Worcester Historical Museum

Vintage and Historic Textiles
June 10
7-8pm
30 Elm Street
In conjunction with the Sutton 300 exhibition, Margaret T. Ordonez, assistant professor at the University of Rhode Island, will share techniques for identifying and preserving vintage and historic textiles.
Free with museum admission.

Viva Worcester!
June 17
6-8pm
30 Elm Street
Don't miss this night of festive Latin dancing - back by popular demand! Learn the meringue, bachata and salsa with Wilson Aybar.
Reservations recommended.
Members $7; non-members $10

In the years between the American Revolution and the Civil War, the United States experienced tremendous social and economic change. In the rapidly developing Northeast, transportation, industrialization, urbanization, and immigration brought both challenges and problems. The period was so electrically charged with activism that historians called it the "Age of Reform." In the mid-nineteenth century, Worcester was known as a hotbed of reform...

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