Meetings – 2025


Date: January 28, 2025VIRTUAL MEETING “Tracing Your Bootlegging, Shimmy-Shaking and Repeal-Seeking Ancestors During and After Prohibition”
Speaker:  Debra Dudek, Author Librarian (a follow-up from the July 2024 meeting with Debra Dudek) – https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/LUAIqIE_QEOQlvB2Q3comA


Date: February 11, 2025 – Leominster Public Library in Partnership with CMGS – VIRTUAL MEETING
Speaker:  Thomas MacEntee – Escape Room – “The Case of Lou Little”

Accidentally, you are locked in at the Leominster Public Library after hours. It seems that you fell asleep in a cubicle while researching the history of college football in the United States. Your current research subject is Leominster native Luigi Piccolo – better known as Lou Little – famed college football coach during the 1920s and 1930s. Can you figure out Little’s real birth name and his connection with the Heisman Trophy?

Click HERE for the recording – Passcode: gP8a9f=C


Date: March 25 2025 – ANNUAL DINNER MEETING(Hope Lodge, 42 Central Street, Gardner, MA) HYBRID MEETING
Speaker: Susan Navarre – Fitchburg Historical Society See Upcoming Meetings for more information!

Link : https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/jVoKvrNmTSayiq0nS7p_ZA


Date: April 22, 2025HYBRID MEETING Hope Lodge, 42 Central Street, Gardner, MA & ZOOM
“I have a Civil War Ancestor: Now What?”
Speaker:  Brian Rhinehart

Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/6Z7IaWMaSBuBqLKeK5vXRg


Date: May 27, 2025 HYBRID MEETING – Hope Lodge, 42 Central Street, Gardner, MA & ZOOM
“Postcards From The Past: Bringing Deltiology to Your Genealogy?”
Speaker:  Michael Cassara

Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/6Z7IaWMaSBuBqLKeK5vXRg


Date: June 24, 2025VIRTUAL MEETING ONLYemail for the link: welcome@fitchburghistoricalsociety.com
“Identifying a Plantagenet King: Richard III”
Speaker:
Bonnie Wade Mucia

Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/6Z7IaWMaSBuBqLKeK5vXRg


Date: July 22, 2025HYBRID MEETINGHope Lodge, 42 Central Street, Gardner, MA & ZOOM
“How History Helps Genealogy Research”
Speaker:
Lucy Allen of Barre Historical Society


Date: August 26, 2025HYBRID MEETINGHope Lodge, 42 Central Street, Gardner, MA & ZOOM
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Date: September 23, 2025HYBRID MEETINGHope Lodge, 42 Central Street, Gardner, MA & ZOOM
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Date: October 28, 2025HYBRID MEETINGHope Lodge, 42 Central Street, Gardner, MA & ZOOM
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Date: November – TBD