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SUMMARY:Ongoing - Great Hall Art Exhibit: All Our Relations – To Honor the Wampanoag Supreme Sachem Pometacomet on the 350th Anniversary of the Great Falls Massacre
DESCRIPTION:This exhibit in the Great Hall\, features work by Deborah Spears Moorehead\, Seaconke Pokanoket Wampanoag\, and Robert Peters\, Mashpee Wampanoag\, focusing on pre-colonization\, the 350th Anniversary of Metacomet’s (King Philip’s) War and the Great Falls Massacre of 1676. Learn about Indigenous history and their continued presence here and throughout the Northeast. Sponsored by Friends of the Center\, the Nolumbeka Project\, and funded by the Montague Cultural Council. a local agency supported by the Mass Cultural Council. For all ages. Accessible during open hours.
URL:https://greatfallsdiscoverycenter.org/calendar/great-hall-exhibit-great-hall-art-exhibit-all-our-relations-to-honor-the-wampanoag-supreme-sachem-pometacomet-on-the-350th-anniversary-of-the-great-falls-massacre/
LOCATION:Great Falls Discovery Center\, 2 Avenue A\, Turners Falls\, MA\, 01376\, United States
CATEGORIES:Art,Culture,History
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260501T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260501T173000
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SUMMARY:First Friday: Turners Falls Tenement Tour
DESCRIPTION:Discover how tenements tested every aspect of the town\, from sanitation to wages. On this May Day tour\, learn about the storekeepers and laborers who made this planned industrial community. Meet DCR staff outside the Great Hall for a 1.5-mile guided walk through downtown Turners Falls. Ages 8 and up.
URL:https://greatfallsdiscoverycenter.org/calendar/first-friday-turners-falls-tenement-tour-5/
LOCATION:Great Falls Discovery Center\, 2 Avenue A\, Turners Falls\, MA\, 01376\, United States
CATEGORIES:Culture,History,Walk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260506T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260506T203000
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SUMMARY:Historic Boston Virtual Event: What Really Happened at Turners Falls? The Story of a Massacre
DESCRIPTION:https://www.eventbrite.com/e/what-really-happened-at-turners-falls-the-story-of-a-massacre-tickets-1980596687007?aff=oddtdtcreator \nOverview\n\n\n\n\nCaptain Turner’s forces killed 300 Native people and his monument proclaimed victory. What really happened? Join this deeply informed panel. \n\n\n\n\nThis monument to Captain William Turner sums up an old and perhaps familiar telling of history. We have a colonial hero\, later slain in battle. Small but mighty colonial forces overcome the odds. Apparently passive “Indians” are taken by surprise. Nameless Native people are “destroyed.” \nHow accurate is this picture of history? Not very\, according to this unique panel discussion led by David Brule of the Nolumbeka Project\, with archaeologist David Naumec and Liz ColdWind Santana Kiser\, tribal historic preservation officer of the Chaubunagungamaug Band of Nipmuck Indians. All three panelists were at the heart of a remarkable 13-year\, National Park Service-funded project investigating the true story of the Turners Falls massacre. David Brule chaired the project from its inception in 2013. \nSince the 1670s most historians have told the story of Turners Falls/Peskeompskut as a remarkable\, heroic colonial victory. With the findings from this investigation\, as our panel shows\, we now know the story is far more nuanced. \nThree hundred and fifty years ago on May 19\, 1676\, William Turner’s colonial forces attacked a camp of Native elders\, women and children – noncombatants who had taken refuge after fleeing fighting in the south – and slaughtered hundreds. A Native coalition counterattacked the following day in an underreported decisive Indigenous victory. But what remains in memory is the Turners Falls massacre\, one of the worst atrocities in a war of atrocity. \nThis panel discussion will reveal what really happened\, based on findings from battlefield terrain technologies and archaeology. The panelists will share Indigenous and archaeological/anthropological perspectives\, and discuss this unique study – an on-going collaborative investigation by battlefield experts\, local historical commissioners\, and tribal historic preservation officers from the Nipmuck community\, as well as from the Aquinnah Wampanoag\, the Elnu Abenaki\, and the Narragansett tribal historic preservation office. \nThis new historical perspective is crucial to Indigenous communities in revealing the truth about the past\, contributing to healing that place\, addressing certain multi-generational trauma\, and\, in a small way\, beginning to help heal Northeastern tribal descendants. \nDavid Brule has been project coordinator for the study of the Battle of Great Falls/ Wissatinnewag-Peskeompskut May 19\, 1676 funded by the National Park Service American Battlefield Protection Program from its inception in 2013 to publication of its final report in 2025. He is also president of the Nolumbeka Project\, a tribal non-profit organization that promotes education and awareness of Indigenous histories and cultures of the middle Connecticut River Valley and beyond. He is a featured speaker in numerous educational programs and presentations throughout the Connecticut River Valley. \nDavid is the author of several books comprising his series on regional history\, local culture\, and the natural world: West Along the River. He serves as chairman of the Nehantic Tribal Council and the Nehantic Nation Cultural Conservancy. \nDavid Naumec is a historian\, archaeologist\, and museum consultant who is collaborating with several Connecticut institutions to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the American Revolution while also serving as an adjunct history professor and working in the field of cultural resource management. Dr. Naumec is a graduate of UConn Storrs\, holds a master’s degree in history and museum studies from Tufts University\, and completed his doctorate in early American history at Clark University. His professional and personal research interests include Native American history\, colonial North America\, the history of Connecticut\, and conflict archaeology. Dr. Naumec was co-investigator with Dr. Kevin McBride of the University of Connecticut for the Battle of Great Falls/Peskeompskut NPS-funded project from 2018-2025\, where he served as military historian and battlefield archaeologist. \nLiz Cold Wind Santana-Kiser is an elder\, council woman and tribal historic preservation officer for the Chaubunagungamaug Band of Nipmuck Indians. She is married with six children\, and many grandchildren. For more than five decades\, she has worked at the forefront of improving the health and wellbeing of Indigenous People. \nShe founded the Nipmuck Women’s Health Coalition\, a disease-prevention and health promotion coalition to support Nipmuck and other tribes throughout New England. Liz has also collaborated with the University of Massachusetts Medical School to coordinate the first major conferences on health disparities affecting Nipmuck peoples. She also worked with the Great Brook Valley Health Center in Worcester\, Massachusetts\, and co-founded the Nipmuc Family Dental Clinic. \nLiz currently serves on the 1676 Battle of Great Falls Advisory Board in Turners Falls\, Mass.\, Harvard Alumni Committee on Developing Educational Module on Ethics in Public Health\, the Stolen Relations Project on Indigenous slavery at Brown University\, Worcester Arts Museum community and cultural groups for reinstallation of American art galleries. \nShe has earned many prestigious awards including the prized Eagle Feather for her years of work and dedication to the revitalization and wellbeing of indigenous Nipmuc people and beyond.
URL:https://greatfallsdiscoverycenter.org/calendar/historic-boston-virtual-event-what-really-happened-at-turners-falls-the-story-of-a-massacre/
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:History,Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260507T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260507T140000
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SUMMARY:Nice and Easy Walk
DESCRIPTION:Easy-paced\, 1- to 2-mile guided walk\, along the Canalside Rail Trail or downtown Turners Falls\, geared for older adults\, but open to all. Enjoy some natural and local history along the way. Dress for the weather with sturdy footwear and bring water. Inclement weather cancels. Meet at the main entrance.
URL:https://greatfallsdiscoverycenter.org/calendar/nice-and-easy-walks-16/
LOCATION:Great Falls Discovery Center\, 2 Avenue A\, Turners Falls\, MA\, 01376\, United States
CATEGORIES:Culture,Geology,History,Nature,Science,Walk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260509T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260509T110000
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SUMMARY:Battlefield History Walking Tour with David Brule
DESCRIPTION:May 19th marks the 350th anniversary of the massacre at Peskeompskut. Join David Brule\, local historian and coordinator of the Battlefield Advisory Committee (a National Park Service American Battlefield Protection Program (ABPP)-funded study)\, to learn about this attack and its significance within the King Philip’s War. This program will take place along the bike path where new interpretive panels (going up this month) detail the findings of the Battle of Great Falls/Wissantinnewag-Peskeompskut study. David will provide further context and develop more on the stories highlighted in the panels. \nWe will meet outside the Great Falls Discovery Center at 10am to walk to the panels as a group. Registration is not required\, but is encouraged for planning purposes.
URL:https://greatfallsdiscoverycenter.org/calendar/battlefield-history-walking-tour-with-david-brule-3/
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:Culture,History,Talk,Walk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260514T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260514T140000
DTSTAMP:20260603T193328
CREATED:20260425T145744Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260426T150843Z
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SUMMARY:Nice and Easy Walk
DESCRIPTION:Easy-paced\, 1- to 2-mile guided walk\, along the Canalside Rail Trail or downtown Turners Falls\, geared for older adults\, but open to all. Enjoy some natural and local history along the way. Dress for the weather with sturdy footwear and bring water. Inclement weather cancels. Meet at the main entrance.
URL:https://greatfallsdiscoverycenter.org/calendar/nice-and-easy-walk-50/
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:Culture,Geology,History,Nature,Science,Walk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260516T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260516T123000
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SUMMARY:Artist Reception: All Our Relations - To Honor the Wampanoag Supreme Sachem Pometacomet on the 350th Anniversary of the Great Falls Massacre
DESCRIPTION:Enjoy conversation and coffee with Wampanoag artists Deborah Spears Moorehead and Robert Peters in the Great Hall to view and learn more about their shared exhibit. Sponsored by Friends of the Great Falls Discovery Center\, the Nolumbeka Project\, and funded by the Montague Cultural Council. a local agency supported by the Mass Cultural Council\, a state agency. For all ages.
URL:https://greatfallsdiscoverycenter.org/calendar/artist-reception-all-our-relations-to-honor-the-wampanoag-supreme-sachem-pometacomet-on-the-350th-anniversary-of-the-great-falls-massacre/
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:Art,Culture,History
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260516T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260516T153000
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SUMMARY:The Nolumbeka Project Presents: Day of Remembrance
DESCRIPTION:A commemoration of the Great Falls Massacre\, May 19\, 1676\, and Metacom’s Resistance (aka King Philip’s War) 350 Years Ago\, 1676-2026. Tribal members and non-Tribal public are welcome. Honored presenters include: Eastern Medicine Singers\, Strong Eagle ‘Many Feathers’ Daly\, Liz Coldwind Santana-Kiser\, Roger Longtoe Sheehan\, Dr. Margaret M. Bruchac\, Martín Espada\, Deborah Spears Moorehead\, Robert Peters\, Jose ‘Ite’ Santana\, Diane Travis\, Pat Allen\, Carol Letson\, and David Brule. For more information visit nolumbekaproject.org. Free and open to all. Held rain or shine.
URL:https://greatfallsdiscoverycenter.org/calendar/the-nolumbeka-project-presents-day-of-remembrance/
LOCATION:Great Falls Discovery Center\, 2 Avenue A\, Turners Falls\, MA\, 01376\, United States
CATEGORIES:Culture,History,Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260521T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260521T140000
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CREATED:20260425T214058Z
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SUMMARY:Nice and Easy Walk
DESCRIPTION:Easy-paced\, 1- to 2-mile guided walk\, along the Canalside Rail Trail or downtown Turners Falls\, geared for older adults\, but open to all. Enjoy some natural and local history along the way. Dress for the weather with sturdy footwear and bring water. Inclement weather cancels. Meet at the main entrance. Note: there is no walk on April 16.
URL:https://greatfallsdiscoverycenter.org/calendar/nice-and-easy-walks-17/
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:Culture,Geology,History,Music,Stewardship,Walk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260523T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260523T130000
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CREATED:20260425T214227Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260426T161459Z
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SUMMARY:Find Us at the Farmers Market!
DESCRIPTION:Join DCR staff for family activities at the Great Falls Farmers Market\, located between 6th and 7th streets along Avenue A at Peskeompskut Park. For all ages.
URL:https://greatfallsdiscoverycenter.org/calendar/find-us-at-the-farmers-market-14/
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:Geology,History,Nature,Science
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260528T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260528T140000
DTSTAMP:20260603T193328
CREATED:20260503T202734Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260503T204238Z
UID:6053-1779973200-1779976800@greatfallsdiscoverycenter.org
SUMMARY:Nice and Easy Walk
DESCRIPTION:Easy-paced\, 1- to 2-mile guided walk\, along the Canalside Rail Trail or downtown Turners Falls\, geared for older adults\, but open to all. Enjoy some natural and local history along the way. Dress for the weather with sturdy footwear and bring water. Inclement weather cancels. Meet at the main entrance.
URL:https://greatfallsdiscoverycenter.org/calendar/nice-and-easy-walk-52/
LOCATION:Great Falls Discovery Center\, 2 Avenue A\, Turners Falls\, MA\, 01376\, United States
CATEGORIES:Culture,Geology,History,Nature,Stewardship,Walk
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