Acton History Videos

Overview of Acton History
Zoom Presentation
April 11, 2021

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Ice Harvesting
Zoom Presentation
Jan. 10, 2021

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Vivian Kobusingye Birchall and Bill Klauer discuss Acton History on ActonTV

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A Snapshot of Acton's Early Black Residents with Acton 250, Iron Work Farm & the Robbins House
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Experience of Acton's Chinese Residents, with Acton Chinese American Civic Society and ActonTV
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The Battle Over the North Bridge
Zoom presentation
February 7, 2021
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Experience of Acton's Indian-American Residents, with Acton Memorial Library, NiskamTV and ActonTV
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Scenes of ice harvesting from Ice House Pond in East Acton, c. 1950

Railroads in Acton
Zoom presentation
March 7, 2021

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Videos from Members & Friends of Acton History

From Acton 250 Committee:

• From Crown Tensions to Tea Parties
• Daily Life in Acton on the Eve of the Revolution
• A Revolution in the News
• Countdown to April 19, 1775 - The Gathering Storm
• Resistance Becomes Revolution
• Crown Resistance Day
• Acton's and Concord's Roads to Revolution
  
• Taverns and the American Revolution
  
• Native Americans in Southern New England and the Revolution
  
• Dreadful Were the Vestiges of War: Bullet Strikes from the First Day of the American Revolution
  
• A Sculpture Speaks for Her Statues
  

Wanda Null discusses artist Arthur Davis's life and especially his etchings.
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Larry Kerpelman discusses the plight of the Loyalists in Massachusetts.
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