Residents Event Calendar

Join us during happy hour in the lounge at 5:15 to pick up your “Famous Couples—Friends and Foes” Quiz and then dance the night away as the Tom Nutile Octet joins us for a Valentine’s Day celebration in the dining room. We’ll have prizes for the winners at 8:00 pm!

Our speaker for this morning is Bill Wallace, Director of the Worcester Historical Museum. His topic is “Be Mine: The True Story of How Worcester Did Not Invent the Valentine.” This time of year, to let partners, friends, and family know just how much you love them each February 14, you might want to thank, or blame, the city of Worcester. The Valentine was not invented in Worcester; but in the last quarter of the nineteenth century, Worcester was one of the centers of the American Valentine industry. Bill will tell us how and why that came about. Bill has been the Director of the WHM since 1976. Under his leadership, the museum has sponsored many community-based exhibitions and public programs. The latest exhibit at the WHM is “Citizen Soldiers: Worcester in World War I,” which runs through February 28.