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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 [...]
2024-05-15T09:51:06-04:00September 11th, 2020|Categories: Automobiles, News and Media, News and Press|
Annual Auto Show Highlights The Classic Corvair September 11, 2020 Face masks, six-foot distancing, Zoom and elbow bumps: In some ways, Cape Cod’s summer season at cultural destinations has been topsy-turvy, with many events re-thought or restructured due to the unpredictability of the COVID-19 pandemic. Despite changes, programs and [...]
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 [...]
2024-05-23T09:58:13-04:00April 29th, 2020|Categories: Blog, Gardens and Plants, Heritage Collection, Rhododendron|Tags: Dexter, Rhododendron|
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 start hybridizing [...]
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 [...]
2024-01-25T10:37:42-05:00June 4th, 2017|Categories: Automobiles, News and Media, News and Press, News Video|
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