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2023-10-23T16:25:31-04:00October 12th, 2020|Categories: Blog, Heritage Collection|Tags: Gravestones, Halloween, Heritage Collection|
Have you ever considered that graveyards are like outdoor museums? A walk through one will take you back in time and face to face with the people of the past. Cemeteries can reveal information about historic events, religions, lifestyles, and genealogy. The epitaphs tell us of lives cut short [...]
2024-03-25T15:11:55-04:00September 29th, 2020|Categories: Blog, Exhibits, Heritage Collection|Tags: Lets Play, Toys|
Hi, I’m Amanda, Assistant Curator here at Heritage. I was the primary researcher for the Let’s Play! exhibition, now on view in the Special Exhibition Gallery. What a fun project this has been to work on! It has been a blast learning the curious histories of some of America’s best [...]
2024-03-25T15:01:58-04:00August 24th, 2020|Categories: Automobiles, Heritage Collection|Tags: Automobile, Cars, Covair|
On Saturday, September 12th, Heritage will host a Celebration of American Automobiles. This event will highlight some of the amazing, American-made automobiles from our collection, and also pay special tribute to the 60th anniversary of the Chevrolet Corvair, one of the most forward-looking vehicles of the early 1960s. [...]
2023-01-27T10:11:37-05:00July 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,” noted [...]
2024-03-26T10:48:30-04:00July 7th, 2020|Categories: Automobiles, Heritage Collection|Tags: Automobile, Cars, Current Exhibits, Heritage Collection, History, JK Lilly|
“Collecting, like most passions, has the capacity to let you live in another world for awhile.” – Kim A. Herzinger, Ph.D.: Collector, Pushcart Prize-winning critic and writer, and faculty member at the University of Houston-Victoria July 10, 2020 is Collector Car Appreciation Day! This annual event, now in its [...]
2024-03-25T15:00:17-04:00April 29th, 2020|Categories: Blog, Gardens and Plants, Heritage Collection, Rhododendron|Tags: Dexter, Rhododendron|
Rhododendrons are ubiquitous at Heritage Museums & Gardens. They have a long history on the property dating back to 1921 when Charles Owen Dexter bought the property as a weekend home. That purchase, and the work Dexter did over the subsequent years, changed the world of rhododendrons in the [...]
2023-01-10T17:14:25-05:00November 1st, 2018|Categories: Exhibits, Heritage Collection|
From The Heritage Collection It is easy to forget how much we rely on arbitrary social signifiers in navigating our world. When we come up against the unfamiliar conventions of other places and other times, they can seem strange or amusing or just plain wrong to our way [...]
2023-01-10T17:14:55-05:00May 7th, 2018|Categories: Exhibits, Heritage Collection|
Waves of Beauty, Tides of Light “Speed, whipping wind and the crying of gulls—flying spray and salt on the lips. It was good to be alive and on the water again!” American marine artist Frank Vining Smith (1879-1967) wrote this about a fishing [...]
2023-01-10T17:15:39-05:00October 11th, 2017|Categories: Exhibits, Heritage Collection|
From The Heritage Collection In these days of video and camera phones, images are ubiquitous. It may be difficult to imagine a time when painted portraits were the only visual remembrances of family and loved ones possible. Portraits were expensive, and even those who could afford them might [...]
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