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ASHLAND — Fireworks. Live music. Classic cars. 

The Ashland area will host a variety of festivities for the upcoming July 4 holiday weekend.

City of Ashland

The Rotary Club of Ashland will put on a fireworks show at Ashland Community Stadium on July 4. 

The rotary raised $17,500 for the fireworks show this year, which will start at approximately 9:15 p.m. As was the case last year, no one will be permitted to sit in the grandstands during the fireworks show, but the fireworks can be viewed from streets and backyards throughout the city. 

From 12 p.m. to 4 p.m. on July 2, the rotary club will be gifting children fun packs (glow sticks, bendable neon toys, hacky sack balls, bubbles, candy and popcorn). The fun packs will be offered to the first 200 children who show up at the Rotary tent, located in the parking lot of Armstrong Cable.  

Loudonville 

In the Village of Loudonville, fireworks will be presented by Zambelli Fireworks on July 4 in Riverside Park at dusk, around 9:30 p.m. 

For its 21st year, Loudonville will host a car show. The show, from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. on July 3, will feature approximately 500 classic cars from various decades. The streets of downtown Loudonville will be closed for traffic during the show. Pre-registration and registration fees are required for vehicle owners participating in the car show. 

Loudonville Car Show. File Photo. 

Mohican State Park will also host activities in Loudonville July 2-4. Dinner will be offered in the Bromfield’s Dining Room, located in the Mohican Lodge and Conference Center, each of the three nights beginning at 5 p.m. Dinner will run until 9 p.m. on July 2 and 3, and 8 p.m. on July 4. 

On July 2, a scavenger hunt will be held…

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STOCKBRIDGE — “Mohican Miles,” a new exhibit celebrating the Stockbridge-Munsee Community Band of Mohican Indians’ history and culture in its original homelands, opens Friday at the Trustees of Reservations Mission House Museum, 19 Main St.

The federally recognized tribal nation, based in Wisconsin and with origins in the Hudson and Housatonic River valleys, coordinated the exhibit with the Trustees. The semipermanent exhibit can be viewed by the public beginning Friday, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., and then ongoing during regular museum hours, also from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Thursdays through Mondays.

The exhibit includes an overview of Mohican history, the tribe’s historic relationship with the Trustees, information about the community today, the work of the Historic Preservation Office in the homelands, and displays of historic objects belonging to the tribe.

“We are excited that we have a place to call ours to tell our history, our way. The history that Mohican Nation has in Stockbridge is significant, and we are grateful to be able to tell it,” said Heather Bruegl, cultural affairs director for the Stockbridge-Munsee Community.

The tribe curated and designed the exhibit from the archives of the Arvid E. Miller Memorial Library Museum in Bowler, Wis., which houses the largest collection of Mohican documents and artifacts in the world.

Trudy Fadding, of Stockbridge, through a fellowship at Williams College, where the tribe maintains a Tribal Historic Preservation Extension Office, worked locally with the tribe’s office to develop the exhibit content.

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As a result of an agreement with the Trustees, the Stockbridge-Munsee Community will maintain exhibit materials in the Carriage House, the separate exhibit room behind the Mission House, for at least the next four years.

The space formerly held many objects belonging to the Mohican people that were purchased by Mabel Choate, the founder of the…

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