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  • Saturday, August 17, 10:00 am – 2:00 pm – Wampanoag Heritage Day

    Join Heritage Museums and Gardens in Sandwich for the fourth annual celebration of Wampanoag culture at Heritage from 10 am-2 pm on August 17. This fun-filled day will feature a performance by the Wampanoag Nation Singers and Dancers of Eastern social songs and dances (with audience participation encouraged!) from 11-11:45 am and hands-on activities. Explore the wetu, a reproduction of a historic dwelling, the mush8n, a reproduction dug-out canoe, and the Three Sisters demonstration garden, all created in collaboration with SmokeSygnals, a local Native American creative agency.

    All activities are free with museum admission or membership. This event is rain or shine.

    Tickets include admission to:

    • The gardens, featuring collections of rhododendrons, hydrangeas, daylilies, and more (seasonal)
    • The Hidden Hollow outdoor discovery area
    • The Special Exhibitions Gallery, featuring the Impressionist New England: Four Seasons of Color and Light exhibit
    • The J.K. Lilly III Automobile Gallery, featuring the From Carriage to Classic: How Automobiles Transformed America and Charging Ahead: Early Electric Cars in America exhibits
    • The American Art & Carousel Gallery, featuring the Heritage Highlights exhibit and rides on the 1908 Looff carousel
    • The outdoor art exhibit Alfred Glover in the Garden
    • Wampanoag wetu, Three Sisters Garden, and mush8n
    • Outdoor features such as the McGraw Family Garden of the Senses, the Flume Fountain, the Hart Family Maze Garden, the labyrinth, walking trails, and more
    • Lilly’s Café
    • The Shop at Heritage in its new temporary locatiom

  • Saturday, June 29, 10:00 am – 2:00 pm – Quinobequin Intertribal Paddle

    Join Indigenous Peoples Day Newton and the Charles River Watershed Association, @charlesriverwatershed , for our 2nd annual Quinobequin Intertribal Paddle!

    Along the way, you’ll hear from special guest Danielle Frank of the Hoopa & Yurok tribes about their recent success undamming the Klamath River & the return of the Salmon. You’ll also hear about local efforts to undam the Charles River from members of the CRWA team, the sacred Taíno traditions of canoes from Dr. Darlene Flores, & reflections from Toodie Coombs of the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe. The paddle starts from the Newton Historic Boathouse. This event is rain or shine. This stretch of the Charles has very calm waters. Canoes will be provided with life jackets, unless you have your own. Lifejackets required for all participants. Under 16 requires adult supervision at all times. All skill levels are welcome. Experienced paddlers will be in each vessel. Wear comfortable clothes that can get wet & wear sunscreen. This experience will last about 4 hours.

    For non-Native participants, we suggest a $100 donation for adults & a $25 donation for youth under 16. There is also a pay what you can option. Space is limited so sign up today. All proceeds will support IPD Newton’s 2024 Indigenous Peoples Day Ceremonial Celebration.

    Please contact Hartman Deetz at hartman.deetz429@gmail.com with any questions or concerns.

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  • Saturday, September 25, 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm – Garden for Boston Harvest Celebration

    Saturday, September 25, 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm – Garden for Boston Harvest Celebration

    Celebrate the closing of “Garden for Boston,” the Museum of Fine Arts Boston’s first living, growing exhibition, outside on the Museum’s Huntington Avenue lawn. Ann and Graham Gund Director Matthew Teitelbaum shares thoughts on the two installations comprising the exhibition, Radiant Community by Ekua Holmes (African American) and Raven Reshapes Boston: A Native Corn Garden at the MFA by Elizabeth James-Perry (Aquinnah Wampanoag). Then the artists and their collaborators discuss their respective works and the big ideas behind them.

    This event is free. Tickets for general admission and to see “Monet and Boston: Legacy Illuminated” on the 25th are available now—buy yours today.

  • Thursday, July 9, 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm – The Planters of Patuxet and Plimoth, Online

    When the Pilgrims stepped onto the windswept shores of Cape Cod Bay in the cold and forbidding December of 1620, they encountered a landscape that bore the traces of 12,000 years of native settlement. They traveled across the outer Cape on well-worn paths that were etched indelibly into the sandy landscape. At clearings in the thick woodland, they discovered fields and gardens, covered with the stubble of the recent harvest. Near one of these fields, they dug into storage pits and took away the corn that they found there. This was the homeland of the Wampanoag people. Later that Spring, after settling at Patuxet (Plymouth), Squanto approached the Pilgrims and began to share with them knowledge of both the plants and the planting practices that had provided successful gardens for hundreds of years. How did the English incorporate Wampanoag practices into their own farming tradition, and in the end, what was the result? And, in turn, what English tools, technologies, and seeds were sought by the Wampanoag and how did that affect their traditional farming practices?

    Plimoth Patuxet will hold an online Cocktails & Conversations session on July 9 at 7 pm on this topic, and you may sign up (members $5, nonmembers $10) at www.plimoth.org. For more information email ccoleman@plimoth.org

  • Wednesday, March 8, 10:00 am – How the Glaciers Affected New England’s Plants

    Wednesday, March 8, 10:00 am – How the Glaciers Affected New England’s Plants

    Today, Massachusetts is a network of houses, businesses, farms, forests, and wetlands—but how did it get to be that way? What did it look like when the Laurentide Glaciers melted 12,000 years ago? How did a state that was only 25 percent forest by 1850 come to be 64 percent forested today? As part of our ongoing series The Prehistoric Garden, The Garden Club of the Back Bay welcomes Meg Muckenhoupt to our March meeting on Wednesday, March 8 at 10 am at The College Club, 44 Commonwealth Avenue. This broad overview traces how and why the land has changed and what people thought about it—from Wampanoag King Philip to Frederick Law Olmsted to Governor Charlie Baker.

    Our speaker Meg Muckenhoupt is an environmental and travel writer. She has appeared on NPR’s Radio Boston and WCVB’s Chronicle, as well as WGBH’s Forum site. Her work has been featured in the Boston Globe, the Boston Phoenix, Boston Magazine, and the Time Out Boston guide; her book Boston Gardens and Green Spaces (Union Park Press, 2010) is a Boston Globe Local Bestseller. She currently serves as Executive Director of Community Outreach Group for Landscape Design (COGdesign).

    Meg was awarded a certificate in Field Botany by the New England Wild Flower Society and earned degrees from Harvard and Brown University. She lives in Lexington, Massachusetts. Garden Club members will receive notice of the meeting. If you are not a member but are interested in attending, please email info@bostonflora.com. Image from bostongeology.com.

  • Thursday, August 15 – Saturday, August 17 – Boston GreenFest

    Boston GreenFest is organized by the Foundation for a Green Future, Inc. As the region’s largest multicultural environmental festival, Boston GreenFest celebrates the many ways we can create a better world by greening our lives and our communities. Turn your world around and have fun at the same time! Free admission at Boston City Hall Plaza at Government Center. Bring your own reuseable water bottle to Boston GreenFest. To help raise awareness about the wastefulness of plastic water bottles, Boston GreenFest will provide free drinking water to everyone. MWRA will help us provide fresh cold water for all festival goers using a special portable water fountain. The Foundation for a Green Future, Inc. is dedicated to ensuring a green future for our planet and is proud to host this event. We teach, support and model sustainable ways to live for ourselves and our children. Green roofs are an important part of the solution. This festival will go beyond our roofs. It will get to the core of GREEN SOLUTIONS for our entire Boston Community. Native American Drum & Dance Ceremony will launch Boston GreenFest 2013 on the Main Stage, Thursday, August 15th at 5 pm. Annawon Weeden will lead the ceremony with friends and family of Wampanoag and Narragansett heritage. The One Gallon ChallengeTM is a “race” to Boston GreenFest to see how long one gallon of gas will last. On display at City Hall Plaza will be a group of cars you’ve never seen before. For more information visit www.bostongreenfest.org.

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  • Saturday, August 1 – The Salad Days at Plimoth Plantation

    Plimoth Plantation kicks off a one month celebration of gardens. Whether visiting the Wampanoag Homesite, or the English Village this month, guests to Plimoth Plantation in Plymouth, Massachusetts will enjoy seeing and learning more about the beauty and functionality of the museum’s vegetable and kitchen gardens.  Ask the interpreters about what’s growing and their various planting methods. Discover how lush August gardens provided reliable sustenance to the Wampanoag and colonists.  For hours and directions, log on to www.plimoth.org.