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Mark Adams: “Evidence on the Land”

Screen Shot 2016-07-19 at 7.25.23 AMMark Adams:

Thoreau’s Truro Moment and More: Three Centuries of Observers at Cape Cod’s Wrist
July 20th 7 pm
Highland House Museum
Thoreau was the most trenchant of the travelers who cast their eyes on Truro in recorded history — but his time was not like the others. The Cape Cod landscape of 1850 was highly used and mostly harvested. Thoreau presaged the transition from a maritime extractive economy to a mix of coastal visitors funneled by the new rail roads.
This talk will trace the arc of landscapes on this narrow bend in Cape Cod’s delicate arm. The evidence is compressed in time into several periods that echo our perception of the Truro way of life we now enjoy.
An epoch of glaciers, two thousand years of hunter-gatherers, three hundred years of settlers and entrepreneurs, two decades under an Anthropocene cloud and all through it, nature going about her business as sure as the beat of waves against the shore.
Drawing on original words, images and maps we’ll try to put Thoreau’s sly anecdotes into the larger stop-motion newsreel of nature’s cycles.
Photo: Laura Shabott

Susan Howe Music & Speaker Series

We are very pleased and excited to announce the establishment of the Truro Historical Society’s Susan Howe Music & Speaker Series established in her honor due to the generosity of the Truro community, her family and her many friends and colleagues. In establishing this series, Susan’s commitment to Truro’s history and culture will live on and provide inspiration to all.

We will strive to develop and bring a program of inspiring authors, artists, historians, and musicians to the museum each season to share their knowledge and talent with the community and visitors to Truro.

Stay tuned for updates on this new inspiring series and thank you again for your support. If you would like to donate in Susan’s memory, please click on the link:  Donate to the Susan Howe Memorial Fund

Josephine and Edward Hopper in Truro – Video by Outer Cape TV

We are very pleased to announce that Lower Cape TV has released a short video about Josephine and Edward Hopper in Truro where Helen McNeil-Ashton, Vice President of Collections at the Truro Historical Society, describes the Hoppers’ relationship within themselves and with Truro. Here’s the link: Josephine and Edward Hopper in Truro

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