The Pepperell Historical Society will hold its May meeting at the Schoolhouse, 50 Shattuck Street, Pepperell, (corner of Harbor St.) on Monday, May 14, 2018, at 7:00 p.m. All are welcome! Please join us. For more information contact the Historical Society.

Why did colonists disguise themselves as Mohawk Indians in 1773, board three ships in Boston Harbor, and destroy over 92,000 pounds of tea? Join us as Danielle Beaudette of The Cozy Tea Cart in Brookline, NH, discusses tea and the role it played in the American Revolution.

• When: Tuesday, April 10, 2018
• Time: 7:00 p.m.
• Where: Lawrence Library, 15 Main Street, Pepperell, Massachusetts
• Cost: Free, but please register online at http://bit.ly/2HV6uLG (Eventbrite)

Hosted by the Prudence Wright Chapter, National Society Daughters of the American Revolution (NSDAR). Questions? Contact Patty Gale at patty_gale199@hotmail.com

This program is supported in part by a grant from the Pepperell Cultural Council, a local agency which is supported by the Mass Cultural Council, a state agency.

The Pepperell Historical Society will hold its April meeting at the home of Claudette and Roland Gosselin, 48 West St., Pepperell, on Monday, April 9, 2018, at 7:00 p.m.  All are welcome!  The agenda will be posted as the meeting date approaches. For more information contact the Historical Society.

• Saturday, March 24, 2018
• 10:15am – 1:30pm
• Lawrence Library, 15 Main Street, Pepperell, MA 01463

• 10:15am Presentation: What is the DAR? Learn about this service organization whose patriot ancestors made possible our American independence.
• 10:30-1:30 Individual 20-minute appointments with genealogists

Sign up for an appointment on Eventbrite. Bring in any useful data about your family such as birth, marriage, and death certificates, Bible records, land probate, will records, census records or obituaries.

Register via: eventbrite (link below)

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/genealogy-workshop-by-massachusetts-daughters-of-the-american-revolution-iv-tickets-43668347202?aff=es2

On Veterans Day, November 11, 2017, historian Ron Karr will give a presentation at the Prudence Wright Chapter House of the Daughters of the American Revolution, 4 Main Street, Pepperell, MA, at 2:00 p.m., on Pepperell’s forgotten Revolutionary hero, fervent Patriot, and first minister, Joseph Emerson (1721-1775). Ron has been a member of both the Pepperell Historical Commission for nearly 30 years and is an officer in the Pepperell Historical Society. He has a doctorate in History from Boston University and is a retired reference librarian from the University of Massachusetts Lowell. Free admission, all are welcome!