Poem is You: 60 Contemporary American Poems and How to Read Them&nbsp;(2016);&nbsp;Close Calls with Nonsense: Reading New Poetry&nbsp;(2009), which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award;&nbsp;The Art of the Sonnet,&nbsp;written with&nbsp;<a href="http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poet.html?id=111636">David Mikics</a>&nbsp;(2010);&nbsp;The Forms of Youth: 20th-Century Poetry and Adolescence&nbsp;(2007);&nbsp;Randall Jarrell on W.H. Auden&nbsp;(2005), with&nbsp;<a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/hannah-brooks-motl">Hannah Brooks-Motl</a>;&nbsp;and&nbsp;Randall Jarrell and His Age&nbsp;(2002). Burt has&nbsp;taught at Macalester College and is now Professor of English at Harvard University. With special musical guest&nbsp;Todd Brunel.&nbsp;Brunel&nbsp;is a critically acclaimed clarinetist and sax player and the director of music at St Thomas Aquinas High School in Dover, NH. He performs extensively as a classical and jazz musician.

Longfellow House Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site

Headquarters of a Revolution: The 250th Anniversary of Washington’s Arrival in Cambridge

Explore the people, ideas, and questions that shaped General George Washington’s first revolutionary headquarters 250 years ago this July. Choose your path through this free, all-ages event featuring historic house and outdoor walking tours with J.L. Bell; family activities; talks by historians; living historians portraying George Washington (John Koopman), William Lee (Quinton Castle), and Martha Washington (Sandy Spector); Cambridge Open Archives, a Story Walk, and more.  The house at 105 Brattle Street, now Longfellow House-Washington’s Headquarters National Historic Site, served as Washington’s first military headquarters of the American Revolution from July 1775-March 1776. Headquarters was a testing ground for many of the ideals, institutions, and questions that still define our country. This event will reveal Cambridge Headquarters as a complex hub of revolutionary activity, where generals, enslaved people, paid laborers, poets, Indigenous diplomats, politicians, self-emancipated families, and soldiers shaped history. Event schedule: <a href="https://www.nps.gov/planyourvisit/event-details.htm?id=27412F86-EA01-B8BE-5DD9CFDA6A02B76A">Headquarters of a Revolution: The 250th Anniversary of Washington’s Arrival in Cambridge</a>

Longfellow House-Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site

Juneteenth Gathering

Gather for Juneteenth to honor those who endured slavery and seized freedom on Brattle Street 250 years ago, their descendants, and the long history of Black freedom activism in Cambridge and beyond. This free, all-ages event is marking its fourth year in 2025! Denise Washington (#Pop-Up Poetry Series), a descendant of Darby Vassall, has curated the Juneteenth Gathering at Longfellow House-Washington's Headquarters NHS each year. Join us for the Juneteenth Gathering, A Denise Plays Hard Event, featuring speeches, poetry, music, historical displays, family activities, and refreshments. All are welcome! Event Details 12:30-1:00 PM DJ Steve Gousby 1:00-1:20 PM Welcome, speakers 1:20-2:30 PM Juneteenth # Pop-Up Poetry, A Denise Plays Hard Event, including:<ul><li>Drum procession – Chibuzo Dunun </li><li>Remarks and Libation – Edmund Barry Gaither (Director and Curator of the Museum of the National Center of Afro-American Artists) </li><li>The Black National Anthem, “Lift Every Voice and Sing” – led by Judge Milton Wright </li><li>Denise Washington &amp; The #Pop-Up Poetry Ensemble: Akili Jamal Haynes, Lenny Bradford, Stephen O’Neal </li></ul>2:30-3:30 PM DJ Steve Gousby Interactive history and family activities Catered refreshments Partner/resource tables StoryWalk: Juneteenth for Mazie by Floyd Cooper

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Choosing a Commander: Myths & Realities Behind the Continental Congress’s Decision to Make George Washington the General

Speaker: J.L. Bell Hybrid event; register to attend in person or online at https://forms.office.com/g/fN7ChyygEE. This July brings the 250th anniversary of General George Washington’s arrival in Cambridge, the result of momentous decisions by the Continental Congress. More than a quarter-century later, John Adams wrote a dramatic account of that choice, which became the standard source on the event. But Adams’s version is not supported by contemporaneous documents, and people pushed back against it at the time. In this talk, Bell sifts the evidence to explore the real politicking behind the Congress’s choice. J. L. Bell maintains&nbsp;<a href="https://boston1775.blogspot.com/">Boston1775.net</a>. He is the author of The Road to Concord: How Four Stolen Cannon Ignited the Revolutionary War and a book-length study for the National Park Service of Gen. Washington’s work in Cambridge. This annual event is made possible by the Friends of the Longfellow House-Washington's Headquarters.

Panel Discussion: The Powder Alarm and Political Change

In the library auditorium, four historians discuss the history and significance of the 1774 Powder Alarm, including its political context, how it affected Cambridge’s Loyalist families, and the most basic fight for liberty along Tory Row. The panelists include Dan Breen, Caitlin G. DeAngelis, MaryKate Smolenski, and J. L. Bell.&nbsp;

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Rebellion along Tory Row: The 1774 Powder Alarm

In response to the British soldiers emptying the Somerville Powder House, thousands of militiamen marched into Cambridge the next day. That response revealed a new political order in Massachusetts and upended the lives of families along Tory Row. The commemorations include family games and activities at Longfellow House–Washington’s Headquarters National Historic Site, historians’ presentations at History Cambridge, and a walking tour along Brattle Street. These free outdoor and indoor events are presented by History Cambridge, Longfellow House–Washington’s Headquarters National Historic Site, the Friends of Longfellow House–Washington’s Headquarters, Revolution 250, Boston 1775, and volunteers.&nbsp;Schedule:<ul><li>1:00-4:00 pm&nbsp;Family games and activities at Longfellow House–Washington’s Headquarters National Historic Site.</li><li>1:45 pm&nbsp;J. L. Bell leads a walking tour of the colonial estates along Brattle Street, starting at Longfellow House–Washington’s Headquarters National Historic Site.</li><li>2:30 pm&nbsp;Prof. Robert J. Allison lays out the political situation in Massachusetts in 1774 at History Cambridge.</li><li>3:30 pm&nbsp;Michele Gabrielson speaks on Revolutionary printers and 18th-century media literacy at History Cambridge.</li></ul>

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Victorian Science and the Beyond: Ethereal Evening Tours

In Search of Darby Vassall: Tour of Cambridge & Beyond

Virtual Presentation: Black History at the Vassall Estate

Concert: Juventas New Music Ensemble

Family Saturday

Concert: Luke Walker

Golden Rose Poetry Award: Martha Collins

Poetry Reading: Richard Blanco

Concert: Pete Smith with Gregory Ryan

Poetry Reading: Diannely Antigua and Stephanie Burt

Headquarters of a Revolution: The 250th Anniversary of Washington’s Arrival in Cambridge

Juneteenth Gathering

Choosing a Commander: Myths & Realities Behind the Continental Congress’s Decision to Make George Washington the General

Panel Discussion: The Powder Alarm and Political Change

Rebellion along Tory Row: The 1774 Powder Alarm

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Experiences

Victorian Science and the Beyond: Ethereal Evening Tours

In Search of Darby Vassall: Tour of Cambridge & Beyond

Virtual Presentation: Black History at the Vassall Estate

Concert: Juventas New Music Ensemble

Family Saturday

Concert: Luke Walker

Golden Rose Poetry Award: Martha Collins

Poetry Reading: Richard Blanco

Concert: Pete Smith with Gregory Ryan

Poetry Reading: Diannely Antigua and Stephanie Burt

Headquarters of a Revolution: The 250th Anniversary of Washington’s Arrival in Cambridge

Juneteenth Gathering

Choosing a Commander: Myths & Realities Behind the Continental Congress’s Decision to Make George Washington the General

Panel Discussion: The Powder Alarm and Political Change

Rebellion along Tory Row: The 1774 Powder Alarm

Headquarters of a Revolution: The 250th Anniversary of Washington’s Arrival in Cambridge