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A ROUND CA PE COD
Arts
The Sandwich Arts Alliance supports and promotes local artists. They
have meetings and events throughout the year supporting visual, literary,
and performing arts and more. Collections Gallery and Black Crow
Gallery in are both worth stopping in to see their unique works.
Culture
The Green Briar Nature Center and Jam Kitchen is run by the Thornton
W. Burgess Society. Today visitors can walk the grounds that inspired the
author’s many books, including The Adventures of Peter Cottontail. The
Jam Kitchen was started by Ida Putnam in 1903. Throughout the year, the
live museum offers lessons on making jam the “old-fashioned way.”
Education
The Sandwich public school system includes four schools: Forestdale
School, for pre-K through second grade, Oak Ridge School, third
through sixth grades, Sandwich STEM, for seventh and eighth grades,
and Sandwich High School. The Waldorf School of Cape Cod is
located in Sandwich as well and has programs from early childhood
through middle school.
History
The oldest Cape town is home to what is believed to be the oldest house
in New England continuously occupied by the same family. The Wing
Fort House was built in 1641, and the Wing family lived there for over
three centuries. Today the home operates as a museum. The Old Town
Cemetery is another place that is of interest to many history buffs; the
oldest burial is marked at 1683, and most tombstones are from the 1700s.
In addition to its gardens, Heritage
Museums and Gardens has 18,000
items in its collections, plus a 1908
hand-carved carousel and a large
collection of antique automobiles.
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