Blue Hill Heritage Trust events are free and open to the public thanks to the generous support from community members. Thank You! For more information on becoming a supporter: CLICK HERE
2021 Event Details: BHHT is continuing to predominantly offer online events in 2021 due to covid 19.
Registration for online and in-person events may be required and will be noted in event descriptions. For more information please contact our office.(207)374-5118 info@bluehillheritagetrust.org
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Healing Begins with Truth: Understanding Colonization
Healing Begins with Truth: Understanding Colonization
June 5, 2021 @ 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Blue Hill Public Library and Blue Hill Heritage Trust will co-sponsor an online workshop from Wabanaki REACH, "Healing Begins with Truth: Understanding Colonization," on Saturday, June 5, from 2-4 PM. In this two-hour educational experience, participants explore the differences between the worldview and culture of Indigenous peoples and settlers (and their descendants). Using historical and present day examples, participants will examine the deliberate strategies of colonization and resulting impacts on Indigenous people, land, and culture, including the domination culture that maintains systemic racism and oppression. This program is intended to serve as a safe space for participants to join with peers and identify strategies to support healing in relation to each other and to the land. This workshop is free and open to the public, but space is limited, so advance registration is required. Participants can register by calling the library at 374-5515, or using the online calendar at:https://bhpl.libcal.com/event/7760204 This program is funded in part thanks to the generosity of the Friends of the Blue Hill Public Library.
Michael is the founder of Acadia Birding Festival, Maine's first birding Festivals and the president of Down East Birdwatching and Nature Tours, whose mission is to safeguard the ecological integrity of the Gulf of Maine bioregion through holistic experiential programs in Ornithology and Ecology aimed at educating the public about our unique global ornithological connections and the impacts of human ecology in the Gulf of Maine bioregion.
Join us in a follow-up zoom meeting with Michael to talk about all things birds, photography, and Maine. This will be a less formal zoom meeting with an open Q&A format. If you have any questions, email: Jmccarty@islandheritagetrust.org
CANCELLED!!! Open-Air Arts Initiative- Artist Talk w/Carol Gregor
CANCELLED!!! Open-Air Arts Initiative- Artist Talk w/Carol Gregor
June 12, 2021 @ 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm Labyrinth at Tapley Farm 173 S Wharf Rd, Brooksville, ME 04617
We are sorry to announce that this event has been cancelled. We hope to still host the July 10th event. Labyrinth at Tapley Farm- In collaboration with the Tent Project This two-part series will explore our relationship with meadows and how to tend them to support local wildlife. While it is understood that mowing is necessary to maintain open space in Maine, the practice of mowing continues to be misunderstood and ecologically disruptive. One of the easiest ways to cultivate habitat is to stop mowing during summer months so that flowers may bloom to feed pollinators. Leaving plants to mature into seed feeds migrating birds, is an important food source for winter resident birds and allows meadow plants to regenerate. Together, these events will focus on integrating creative approaches to meadow maintenance. Drawing from the rich history of sacred geometry and walking as an arts practice to embody the landscape, we will explore ways of understanding the non-human species that call this place home. Participants will learn mowing techniques to tackle aggressive plants, alternate mowing areas and maintaining paths to allow easy access to meadow spaces. We will learn ways of increasing diversity by setting up native plant nurseries and dispersing seeds. Saturday, June 12th, 2-4pm: Artist Talk with Carol Gregor Carol Gregor will talk about the history of sacred geometry and how it has informed her creative process as an architect. Together, we will learn the process of upscaling a geometric design to the size of a meadow! Saturday, July 10th, 2-4pm: Mowing to support Wildlife Participants are invited to walk the Tapley Farm Labyrinth to meditate on our relationship with the land in an open meadow context. Workshops on maintaining meadows to support wildlife will help us understand how to tend open meadows to support birds and pollinators. Rain dates for both events will be held the next day at the same time. Tapley Farm: 173 S Wharf Rd, Brooksville, ME 04617
More information & registration through the Blue Hill Heritage Trust: 207-374-5118 Participants may register for one or both events.
June 19, 2021 @ 10:00 am - 12:00 pm Blue Hill Heritage Trust, 157 Hinckley Ridge Rd, Blue Hill, ME 04614, USA
FROM PLANTS TO MEDICINE The outdoor places we frequent can be a good resource to locate common wild and cultivated plants that offer healing benefit. Learn to identify some of these plants, respectfully gather the medicinal parts at the optimal time, and ways to use them as medicine. Participants will learn the process for making a simple maceration tincture using freshly collected plants. Also, how to strain and store the tincture, and suggested ways to use it as medicine when needed. Always being mindful of the amazing gifts from the plants and caretaking our wild places.
This June edition of the Stewards Almanac is lead by local Herbalist Linda Tisdale on the 19th at 10am at the BHHT Office Campus. Linda has been making plant medicines for over 25 years having created “Alchemilla Herbal Apothecary” in 1995. Recently moved to Surry after living many years in Dexter cultivating and gathering wild plants for medicine. Working with plants and trees in the garden or wild places is where she finds inner peace.
This is an in person event, and is limited to 15 adult participants. To register, please call BHHT at 374-5118.