The Smithsonian Institution’s Museum on Main Street Exhibit

Voices and Votes Democracy in AmericaMohawk Trail Regional School (MTRS) is proud to have been a host site for the 2025–2026 Smithsonian Institution’s Voices and Votes: Democracy In America tour.

From April 19, 2025, through May 29, 2025, we enjoyed having this small but mighty exhibit in the Mohawk Trail Regional High School library where it greeted, engaged, and informed guests and groups.

More Voices, More Votes

With support from Mass Humanities and Local Cultural Councils, we will be offering additional democracy-related events from December 2025 through December 2026. Many are still in the planning stages, but one is confirmed! Please join us for …

Not your Boston Tea Party flyer
Not Your Boston Tea Party

Residents of West County and beyond will remember the Boston Tea Party with a talk by Emily Dickinson Museum director Jane Wald. Wald will touch on the social functions of tea in 19th-century America (and at the end of the 18th century with the Boston Tea Party) and show photographs of tea paraphernalia in the museum’s collection. At the end of the afternoon, tea will be dumped nearby. Singing may ensue.

The tea party will take place on Saturday, December 13 at 2:00 p.m. at the Tyler Memorial Library in Charlemont’s historic town hall at 157 Main Street (Route 2) in Charlemont. Please enter at the rear of the building.

Tea will of course be served. Cookies are welcome. Admission is free.

This event is co-sponsored by Museum on Main Street: More Voices, More Votes; Mohawk Trail Regional School; and the Friends of the Tyler Memorial Library, with support from Mass Humanities and the Charlemont-Hawley Arts Council.

About This Program

Mass Humanities believes everyone deserves access to quality museum exhibitions. That’s why they partner with small towns to bring the Smithsonian’s Museum on Main Street (MoMs) to Massachusetts, with the goal of engaging small town audiences and revitalizing attention to rural communities.

Through This Program, You Can:

  • Attend free public events featuring exhibits curated by the Smithsonian and local historians.
  • Revitalize civic discourse in rural communities.
  • Spark local storytelling, history, and conversation with friends and neighbors.
  • Create exhibits, programs, and events that put local history in conversation with national history.