Duxbury Rural & Historical Society

Thank you to the Duxbury Open Space Committee for partnering with the DRHS to offer a Storywalk and Scavenger Hunt at Round Pond on Mayflower Street.  All are welcome.  No registration necessary.  Scavenger Hunt materials will be available all day at the trailhead on Mayflower Street. Approximately 62 acres of land located on the north, […]

Learn about the lives of Duxbury’s 19th century mariners. Being a 19th century mariner was a difficult and sometimes deadly occupation. On April 27, join Archivist & Historian Carolyn Ravenscroft on a tour of the Mayflower Cemetery’s gravesites of Duxbury’s intrepid sailors and their courageous wives. Tickets are required. Please Reserve Here.

Join us in welcoming Cheryl Kilduff, local fitness instructor, back for another round of feel-good barre classes on Bumpus Park. Come stretch, strengthen, and take in the beauty of Duxbury Bay on King Caesar’s working wharf turned barre studio! Fridays, May 17, 24, 31 and June 14. All classes will be held at 9:30-10:30.  Please bring […]

Join us in welcoming Cheryl Kilduff, local fitness instructor, back for another round of feel-good barre classes on Bumpus Park. Come stretch, strengthen, and take in the beauty of Duxbury Bay on King Caesar’s working wharf turned barre studio! Fridays, May 17, 24, 31 and June 14. All classes will be held at 9:30-10:30.  Please bring […]

Join us in welcoming Cheryl Kilduff, local fitness instructor, back for another round of feel-good barre classes on Bumpus Park. Come stretch, strengthen, and take in the beauty of Duxbury Bay on King Caesar’s working wharf turned barre studio! Fridays, May 17, 24, 31 and June 14. All classes will be held at 9:30-10:30.  Please bring […]

The art of flower pressing and study of botany has a long history in Duxbury. Come to the Nathaniel Winsor, Jr. House for an afternoon workshop learning and practicing the art of flower pressing.  After learning and practicing flower pressing, students will learn how to make art from pre-pressed flowers.  We will hear from DRHS […]

Join us in welcoming Cheryl Kilduff, local fitness instructor, back for another round of feel-good barre classes on Bumpus Park. Come stretch, strengthen, and take in the beauty of Duxbury Bay on King Caesar’s working wharf turned barre studio! Fridays, May 17, 24, 31 and June 14. All classes will be held at 9:30-10:30.  Please bring […]

The Duxbury Rural & Historical Society welcomes Town Historian, Tony Kelso, to the King Caesar House Barn to discuss the fascinating life of John Malcolm Brinnin. John Malcom Brinnin and his lifelong partner Bill Read had a cottage on Powder Point in Duxbury. Brinnin  for years ran the famous  92nd Street Y program for Writers […]

Join us for our annual family party on the front lawn of the King Caesar House for an afternoon of nostalgic summer lawn games, crafts,  children’s activities and treats by the sea.  Adults can tour the one-of-a-kind King Caesar House,  and view our 2024 summer exhibition, Tides and Tourism: A Duxbury Summer Retrospective. Space is limited, […]

Our fall exhibit will showcase several 19th century Duxbury samplers, and a few other embroidered pieces. Guest speaker, Elizabeth Creedon, created the current local epic embroidery project, the Plymouth Tapestry. She will discuss the process of creating a series of 20 panels depicting scenes from  Wampanoag tradition and Western civilization, through the Pilgrims first harvest […]

Join us on September 19 to discuss best-selling author Kristin Hannah’s latest novel, The Women, at the Bradford House. The novel’s characters, female Army nurses during the Vietnam War, share many parallels with Charlotte Bradford, a nurse during the Civil War. Historian and Archivist Carolyn Ravenscroft will be on hand to lead a discussion of the […]

Please join us on Friday, September 27 for a House Tour of Historic Duxbury.  Five private residences and their grounds will be open for viewing.   These homes represent five distinct eras in this historic town.  Items from our collection will be displayed.  A detailed brochure will be available describing the history of the home and […]