Bountiful Bogs: Behind the Bog
Curious about the people who curated this exhibit and the resources they used? Meet Jennifer and Paula!
Jennifer Madden is the Director of Collections & Exhibitions at Heritage Museums & Gardens where she has worked since 1993. Her duties include organizing the exhibitions presented at Heritage each year as well as supervising the care and conservation of all objects in the museum’s collection. Since she began her employment with the museum, Ms. Madden has curated over 150 exhibitions and published three exhibit catalogues. She earned a BA in Anthropology with a minor in Museum Studies from Beloit College in Beloit, Wisconsin, and a MA in History Museum Studies from the Cooperstown Graduate Program in Cooperstown, New York.
Paula Peters is a politically, socially and culturally active citizen of the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe. For more than a decade she worked as a journalist for the Cape Cod Times and is now co-owner of SmokeSygnals, a Native owned and operated creative production agency. As an independent scholar and writer of Native, and particularly Wampanoag history, she produced the traveling exhibit “Our”Story: 400 Years of Wampanoag History and The Wampum Belt Project documenting the art and tradition of wampum in the contemporary Wampanoag community. In 2020 she wrote the introduction to the 400th Anniversary Edition of William Bradford’s, Of Plimoth Plantation. Paula is also the executive producer of the 2016 documentary film Mashpee Nine and author of the companion book, a story of law enforcement abuse of power and cultural justice in the Wampanoag community in 1976. Paula lives with her husband and children in Mashpee, Massachusetts, the Wampanoag ancestral homeland.
Bountiful Bogs: A Massachusetts Cranberry Story – Selected Bibliography
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All interviews were conducted in-person by Jennifer Y. Madden unless otherwise noted.
Annie Walker, Annie’s Crannies, October 12 and November 19, 2024
Alan Hall, cranberry grower, September 16, 2024
Barbara Burgo, Cape Cod Cape Verdean Museum, September 9, 2024
Betsy Gladfelter, Falmouth Conservation Commission, August 7, 2024
Bill Russell, cranberry grower, October 19, 2024
Brendan Annett, Buzzard’s Bay Coalition, September 4, 2024
Cass Gilmore and Erin Williams, Benson’s Pond Cranberries, March 8, 2025
Jack King, retired food processing equipment engineer, by telephone, July 18, 2024
Jonathan Haynes, cranberry grower, September 17, 2024
Karen Cahill, Cape Cod Cranberry Growers’ Association, by Zoom, August 28, 2024
Kirby and Carolyn Gilmore, cranberry growers, December 9, 2024, and January 29, 2025
Neal Price, Horsley-Witten, by telephone, July 25, 2024
Peter Beaton, cranberry grower, September 26, 2024
Peter K. Meier, collector and retired cranberry grower, various dates 2023-2025
Ronald Drolett, Rocky River Bogs, February 18, 2025
Stephanie Raymond, daughter of a cranberry grower, October 18, 2024
Woodie Hartley, cranberry grower, October 23, 2024
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