We will welcome more than 2,000 visitors to our neighborhood. They will enjoy not only our hidden gardens, but also our shops, restaurants, and museums.

From its first garden tour since the club was founded in 1928, club members have opened their gardens every year on the third Thursday in May, even through the Depression and World War II. We hope you will enjoy the day visiting the nooks, crannies and charming spaces that make Beacon Hill special.

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The tour is rain or shine.

Learn why there is an 18th-century horseshoe in the permanent exhibits, how the Meeting House is indebted to a fire engine from New Hampshire, how Louisa May Alcott and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow supported the Meeting House’s preservation in the late 1800s, why William Lloyd Garrison didn’t, and how this building’s preservation story continues as it approaches its 300th birthday!

This program is made possible with funding from the Lowell Institute.

Thrill to the sights and sounds of an array of birds that inhabit Franklin Park each spring. All levels welcome. Bring binoculars.

Author Meenal Atul Pandya details the influence of Indians on Massachusetts history. Pandya has been writing about India and its culture for more than two decades, observing the lifestyle and issues that face the Indian diaspora.

It argues that northern Black children intersected shifting constructions of race and childhood, as a group upon which society experimented with treatments of the newly recognized social category of the child, and came to terms with the social and economic place of the nascent free Black community.

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This is a brown-bag lunch hosted by the Massachusetts Historical Society.

• Shirley Hunt, baroque cello
• Michael Sponseller, harpsichord
• Andrew Sheranian, organ

• Suite No. 3 in C Major BWV 1009
• Suite in E minor BWV 996
• Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor BWV 582

This interactive, fun event is for children ages 0-12. Please bring hula hoops, basket balls, parachutes, and other activities. Pizza dinner (kosher-style) served.

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The golden age of neon in New England lasted more than 30 years, from the dark days of the Great Depression through the go-go years of the 1960s, but its spectacular legacy remains — if you know where to look.

With dozens of original color photographs and informative text, the book takes armchair travelers — and nostalgia lovers — up and down the main streets and back roads of the region, from the shores of Lake Champlain to the tip of Cape Cod.

As a young man Taylor moved to Worcester, Masss. There is now a memorial to him outside the Worcester Public Library. Michael Kranish shows how Taylor indeed became a world champion, traveled the world, was the toast of Paris, and was one of the most chronicled black men of his day.

Kranish is an investigative political reporter for The Washington Post. He is the co-author of the New York Times bestseller, "Trump Revealed," and other books.

Trivia questions will be based on architecture and design elements. All skill levels are welcome. You do not need to be an architect or master builder to participate.

This event is for adults 21 and older.