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Spring Wildflowers Walk with Peter and Barbara Rzasa
Spring Wildflowers Walk with Peter and Barbara Rzasa
Saturday, May 7, 2022 Spend some quality time with naturalists Pete and Barb Rzasa wandering White Memorial’s Five Ponds complex in search of native wildflowers.Connecticut is blessed with so many colorful species. Marsh marigold, trout lily, bluettes, toothwort, and trillium are just some of what we might find! Stories and flower folklore of our native spring […]
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MUSK OX AND MAMMOTHS AND GROUND SLOTHS, OH MY! Let’s Talk About Arctic Ice Age Animals! With Arctic Expert Moki Kokoris
MUSK OX AND MAMMOTHS AND GROUND SLOTHS, OH MY! Let’s Talk About Arctic Ice Age Animals! With Arctic Expert Moki Kokoris
Imagine a vast, treeless and grassy plain, much of it filled with large woolly beasts! Ice Age Beringia – the ancient land mass encompassing eastern Siberia, Alaska, Canada’s Yukon – was home to a unique mix of animals tens of thousands of years ago. Many of them went extinct as the Ice Age ended, but […]
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My White Memorial Photo Challenge!
My White Memorial Photo Challenge!
In March 2020, when the Pandemic closed the Conservation Center’s doors, you took to our trails and blessed us with your photographs. Many were posted weekly in our email newsletter, The Habitattler. The submissions were so steady, abundant, and delightful that we’ve kept on accepting them. Today Gerri Griswold shares some of her favorites with […]
Succulent Terrarium Workshop with Susan Spanger
Succulent Terrarium Workshop with Susan Spanger
Succulent filled terrariums are all the buzz right now in floral boutiques. Join Susan Spanger of Bloomful Floral Design and learn how to create your own unique arrangement using a variety of top-quality, gorgeous succulents in a low glass-bowl terrarium. Susan will guide you through the process which begins with a layer of pebbles partially […]
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Nevermore: Remembering the Thylacine with Gerri Griswold
Nevermore: Remembering the Thylacine with Gerri Griswold
Saturday, March 26, 2022 Was it a tiger? A dog? A threat? A monster? It was none of the aforementioned. Learn all about the demise of the Thylacine, AKA Tasmanian Wolf or Tasmanian Tiger, a carnivorous marsupial once indigenous to Australia and Tasmania. Today the animal is a legend, romanticized by many. But when it […]
Show and Tell with British Artist, Author, and Collector Errol Fuller
Show and Tell with British Artist, Author, and Collector Errol Fuller
Saturday, March 26, 2022 He is an extinct species expert and the author of over a dozen books highlighting rare and extinct species. He has co-authored a book with Sir David Attenborough, Drawn From Paradise: The Discovery, Art and Natural History of the Birds of Paradise. He possesses the most enviable collection of Victorian taxidermy […]
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The Tribes and Cultures of Papua New Guinea with Stewart McPherson
The Tribes and Cultures of Papua New Guinea with Stewart McPherson
Saturday, April 2, 2022 A virtual visit to one of the most remote places on our planet with Stewart McPherson. Stewart will introduce you to the unique and amazing cultures and tribes of New Guinea and surrounding islands, covering: - the crocodile clan of the Sepik River - the Baining fire dancers - the shark […]