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2024-07-23T11:54:13-04:00July 23rd, 2024|Categories: Automobiles, Current Exhibits, Exhibits|
1925 Franklin wins First Senior Ring Jennifer Madden, Director of Collections and Exhibitions On June 29, the 1925 Franklin won its First Senior Ring from the Classic Car Club of America at the Metro Region Grand Classic in Oxford, New Jersey. The Classic Car Club of America is [...]
2024-07-16T14:43:11-04:00June 10th, 2024|Categories: Blog, Exhibits, Heritage Collection, Heritage Collection|
2024 Heritage Highlights Exhibit: John Baxter's Pocket Watch Trade Sign By Sarah Sherman Clark, Registrar/Collections Manager For centuries, businesses have used signs to advertise their trades, services, and goods. Because large portions of populations throughout history could not read, it was common to use the universal languages of illustrations, [...]
2024-05-22T11:32:22-04:00May 13th, 2024|Categories: Blog, Current Exhibits, Exhibits, Heritage Collection|
Alfred Glover in the Garden: An Interview with Alfred Glover By Amanda Wastrom, Curator This season, we are thrilled to have Alfred Glover’s whimsical, folk-art style sculptures populating the grounds and gardens at Heritage. For over four decades, Glover has lived and worked on Cape Cod, making art in [...]
2024-04-23T17:01:47-04:00April 23rd, 2024|Categories: Blog, Exhibits, Heritage Collection, Heritage Collection|
Impressionist New England: Four Seasons of Color and Light By Amanda Wastrom, Curator Impressionism was my first art love. I grew up in New Hampshire, only about an hour north of Boston. My mother, a teacher and an art lover, would take me to museums in the city all [...]
2024-05-09T11:32:16-04:00April 19th, 2024|Categories: Automobiles, Current Exhibits, Exhibits|
CHARGING AHEAD Jennifer Madden, Director of Collections and Exhibitions With the recent emphasis on the importance of electric cars, you may think that they are a recent invention. In fact, the first electric car was made in Scotland almost two hundred years ago! Of course, that vehicle was [...]
2024-04-20T08:18:24-04:00April 19th, 2024|Categories: Automobiles, Current Exhibits, Exhibits|
CHARGING AHEAD: THE MERCURY ARC RECTIFIER Jennifer Madden, Director of Collections and Exhibitions Although commonly considered a thoroughly modern invention, electric cars have been around for a long time. In fact, the first electric car was made in Scotland almost two hundred years ago! Of course, that vehicle [...]
2024-04-02T12:13:00-04:00April 2nd, 2024|Categories: Blog, Exhibits, Heritage Collection, Heritage Collection|
2024 Heritage Highlights Exhibit: Featuring Items Important to Cape Codders By Jennifer Madden, Director of Collections & Exhibitions Recently many visitors to Heritage have been saying the same thing – they want to hear more local stories. We listened! This season the Heritage Highlights exhibit in the Art and [...]
2024-01-26T08:44:11-05:00January 11th, 2024|Categories: About Heritage, Blog, Exhibits|
Creating Cape Cod at Home or at Work These items have all found new homes! Thank you to everyone who showed interest. As we say goodbye to the Creating Cape Cod exhibit, we have some elements that made that exhibit special that are looking for new homes. Do you [...]
2023-10-23T10:12:41-04:00October 23rd, 2023|Categories: About Heritage, Exhibits, Heritage Collection, Now at Heritage, Wampanoag|
An In-Depth Look at Heritage’s Wampanoag-style Garden By: Amanda Wastrom, Curator and Iris Clearwater, Senior Gardener Over hundreds of generations, Wampanoag people in this region developed a migratory cycle of living that followed the patterns of the climate and the land. They learned what resources were available and when. [...]
2023-10-06T12:39:37-04:00October 6th, 2023|Categories: About Heritage, Blog, Exhibits|
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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