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Upcoming Events

Fall Theatre Outings

Day Trip to American Heritage Museum

  • Wednesday, November 13
  • Cost: $35 (includes lunch, museum, and transportation)
  • OLLI members and their guests will enjoy a day at the American Heritage Museum located in Hudson, MA where they can explore America’s conflicts, beginning with the Revolutionary War to today.
  • OLLI members will be able to explore the museum at their own pace. Lunch will be Panera box lunches. During lunch at the museum, participants will be treated to a 30-40 lecture by one of the museum’s docents.
  • Including lunch, members can expect to spend about four hours at the museum.
  • Departure time from UMass Boston Campus: 8:30 a.m.
  • Event flyer with registration and additional details.

Local Author Talk and Fundraiser: Wayne Miller

  • Friday, November 22 @ 12:30 p.m.
  • Cost: $35, includes box lunch
  • The local author, Wayne Miller, was a Special Agent, Criminal Investigator, and Certified Fire Investigator for the Federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms in Boston for 25 years. 
  • In the early 1980s, Boston was set ablaze with nightly multiple-alarm fires. Over a two-year period, 264 buildings were torched, intentionally set on fire, due to tax-cutting measures that caused layoffs of hundreds of police and firefighters.
  • Burn Boston Burn interweaves the activities of the arsonists with those of the investigators, the firefighters, and the citizens of the area.
  • This event is open to both members and nonmembers.
  • Event flyer with registration and additional details.