MWM Closed for Exhibition Install
Museum of the White Mountains 34 Highland Street, Plymouth, NHThe Museum of the White Mountains will be closed while we install "Of Baskets and Borers."
The Museum of the White Mountains will be closed while we install "Of Baskets and Borers."
Staff from the Hubbard Brook Research Foundation will offer a tour on May 21, which will touch upon their long-term data collection, acid rain, watersheds, and forest ecosystem science. The visit is typically 2–3 hours and involves a 1.3 mile walking tour through part of the 7,800 acre experimental forest. Tour stops include atmospheric monitoring [...]
We welcome you to attend the opening reception for "Of Baskets & Borers: The Past, Present, and Future of Indigenous Basketry in the White Mountains" on Friday, May 31, 4:00-6:00pm. There will be opening remarks from our Director, Meghan Doherty, and light refreshments will be provided.
Who do you call when you have a collections question? Who do go to if your storage space floods? Are there people in your community or other communities in the North Country and Lakes Region that are dealing with the same questions and concerns you have? The Know Your Neighbor Summit will bring together cultural heritage [...]
The Museum of the White Mountains will be closed on Wednesday, June 19 in observance of Juneteenth.
White ash (Fraxinus americana) will inevitably be almost non-existent in New Hampshire because of the invasive emerald ash borer (Agrilus planipennis). We are studying the role white ash plays in the ecosystem before it is functionally extinct to understand how the loss of this species will affect the forest. By comparing the soils, understory vegetation, [...]
Is one tree as good as another? In the next few years, thousands and thousands of ash trees will die in the White Mountains due to the invasive pest, emerald ash borer. Sadly, ash is destined for rapid functional extinction from our forests, but their spots in the forest will quickly be filled by other [...]
In this lecture, Daniel will be guiding the audience through a brief review of W8banaki Nation history and W8banakiak’s ancestral territory: Ndakina. He will also explore the Saint-Francis Indian mission (Odanak) through archeology and will also present information on Black Ash. Daniel G. Nolett is Abenaki and a Band member of the Odanak First nation [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]