Pocono Environmental Education Center,
Dingmans Ferry, Pa. Call 570-828-2319 or visit
www.peec.org.
Event schedule:
- Sundays for singles hiking, 10 a.m.-noon
July 1. For those over 18 who love nature.
Bring bag lunch. $3 members, $5 non-members.
- Wednesday walk, 10 a.m.-noon July 11. Casual
walk explores natural history on easy to moderate
trails. $3 members, $5 non-members.
- Digital photography, July 13-15. Photographer
and adventure tour leader Kevin Loughlin teaches
simple techniques. Lodging: $175 members,
$190 non-members; non-lodging, $115 members,
$130 non-members.
- Orienteering and geocaching women’s
educational class, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. July 14.
Includes lunch. $30 members, $35 non-members.
- Golf outing at Great Bear, July 16. $115
per golfer.
- Butterflies and other arthropods, noon-4
p.m. July 21. Indoor introductory slide program,
outdoor walks into meadows in search of butterflies
and insects on summer wildflowers. Includes
lunch with Naturalist John Serrao. $45 members,
$50 non-members.
- Starry night canoe, 8-10 p.m. July 21. Canoe
across PEEC’s pond. Brief instruction
and astronomy lesson included. $8 members,
$10 non-members.
- Frog hunts, 1-4 p.m. July 1 and 8-10:30
p.m. July 23. Focuses on learning about amphibians
and having muddy blast trying to catch them
carefully. Bring flashlight and net for July
23 hunt. $3 members, $5 non-members.
- Insect insanity, 1-3 p.m. July 25. Explore
butterfly garden and be amazed by diversity
and survival adaptations of insects. $3 members,
$5 non-members.
July 4th fireworks, dusk
July 4, Lake Wallenpaupack. Call 570-226-3191.
Grey Towers National Historic Site,
Milford, Pa. Call 570-296-9630 or visit www.fs.fed.us/na/gt.
Tours given daily on the hour, 11 a.m.-4 p.m.
through Oct. 28 and 1 and 3 p.m. weekends.
Regular tour fees apply. Grounds are free
and open to pedestrians from dawn to dusk
daily. Event schedule:
- Pinchot’s Milford walking tour, 1
p.m. July 7. Join us as we point out the many
contributions this family made to community
before they built Grey Towers.
- Come Paint with me, 10 a.m. July 12. Landscape
painting 10-year birthday Celebration. Morning
lecture by program founder Joan Polishook,
guest speakers, refreshments. Followed by
landscape painting session. Free. Call 570-775-6898.
- Words and Music of our Environment, 1 p.m.
July 15. Readings and music by regional authors
and musicians. Free.
- Forestry history hike, 1 p.m. July 21. Gain
appreciation for today’s forest management
challenges with hands-on intro to history
of forestry at Yale Forestry Campsite. Pre-registration
required.
- Come paint with me, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. July
26. Landscape painting program. Free. Come
paint with me KIDS, 9 a.m.- noon, instructional
program on impressionist painters, painting
and drawing on site. Pre-registration required.
Free. Call 570-775-6898.
- Evolution of the Grey Towers Landscape:
Summertime in Cornelia’s Gardens, 1
p.m. July 28. Regular tour fees apply.
Pike County Art Show, 11
a.m.-5 p.m. July 11-22, Milford Borough Hall,
Milford, Pa. Amateur and professional local
artists exhibit work.
Secret Garden Tour, 10 a.m.-4
p.m. July 14. Self-guided tour of some Milford
gardens in full bloom. Tickets, Hare Hollow
or call 570-296-5757 or visit www.milfordgardenclub.org.
