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Pan-Mass Challenge
Wellesley, MA · Sports
- When
- July 31 – August 1, 2027
- Where
- Babson College, 231 Forest St (Wellesley start) · Wellesley · MA
- Cost
- Not confirmed
- Status
- Approximate: based on past editions, not announced yet
A charity bike ride benefiting Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, run every year since 1980 and now involving nearly 7,000 riders across multiple routes between start points in Massachusetts including Wellesley, Bourne and Worcester, most finishing in Provincetown. It is one of the largest athletic fundraising events in the country, raising tens of millions of dollars annually.
The history within reach
- Pan-Mass Challengesame spot
A charity bike ride benefiting Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, run every year since 1980 and now involving nearly 7,000 riders across multiple routes between start points in Massachusetts including Wellesley, Bourne and Worcester, most finishing in Provincetown.
Two Italian anarchists convicted of a payroll murder in a trial where the judge privately called them anarchist bastards.
The Watch City Steampunk Festival takes over Waltham Common each spring with vendors, costumed performers, and steam powered gadgetry, drawing fans from well beyond Massachusetts.
The Annunciation Greek Orthodox Cathedral of New England hosts a weekend Greek festival at its Cathedral Center in Brookline, with homemade pastries, traditional dinners, live bouzouki music, and dancing.
The first school for the blind in the country, where Samuel Gridley Howe taught Laura Bridgman, deaf and blind from age two, to read and write, forty years before Helen Keller.