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| | Frightful Fridays
Friday, October 11, 18 and 25 at 6:30 p.m. and 7:45 p.m.
Frightful Fridays move outdoors at Gore Place!
Enjoy spooky tales, but nothing too scary! The 45-minute program features stories told by four storytellers in four different rooms of the 1806 Gore Mansion. Our friendly witches will lead you from room to room and make sure you aren’t troubled by ghosts!
This program is designed for adults and children ages 6 and up. We recommend you bring children to the earlier session. | Buy tickets | |
| | Saturday Family Time - Boo Bash!
Saturday October 26, 2024 from 10 a.m to 12 p.m.
Celebrate (an only slightly spooky) Halloween at Gore Place! Activities include a wagon ride, graveyard candy hunt, story-telling and songs, a craft, and ghostly games!
This program is recommended for children ages 2-12. Reservations are required. | Buy tickets | |
| | Holiday Photo Sessions at Gore Place.
Saturday, October 19 from 9 am to 1 pm, and Saturday, October 26 from 2 pm to 6 pm.
Session times are every 30 minutes.
Have your holiday photos taken at Gore Place! Our professional photographer will photograph your family in an exclusive photo session at our beautiful estate. This event is a fundraiser for Gore Place, providing critical support for the museum and farm’s day-to-day operations.
This event takes place rain or shine. In the case of inclement weather, we will photograph your group inside one of our historic buildings.
Each session is $300 per group (which includes a $75 session fee and a $225 donation to Gore Place). Donations are tax-deductible to the extent allowed by IRS regulations.
What’s Included:
A photo session by a professional photographer on location at Gore Place
Space for up to 10 people
A minimum of 10 unedited high-resolution digital photo files will be emailed to you in a private online gallery
Refund Policy:
The $75 session fee is non-refundable. The $225 donation is refundable if you cancel your session at least one week prior to your session time by emailing events@goreplace.org. The event date cannot be rescheduled. Pre-registration is required. | | Sold out |
| | Story Time in the Barn
October 30th - Halloween
Preschoolers are invited to join us in the Barn at Gore Place for a special Story Time starting at 10am. On October 30th, we will have a special morning of Halloween fun at Gore Place. Come in costume for silly stories and songs. Then we’ll go on a gourd hunt and make a monster to take home.
The Story Time in the Barn programs are recommended for 3 and 4-year-olds, but all are welcome!
$10 per child. $5 per child of members. Advanced tickets required. Limit 15 children.
Park in our South Entrance by the farm! (249 Waltham St, Watertown, MA)
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| | New England Irish Harp Orchestra
Wednesday, October 30 @ 7:30 pm
The Irish harp is the original instrument of Irish traditional music and has a beautiful, etheric quality. This wonderful group of harpers, fiddlers, flutists, and singers perform traditional Irish tunes. The group is led by Regina Delaney, an Irish harper, singer, and dancer.
NARM and other discounts do not apply.
This concert will take place in the spacious event tent at Gore Place. | Buy tickets | |
| | Story Time in the Barn
November 6th - Discover Fall
Preschoolers are invited to join us in the Barn at Gore Place for a special Story Time starting at 10am. Our Take-a-Walk backpacks are full of fun fall activities waiting for you and your child. We’ll start with stories, then go outside and begin exploring together. There’ll be time for you and your child to explore on your own using the binoculars, magnifying glass and other fun stuff in the bags.
The Story Time in the Barn programs are recommended for 3 and 4-year-olds, but all are welcome!
$10 per child. $5 per child of members. Advanced tickets required. Limit 15 children.
Park in our South Entrance by the farm!
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| | Good News Gus
Saturday, November 9, 2024 from 11:00am-12:00pm
Gore Place welcomes Harry LaCoste and his fun-filled puppet show: Good News Gus!
Join us in the Carriage House as a train engineer finds his caboose has disconnected and is stranded without an engine. LaCoste and his friends will go through the suitcases left behind and discover puppet characters and musical stories. Recommended for ages 3+.
This program is preceded by a short workshop on making puppets out of recycled materials. | Buy tickets | |
| | Knitting in (K)november
Saturday, November 16, 2024, from 1:00 - 3:00 p.m.
Always wanted to learn how to knit? Or maybe you need some refreshers? Come join us at Gore Place on Saturday, November 16, for another installment in our Traditional Skills series for teens and adults.
While sitting in the Great Hall of our 1806 Mansion, you will learn the basic knitting stitches (knit, purl, and stockinette) by creating a pot holder. Then our Educator will guide you in picking out a pattern, reading the pattern, and starting your own project!
This workshop is intended for beginner knitters. All materials will be provided. | Buy tickets | |
| | The Austen-Poe Smackdown
Sunday, November 17 @ 3 pm
Over the past few years, two colleagues in the English Department—Rebekah Mitsein, who teaches a course on Jane Austen at Boston College, and Paul Lewis, who teaches a course on Poe and the Gothic—have argued which of these authors is more interesting. Now, they bring the debate to Gore Place. On Sunday, November 17, at 3 pm, the gloves will come off in this no-holds-barred rumble in which Elizabeth Bennet will finally meet her match in Madeline Usher and ravens will fly over Pemberley!
For Card To Culture, purchase "Member" ticket. | Buy tickets | |
| | At Home with the Gores: entertaining in early 19th century America
Friday, November 22 @ 7:00 p.m.
Friday, November 22 @ 7 pm
On Friday, November 22 at 7 pm, join a tour of the 1806 Gore mansion and hear stories of entertaining in the early 1800s.
Christopher and Rebecca Gore were a fashionable, Bostonian couple who, in the late 1700s, spent the better part of a decade living in London and Paris. Their country mansion in Waltham served as a peaceful oasis from the noise and crowds of Boston. Enjoy this beautiful house and learn about entertaining in the early 1800s as practiced by this wealthy, well-traveled, urbane couple on a Moonlight Tour. | Buy tickets | |
| | Christmas Crafting
1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Get into the holiday spirit with Christmas crafting for the whole family! Come make18th and 19th century holiday crafts to give as gifts (or keep for yourself!). Crafts will include returning favorites, as well as some new additions.
Drop in for a short session or stay the whole time. The crafts are intended for young and old alike.
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| | John Muratore
Wednesday, December 4 @ 7:30 pm
Acclaimed guitarist John Muratore will perform a concert of classical holiday music arranged for guitar in the beautiful 1793 Coach House and Stable at Gore Place. John regularly appears as a solo recitalist, concerto soloist, and chamber musician. The Boston Globe has called John's playing "...aural iridescence..." and the Boston Musical Intelligencer has called him "one of greater Boston’s most gifted guitar virtuosos."
Parking is free. To learn more, visit goreplace.org. | Buy tickets | |
| | A Jane Austen Holiday Tea in our 1806 Mansion
Sunday, December 15, from 3:00 - 5:00 p.m.
Come celebrate the season with an afternoon tea fit for Rebecca Gore. Guests will enjoy a three-tiered tea service provided by Vintage Tea & Cake Co. as well as plenty of tea!
Pianist Donna Chaff will add to the festive mood, playing holiday and Regency era tunes on our Broadwood piano. Conclude your visit with a tour of the Mansion to view the seasonal decorations, including our famous Tea Cup Christmas tree.
Seating is family-style at tables of up to eight guests. Tickets must be purchased by December 6.
This program is designed for adults and older teens. Please, no guests under 12 years old. | Buy tickets | |
| | Music for the Holly Days with the Moody Street String Band
Tuesday, December 18 @ 7:30 pm
Moody Street String Band offers Celtic, traditional, and seasonal tunes to ring in the holidays! Don't miss what has become a Gore Place tradition! The concert will take place in the 1793 Carriage House.
For Card to Culture purchase "Members" ticket. | Buy tickets | |
| | Growing Up in the Gore Family: Class and Conflict in Revolutionary Boston
Sunday, January 19 @ 3 pm
Christopher Gore grew up in a family on the verge of entering Boston’s
genteel class. The Gores were active in the Revolutionary
resistance—organizing protests at Liberty Tree, hosting spinning bees
for Daughters of Liberty, even being hurt in a riot before the Boston
Massacre. But as that conflict heated up, Christopher’s father chose to
side with the royal government and left America in 1776. This talk
explores the difficult choices that one family worked through.
J. L. Bell maintains the Boston 1775 website, providing daily servings of history, analysis, and unabashed gossip about Revolutionary New
England. | Buy tickets | |