When enjoying White Memorial please be respectful and courteous to others, and follow the social distance etiquette.
- If you arrive at trail and crowds are forming, choose another trail.
- Observe the CDC's minimum recommended social distancing of six feet from other people, whether you’re walking, biking, or hiking. Practice it and know what it looks like.
- Warn other trail users of your presence and as you pass to allow proper distance and step off trails to allow others to pass, keeping minimum recommended distances at all times.
Our number one priority will always be the health and safety of our visitors and staff. Thus, we are instituting the following protocols:
The Litchfield Fire Marshall and Litchfield Emergency Management are concerned about the inability to social distance on the Little Pond Boardwalk. For the safety of all, the Little Pond Boardwalk is closed until further notice.
- All programs cancelled through May 21, 2020. This includes public programs and school programs.
- The Nature Museum will be closed until further notice.
- The White Memorial property will remain open to visitors.
- Outhouses will be closed. Tentative opening date is May 22, 2020.
- The Campgrounds and Campground Store will have a delayed opening to May 22, 2020.
- All buildings are closed. The tentative opening date is May 15, 2020.
- All property rentals are canceled through May 21, 2020.
We apologize for any inconvenience and thank you for understanding.
Contra Dance with O’Wryly!
$15.00
Description
Saturday, November 16, 2019
Strap on yer dancin’ shoes, pack a picnic or a snack, BYOB, and kick off Labor Day weekend with Conservation Center favorite Robert Messore and his colleagues! Tonight our Activity Shed will undulate with the gleeful sounds of Contra!
Contra is danced to Celtic, Quebecois, Old Time, New England, Southern Appalachian, Jazz, Blues, and all sorts of other music played by live bands, either from Atlanta or elsewhere. In a contra dance, parallel lines of dancers stand opposite — or “contra to” — their partners. A dancer and his/her partner form a couple.
Through the caller’s instructions, each couple interacts with the couple next to them to form a four person “set” and each set interacts with the sets on either side of them. Over the course of a dance each couple moves up and down the hall, interacting with every other couple in their multi-set “line.”
There is no fancy footwork involved (that is the other sort of line dancing) but the instructions given by the Caller do form a series of repeating figures that dancers eventually memorize. As this happens, the Caller provides fewer and fewer prompts until he drops out entirely; leaving you, your partner, and the others in your line to finish the dance, accompanied only by the exciting, lilting, haunting, and/or pulse pounding music provided by the band.
Dancing is not mandatory this evening but we DARE you to stay seated!
7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m., Activity Shed, All Tickets: $15.00. Preregistration and prepayment are required. Call 860-567-0857 or register online: www.whitememorialcc.org .
Additional information
Member Ticket 4120, Non-Member Ticket 4120
Related products
Yoga in the Garden
Read moreYoga in the Garden
Read moreWhite Memorial Mood Pencils
$1.50 Add to cart