Listen to the Landscape Mobile Media Tour Now Available

Join Strawbery Banke Museum on a tour of the gardens and landscapes using your cell phone as your guide. Stroll through original streetscapes to hear about the people and plants that helped to shape our past. Use your smart phone or PDA to discover images that illustrate the rich history of this waterfront neighborhood. Let voices, sights, and sounds from the past help you find your place in the unfolding story of an American landscape.

Click here to watch an introductory video of Listen to the Landscape on YouTube.

The Listen to the Landscape tour loop includes:

1. Cultural Landscape - Find your place in the unfolding story of theAmerican landscape, narrated by John Forti
2. Puddle Dock: Change Over Time - Learn how this neighborhood evolved, narrated by John Forti
3. Native American History - Native presence in the landscape, narrated by John Forti
4. Colonists Arrive - Settling Strawbery Banke, narrated by John Forti
5. White Pines - Explore the relationship between Mast Lane and New England's white pines, narrated by Ron Raiselis
6. Silver Maple - The story of a tree planted within living memory, narrated by Ron Raiselis
7. Working Waterfront and Gundalows - Maritime roots of the Piscataqua Region, narrated by Molly Bolster
8. Prescott Park - Once a part of the working waterfront neighborhood, narrated by John Forti
9. Sherburne Garden - Voices from a colonial garden's past
and present, narrated by Phyllis Crosby and Kathleen Wall
10. Community and Organic Gardens - Learn from the past to create a more sustainable future, narrated by Jenny Isler
11. Waterfront Streetscape - Once a red light district, narrated by John Forti
12. Heirloom Plants: Renewing America's Food Traditions - Preserve historic crops, by growing and eating them, narrated by John Forti
13. Tulip Poplar - The story of a tree planted by a Puddle Dock resident, narrated by Ronnie Pecunies
14. American Chestnut - The museum's role in preserving an important and threatened native species narrated by Ron Raiselis
15. Black Walnut - One of New England's most useful and valuable native species, narrated by Laura Putnam
16. Strawberry Patch - Native Strawberries have grown here throughout history, narrated by Max Summermatter
17. Victory Garden - A nation came together to feed itself, one backyard at a time, narrated by John Forti
18. Heritage Orchard - A living collection of heirloom New England fruit trees, narrated by Ben Watson and Julia Fifield
19. Historic Streetscapes - Understand the evolution of our American streets, narrated by Lawrence J. Yerdon
20. Herb Garden - A garden of plants used for food and medicine, narrated by Judith Sumner
21. Shapiro Garden - A recreated vegetable garden of a Ukrainian-Jewish immigrant family, narrated by Elaine Krasker and Barbara Ann Paster
22. Aldrich Garden - A restored Colonial Revival garden and hemlock grove of 1908, narrated by Beth Hume
23. Archaeology of the Historic Landscape - Unearth the past at Strawbery Banke, narrated by Sheila Charles
24. Listening to the Landscape and the Walsh Garden - The importance of regional garden history, narrated by Westy Lovejoy
25. Entering Goodwin Garden and Tanglewood Grove - Explore our recreated Victorian landscape, narrated by Cynthia Raymond and Leslie Milde
26. Formal Garden and Games Lawn - The influences of industry and leisure in post-Civil War New England, narrated by Cynthia Hosmer and Leslie Milde
27. Victorian Children's Garden - Treasures you and your family can find to reconnect with nature and history, narrated by Cynthia Hosmer
28. Greenhouse - A Victorian-era plant conservatory, narrated by Cynthia Hosmer
29. Learn More about Our Gardens, narrated by John Forti