Program for November 28, 2021
Nauset Fellowship will share the film “Journeys in the Light: Untold Stories of Cape Cod” hosted by John Reed, Executive Director of the Zion Union Heritage Museum.
The film, by Janet Murphy Robinson, celebrates the museum and the museum celebrates the proud history of African-American, Cape Verdeans and Wampanoag people on Cape Cod, as well as groups that arrived here more recently from Brazil and the Caribbean.
The Museum features the series of Civil Rights icons of Pamela Chatterton-Purdy; artwork and poetry of Robin Joyce Miller and James Miller; and the work of celebrated Cape artist Carl Lopes, among the exhibits on display at the museum.
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John Reed’s Biography:
John is from Boston and arrived on Cape Cod in 1973. He taught at Barnstable High School from 1973 to 2015 and is remembered fondly by his many students over the decades. He is currently President of the NAACP; served as Chair of the Barnstable County Human Rights Commission; as Vice President of the NEAC of NAACP; is Treasurer of the Yarmouth Housing Authority; and presides as Director of the Zion Union Heritage Museum at 276 North Street, Hyannis.
These words are on the cover of the dvd: “Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that.” – the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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traditionally biased—display commemorating the Mayflower’s arrival with a groundbreaking new and permanent exhibit. Our Story: The Complicated Relationship of the Indigenous Wampanoag and the Mayflower Pilgrims was built in partnership with SmokeSygnals, a leading Native American creative agency. K. David Weidner will talk about the Museum’s intentions in commissioning noted Wampanoag historians to tell the history of the Indigenous people on Cape Cod, up to and including the arrival of Mayflower. Yes, the new exhibit is interactive, modern, technological, but—for the Museum’s trustees—most importantly, it is honest and accurate.
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culture of Cape Cod and the Islands, highlighting maritime history, art, and marine science. Mary Everett-Patriquin’s presentation explores one of the museum’s newest exhibits, “Quest for Cod: Two Hundred Years of Fishing in Provincetown.” Learn about the port’s rise during the boom years in the Age of Sail, from the nineteenth to mid-twentieth centuries; the development of new fishing boats and technologies in the 1960s; and some of the factors in fishing’s decline in recent decades.
home here in 1994. She moved to Eastham about 10 years ago after retiring from the US Public Health Service where she spent 20 years as a medical officer and disease detective with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta. Dr. Buffington serves on multiple Town Committees, including the Board of Health, Open Space, and Strategic Planning Committees and is a dedicated volunteer for protection of the environment and wildlife, through work with Mass Audubon’s Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary and the Eastham Conservation Foundation (ECF).
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virtual open space safari to discover HCT’s proactive land-saving projects, innovative eco-restoration initiatives, and engaging guided walks exploring local conservation lands.
known as a “widow and last of her tribe” in this vicinity. She is a mysterious figure in Wellfleet’s history. Her step-mother-in-law was Patience Gibbs, a Negro woman born in Yarmouth, who lived on Patience Brook. Drusilla Cole Laha was a white woman who was a member of the Congregational church along with Patience. All three women were known as healers of the sick. Women and people of color often have not left us with much historical record. Their lives were often not recorded with diligence, but are worth examination. Sheryl Jaffe’s talk will focus on these women and the story of Delilah’s land.