2:30 pm
Regarding the post ceremony schedule: As early hotel check-in is not guaranteed, most guests are invited to check in immediately following the ceremony. The hotels are about 10 minutes from the church. Our shuttle bus to the Fruitlands Museum in Harvard will depart from the hotels at 4:30 for the reception that begins at 5:00. The shuttle will operate throughout the night for any guests needing to return to the hotels before the reception ends. An after-party reception will be be held in Tracy and Steve Keating's room at the Hyatt Place. See you all soon!
5:00 pm - 10:00 pm
In 1843, Amos Bronson Alcott and Charles Lane turned a swath of Harvard farmland into a Transcendentalist experiment in subsistence farming and Emersonian self-reliance, named Fruitlands, which ultimately disbanded after only seven months. In 1914, Clara Endicott Sears opened the grounds to the public, establishing a museum in the property’s 1820s farmhouse. Now, the 210-acre landscape encompasses five collections first established by Sears: the original Fruitlands Farmhouse; the Shaker Museum, the first such museum in the country; the Native American Museum, celebrating the history of indigenous peoples; the Art Museum, with a variety of rotating exhibits, contemporary art, and showcasing a combined collection of more than 300 Hudson River School landscape paintings and 19th-century vernacular portraits; and the Wayside Visitor Center, a classroom, education, and exhibition space.