Presented as part of our 2023 An Enduring Presence: The Old Man of the Mountain Event Series. This event is supported by a grant from New Hampshire Humanities Community Project Grants. In Franconia Notch, the imposing Cannon Cliff looms over a massive heap of rock debris, ranging from pebbles to boulders, creating the largest talus [...]
Presented as part of our 2023 An Enduring Presence: The Old Man of the Mountain Event Series. This project was made possible with support from New Hampshire Humanities, in partnership with the National Endowment for the Humanities. Learn more at www.nhhumanities.org. Despite his fall in 2003, the Old Man of the Mountain remains the symbol [...]
Presented as part of our 2023 An Enduring Presence: The Old Man of the Mountain Event Series. This project was made possible with support from New Hampshire Humanities, in partnership with the National Endowment for the Humanities. Learn more at www.nhhumanities.org. In May 2003, the Old Man of The Mountain collapsed into Franconia Notch ending [...]
Presented as part of our 2023 An Enduring Presence: The Old Man of the Mountain Event Series. This project was made possible with support from New Hampshire Humanities, in partnership with the National Endowment for the Humanities. Learn more at www.nhhumanities.org. The Old Man of the Mountain became the state’s official emblem in 1945. Moreover, [...]
Presented as part of our 2023 An Enduring Presence: The Old Man of the Mountain Series. This project was made possible with support from New Hampshire Humanities, in partnership with the National Endowment for the Humanities. Learn more at www.nhhumanities.org. Twenty years ago this spring, the iconic 200 million year old "Old Man of the [...]
The Museum of the White Mountains will be closed Saturday, September 2nd in observance of the Labor Day holiday.
Presented as part of our 2023 An Enduring Presence: The Old Man of the Mountain Event Series. This project was made possible with support from New Hampshire Humanities, in partnership with the National Endowment for the Humanities. Learn more at www.nhhumanities.org. Join host Midge Goldberg along with Liz Ahl, Melanie Chicoine, Robert W. Crawford, Gordon [...]
Museum of the White Mountains will be closed while we install “Extending Ecology: Meaning Making with the White Mountains.”
We are living in a time of profound social, ecological and technological change. Each day in the modern world, market-driven media, algorithms and now artificial intelligence are gradually diminishing our evolved capacities to sense, relate to, and make meaning with nature. Extending Ecology: Making Meaning with the White Mountains is the latest outcome of an ongoing collaboration [...]
Walking Backwards is an improvisational, wyrd, collaborative Becoming by multidisciplinary artists Michelle Erard and Niki Tulk. Walking Backwards listens to the imaginal and plays conduit to the Anima Mundi, creating live in-the-moment improvised performance with movement, sound, and language. Conspiring with faeries and engineers, Walking Backwards evokes ecosystems of energy, time, action, stillness, words, storytelling, [...]