Show your family and friends around the town in preparation for the Boston Marathon! Massachusetts residents can enjoy the Old Town Trolley tour and Boston Tea Party Ships & Museum for FREE when accompanied by a full fare adult paid guest with Hometown Pass.
If you love running and couldn’t ask for a better reason to arrive a few days early before the race, how about visiting the huge John Hancock Sports and Fitness Expo? Runner’s World magazine calls this event the “best runner’s expo in the country” and the 100,000+ enthusiasts typically in attendance can attest to that.
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Battle of Lexington: Boston Patriots Day Reenactment
Battle Green, Massachusetts Ave. at Bedford St.
The Battle of Lexington is commemorated every year on the third Monday in April. We pay tribute to those patriots who first fell on Lexington Green on the morning of April 19, 1775, and to the courage and fortitude of those who continued the fight throughout the day.
The Boston Marathon 2023
E Main St. & Marathon Way, Hopkinton, MA
The Boston Marathon – one of the city’s biggest events of the year, and also known as the “Patriots Day Race” – features about 31,500 elite runners from around the world competing in a route made difficult by rolling terrain and features such as “Heartbreak Hill.”
Sheep Shearing Festival
Gore Place, 52 Gore Street, Waltham, MA
Get ready for another unbaahhlievable Sheep Shearing Festival. Since 1987, this annual event has entertained guests with music, 100+ craft and fiber artists, demonstrations of traditional shearing and herding dogs, and historic re-enactors on the beautiful grounds of this historic, 50-acre estate. According to Executive Director and festival organizer Susan Robertson, “We’re proud that the Sheep Shearing Festival has become a New England spring tradition for so many.”
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The Town and the Music Festival
Lowell, MA
The Town and The City Festival announced that an additional 10 acts have been added to the lineup for the two-day music and arts festival set to take place Friday, April 28th, and Saturday, April 29th in event spaces, bars, cafes, and galleries throughout downtown Lowell, Massachusetts.
