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Books and Baskets: Following the Journeys of an Abenaki Language Book

Museum of the White Mountains 34 Highland Street, Plymouth, NH

This talk follows the travels of a language instruction book by the Abenaki leader Joseph Laurent, New Familiar Abenakis-English Dialogues. In the late nineteenth century, a copy of this book traveled with Laurent’s family from Abenaki homelands at Odanak, in what is currently Quebec, to Intervale, NH, where Abenaki families traveled in the summers to [...]

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Climate Science Talk with Climate Up Close

Museum of the White Mountains 34 Highland Street, Plymouth, NH

Climate Up Close is a group of climate scientists committed to making the essentials of climate science accessible to a broad audience. We address: Where is the boundary of climate knowledge? How has climate change impacted extreme weather? What does the future hold? Have we triggered a climate "tipping point"? In addressing these questions, we [...]

Barbara Smith Dearborn: A Retrospective Exhibition Closing Reception

SIlver Center for the Arts, Lobby Gallery 114 Main St, Plymouth, NH

We invite you to help us celebrate the life and work of Barbara Smith Dearborn through the closing reception of our exhibition. The auction will remain live and accepting bids until 4:00pm EST on August 8. There will be light refreshments served and brief remarks made by MWM and PSU staff.

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Monitoring and Managing Ash (MaMA) with Jonathan Rosenthal and Dr. Radka Wildova

Museum of the White Mountains 34 Highland Street, Plymouth, NH

We invite you to attend our lecture featuring the project Monitoring and Managing Ash (MaMA) with Jonathan Rosenthal and Dr. Radka Wildova. Monitoring and Managing Ash (MaMA) is a program developed and directed by the Ecological Research Institute (ERI). MaMA is a comprehensive framework providing steps to be undertaken at each stage of emerald ash borer (EAB) invasion, and even before [...]

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Monitoring and Managing Ash (MaMA) Tour at Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest

Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest 234 Mirror Lake Road, North Woodstock, NH

This tour will feature Jonathan Rosenthal and Dr. Radka Wildova. More details and information to come soon. Visitors must dress appropriately for walking in the woods the day of the visit. Sturdy walking/hiking shoes and trekking poles are highly recommended, and rain gear and warm hats may be needed if the weather is variable. There [...]

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“Throwaway Society”: Culture and Consumerism in Ed Rossbach’s Basketry

Museum of the White Mountains 34 Highland Street, Plymouth, NH

Indigenous basketry has long fascinated artists of all backgrounds. But how, if at all, can non-indigenous basketmakers engage these traditions ethically and respectfully? Researcher and fiber artist Ed Rossbach poses these questions in his written and creative works of the 1960s and ’70s. In his art, Rossbach draws on his extensive research into fiber art [...]

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The State of the Clean Energy Transition with Sam Evans-Brown

Museum of the White Mountains 34 Highland Street, Plymouth, NH

Americans are increasingly worried about climate change, and a narrative of hopelessness and helplessness has taken hold in certain segments of the population. This talk will be an antidote to those feelings of impotence. This has been a record-shattering year for the deployment of all sorts of clean energy technologies. We added a record-high of [...]

Basket Making Demonstration with Annette Nolett

Museum of the White Mountains 34 Highland Street, Plymouth, NH

Please join us for a basket making demonstration facilitated by Annette Nolett. This is an in-person event.

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