Handy House and Farming exhibition open

202 Hix Bridge Road, Westport MA

Lives on the Land: An exhibition highlighting the stories of Westport’s farming families

This exhibition focuses on the 20^th century, an era that began with 400 farms and ended with fewer than 30 farms. This is not just a story of potatoes, cows, turnips and chickens, but also a topic that connects people of diverse origins — Portuguese, French Canadian, Polish, Scots, and early English settlers — as well as highlighting an extraordinary example of a farm owned and operated by a Native American family throughout the 19th and most of the 20th century.