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: Fireside Chat – Indigenous Plant Wisdom- Sacred Plants of New England 

Fireside Chats  with Hitchcock staff and guests  Casual conversations centered on nature, around a fire, enjoying the beauty of a crisp winter evening with hot beverages and nibbles. Thursdays at […]

Published on January 13, 2022.

: Fireside Chat – Natural History of a cup of Hot Chocolate 

Fireside Chats  with Hitchcock staff and guests  Casual conversations centered on nature, around a fire, enjoying the beauty of a crisp winter evening with hot beverages and nibbles. Thursdays at […]

Published on January 13, 2022.

: Fireside Chat – Moon Gazing & Winter Owls

Fireside Chats  with Hitchcock staff and guests  Casual conversations centered on nature, around a fire, enjoying the beauty of a crisp winter evening with hot beverages and nibbles. Thursdays at […]

Published on January 13, 2022.

Earth Matters : The wisdom of trees in winter

By Lawrence J. Winship

What is the wisdom shown by “wise trees”? Is it perhaps that they appear to cease striving and simply endure because growth is made impossible by the “sure” arrival of cold, of scarce and pale light, and of water frozen solid? Or might the verse call to mind the “wisdom” of genetic information encoded in the tree’s DNA?

Published on January 11, 2021.

Hitchcock Animal Care : The Common Shiner

Currently the only fish in the Hitchcock Center aquarium are Common Shiners, Luxilus cornutus. I purchased them from a local bait shop so that the aquarium would have an initial source […]

Published on December 29, 2016.
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