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2024-03-26T11:03:18-04:00May 21st, 2021|Categories: About Heritage, Blog, Gardens and Plants, Heritage History, Rhododendron|
100 Years of Rhododendrons After Dexter died in 1943, many of his hybrid rhododendrons were scattered away from Sandwich to different places. While Dexter himself had given away thousands of seedlings during his lifetime, after he died some people who were aware of his fine plants came [...]
2023-12-06T09:07:52-05:00May 16th, 2021|Categories: About Heritage, Blog, Gardens and Plants, Heritage History, Rhododendron|
100 Years of Rhododendrons This year, 2021, marks the centennial of the year that Charles Owen Dexter acquired Shawme Farm. It is because Dexter bought himself a country retreat a hundred years ago that today you have a wonderful place to find a smorgasbord of adventures and [...]
2024-01-25T15:45:38-05:00May 10th, 2021|Categories: Current Exhibits, Exhibits, Heritage Collection, Wampanoag|
Wampanoag Wetu Heritage is a wonderful place to connect to the past. Visitors can stroll through our beloved rhododendrons, peruse the objects in our Special Exhibitions Gallery, marvel at the cars in our Automobile Collection, and even walk the gardens around our colonial-era Wing house, first constructed circa [...]
2024-01-25T14:39:52-05:00April 22nd, 2021|Categories: Automobiles, Exhibits, Heritage Collection, News and Media, News and Press, News Video|
Hidden away in Cape Cod’s Heritage Museums and Gardens, a collection of cars traces the history of American automotive innovation, design, and aesthetics. We got a tour when Tom Gregory visited the museum as the host of Driven. You can view the collection along with Tom in the video. [...]
2023-01-10T17:22:16-05:00April 22nd, 2021|Categories: Automobiles, Exhibits, Heritage Collection, Heritage Collection, News and Media, News and Press|
Every year the Heritage Museums & Gardens holds an auto show, where they bring out their collection of American Cars into the light for the public to admire & reminisce with vehicles like Gary Cooper's 1930 Model J Duesenberg, and their newest addition, the 1965 Ford Country Squire station wagon. [...]
2024-01-24T13:40:06-05:00April 20th, 2021|Categories: Blog, Down to Earth, News and Media, News and Press|
Down To Earth by Les Lutz Heritage Museums & Gardens is going green! Over the last year we have been studying all aspects of our operations to become more sustainable. One aspect of our operations that has been high on our list to examine is garden maintenance. I’ve [...]
2024-03-25T15:09:15-04:00March 22nd, 2021|Categories: Blog, Down to Earth, Garden Care and Tips, News and Media|
Down To Earth by Les Lutz Trees that bear needles are usually evergreen, and most species are. But there are five genera that are needled conifers that are deciduous and drop their foliage each fall. Of these, four will thrive on the Cape and three are found at [...]
2024-01-25T14:32:54-05:00March 10th, 2021|Categories: Blog, Down to Earth, Garden Care and Tips, Gardens and Plants, News and Media, News and Press|
Down To Earth by Les Lutz The days are getting longer and there are already signs of life in the garden. One bright spot in the garden here at Heritage Museums & Gardens is one of my favorite plants for this season, Hamamelis, or witch hazel. The species [...]
2024-01-25T11:02:39-05:00March 2nd, 2021|Categories: Digital Press Kit, News and Media|
Heritage Nature Trails Over two-miles of trails are available to visitors which snake through the grounds. While you make your way through the gardens and galleries, keep an eye out for the meandering trails that diverge from the main loop. Let yourself get lost among the asters and goldenrod [...]
2023-01-20T10:43:40-05:00February 16th, 2021|Categories: Digital Press Kit|
The Looff Carousel Heritage Museums & Gardens owns an original 1908 Looff carousel made in East Providence, RI. Charles I. D. Looff was a master carver and builder of hand-carved carousels and amusement rides in America. Born in Denmark in 1852 and immigrating to America in 1870, Looff built [...]
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