Upcoming events

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• Wednesday, September 7 is Boston's Charter Day, when the town of Trimountaine was renamed Boston and declared the capital. There are a couple of things going on that day, including a lecture about the immigrants to Boston from 1630 to 1645 (10-11 A.M. at the New England Historic Genealogical Society, 101 Nebury Street; 617 536 5740), a walking tour of Boston in 1645 (2-3 P.M. starting at the Sam Adams statue at Faneuil Hall; 617 536 5740), and a panel disuccssion of Boston from 1630 to 1710 (6-7:30 P.M. at the Boston Public Library; 617 536 5400).
  
  Thursday September 8 there's free admission to the Old State House.
  
  There are other events September 9-11 in Boston, and September 10-11 in Ipswich (some very interesting stuff I wish I could go to) listed at the link.
  
  
• Thursday, September 8 Cynthia Ozick will be at Harvard Hillel at 6:30 P.M. on her book tour.
  
  
• Thursday, September 8 at 6:30 P.M., the Boston Public Library will show some of the first films ever made of MA, silents from 1897 to 1907.
  
  
• September 9-11 is the third Annual Boston Ahts Festival, with 80 juried artists at Christopher Columbus Park in the North End. Friday 6-9 P.M., Saturday and Sunday, 11 A.M.-6 P.M.. Call 617 635 3911 for more information.
  
  
• September 24 is the fifth Beantown Jazz Festival at the Carter Playground in the South End, noon to 6.
  
  
• September 25 is the Boston 375 parade, starting down Commonwealth Ave. at 1 P.M.
  
  
• Thursday October 6 Robert Pinsky will speak at Harvard Hillel about his new prose book about King David at 6:30 P.M..
  
  
• Tuesday October 11 Sherwin Nuland will speak at Harvard Hillel about Maimonides at 6:30 P.M..
  
  
• The weekend of November 12 and 13 there's what sounds essentially like an open studios out in Colrain, MA, with fifteen studios open. Bowls, candles, knives, mohair, iron, calligraphy, and so on.

Other events already listed.