Cranberry Celebration Day

Enjoy a fun-filled day at Heritage featuring live music, kids’ activities, hands-on crafts, and the chance to explore cranberry history and culture. Highlights include:

• • Visit a real cranberry bog – on wheels!– The Massachusetts Cranberries organization’s Traveling Bog brings live plants to Heritage, including exhibit information and the opportunity to learn about growing cranberries from an accompanying expert. https://www.cranberries.org/traveling-bog
  • Make your own “bog in a cup” to take home – Create a miniature, contained environment to grow a cranberry vine, replicating the soil layers of a natural cranberry bog.
  • Dance to performances by the Sound Dunes Big Band – This multi-piece band will play a variety of music – including favorites from “The Great American Songbook.”
  • Take part in kids’ activities – including story times, hands-on cranberry experiments, take-home cranberry craft making, and trying on waders for a fun photo op!
  • Explore Hidden Hollow’s cranberry theme, Bog Squad – Learn about members of the Bog Squad and how they help cranberries grow!
  • Experience the Cranberries: From Cape Cod to American Icon exhibit – Did you know that the first cranberry farms began right here on Cape Cod? Watch historic harvest video footage, try your hand at using a real antique cranberry harvesting scoop, see a giant bottle of cranberry juice cocktail, take home a vintage recipe, and more as you learn how cranberries have shaped the culture, economics, and environment of Cape Cod for hundreds of years.
  • Explore artifacts from Heritage’s cranberry collection with the curatorial team: See artifacts from Heritage’s cranberry history collection – the largest museum cranberry history collection in the country!
  • Beyond the Grind Mobile Coffee Experience – Enjoy handcrafted coffee, tea, and smoothie creations made with locally sourced ingredients, along with cranberry-inspired back goods made especially for the day!
  •  FoxRock Farms – Learn how FoxRock Farms supports healthy cranberry bogs through beekeeping, native plantings, and integrated pest management practices.
  • Jannette Vanderhoop – Join author and cultural educator, Jannette Vanderhoop, for readings from her book Cranberry Day: A Wampanoag Harvest Celebration. Learn more about Wampanoag traditions connected to the land and cranberry harvest. Her display will feature traditional clothing and objects, including a horseshoe crab basket, gourd rattle, wampum, and bottled clay.
  • Mary Bondarek – Join author, Mary Bondarek, for readings from her book Nugget’s Bog: Nugget Finds His Name. Mary will be available to sign copies of her book, which will be available for purchase before and after story time.
  • The Shop at Heritage – Visit The Shop at Heritage to find cranberry-themed items and so much
  • Winners of the cranberry sauce contest will be announced at 11:30 am.

To enter cranberry sauce competition, please click here.