Event Category: Special Event
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Sip & Shop at Two Lanterns: Gifts at Old North Church
Join us on November 12 from 5:30 – 7:00pm for a Sip & Shop at Two Lanterns: Gifts at Old North Church! Enjoy complimentary cider, lemonade, and snacks while you get a jump on your holiday shopping. Visitors will recieve a 10% discount on their purchases. Our recently reimagined shop features decor and gifts closely…
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HUB History 10th Anniversary Live Podcast Episode
HUB History launched in November 2016, by introducing listeners to Pope’s Night, a bizarre holiday celebrated in early Boston. Having evolved out of the British observation of Guy Fawkes Day, Boston took the event to extremes. The virulently anti-Catholic colonists in our town held festive bonfires, parades, and plenty of drinking. Almost every year, the…
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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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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.
