Our 2023 Roaring Brook video records the passage of the Brook through Whately Glen from its headwaters near Conway to its juncture with Whately’s Mill River, just south of the Whately Great Swamp.
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Our 2023 chronicle of American picnics from the 1840s to 1960s includes paintings, photographs, and advice from the early 1900s on how to plan and carry out a successful picnic.
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Our foodways in 2026 trace many of their roots to the foodstuff that Indigenous people hunted, foraged and cultivated before colonial Europeans arrived in western Massachusetts. Some of this rich history is displayed in our 2025 video.
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Whately has a rich history of dairy farming, dating back beyond the Town’s founding in 1771. Our 2025 video records the commercial dairies that operated in the 20th century, only one of which is still in operation today.
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First to Table (2025) assembles an amazing array of foodstuffs and cooking equipment that were introduced in New England, from 1646 to 1984.
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In 1910, the production team at Edison Studios in New Jersey traveled to Whately to film Ononka’s Vow, a silent film about the ‘Bloody Brook Massacre’ in Deerfield. Many Whately residents were hired to play the roles of colonial settlers and Native Americans, portrayed in ways typical of the stereotypic views of the time, and it was reported that over 1000 spectators were on hand to watch the filming in present-day Whately Glen. We are grateful to Historic Deerfield for allowing the Whately Historical Society to embed a short clip from the film in this video.
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