Events

Second and third Saturdays, 9am-1pm Free January through June Drop in, see Hitchcock’s new home, and learn about our living building.

No School for Amherst Today Monday, January 23 8:30am-3pm $60 members/$70 nonmembers Come play at the Hitchcock Center when there is no school! We’ll play games, go on outside adventures and do indoor projects. Limited to 12 participants. Register here.

The Truth About Bats with Katie Koerten Tuesdays 10:00am-2:00pm Ages 6-12 Members: $42 per program /Non-members: $46 per program Tuesdays, January 10, January 24, February 7, March 7, April 4, May 2, June 13 Do you love science and nature? Do you want to see what the Hitchcock Homeschool program is all about? Sign up […]

Winter Session with Jeff Mazur Wednesdays – 3:30pm-5:30pm, extended days 1:30pm-5:30pm January 4 – March 15 (no class February 22) Extended day: February 8 Members: $230/Non-members: $254 Open to all children in grades 1-3. Limited to 10 participants.

with Katie Koerten Ages 8-11, Grades 3-5 Thursdays, January 5–March 16 (no class February 23) 3:30pm-5:30pm Members: $270/Non-members: $320 Calling all girls ages 8-11! Get to know nature, and make friends at the same time at this weekly afterschool program. Now in its third year, Girls into the Wild is designed to bring girls together […]

with Jamie Overby, Center for EcoTechnology Thursday, January 26, 7pm Free registration appreciated An air source heat pump is a system which transfers heat from outside to inside a building, or vice versa. Air at any temperature above absolute zero contains some energy. An air-source heat pump transfers ('pumps') some of this energy as heat […]

with John Green Saturday, January 28, 9-11am Members $12/Non-members $15 Register here Join naturalist John Green in one of his favorite habitats for winter nature walk,  see signs of all the animals and birds active like us throughout the winter, this is a magical time to visit the Quabbin. Directions provided with registration. 

with Dan Ziomek, local birder and naturalist Saturday, January 28, 8pm-10pm Saturday, February 11, 8pm -10pm Saturday, February 25, 4:30-6:30am Members $10/Non-members $15 per night, youth 8 and older welcome with an adult Space is limited, please register Dress INCREDIBLY warm because we’ll be standing around in the dark a lot. Bring your sharp ears, […]

Community Read The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert This year we will be collaborating with the Jones Library for the 2017 community read On the Same Page—Amherst. To learn more, please visit: joneslibrary.org/onthesamepage  Programs: Tuesday, January 31 at 7 pm: Dr. Richard Palmer from UMass-Amherst will speak on global warming and the […]

with Sally Pick, SJP Environmental Consulting Tuesday, January 31, 7-8:30pm FREE registration appreciated In a time when policies addressing climate change are being challenged, find out what you can do to reduce your home’s climate impact, by making it less reliant on fossil fuels, with renewables like solar and with an energy savvy home that wastes less […]