Boston Harborfest is a nearly forty-year-old tradition celebrating Boston’s maritime and revolutionary history. Each year, beginning on July first, organizations from across Boston come together to offer hundreds of activities celebrating Independence Day weekend at Boston’s best landmarks. This family-friendly event is one of the country’s largest Fourth of July festivals. Activities include the annual […]

We’re excited to announce our Old North Speaker Series event for July, Sweethearts at Sea: Love and Marriage in the New England Whaling Industry with speaker Amanda Goodheart Parks, presented in partnership with Boston By Foot. During the nineteenth century, when Yankee whale oil lit the world, men from more than thirty New England communities– including Boston– […]

“There is probably no time in our country’s existence, other than potentially its founding and its preservation during the Civil War, where our recognition and appreciation of the liberties that make our country both special and unique is so crucial to the preservation of these liberties. In a period of history where these very liberties that […]

Over the past 5 months Old North has been honored to embark on a new and innovative partnership between the historic site and Reciprocity Collaborative. Reciprocity Collaborative is an interdisciplinary group of creative professionals that investigate how we use and relate to space through music, dance, and the visual arts. The Collaborative was founded in 2012, and has […]