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New-England’s Rarities Discovered: A 17th-Century Native Plants Garden at the Handy House

This summer, artists Merri Cyr and Tina Tryforos created a 17th-century perennial garden at the Handy House, inspired by New-England’s Rarities Discovered in Birds, Beasts, Fishes, Serpents, and Plants of that Country (1671) by early colonial visitor John Josselyn. Guided by Josselyn’s vivid descriptions, we focused on plants used

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In Search of a New Land

Interview and portraits by Merri Cyr           Edited and written by Paula Gauthier Award-winning playwright Samuel Harps presented a public reading of his new work-in-progress, Paul Cuffe: In Search of a New Land, to a packed house at the

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It’s a DA DA World, Again

Dada was an art movement formed during the First World War in Zurich in negative reaction to the horrors and folly of the war. The art, poetry and performance produced by dada artists is often satirical and nonsensical in nature

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A Celebratory Bell Ringing

The bell at the Bell School House has been repaired with a donation from Al Lees with a dedication to his 96 year old mother, Florence.