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2026-07-31T14:20:38-04:00March 21st, 2022|Categories: About Heritage, Exhibits, Heritage Collection, Now at Heritage|
WE'RE NOT TOYS! By: Amanda Wastrom, Former Curator (written March 2022) People who have been coming to Heritage for years (generations even), usually have a favorite object that they come to see. Maybe it is the carousel or the 1913 Model T, the Old East Mill or the Rhododendron [...]
2025-06-18T12:18:50-04:00March 8th, 2022|Categories: About Heritage, Exhibits, Heritage Collection, Now at Heritage|
Fanny Palmer: One of America's Most Important Artist-Printmakers of the 19th Century By: Jennifer Madden, Director of Collections & Exhibitions Frances Flora “Fanny” Bond Palmer (1812-1876) was the leading female lithographer of her time. Born in England, she was trained in drawing and lithography while a teen. As an [...]
2024-03-25T14:48:47-04:00February 8th, 2022|Categories: About Heritage, Exhibits, Heritage Collection, Now at Heritage|
The Carver Behind the Birds By: Amanda Wastrom, Assistant Curator A.E. Crowell. Say the name alone and it may ring a distant bell (after all, Crowell is an historic well-known Cape Cod family) but perhaps you cannot place it. For instant recognition, one must add, “you know, that famous [...]
2024-01-25T15:23:03-05:00July 14th, 2021|Categories: About Heritage, Blog, Hydrangea, News and Media, News and Press, Press Releases|
Ribbon-cutting ceremony Wednesday, July 14 North American Hydrangea Test Garden Opens July 12, 2021 (Sandwich, MA) – Heritage Museums & Gardens, the largest public garden in Southern New England, will celebrate one of Cape Cod’s most iconic plants this summer during the Cape-wide Hydrangea Festival, July 9-18. [...]
2025-07-28T13:56:40-04:00May 27th, 2021|Categories: About Heritage, Blog, Garden Care and Tips, Gardens and Plants, Rhododendron, Uncategorized|
Managing an Historic Collection of Rhododendrons Ambling the paths at Heritage Museums and Gardens is an invitation to revel in a kaleidoscope of bright pinks, lavenders, purple and cream-colored flowers contrasted against a dark green wall of shining leaves. Rhododendrons are regal plants that calm the spirit. [...]
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 [...]
2026-06-23T16:21:05-04:00July 15th, 2020|Categories: About Heritage, Exhibits, Heritage Collection|
Visitor Favorite "Thunder" Undergoes Restoration During the heyday of the carousel as a popular form of American entertainment, from the 1890s to the 1930s, as many as 3,000 carousels were installed at amuseument parks across the country. Each carousel had one horse designated as the “lead horse,” [...]
2025-06-18T12:18:35-04:00June 5th, 2018|Categories: About Heritage, Blog, Gardens and Plants, Rhododendron|
Life Blooms Charles Owen Dexter got some bad news in 1921. At age 59, his doctor told him he didn’t have long to live. What would you do if you got news like that? If you were Charles Dexter, you’d buy some beautiful, rolling farmland on Cape Cod and [...]
2025-06-18T12:18:49-04:00November 5th, 2016|Categories: About Heritage, Blog, Gardens and Plants|
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