For more than a century, the Westborough Historical Society has been a center of educational, cultural and social activity for the community.
Today, the Society continues to offer classroom presentations and bus tours of Westborough for children, as well as a series of monthly programs for the community, most of them free and open to the public.
Westborough Historical Society 2025 Programs
Monday, March 3; 7 p.m. at Sibley House, 13 Parkman St.
“Who Was Esther Forbes?”
What author, born at 39 Church Street in Westborough, won the Pulitzer Prize for History in 1943 and the Newbery Award in 1944 for young people’s literature?
Her name: Esther Forbes.
Learn about this gifted historian who won the Newbery Award for Johnny Tremain: Boston in Revolt, and the Pulitzer prize for her biography Paul Revere and the World He Lived In.
Refreshments and a social follow a power-point program
Recordings of Prior Programs
- Starting Your Genealogy (November 2024)
- The World of Dolls (October 2024)
- You Can Write and Publish a Book (May 2024)
- The History of our Clothes with Dr. Charlotte Haller (April 2024)
- Classical Ballet and Music from Southern India (March 2024)
- The Underground Railroad in Central Massachusetts and the Blackstone River Valley (February 2024)
- Anything Goes—America During the Jazz Age: “The Roaring Twenties (January 2024)
- Printing and Revolution (November 2023)
- Dedication of the Nahor Rice Memorial Bench (September 2023)
- The Ravages of the 1953 Tornado on Westborough (September 2023)
- Protecting Open Space (May 2023)
- All Aboard! The Train and Industry Pulls into Town (March 2023)
- Who Was Dr. Solomon Carter Fuller? (February 2023)
- Famous Women of Westborough Across the Centuries (January 2023)
Archived Programs
- The Truth Behind The Tales – The Nipmuc Presence in Westborough (November 2022)
- A Stroll Down Memory Lane (October 2022)
- History of Westborough Public Schools (September 2022)
- Worcester’s Role in the American Revolution (March 2022)
- Made in Worcester (February 2022)
- Remembering the 1918 Influenza Pandemic in the Age of COVID (January 2022)
- Images of Westborough’s Colorful Past (November 2021)
- Bathsheba Spooner: a Revolutionary War Murder Conspiracy (October 2021)
- The Evolution of Religions in Westborough (September 2021)
- The Adventure of Book Collecting (May 2021)
- The Legacy of Birding in Westborough (April 2021)
- William Sibley – Citizen, Soldier, Sleighmaker (March 2021)
- Eli Whitney, Father of American Mass Production (February 2021)
- Westborough Maps 1717 to 21st Century: “Charting Westborough’s History (January 2021)
Please visit our Facebook page for last-minute program information related to inclement weather.
