MILTON, MA – August 2, 2024 –
The Forbes House Museum, at 215 Adams Street, welcomes the community to its Barnfest on Thursday, August 15.
At this summer’s gathering, museum trustees and staff invite visitors to join an ALS Ice Bucket Challenge to raise awareness and funding for ALS research. It’s a cause everyone at the museum supports because Executive Director Heidi Vaughan was diagnosed with the disease in 2023.
“The ALS Therapy Development Institute (ALS TDI) is delighted to partner with the Forbes House Museum to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge. During the summer of 2014, the Challenge raised $135 million in the US alone to support research to develop treatments for ALS,” says Carol Hamilton, Senior Vice President, ALS TDI. “We thank all the friends of the Forbes House Museum as they bring this viral sensation back to change the future of ALS.”
Always a family-friendly evening with lawn games and casual seating outside the barn and carriage house, Barnfest will feature entertainment from the Dark Crushes playing Alt-80s cover tunes, with Mi Corazon Taqueria food truck providing authentic Mexican cuisine and Widowmaker Brewing pouring a selection of its popular beers and hard seltzers.
Tickets for the outdoor event, 6-9 pm, are $15/adult or $30/adult to join the Challenge; kids are free. Tickets are available at www.forbeshousemuseum.org/barnfest.
For more information about taking the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge or setting up a team, see https://www.als.net/ice-bucket-challenge/.
Tickets and more information about museum exhibits, tours and programming are available from the museum’s website, www.forbeshousemuseum.org, or by calling 617-696-1815.
Photo courtesy of the Forbes House Museum.
About the Forbes House Museum:
Inspired by the Forbes family legacy of entrepreneurship, social action and philanthropy, the Forbes House Museum fosters discourse around civic engagement and cultural awareness. Built in 1833, the Greek Revival home at 215 Adams Street in Milton has been a museum since 1964 and a National Historic Landmark since 1966.
About the ALS Therapy Development Institute:
The ALS Therapy Development Institute (ALS TDI) is the world’s foremost drug discovery lab focused solely on ALS. As a nonprofit biotech we operate without regard to profit or politics. Led by drug development experts and people with ALS, our Watertown, Massachusetts-based lab is funded by a global network of supporters unified to end ALS. Our mission is to discover and develop effective treatments for ALS. Learn more at www.als.net.