Watch City Steampunk Festival

Waltham, MA · Quirky

When: May 8, 2027
Where: Waltham Common, 610 Main Street · Waltham · MA
Cost: Not confirmed
Status: Approximate: based on past editions, not announced yet

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. Waltham was a center of American clockmaking, which the festival's name nods to. It has run free and outdoors for more than a decade.

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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 microwave oven3.1 mi
Percy Spencer, a self-taught engineer who never finished grammar school, noticed a chocolate bar melting in his pocket beside a radar magnetron.
The marathon bomber found in a Watertown boat3.2 mi
After a night-long shootout and a day of shelter-in-place across greater Boston, a Watertown man stepped into his garden once the lockdown lifted, noticed the shrink wrap on his boat was torn, and looked inside.
Perkins and Laura Bridgman3.2 mi
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.
Fresh Pond, where Boston's ice trade cut its blocks4.4 mi
Frederic Tudor worked out how to saw lake ice into blocks, pack it in sawdust and sell it in places that had never seen any, and Fresh Pond was one of the ponds his crews harvested.