Museum of the White Mountains
34 Highland Street, Plymouth, NH
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.
Museum of the White Mountains
34 Highland Street, Plymouth, NH
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 [...]
Museum of the White Mountains
34 Highland Street, Plymouth, NH
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, [...]
Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest
234 Mirror Lake Road, North Woodstock, NH
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 [...]
Museum of the White Mountains
34 Highland Street, Plymouth, NH
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]