Twenty Years Teaching Environmental Responsibility
“We are pleased to submit for [the Spring School Board’s] consideration a proposal for a pilot environmental education program to be collaboratively developed and implemented with the teachers and...
View ArticleFinding What I Didn’t Know I Was Going To Find
More than 150 years ago, Henry David Thoreau offered this observation about himself: “I never go out knowing what I am going to find. The interest is in finding what I didn’t know I was going to find.”...
View ArticleTreasures at the Edge of the Sea
Walking along the beach, I am perfectly content looking for colorful pebbles, beach glass, and flat skipping stones. The search for these three simple items can keep my focus for an uncommonly long...
View Article“It’s Like Magic, Only Real”
If you watched any professional football games on television this fall, then you’ve seen the commercial. You know the one to which I refer. It’s the ad that plays up fan superstitions, in which a guy...
View ArticleReading Impressions in the Sand
In the popular television show, “N.C.I.S.”, Abby applies her intellect and experience to read clues and solve mysteries from her high-tech laboratory. On eastern Long Island, Callie Velmachos applies...
View ArticleChickadees: Personable Little Balls of Feathers
Black-Capped Chickadees weigh about four-tenths of one ounce, the heft of just four U.S. pennies. Yet these little feather balls pack a whole lot of activity, personality, brazen curiosity and...
View ArticleBoulder With A Story To Tell
The boulder sat there — at the southwest corner of Nichols Road and Stony Brook University’s south entrance — when my family moved to Suffolk County in February 1968. As big as a pickup truck, maybe...
View ArticleAn Impressive Assortment of Long Island Nature Writers
I like to read: fiction and non-fiction, classics and contemporary, sports and history, science and nature. It logically follows that a bookstore is a temptation I can rarely pass up. The pile of “yet...
View ArticleA (Particularly Busy) Day in the Life of Group Education
Group educators keep busy throughout the year with a varied collection of worthwhile activities and programs. We teach classroom lessons and field trips, coordinate habitat restoration projects and...
View ArticleMarch: The Month For Groundhog Days
Yes, I know. Groundhog Day is not in March. According to the calendar, Groundhog Day falls on February 2nd each year. Initially a European tradition involving such hibernating mammals as hedgehogs and...
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