HBO’s “Somebody Somewhere,” drops us into Manhattan, Kansas where we meet Sam, a woman who has recently moved back to her hometown to care for her dying sister, and Joel, a colleague at her new workplace who, she learns, was in the high school choir with her. The Peabody Award-winning series is wrapping up with its last episode streaming on HBO December 8th. Actor Jeff Hiller, who stars as Joel Anderson, joins The Culture Show to talk about this beloved series.

From there Lisa Krassner, Executive Director of the Concord Museum. joins The Culture Show, to talk about their annual tradition: The Concord Museum’s Holiday House. It’s this Saturday, from 10:00 AM-4:00 PM. To learn more go here.

Finally Catherine Allgor leads the way on another edition of Countdown to 2026. This month she focuses on colonial women and the role they played on the eve of the American Revolution. The books Allgor recommends this month are Mary Beth Norton’s “Liberty’s Daughters: The Revolutionary Experience of American Women, 1750-1800” and “Abigail Adams” by Woody Holton. Catherine Allgor joins us every month for “Countdown to 2026.” She is President Emerita of the Massachusetts Historical Society, an author, historian and visiting scholar with the Department of History at Tufts University.

December 2, 2024 - Jeff Hiller, the Concord Museum's Holiday House Tour, and Catherine Allgor

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