Restoring the Plants, Restoring the Practice with Paula Peters
Paula Peters will explore the deep relationship between environmental health, Indigenous knowledge, and cultural practice. Focusing on native materials such as bulrush and wampum, the talk will show how plants and shells are not simply resources, but living connections to land, water, craft, and identity. Peters will discuss how invasive species, development, and ecological imbalance threaten these traditions—and how restoration efforts to bring native plants back can help renew both the landscape and the cultural practices rooted within it.

Costumed members of this Revolutionary War reenactment group take on the roles of farmers, printers, and tailors who volunteered to defend Boston harbor after the siege of the city ended in 1776.

Michael Brahce is a stone carver who has been working with Karin Sprague Stone Carvers, located in North Scituate, Rhode Island, since 2022. He will be carving a slate gravestone using the traditional method of hand-held mallet and chisel. Michael will be demonstrating carving techniques similar to those which would have been used 250 years […]

Bark is to the Northeast Woodland tribes as bison is to the tribes of the Western Plains. Bark is the material traditionally used to make wigwams, canoes, harvesting and storage containers, even raincoats. There is a season to harvesting bark, just like there is a season to harvesting raspberries. Craftsperson Jennifer Lee will demonstrate sewing […]