Enjoy a Flat-Water Griswold Paddle 5/16
Enjoy a Spring Outdoors flat-water paddle on Hopeville Pond, an impoundment of the Pachaug River. Hopeville Pond Paddle May 16, 1 pm Hopeville Pond State Park, Griswold, CT A brief history of the area will be included prior to the paddle. We will launch from…
Hike to a Special Spot in Franklin 5/15
Enjoy a moderate hike to an overlook, followed by a walk to Bailey’s Brook and the waterfall at the base of the ravine. This 2-mile hike has some brief steep sections which may require use of your hands. Masks and registration required. Ravine Hike May…
May Acorn Adventure – Wigglies & Squigglies 5/23
What lives under the water in a stream? Explore Mashamoquet Brook with a professional biologist looking for the critters who live there. Acorn Adventure – Wigglies & Squigglies May 23, 1 -3 pm 276 Mashamoquet Rd., Pomfret, CT Ranger Jean is inviting all our Acorn…
More Spring Outdoors and Vernal Pools along the Nehantic Trail
Here we are 7 weeks after the Vernal Equinox, and it finally seems like spring has arrived. The daffodils that bloom in our front yard didn’t appreciate 2 inches of snow that arrived in April but thankfully they sprang right back up as soon as…
TLGV 2021 Annual Meeting at Camp Laurel
Please join us June 3 at Camp Laurel, where sprawling fields, meandering trails and quintessential camp buildings offer the perfect setting for TLGV’s Annual Meeting. Thursday, June 3, 2021 Camp Laurel – Girl Scouts of CT 175 Clubhouse Rd., Lebanon, CT The evening begins at…
Finding Beauty in a May Day
“Nature is shy and noncommittal in a crowd. To learn her secrets visit her alone or with a single friend, at most. Everything evades you, everything hides, even your thoughts escape you when you walk in a crowd.” — Edwin Way Teale, from “Circle of…
Installing a Bat House in Your Yard
This week I begin my spring and summer volunteer work for the CT DEEP Wildlife Division to help monitor bats. This will be the fourth year I’m doing this work, and I have written about this important volunteer activity in past columns. Twice a month,…
Eastern White Oak: Connecticut State Tree and So Much More
“If the oak is the king of trees, as tradition has it, then the Eastern White Oak, throughout its range, is the king of kings.” — Donald Culross Peattie from “A Natural History of North American Trees” The last several years have been hard on…
Our Shared Heritage: The Lebanon Historical Society
“History, I like to think, is a larger way of looking at life. It is a source of strength, of inspiration. It is about who we are and what we stand for and is essential to our understanding of what our own role should be…