Visitors to the Acton Museum decorated snack and meal bags as part of a Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service. Photo: Ken McGagh/The Acton Bridge
Undeterred by the prior night’s heavy snows, Acton marked Martin Luther King Jr. Day on Monday with acts of service, reflection, and celebration. A program organized by the Acton Museum Contemporary Leaders in partnership with Open Table saw volunteers preparing bags for meals and snacks for local children. Outside Crosby’s Marketplace, the Acton-Carlisle Human Rights Council accepted donations of food. Walden Pond Visitor Center hosted an interpretive program on civil disobedience, and the Music Makes Me Happy Chorus filled Trinitarian Congregational Church with the sound of spiritual and gospel tunes.
Photos by Ken McGagh/The Acton Bridge
Acton Academy freshmen Melissa Asare, Ray’Hannah Mendez, and Avery Barkley take a cellphone picture at the Acton Museum after decorating bags for local children.Kathy Hassinger of Newton, a grandparent of Henry and Audrey Hassinger of Acton, decorates a bag.Heidi MacMaster and her daughter Maddie, 13, decorate bags for delivery to local kids.Bryn Hilts of Acton and her daughter Winnie, 8, right, wait in line with their bags.Acton Academy’s Melissa Asare, Ray’Hannah Mendez, and Avery Barkley wait in line to fill bags for donation.Sharon Brown, right, and Ronni Olitsky of the Acton-Carlisle Human Rights Council accept donations of food outside Crosby’s Marketplace.The Acton-based Music Makes Me Happy Chorus, a vocal group for adults with special needs, performs its MLK Day concert at Trinitarian Congregational Church.The Music Makes Me Happy Chorus sang a series of spirituals and gospel songs.Dr. Michael Williams and his wife, Clary Bestor-Williams, of Acton, sing “This Little Light of Mine” during the Martin Luther King Day concert at TriCon.Alanna Widman of Acton and daughter Mairi, 2, listen to the Music Makes Me Happy Chorus, which performed “Go Down Moses,” “We Shall Overcome,” “Swing Low, Sweet Chariot,” “Michael, Row the Boat Ashore,” “Wade in the Water,” “This Little Light of Mine,” and “When the Saints Go Marching In.”
