Lectures & Workshops

Adult Learners

Programs and activities for adult learners to do at home.

If you’re looking for ways to learn new skills, and explore new subject areas while staying at home, we have a wide range of opportunities for you.

Dig into gardening, explore local history, tour the galleries, and see what goes into caring for our special places.

Enjoy anytime

History

Crane Estate History: Rejuvenating a Timeless Gem (Part One)

A Visit to Naumkeag: What’s in That Gilded Age Closet?

Take a virtual tour of the Old Manse and grounds of Castle Hill with our TourTrustees App:
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Apple

RELAX

Readings from the Old Manse

A moment of zen from deCordova

Fruitlands Museum’s Monday Morning Meditation:

NATURE

Virtual Tour of the Weir River with Samantha Woods

The Trustees celebrate the 50th Anniversary of Earth Day

Saving the Great Marsh

Play Backyard Bird Bingo and discover the wildlife that calls your yard home

Discover wildflowers in your own backyard

Arts and Culture

A reading of Nature by Ralph Waldo Emerson from The Old Manse staff

Excerpt from Little Women, Chapter 11: Experiments

Lessons from the Old Manse

  1. The Clock
  2. The Kitchen
  3. Emerson
  4. Sophia Hawthorne
  5. Ezra Ripley
More to do

3 ways to make your yard more pollinator-friendly

Your garden is an oasis: a place to seek and find calm, a sense of purpose, and a ...

Hit the Trail Riding

Mountain biking yields deeper connections to the outdoors

Fruitlands Spring

If this hill could talk: Fruitlands Museum

In the early 1840s, Amos Bronson Alcott had an idea. He imagined a simple life bas...
pillars in the Rose Garden at Castle Hill

Conservation in Action: Crane Rose Garden

Rejuvenating a Timeless Gem: A three-part series about the past, present, and futu...
Events for you