{"id":27909,"date":"2026-04-25T22:51:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T02:51:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/?p=27909"},"modified":"2026-04-25T22:51:31","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T02:51:31","slug":"gore-sheepshearing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/2026\/04\/25\/gore-sheepshearing\/","title":{"rendered":"Gore Place Sheepshearing Festival: Photos"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Gore Place, the historic, 50-acre estate in Waltham, welcomed spring today with its annual Sheepshearing Festival<\/a>. It featured demonstrations of traditional shearing techniques, herding dogs, historic re-enactors, music, craft and fiber artists, and hands-on activities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Maypole
Maypole dance at Gore Place Sheepshearing Festival, Waltham, April 25, 2026. (\u00a9Greg Cook photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Lambs
Lambs at Gore Place Sheepshearing Festival, Waltham, April 25, 2026. (\u00a9Greg Cook photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Historical
Historical reenactors at Gore Place Sheepshearing Festival, Waltham, April 25, 2026. (\u00a9Greg Cook photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Historical
Historical reenactors at Gore Place Sheepshearing Festival, Waltham, April 25, 2026. (\u00a9Greg Cook photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Sheepshearing
Sheepshearing at Gore Place Sheepshearing Festival, Waltham, April 25, 2026. (\u00a9Greg Cook photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Maypole
Maypole dance at Gore Place Sheepshearing Festival, Waltham, April 25, 2026. (\u00a9Greg Cook photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Sheep
Sheep herding dogs at Gore Place Sheepshearing Festival, Waltham, April 25, 2026. (\u00a9Greg Cook photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Historical
Historical reenactors at Gore Place Sheepshearing Festival, Waltham, April 25, 2026. (\u00a9Greg Cook photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Historical
Historical reenactors at Gore Place Sheepshearing Festival, Waltham, April 25, 2026. (\u00a9Greg Cook photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Maypole
Maypole dance at Gore Place Sheepshearing Festival, Waltham, April 25, 2026. (\u00a9Greg Cook photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Historical
Historical reenactors at Gore Place Sheepshearing Festival, Waltham, April 25, 2026. (\u00a9Greg Cook photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Carding
Carding wool at Gore Place Sheepshearing Festival, Waltham, April 25, 2026. (\u00a9Greg Cook photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Blacksmith
Blacksmith at Gore Place Sheepshearing Festival, Waltham, April 25, 2026. (\u00a9Greg Cook photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Seacolors
Seacolors Yarnery in Fiber Arts Tent at Gore Place Sheepshearing Festival, Waltham, April 25, 2026. (\u00a9Greg Cook photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Gore Place, the historic, 50-acre estate in Waltham, welcomed spring today with its annual Sheepshearing Festival. It featured demonstrations of traditional shearing techniques, herding dogs, historic re-enactors, music, craft and fiber artists, and hands-on activities. If this is the kind of coverage of arts, cultures and activisms you appreciate, please support Wonderland by\u00a0contributing to Wonderland […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27901,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[111,104],"tags":[349,1390],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27909"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27909"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27912,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27909\/revisions\/27912"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}