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Sandwich Halloween Festival Gallery 2023
The Sandwich Halloween Festival at Heritage Thank you to all who joined us. It was a fantastic community fundraiser. Happy Halloween! [...]
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10, 2023
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10, 2023
Creating Cape Cod Memories
Creating Cape Cod Memories By: You, the visitors! After two seasons we are saying goodbye to the Creating Cape Cod exhibit on Sunday! Visitors talked back to us, leaving their thoughts about their favorite Cape Cod memory, and their musings about the challenges and opportunities they see for the [...]
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10, 2023
Volunteer Spotlight!
Volunteer Spotlight: Featuring Elliot Friend By: Iris Clearwater, Volunteer Coordinator & Senior Gardener Upon entering the J.K. Lilly Automobile Gallery, you cannot help but marvel at how perfectly clean and well maintained the cars are, and think, Wow, who takes care of these? You’ll also be amazed to find [...]
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08, 2023
America II
The America II Model Ship By Amanda Wastrom, Curator Every exhibit needs a showstopper. That attention-grabbing thing that stops visitors in their tracks and (ideally) inspires gasps of awe and astonishment. That’s the dream of every curator after all: lots of pointing, closer looking, and exclamations of wow! and [...]
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07, 2023
Where Have All the Flowers Gone? And Yet Another Chapter
Where Have All the Flowers Gone – and Yet Another Chapter in 2023 Mal’s Corner – CCHS Spring 2023 Newsletter As most of you know, I do follow the weather patterns fairly closely and am especially concerned with major deviations, particularly the sudden and severe cold events with temperature [...]
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04, 2023
Volunteer Spotlight!
Volunteer Spotlight: Featuring Joy Bogstad By: Iris Clearwater, Senior Gardener Aptly named for the Joy she brings to everything that she does, and to all who have the pleasure to know her, Joy Bogstad has been volunteering here at Heritage for 15 years, ever since she and 7 other [...]
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03, 2023
Concrete Distinction
Concrete Distinction: An Interview with Artist Marybeth Lensel By Amanda Wastrom, Curator In 2003, artist Marybeth Lensel created Concrete Distinction, a site-specific installation on the grounds here at Heritage. Longtime visitors may remember seeing it while walking the trails behind the Arbor Bowl. When I first joined the staff, I [...]
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03, 2023
Spring Garden Planning
Garden Planning By: Les Lutz, Director of Horticulture March is such a hopeful month. There are signs all through the garden that winter is slowly losing its grip on the landscape and spring is starting to show itself. The Witch-hazels are finishing their late winter show and buds are [...]
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02, 2023
Taylor Jones: Presidential Caricaturist
Taylor Jones: Presidential Caricaturist By Jennifer Madden, Director of Collections & Exhibitions The biting art of caricature has been around for hundreds of years, and who makes a better target than politicians? With Presidents’ Day nearly upon us, it’s worth another look at Heritage’s collection of presidential cartoons by [...]
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12, 2022
The Model Train at Gardens Aglow
The Model Train at Gardens Aglow By Les Lutz, Director of Horticulture When I think of the holidays, I think of trains. Everyone loves trains. And everyone loves model trains even more. Beginning 2013, our G-scale model train became part of the annual Gardens Aglow event at Heritage Museums [...]
