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The Birth of the Old Man: A Geologic Tale of the Mountains, Volcanoes, and Oceans

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

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 [...]

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MWM Closed

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

The Museum of the White Mountains will be closed Saturday, September 2nd in observance of the Labor Day holiday.

Hearing the Old Man: Poems of the Old Man of the Mountain

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

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 [...]

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Closed for Exhibit Install

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

Museum of the White Mountains will be closed while we install “Extending Ecology: Meaning Making with the White Mountains.”

Making Meaning with the White Mountains

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

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 [...]

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Walking Backwards

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

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, [...]

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Extending Ecology Opening Reception

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

Extending Ecology: Meaning Making with the White Mountains opening reception is Saturday, October 7, 5-7pm. In collaboration with this exhibition, there will also be a a performance in the gallery by Michelle Erard and Niki Tulk called Walking Backwards, from 4-5pm.

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Franconia Ridge Trail Restoration in a Historical Context: 200 years of Trail Making and Trail Tending in the White Mountains with Nat Scrimshaw

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

Franconia Ridge loop trails—Falling Waters Trail, Old Bridle Path, Franconia Ridge Trail (section Little Haystack to Lafayette), and Greenleaf Trail (section Lafayette to Greenleaf Hut)—are currently being restored thanks to nearly 1.5 million dollars in both federal funds and private donations. The “Partnership to Restore the Franconia Ridge Loop” includes the United State Forest Service, [...]

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Walking Backwards

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

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, [...]

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