2015 Highland House Event List

Philip Hoare: The Sea Inside
May 15, 7pm Truro Community Center

Open House & Living Legacy Reception
June 5, 4-1pm

Swing Dance Party!
June 19, 7:30pm

Living Legacy Celebration
June 24, 7pm

The Cape Cod Sax Quartet
July 6, 7:30pm

Right Whales with Stormy Mayo
July 8, 7pm

Draggers, Trawlers & Traps Reception
July 10, 4-6pm

Changing Landscape of the Outer Cape: Mark Adams
July 15, 7pm

Bootlegger’s Ball with Zoe Lewis
July 16, 7:30pm

White Sharks in the North Atlantic: Cynthia Wigren
July 22, 7pm

Singalong with Jon & James
July 27, 7pm

The Last Patrol: Sebastian Junger
July 29, 7:30pm (Payomet Tent)

Chev Hardy Sings Ballads
August 3, 7:30pm

Truro Historical Society Annual Dinner
August 8, 6pm

Bruce Abbott & Fred Fried Jazz Combo
August 10, 7:30pm

A Truro Traveler: Linnet Hultin
August 12, 7pm

Kathryn Miles: Aftermath of Superstorm Sandy
August 19, 7pm

Outer Cape Chorale Chamber Singers
August 26, 7pm

Pilgrim Walk with Robin Robertson
August 28, 10am – noon

Bob Masson’s Cemetery Tour
September 13, 12:45 – 3pm

Highland House Photographers’ Day
September 20

Highland House Dance Party
September 30, 7:30pm

The Cobb Archive houses maps, charts, books, photographs, family memorabilia, and other historical documents. This 1912 building was designed in the Arts and Craft style and originally served as the town’s first public library. Located in Truro Center, the Cobb Archive is accessible to the public for research.
Open by appointment, Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays, 9:30 AM-12 PM
13 Truro Center Road
508-349-0200
To schedule an appointment, send an email to [email protected].

A joint project of the Truro Historical Commission and the Truro Historical Society, this guidebook was created to commemorate the 400th anniversary of the landing of the Mayflower in Cape Cod Bay in 1620 and is an update of the 1984 guide that celebrated the 275th anniversary of the founding of Truro.

Click here to download the guidebook: Historic Truro Tours

This program was supported in part by a grant from the Truro Cultural Council, a local agency that is supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency. Funding for printing was also provided by the Truro Chamber of Commerce, Truro Part-Time Resident Taxpayers’ Association, and Truro Vineyards of Cape Cod. Chuck Steinman, Editor and Graphic Design, Truro Historical Commission.

Our Support for Racial Justice

The Truro Historical Society (THS) supports the peaceful Black Lives Matter movement for racial justice that is taking place in the United States and around the world. “Liberty and justice for all” means justice for Black and Indigenous populations, and for all people of color.

Museums and archives are not neutral spaces. Because we interpret history, we have the responsibility of presenting the past as fully and accurately as possible, including painful and uncomfortable aspects. The past feeds into the present, and when a community actively engages with its past, it can use its understanding to make a better society.

Truro was founded on land that had been inhabited by Native People for thousands of years, but these people were displaced by English settlers. There were enslaved people and indentured laborers enduring near-slavery conditions in Truro. In 1754, the town’s first minister, Reverend John Avery, bequeathed to his children three African-American enslaved men and “my Indian Girl Sarah.”

After reflecting on the “settler privilege” that most of us enjoy, the THS decided in late 2019 to mark the 400^thanniversary of the Pilgrims’ arrival with a decolonial exhibition celebrating Truro’s first inhabitants, the Wampanoag Nation, from its origins to today. During the postponement caused by the coronavirus, the THS will continue to consult with Indigenous scholars and community members. We will increase our commitment to diversity and inclusion. As a token of our commitment, the THS wishes to share the Land Acknowledgment we have prepared in consultation with members of the Wampanoag Nation. This statement will stand at the entrance to the Highland House Museum’s permanent exhibition about the Paomet and the Wampanoag peoples.

Land Acknowledgment

The Highland House Museum stands on the traditional homeland of the Paomet Tribe, members of the Wampanoag Nation, who have inhabited Cape Cod for more than 12,000 years and who knew this part of Truro as Tashmuit. The Truro Historical Society acknowledges the displacement, suffering, and forced assimilation of the Wampanoag and other Native Peoples caused by European contact and colonization. We honor the struggles of the Wampanoag, People of the First Light, and support their resilience, and we ask museum visitors to reflect on our shared responsibility to maintain social justice.

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