A Celebration of Eastern Woodland Native Peoples

Rye Community Picnic Committee

Ed Bullock and Ken Hamilton present a primer on Native American song, dance, culture, stories, and history

Rye Congregational Church

2023 Rye Tours

Our historic Rye Trolley Tours sells out every year. This year we have expanded the tour to include more parts of the town to help celebrate Rye400. Please join us!

This program will include both presenters dressed in traditional Native American Eastern Woodlands regalia. The goal of this presentation will be to begin the conversation and start the relationship with the town of Rye in preparation of a larger event in the Spring of 2023.This event will also be live-streamed on YouTube Live and available to watch for 30 days. https://youtu.be/PsfPK0vAfVYPresenter bios Ed and Ken have 50 years of experience each in singing, dancing and making traditional regalia particularly associated with the Eastern Woodlands people of New England. They have traveled extensively throughout North America attending and organizing Pow Wows, singing on various Northern Plains drum groups, vending and advising groups and organizations on a wide variety of Native American subjects. They have coordinated hundreds of school presentations in the New England area. Ed's family has owned and operated The Wandering Bull since 1969, and now The Little Bull in York Beach, Maine, since 1988. Ed started doing presentations with his Father Whirling Thunder in the early 1970’s. Ken is one of the foremost presenters on early New England Native history, has been a featured presenter at Fort Ticonderoga and French and Indian War re-enactments, and on screen for many films and documentaries on Native topics for over 40 years. Ken is a published author on historic French trade knives and trade axes (6 different articles), and blacksmith/craftsman of researched 17th and 18th cent. Native and European trade goods reproductions and colonial era material culture researcher.

UPDATE: Vaccination and Mask Requirements for your upcoming event:We wanted to make you aware of some new protocols that will be required of you and your party upon entry. All guests over the age of 12 will need to provide proof of vaccination OR a negative Covid-19 test (within 72 hours of event). All guests, regardless of vaccination status must wear masks the entire time.We will be streaming the event on YouTube and it will be available to watch for 30 days after. If you have tickets and would prefer to watch the event live, you may return your tickets and follow the video link to watch the presentation from home.

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