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| Enslavement in Needham: Reckoning with a Difficult History In collaboration with the First Parish Unitarian Universalist Church in Needham, Executive Director of the Needham History Center and Museum Gloria Greis teamed up with Reverend Catie Scudera to explore the history of enslavement in Needham, and the repercussions it has had in the centuries since abolition. The event was held as part of the Needham Free Public Library's Vivian McIver Lecture Series. 2021 • Runtime: 65 minutes |
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| Needham School Houses The public education of children has changed greatly over the years. One way to mark the differences in educational standards is to look at the structures put in place to carry out that mission. In this ground-breaking series of short documentaries, the Needham History Center and Museum teams up with documentarian Derick Risner to explore Needham's rich educational past, present and future. 2018 - 2021 • Runtime: varies per episode |
| The Fuller Bird Journals Timothy Otis Fuller was a self-taught naturalist, who spent years studying the plants and birds of Needham. In his journals tracking 1904 - 1912, he created a priceless record that is not only beautiful, but can be compared to current data, to evaluate the changes in local climate over the last 100 years. 2020 • Runtime: 38 minutes |
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| Beautiful & Bizarre: William Baker's Ridge Hill Farms William Emerson Baker lived two lives: one as an successful entrepreneur who founded one of the largest sewing machine companies in the world, the other as a wealthy eccentric who built what many call America's first amusement park. 2016 • Runtime: 1 hour, 7 minutes |
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| The Millen-Faber Gang During the 1930s there were many gangs roaming the midwest robbing banks and having shootouts with cops. What you may not know is that we had a gang of our own that terrorized Massachusetts in 1933-34. Their biggest crime was right here in Needham. 2013 • Runtime: 1 hour, 28 minutes |
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| Big Little Town: The Story of Needham Explore 300 years of Needham History in this wonderfully collaborative effort by The Needham Channel, The Needham History Center and Museum and filmmaker Kathryn Dietz. This project was supported by the efforts of the Needham Tercentennial Committee. 2012 • Runtime: 1 hour, 5 minutes |
