Celebrate Cranberry Thanksgiving With Tomaquag Museum Staff

When: Saturday, October 3 from 12 p.m. to 4 p.m.
Where: Saint James Chapel, 2079 Matunuck Schoolhouse Road, Charlestown
Who: Staff from the Tomaquag Museum
What: Watch art demonstrations, shop in the art market, listen to storytellers, play fun games, and so much more!
Cost: Free

It’s Harvest Moon, also known as the moon of the falling leaves and the time of the sassamineash tabutamtomooank (cranberry thanksgiving).

This year, the sassiminneash, Narragansett for cranberry, takes center stage in cooking demonstrations featuring Narragansett chef Charles Hankinson, a Johnson & Wales graduate. An Indigenous Artist Market will offer visitors the opportunity to meet artists, see demonstrations, and explore contemporary expressions of Indigenous culture. Experience the cranberry through your senses with food vendors by Indigenous chefs Willy Johnson of Fry Bread and Pearl Brown from Of the Earth.

Presented by Rhode Island’s only Indigenous-led museum, it offers an opportunity to experience the importance of the cranberry harvest through archival memories, traditional ecological knowledge, storytelling, social dances, food and art vendors, children’s activities and more.

To learn more about Cranberry Thanksgiving, visit the Tomaquag Museum web site.