The Glass Flowers - A Botanical Museum collection
Harvard Museum of Natural History

This unique collection of over 3,000 models was created by the glass artisans, Leopold Blaschka and his son, Rudolph. The commission began in 1886, continued for five decades, and represents more than 830 plant species.

26 Oxford Street and at 11 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA. Open daily from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Norman Rockwell Museum, Stockbridge, 413-298-4100
9 Route 183, Stockbridge, MA 01262

Norman Rockwell Museum is dedicated to education and art appreciation inspired by the legacy of Norman Rockwell. The museum preserves, studies and communicates with a worldwide audience the life, art and spirit of Norman Rockwell in the field of illustration.
Open Daily

• La Cage Aux Folles
• American Idiot
• The Addams Family
• Les Misérables

• Riverdance
• Disney’s Beauty and the Beast
• Mamma Mia!
• Billy Elliot The Musical

20 March 1867
Massachusetts ratifies the 14th Amendment, establishing citizenship for African Americans
21 March 1673
Fort at Castle Island in the Boston Harbor burned
22 March 1765
Stamp Act passes in British Parliament
22 March 1630
The first American legislation prohibiting gambling was enacted in Boston
27 March 1884
First long-distance telephone call (from Boston to New York City)
27 March 1858
Boston City Hospital established
29 March 1930
Boston Bruins win the Stanley Cup for the first time
31 March 1776
Abigail Adams pens Remember the Ladies
1 April 1845
Daily Evening Traveler commences publication
1 April 1960
Boston University field chosen as first home of the Boston Patriots football team
2 April 1868
Thomas Alva Edison begins work as a telegraph operator at the Boston office of Western Union
3 April 1822
Edward Everett Hale, minister, author and social reformer, born in Boston
4 April 1968
Riots occur in Boston after the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.
5 April 1764
Sugar Act passes in British Parliament
7 April 1730
John Winthrop and a group of Puritans left from England bound for New England aboard the ship Arbella
8 April 1839
Boston Hospital for the Insane approved
9 April 1969
Students for a Democratic Society seize Harvard’s University Hall in Cambridge
9 April 1969
Students for a Democratic Society seize Harvard's University Hall in Cambridge
10 April 1861
MIT incorporated in Cambridge
10 April 1879
Women first allowed to vote for the School Committee in Boston
11 April 1885
First performance of the Boston Pops at Boston Music Hall
12 April 1908
City of Chelsea destroyed by fire
13 April 1635
Town Meeting approves the Public Latin School, the country’s first public school in Boston
14 April 1742
Boston accepts the donation of a market house from Peter Faneuil
15-22 April 1919
Strike by Boston operators disrupts telephone service throughout New England
15 April 1920
Robbery and murder of the paymaster of a shoe company lead to the arrest of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti
18 April 1689
Edmund Andros, governor of the Dominion of New England, overthrown
18 April 1775
Paul Revere began his famous ride from Charlestown to Lexington, Mass., warning American colonists that the British were coming.