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SUMMARY:Smithsonian Exhibit - Crossroads: Change in Rural America
DESCRIPTION:In 1900\, about 40% of Americans lived in rural areas. By 2010\, less than 18% of the U.S. population lived in rural areas. Massive economic and social changes led to massive growth of America’s cities. Through a partnership with the world’s largest museum complex\, the Friends of the Great Falls Discovery Center proudly hosts “Crossroads: Changes in Rural America\,” a traveling exhibit produced by the Smithsonian Institution’s Museum on Main Street program in partnership with Mass Humanities. The exhibition offers small towns a chance to look at their own paths to highlight the changes that affected their fortunes over the past century. Includes local exhibits on Franklin County\, the most rural mainland county in Massachusetts – with Crossroads related programming venues throughout the county. Support for Museum on Main Street has been provided by the United States Congress.  \nCrossroads will be on display in the Great Hall of the Great Falls Discovery Center during open hours Feb. 5 – March 18\, in collaboration with the Friends of the Great Falls Discovery Center\, the Department of Conservation and Recreation\, the town of Montague’s RiverCulture\, the Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association\, Montague Public Libraries\, and New England Public Media. Open hours in February and March are: Tuesdays 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Wednesdays through Sundays\, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. \nCrossroads: Change in Rural America has been made possible in Turners Falls\, MA at the Great Falls Discovery Center by Mass Humanities. The exhibition is part of Museum on Main Street\, a collaboration between the Smithsonian Institution and State Humanities Councils nationwide. Support for Museum on Main Street has been provided by the United States Congress.\n 
URL:https://greatfallsdiscoverycenter.org/calendar/smithsonian-exhibit-crossroads-change-in-rural-america/
LOCATION:Great Falls Discovery Center\, 2 Avenue A\, Turners Falls\, MA\, 01376\, United States
CATEGORIES:Art,crossroads
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SUMMARY:Crossroads Exhibit: Changing Storefronts in Turners Falls
DESCRIPTION:See the village’s ever changing downtown through reproduced images courtesy of the Montague Historical Society Archive. This self-guided storefront exhibition is an open invitation to think about local\, regional and national changes in “doing business” in rural America. At participating restaurant and retail stores in downtown Turners Falls including: LOOT\, Breakdown Records\, The Shea Theater\, The Rendezvous\, Responsive Classrooms\, Buckingham Rabbits Vintage\, The Five Eyed Fox\, LOOT\, Swanson’s Fabrics\, Turners Falls Pizza\, Great Falls Harvest\, Upper Bend\, and Rist Insurance.\n\n“Crossroads: Change in Rural America” will be on view at the Great Falls Discovery Center\, 2 Avenue A in Turners Falls from February 5 to March 18\, 2023. The exhibition is part of Museum on Main Street\, a collaboration between the Smithsonian Institution and Mass Humanities. Support for Museum on Main Street has been provided by the United States Congress.\n\n“Crossroads: Change in Rural America” is a collaboration between Department of Conservation and Recreation\, RiverCulture\, Friends of the Great Falls Discovery Center\, the Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association\, Montague Public Libraries\, and New England Public Media.
URL:https://greatfallsdiscoverycenter.org/calendar/crossroads-exhibit-changing-storefronts-in-turners-falls/
LOCATION:Downtown Turners Falls\, Avenue A\, Turners Falls\, MA\, 01376\, United States
CATEGORIES:Art,crossroads,History
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SUMMARY:Crossroads Exhibit: Montague At Work and Play
DESCRIPTION:Exhibition of Illustrations by Nina Rossi. This exhibition of digital illustrations was originally published in the Montague Reporter between 2019 and 2022. Created by local artist and Turners Falls resident Nina Rossi\, the illustrations depict scenes of local daily life. Reception Sunday\, February 19 at 4pm.\n“Crossroads: Change in Rural America” will be on view at the Great Falls Discovery Center\, 2 Avenue A in Turners Falls from February 5 to March 18\, 2023. The exhibition is part of Museum on Main Street\, a collaboration between the Smithsonian Institution and Mass Humanities. Support for Museum on Main Street has been provided by the United States Congress.\n“Crossroads: Change in Rural America” is a collaboration between the Department of Conservation and Recreation\, RiverCulture\, the Friends of the Great Falls Discovery Center\, the Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association\, Montague Public Libraries\, and New England Public Media.
URL:https://greatfallsdiscoverycenter.org/calendar/crossroads-exhibit-montague-at-work-and-play/
LOCATION:Rendezvous\, 78 3rd Street\, Turners Falls\, MA\, 01376\, United States
CATEGORIES:Art,crossroads
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SUMMARY:Crossroads: Whose Viewpoint?  Exhibition of Historic Franklin County Images
DESCRIPTION:In the Great Falls Discovery Center’s Hallway Gallery\, near the dioramas\, the Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association (PVMA) presents reproductions of historic maps\, illustrations\, photographs\, and paintings exploring perspectives of the image makers. How are our rural places represented in the media? Maps\, illustrations\, photographs\, and paintings were the media of the past. Like today\, the makers of these images and documents had viewpoints—both visual and attitudinal—that carried influence. Whose perspectives are we seeing? Whose viewpoints are missing?\n\n“Crossroads: Change in Rural America” will be on view during open hours at the Great Falls Discovery Center\, 2 Avenue A in Turners Falls from February 5 to March 18\, 2023. The exhibition is part of Museum on Main Street\, a collaboration between the Smithsonian Institution and Mass Humanities. Support for Museum on Main Street has been provided by the United States Congress. Open hours in February and March are: Tuesdays 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Wednesdays through Sundays\, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.\n\n“Crossroads: Change in Rural America” is a collaboration between Department of Conservation and Recreation\, RiverCulture\, Friends of the Great Falls Discovery Center\, the Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association\, Montague Public Libraries\, and New England Public Media. See the full calendar of events at https://greatfallsdiscoverycenter.org/crossroads
URL:https://greatfallsdiscoverycenter.org/calendar/whose-viewpoint-exhibition-of-historic-franklin-county-images/
LOCATION:Great Falls Discovery Center\, 2 Avenue A\, Turners Falls\, MA\, 01376\, United States
CATEGORIES:Art,crossroads,History
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SUMMARY:Still on! NEPM presents a Crossroads Event - Native Memories: Recovering Pocumtuck Histories in Franklin County
DESCRIPTION:New England Public Media presents with the Nolumbeka Project\, a talk with Dr. Margaret M. Bruchac (Nulhegan Abenaki)\, Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania. Free Event. This program is continuing as planned at 4 p.m. at the Shea Theater.\n\nNative American memories and histories in the valley of the Kwinitekw (Connecticut River) are long and deep\, tracing back to glacial times and marked by many\, many generations. Native communities in the territories called Nonotuck (now Northampton and Hadley)\, and Pocumtuck (now Deerfield and Greenfield) were supported by reciprocal trade and diplomacy with their Native neighbors\, including Abenaki to the north and Nipmuc to the east\, among others. During the mid-1600s\, the English colonists who came here survived by relying on Native ecological knowledges – maize horticulture\, maple sugaring\, seasonal fish runs\, etc. – that became part of regional Yankee culture. Native leaders negotiated written documents that\, they hoped\, would preserve rights to hunt\, fish\, gather\, plant\, and live here in perpetuity. Yet\, the increase in colonial settlement and colonial warfare forced the Native communities along the Kwinitekw (Connecticut River) to relocate. Even so\, some Native families continued to travel familiar paths and waterways\, setting up camps\, marketing baskets and brooms\, and dispensing Native medicines. During the 1800s\, local historians across New England promoted the romantic stereotype of the “vanishing Indian\,” despite the evidence of Native persistence. Native histories in Franklin County can be better understood by critically analyzing colonial documents\, revisiting Indigenous landscapes\, and otherwise dismantling myths and stereotypes that push Native people\, then and now\, into the vanished past.\n\n\n“Crossroads: Change in Rural America” will be on view at the Great Falls Discovery Center\, 2 Avenue A in Turners Falls from February 5 to March 18\, 2023. The exhibition is part of Museum on Main Street\, a collaboration between the Smithsonian Institution and Mass Humanities. Support for Museum on Main Street has been provided by the United States Congress.\n\n\n“Crossroads: Change in Rural America” is a collaboration between the Department of Conservation and Recreation\, RiverCulture\, the Friends of the Discovery Center\, the Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association\, Montague Public Libraries\, and New England Public Media. See the full calendar of events at https://greatfallsdiscoverycenter.org/\nMORE INFO\nhttps://museumonmainstreet.org/content/crossroads\nhttps://nolumbekaproject.org/\nhttps://anthropology.sas.upenn.edu/people/margaret-bruchac\n\nhttps://www.nepm.org\nSee less
URL:https://greatfallsdiscoverycenter.org/calendar/crossroads-event-recovering-indigenous-histories-along-the-kwinitekw-connecticut-river/
LOCATION:Shea Theater Arts Center\, 71 Avenue A\, Turners Falls\, MA\, 01376\, United States
CATEGORIES:crossroads,History,Talk
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