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TEWKSBURY'S 3RD ANNUAL
"TEWKSBURY HAS TALENT" SHOW

TO CELEBRATE THE 277TH BIRTHDAY OF TEWKSBURY

WEDNESDAY NOV. 30TH - TRYOUTS

SATURDAY DEC. 3RD - 277TH CHARTER DAY "TEWKSBURY HAS TALENT" SHOW

PEOPLE OF ALL AGES ARE WELCOME TO TRYOUT AND HELP THE TEWKSBURY HISTORICAL SOCIETY TO CELEBRATE THE TOWN'S BIRTHDAY.MORE INFORMATION ON TICKETS AND HOW TO TRYOUT WILL BE AVAILABLE IN NOVEMBER.

Past Events

July 23 & 24 - Jackson Thornton Dawson is the winner of the 1861 Silver Medal for "new species of plant found in Middlesex County" from the Massachusetts Horticultural Society.He dug the Scot's Heather in a meadow off of Livingston Street.Can you help us find it?

•Saturday, July 23, 10:00 am.We will meet at the Community Gardens dirt parking area on Livingston Street.We are planning no more that a 30-minute "Hike and Search" due to a forecast of high heat on Saturday.

•Sunday, July 24, 10:00am.We will meet again at the Community Gardens dirt parking area on Livingston Street.The "Hike and Search" area for the day will be discussed upon arrival.

We recommend you wear long pants due to high grass and ticks. Sneakers or boots with long socks to tuck in your pants into (ticks).If you prefer shorts in the heat, please stay out of high grass areas.

Steve Ivas is an environmental scientist. He will be with us on one day most likely Sunday.This is our third year and we have not yet found the elusive plant.

June 27 - Defining Pow-Wow, the Pow-wow Oak and Clark Road history 19th Annual Tewksbury Historical Society Meeting.

June 5 - Pow-Wow Oak Benfit Concert

April 13 - TEWKSBURY EARLIEST BUSINESS EXHIBIT - The Society will feature an exhibit of tools used during various phases of farm life in Tewksbury. On Wednesday, April 13^ththe Society will use one of the display cases in the lobby and three display cases (one case being the Native American Artifacts) in the Local History Room on the second floor to put up a display showing farming tools, dairy farms, carnation industry tools, and photographs of various farms in Tewksbury. A PowerPoint show will also be featured to show how the Carter Farm morphed from a typical farm to carnations to cactuses and then into several businesses on what is today a bustling Route 38. If you cannot be at the 6:30pm opening, the exhibit will be left up in the Local History Room until summer.

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