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This Week at Door County’s Crossroads at Big Creek: Thanksgiving, Pioneer Tools and Permaculture
Posted on 24. Nov, 2010 by Coggin Heeringa.
Thanksgiving is a time for counting blessings and spending time with family. The Collins Learning Center at Crossroads will be closed on Thanksgiving Day so we can join our families around the Thanksgiving table, but the trails remain open to the public. As we enjoy our turkey, cranberries and pumpkin pie, we will count the [...]
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This Week at Door County’s Crossroads: Diabetes Update, DCIST Meeting, Astronomy and more
Posted on 12. Nov, 2010 by Coggin Heeringa.
November is Diabetes Awareness Month and again this year, Crossroads will host the Diabetes Update, presented by Ministry Door County Medical Center on November 13 from 10 am -Noon. As a science center, we appreciate the upcoming presentations by Ruth Norton ,RN, CDE and CarmenSchroeder RD,CD, CDE because they share the findings of recent medical research. For most of the audience, the topic “Discover [...]
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This Week at Door County’s Crossroads: Owls, Monsters, Myths and Other Dark Matters
Posted on 28. Oct, 2010 by Coggin Heeringa.
When they voted to accept “The Year of the Escarpment” as the Crossroads at Big Creek educational theme for 2010, it’s doubtful that the Board of Directors anticipated a mural of the escarpment would become the newest exhibit in the Collins Learning Center. They certainly never dreamed that significant chunks of dolomite would end up [...]
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This Week at Door County’s Crossroads: Monsters in the Sky, Author Mike Lynch
Posted on 18. Oct, 2010 by Coggin Heeringa.
Superstition is Greek to me and Roman and Druid… perhaps this time of year, evenTransylvanian! Crossroads at Big Creek is dedicated to learning and science, but as the days get shorter and nights are darker, superstitions seem so much of our culture that we enjoy stories that are just a bit dark and creepy. So [...]
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This Week at Door County’s Crossroads: Visions from The Past, Ecology of Bats, Creatures in the Night Sky
Posted on 12. Oct, 2010 by Coggin Heeringa.
With Halloween approaching Crossroads at Big Creek, learners of all ages find themselves thinking about ghosts, bats, owls and monsters. For the next two weeks, we are foucssing on all of those inhabitants of the night sky. While not actually ghosts, the costumed members of the Door County Historical Society might certainly appear like visions from [...]
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This Week at Door County’s Crossroads: The Global Work Party 10/10/2010
Posted on 06. Oct, 2010 by Coggin Heeringa.
On the tenth day of the tenth month in the tenth year of the millennium, Crossroads at Big Creek will hold a work party. So will groups all over the world. At this writing, 4,483 groups in 174 countries have registered to participate in The Global Work Party. 10-10-10 is an easy-to-remember date, but it is also symbolic. Groups involved in the Global [...]
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This Week at Door County’s Crossroads: Learning for Students of All Ages, Dream Pillows and Autumn Stars
Posted on 21. Sep, 2010 by Coggin Heeringa.
Crossroads at Big Creek is a preserve for experiential lifelong learning focused on science, history and the environment. And, we take Crossroads’ mission of “lifelong learning” seriously. This week, for example, we are hosting Learning in Retirement and Kindergarten classes for learners of every age in between. A very special Crossroads program brings together learners of different generations. [...]
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This Week at Crossroads: Door County’s Other Canal, Annual Cinnamon Roll Sale
Posted on 13. Sep, 2010 by Coggin Heeringa.
“Clinton’s Folly,” the proposed 363-mile canal, which now links the Hudson River to Lake Erie has much to do with the original settlement of Door County. A wildlfower called the “Clintonia” does not grow at Crossroads at Big Creek. So, we do not find the lovely berries which give the species its common name, “Blue [...]
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This Week at Door County’s Crossroads We Honor Labor and the Land
Posted on 30. Aug, 2010 by Coggin Heeringa.
At Crossroads at Big Creek, we will celebrate both Labor Sunday and the Year of the Escarpment this week. The first Labor Day was celebrated in 1882 and by 1884 it had become a National Holiday. The 1880s were a tragically violent time in our nation’s history and the Labor Day holiday was probably created [...]
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This Week at Door County’s Crossroads; Monarch Butterfly Tagging, Raspberry Ice Cream Social
Posted on 23. Aug, 2010 by Coggin Heeringa.
It’s monarch butterfly time at Crossroads at Big Creek. Monarchs in all stages of development fill our flowery meadows. In the Collins Learning Center, we have been larvae-sitting and are thrilled to report that many of the caterpillars have metamorphosed into crystalides… beautiful jade green studded with gold. We know that the gold comes from a chemical in the [...]
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