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Jul 8

Nature Walk

At The Warren Davis Welcome Center: Jul 8

Event Dates
Tuesday, Jul 8

1:00 PM

About

Nature Walk

Tuesday, July 8 | The Warren Davis Welcome Center

Misty Cook and Kathi Arnold, enrolled members of the Stockbridge-Munsee Band of Mohicans, will walk the Jacob’s Pillow campus and explain how they gather medicines and plants through practices that have been passed down to them. They will discuss gathering, drying, preservation, and usage and the practice of offering tobacco. Participants are invited to gather plants from the campus to contribute to the new garden at the Doris Duke Theatre.


Weather & Rain Date Info
In the case of extreme weather only, the walk will be rescheduled for Thursday, July 11 at 2pm. Light rain won’t stop us—we’ll still walk if conditions are safe.


Misty Cook, Kathi Arnold, Brenda Mallory, and Andre StrongBearHeart Gaines Jr. at the Pillow Rock; Jamie Kraus photo
Misty Cook, Kathi Arnold, Brenda Mallory, and Andre StrongBearHeart Gaines Jr.; Jamie Kraus photo

Learn more about Kathi and Misty’s work with the Doris Duke Theatre’s medicinal garden in our blog post Interweaving Indigenous Principles: Visual Art and Landscape Design in the New Doris Duke Theatre.

Read the Blog Post