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Crossroads at Big Creek to Host 2010 Door County Sustainability Fair in Late April
Posted on 08. Mar, 2010 by Coggin Heeringa.
Crossroads at Big Creek is pleased to announce that this spring, the Collins Learning Center and The Historical Village at The Crossroads will be the venues for the 2010 Door County Sustainability Fair.
Sustain Door, Inc. has.set the date for Saturday, April 24, an appropriate climax to Earth Week.
In 1987, the World Commission on Environment and [...]
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This Week at Door County’s Crossroads: Protecting Your Water
Posted on 15. Feb, 2010 by Coggin Heeringa.
Crossroads at Big Creek is again a winter wonderland, thanks to the fresh layers of snow.
Our cross county skiers are thrilled, as are dogs and our native birds. The dogs seem to love rolling in the snow and clearly, so do our little birds. The birds have been fluttering enthusiastically in the fresh white stuff.
For birds, feather [...]
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This Week at Door County’s Crossroads: Fox in Love, Ski Trails, Door Weather
Posted on 06. Feb, 2010 by Coggin Heeringa.
At Crossroads at Big Creek, the creatures seem to sense the approach of Valentine’s Day.
When setting up a lecture for The Big Read a couple weeks ago, we noticed a pair of fox — each showing great interest in each other. Love is in the air. And as the days get increasing longer, romance seems [...]
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This Week at Door County’s Crossroads: Settlers on the Land, The Big Read on Plant Ecology
Posted on 25. Jan, 2010 by Coggin Heeringa.
We have become aware that much the history of the Midwest is the result of flawed understandings of the environment.
Crossroads at Big Creek is a learning preserve focused on science, history and the environment. In many cases, these disciplines are inexorably intertwined. Take the settlement of Wisconsin. In the early 1800s, when European immigrants [...]
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This Week at Door County’s Crossroads: Log Cabin Book Discussion and more on the Big Read!
Posted on 20. Jan, 2010 by Coggin Heeringa.
Like the rest of Door County, Crossroads at Big Creek is participating in the Big Read.
This year, we all pouring over My Ántonia , a book by Willa Cather, which focuses on a pioneer family from from Bohemia. The historical novel is set in Nebraska, beginning in the 1880s.
In Door County about that [...]
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This Week at Door County’s Crossroads: Cladophora on Beaches, The Big Read, Soil Lecture
Posted on 07. Jan, 2010 by Coggin Heeringa.
Frozen but not forgotten, cladophora remains a topic of great interest at Crossroads at Big Creek.
As we begin our year of exploring the Niagara Escarpment, it seems appropriate to look at the green algae which grows on the rocks of Lake Michigan along our peninsula.
The Partnership for Phosphate Reduction Website states: “It’s green, it’s slimy, it’s [...]
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This Week at Door County’s Crossroads: Looking into the New Year
Posted on 27. Dec, 2009 by Coggin Heeringa.
As a history and science center, Crossroads at Big Creek is all about remembering the past and looking toward the future.
That’s what January is about too. The month was named for Janus, the Roman God of doorways and beginnings.
Janus was pictured as having two faces, one looking forward and one looking back. To see [...]
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Door County Birders Invited to Join in the Annual Sturgeon Bay Christmas Bird Count at Crossroads, Dec 19
Posted on 13. Dec, 2009 by Coggin Heeringa.
On Saturday, December 19, Crossroads at Big Creek will take part in the annual Sturgeon Bay Christmas Bird Count.
And Sturgeon Bay birders will be a part of a 110-year old tradition in which bird watchers and scientists, families and individuals throughout North America take a day out of the busy holiday season to count all [...]
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Happening at Door County’s Crossroads: Snowflake Lecture and Groomed Ski Trails
Posted on 25. Nov, 2009 by Coggin Heeringa.
Crossroads looking forward to the first Door County snowfall, loaning skis and snowshoes, grooming trails and upcoming lecture on snowflakes.
Subconsciously influenced by the composers of Christmas carols written in snowy European countries, most of us imagine the first Christmas as occurring on a midnight clear in the deep of midwinter… in a marshmallow world… sort [...]
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Happening This Week at Door County’s Crossroads: Kitchen Physics
Posted on 23. Nov, 2009 by Coggin Heeringa.
The Collins Learning Center at Crossroads will be closed on Thanksgiving Day so staff can enjoy their holiday dinner with family.
Ah, Thanksgiving dinner. There’s the turkey, the corn, beans and squash, the yeast rolls slathered with butter and the mashed potatoes with a fist-sized lump of butter melting seductively.
Butter melting… changing state [...]
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