Housatonic Heritage Walk

September 13 @ 10:00 am EDT - 2:30 pm EDT

Tickets available soon

Tour times:
10am – 11:30am
1pm – 2:30pm

Free; advance registration required.

Join Rich Bradway for guided walk of the campus of the Norman Rockwell Museum.  Explore the culturally and ecologically rich landscape that is now home to the present-day Museum. Walk along the riverbank of the Housatonic and learn about the unique geology and topography of the river and the nearby Oxbow. The walk will also address the site’s beginnings as the ancestral homelands of the Stockbridge Munsee tribe of Mohicans and will trace that history forward from the 18th century farmland era and the 19th century when the Butler family acquired the land and built a grand estate on the property to the present day as the home of the Norman Rockwell Museum. Bradway will also touch on the ongoing efforts of the Stockbridge-Munsee to maintain a connection to their Eastern homelands by returning continuously ever since their removal to protect burial sites and other cultural areas and to preserve their connections and heritage.

Rich Bradway is Digital Innovation Officer at the Norman Rockwell Museum, President of the Stockbridge Land Trust, and Member of the Stockbridge Mohican Commission.

This Heritage Walk in presented in collaboration with the Housatonic Heritage Area.

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Land Acknowledgement

It is with gratitude and humility that we acknowledge that we are learning, speaking and gathering on the ancestral homelands of the Mohican people, who are the indigenous peoples of this land on which the Norman Rockwell Museum was built. Despite tremendous hardship in being forced from here, today their community resides in Wisconsin and is known as the Stockbridge-Munsee Community. We pay honor and respect to their ancestors past and present as we commit to building a more inclusive and equitable space for all.

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