To bring hope to our community and support to our programming, we will be offering a Bluebird of Hope in a special gift box for every online donation of $50 or more to the Society between May 1 and May 30.

We hope that you will find joy in supporting LHS and consider gifting a Blue Bird of Hope to anyone who is making this world a better place. After all, Something Must Be Done!

Catch your bluebird here!

In 1915, the Massachusetts Suffrage Association created 100,000 tin bluebird signs to be placed around the state, in support of a women's suffrage referendum. While the state referendum did not pass that year, the bluebird became a symbol of the suffrage movement and a token of hope for a better future.

2020 seems the perfect time to bring back the bluebirds - to celebrate the 100th anniversary of women's suffrage, to connect with the suffrage stories in our currently-closed Something Must Be Done exhibit, and to bring new hope to our current reality.

Lexington Historical Society has teamed up with world renowned, Vermont potter Miranda Thomas to bring a new flock of bluebirds into the world. Thomas first created these handcrafted ceramic bluebirds for the 2018 Davos World Economic Forum, "Creating a Shared Future in a Fractured World," a sentiment even more powerful today. As she has continued this project, the bluebirds have come to symbolize many things: hope and healing, the importance of arts and culture in a fractured world, the centennial of the women's suffrage movement, and the strong women and men on the front lines of the 2020 pandemic.