Event Category: Special Event
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Merry & Macabre: Tales of Victorian Holiday Horror
Experience a hauntingly beautiful December night at the Old North Church with musical readings of two Victorian Christmas ghost stories. Massachusetts Poet Laureate Regie Gibson will bring to life eerie tales of the supernatural from the golden age of the ghost story, including Charles Dickens’s The Goblins Who Stole a Sexton — a sinister precursor…
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Blessing of the Animals
Traditional Anglican Choral Evensong is offered on Thurs., June 25 and Fri., July 3 at 6:00 p.m. All are welcome to this service of music and prayer.
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The Legend of Sleepy Hollow: A Musical Reading
Experience a hauntingly beautiful autumn night at the Old North Church with a musical reading of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. Step into the shadows of history at Boston’s oldest church as the brilliant Johnny Kinsman brings Washington Irving’s classic tale of Ichabod Crane and the Headless Horseman to life. The gripping live recitation is perfectly paired…
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Resistance History with Tad Stoermer, Vincent Brown, Kahlil Greene & Sarah George
Join us at the West End Museum for a special event marking the release of public historian Tad Stoermer’s new book, A Resistance History of the United States. Tad will be joined by Prof. Vincent Brown of Harvard University for a discussion that re-examines resistance movements from U.S. history and considers the role that resistance continues to…
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Lanterns & Luminaries
This event was live-streamed on GBH’s Forum Network. Watch the recording on YouTube below: You’re invited to Lanterns & Luminaries: a special evening at the historic Old North Church celebrating the anniversary of Paul Revere’s famous “two if by sea” lantern signal in April of 1775. Keith Lockhart, conductor of the Boston Pops Orchestra, will accept the Third Lantern…
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2026 Lantern Service
Friday, April 17, 2026 at 7:00pm: Live-stream the Lantern Service with The Right Reverend Mariann Edgar Budde.
