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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. [...]
2024-01-25T11:25:11-05:00April 11th, 2022|Categories: About Heritage, Exhibits, Heritage Collection, Now at Heritage, Wampanoag|
Digging Into History By: Amanda Wastrom, Assistant Curator While we know quite a bit about the recent past of the land that now makes up Heritage Museums & Gardens (the past 100 years or so), the earlier history of our local area is more of a mystery. With a [...]
2024-03-26T10:47:48-04:00June 1st, 2021|Categories: Exhibits, Heritage Collection, Wampanoag|
On Exhibit April - October 2021 This year, we invite you to connect with the history of our region. For more than 12,000 years this region has been inhabited by members of the Wampanoag Tribe, or “People Of The First Light.” We are delighted to have an opportunity [...]
2024-01-25T15:45:38-05:00May 10th, 2021|Categories: Current Exhibits, Exhibits, Heritage Collection, Wampanoag|
Wampanoag Wetu Heritage is a wonderful place to connect to the past. Visitors can stroll through our beloved rhododendrons, peruse the objects in our Special Exhibitions Gallery, marvel at the cars in our Automobile Collection, and even walk the gardens around our colonial-era Wing house, first constructed circa [...]
2023-01-10T17:23:05-05:00November 17th, 2020|Categories: Current Exhibits, Exhibits, Heritage Collection, Wampanoag|Tags: Current Exhibits, History, Wampanoag|
Last week was Thanksgiving, which, for many Americans, conjures images of roasted turkey, mashed potatoes and Pilgrim hats. For members of this continent’s many Indigenous tribes, it is an anniversary but not necessarily a happy one. Although the Pilgrims’ landing wasn’t the first time Europeans landed in North America, [...]
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