Award-Winning Native American Storytellers To Perform at Mt. Kearsarge Indian Museum’s Winter Celebration

Native Americans consider winter to be the proper time for telling stories. The Mt. Kearsarge Indian Museum is pleased to announce that four storytellers, including Native American Music Award winners Ken Quiet Hawk and Deb New Moon Rising, will share their tales with visitors of all ages during our Winter Celebration. The day’s events will include powwow-style drumming, crafts, games and a sale at the Dream Catcher gift shop.

• The festivities begin at 10am with crafts and games that will continue throughout the day.
• At 11am Abenaki storyteller Willow Greene will share stories passed down by her family members and generations of Abenaki storytellers.
• The stories continue at noon with Hears Crow, a Narragansett storyteller and poet who keeps alive the ceremonies, songs and stories of the ‘old ones.’
• Mountain Spirit Drum will perform at 1pm led by New Hampshire Intertribal Native American Council Chief and Mt. Kearsarge Indian Museum Trustee, Peter Newell
• Abenaki storytellers Ken Quiet Hawk and Deb New Moon Rising will share their stories at 2pm. Ken and Deb believe that “Storytelling should be a means of teaching, teaching us all how to be better people.” Recordings of their stories have won two Native American Music Awards for Best Spoken Word Recordings and they have also been nominated Best Male Artist and Best Female Artist.

Winter Celebration is held in the museum Saturday December 10, 10am-4pm at 18 Highlawn Road on Mt. Kearsarge in Warner. Visitors can stroll through the arboretum, walk the trails in the Medicine Woods, play in the teepee and tour the museum itself, in addition to all the festival activities. Admission is FREE for members and $5 for non-members. Non-members who choose to become members that day will receive free admission.

Mt. Kearsarge Indian Museum was founded in 1990 by Charles “Bud” and Nancy Thompson as an educational and cultural center to connect visitors with Native American culture, past and present, and to encourage respect for our environment. The Mt. Kearsarge Indian Museum seeks to challenge all of us to improve the quality of our lives and our world. The museum is open daily May 1 – October 31, Monday – Saturday 10am-5pm, Sunday noon-5pm and on weekends in November through December 10.

See our website for a complete listing of upcoming events: www.indianmuseum.org