Lancaster Longhouse

01/22/2022

Museum directors make a difference. Congrats Dr. Chavez Lamar.

Cynthia Chavez Lamar has been named director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian, effective Feb. 14. She is the first Native woman to be named as a Smithsonian museum director. Chavez Lamar has been at the museum most recently since 2014, and earlier in her career was a mus...

11/26/2021

Remembering the kindness and world-renowned talent of Joanne Shenandoah, Oneida, who supported the Lancaster Longhouse with a fundraising concert in August 2014. Sympathies to the Shenandoah family and her community.

Her ancestor Jenko Skenadore (anglicized to Shenandoah) was a Susquehannock person who went to be with the Oneida people, married an Oneida woman, and became Chief Shenandoah.

Learn more about her life here:
https://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/44894/20211126/remembering-joanne-shenandoah-the-quot-matriarch-of-indigenous-music-quot

11/18/2021

Tomorrow is ExtraGive! Please consider supporting our mission to promote history through storytelling.

https://www.extragive.org/organizations/mennonite-life

10/29/2021

https://mennonitelife.org/1719-museum/longhouse/

10/29/2021

Note: With an updated name that creates space for both the Lancaster Longhouse and the 1719 Herr House, we will be combining our facebook presence under 1719 Museum. Please like that page to stay connected with updates from the museum. Thank you for your interest and support!

10/11/2021

10/08/2021

Drew Shuptar-Rayvis honors his legacy by sharing stories of Indigenous peoples at the Maize & Snitz Market Fair.

(We appreciate your wisdom, Drew!)

10/08/2021

A road divided the Maize + Snitz Festival at the 1719 Hans Herr House on Saturday.

09/27/2021

https://fb.watch/8huPQEkw_7/

08/31/2021

Come out Saturday, October 2 for the Maize & Snitz Market Fair!

Professional tradespeople will demonstrate embroidery, tape weaving, baking, hearth cooking, Native American foods, and fingerweaving.

Shop for hand-crafted items such as redware pottery, hand-dyed wool yarn, hand-turned wooden implements, wrought iron, bobbin lace, and 18th-century paper goods.

08/26/2021

https://fb.watch/7DAhwtf57c/