Electrical Repairs Project Update
As many of you know, one major focus of the last two years here has been to address a wide variety of physical needs on site. In 2018, we began to survey the property in order to identify pressing preservation…
A Letter from the Director
To Our Community: This past week people around the world paid collective witness to brutality and violence rooted deep in the racism and oppression of our country’s past. It is a week when I believe many fellow historians are, like…
Notice from the Director
Dear Wistariahurst Community, Along with so many of our peers in this community and across the globe, Wistariahurst is taking our role as a heavily trafficked public site seriously and closely monitoring the situation. Despite having been in our off-season,…
Massachusetts Preservation Projects Fund Information Session
On February 4, 2020 Paul Holtz of the Massachusetts Historical Commission presented an in-depth workshop on how to utilize the Commonwealth's Preservation Projects Funding. Thanks to Holyoke Media, the workshop was recorded and is now available to those who were…
Black Holyoke Project: April Update
Erika Slocumb, Scholar, The Black Holyoke Project What is history? And who gets to tell it? What stories are validated? Why? Within traditional frameworks of educational systems and institutions, history is viewed as past events that have been thoroughly documented,…
Homespun: One Hundred Years of Textile Arts in Holyoke / Hilandería casera: Cien años de artes textiles en Holyoke
Fall of 2018, Wistariahurst Museum and ArteSana are coming together to present Homespun One Hundred Years of Textile Arts in Holyoke, an exhibition featuring textiles and fiber arts pieces from our region’s past and present. The exhibition pays homage to…
Our 2018 Summer Interns
AN IN-DEPTH LOOK AT WHAT OUR INTERNS HAVE BEEN UP TO THIS SUMMER This summer our interns, Antonio and Tessa, have been at our side developing various projects with personal twists. They worked on Visitor Services and Interpretation at Wistariahurst.…
Garden Greetings #3: Toi
Let’s dive back in to #GardenGreetings! In our third post of this summer’s blog series, we will be highlighting someone important to the garden team. She has been gardening religiously for 68 years. Her whole life has been centered around…
Garden Greetings #1: Joyce
Welcome to the first #GardenGreetings post. I’m Antonio, interning at Wistariahurst Museum, and throughout the year, I’ll be highlighting various gardeners that volunteer at Wistariahurst Gardens. The gardeners voluntarily work in the gardens every Tuesday and Friday through the Master…
Black Holyoke: Uncovering the History of the Black Community in the Paper City
With initial funding from Mass Humanities, scholar Erika Slocumb has embarked upon a project titled Black Holyoke: Uncovering the History of the Black Community in the Paper City. The purpose of this project is to uncover the stories of…