To understand where we’re going, we must understand how and why we got into our current predicament.
Join longtime teacher, storyteller, and outdoor enthusiast Matt Krug for Stories Behind the Stars in Wonalancet, NH, an evening of stories and star gazing.
Forests for the People is the story of the forest conservation movement that started in New England and led to the establishment of 41 Eastern National Forests, including the White Mountain National Forest.
What does it mean to think like a forester? What does a trained forester see when they walk out into the woods? Come find out!
Please join The Tamworth History Center, Chocorua Lake Conservancy, the Tamworth Road Study Committee, and Hike with Friends for “Chocorua Byways”with Paul King, longtime surveyor and local history buff, and a member of the Tamworth Road Study Committee.
Celebrate the end of summer and the gift of community with a magical lantern parade on Chocorua Lake at dusk.
If we could slow down to geological time, we would feel the earth rising and falling beneath our feet in a perpetual churn of motion. Alas, our lives are too brief. We can, however, learn to read the landscape to understand the movement that came before our time.
Join us for an exploration of the local glacial and bedrock geology of the Clark Reserve in Chocorua with geologist Rick Allmendinger.
While the larger forces threatening our pollinator populations may seem far away or hard to grasp, we can take practical steps every day here at home to support native and naturalized pollinators.
Drop drop drip drip, maple sap is filling buckets across northern New England this time of year, part of a practice of sugar-making that stretches back long before Colonial times.
Celebrate the end of summer and the gift of community with a magical lantern parade on Chocorua Lake at dusk.
Join us to discuss Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer with facilitator Damian Costello. Potluck at 6PM!
Join us for an exploration of the local glacial and bedrock geology of the Clark Reserve in Chocorua with geologist Rick Allmendinger. (Rain date will be Sunday, August 21.)
Join Cook Memorial Library and Chocorua Lake Conservancy behind the Cook Memorial Library in Tamworth for "Indigenous Conservation Today" with Paul W. Pouliot and Denise K. Pouliot, leaders of The Cowasuck Band of the Pennacook Abenaki People in Alton, New Hampshire.
Join us for an exploration of the local glacial and bedrock geology of the Clark Reserve in Chocorua with geologist Rick Allmendinger.
Join Cook Memorial Library and Chocorua Lake Conservancy for "The People of the Dawnland—the Evolution of the Abenaki and Wabanaki Peoples of the Northeast from First European Contact Up to the Present," with Anne Jennison.
Join Cook Memorial Library and Chocorua Lake Conservancy for a New Hampshire Humanities program with Robert Goodby, professor of Anthropology at Franklin Pierce College.
Join Cook Memorial Library and Chocorua Lake Conservancy via Zoom for a 2-hour participatory workshop with Maine-Wabanaki REACH.
Join Cook Memorial Library and Chocorua Lake Conservancy via Zoom for “Interacting with Wabanaki-Maine History” with Maine-Wabanaki REACH.
Stop by the Cook Library in Tamworth to pick up a copy of Dawnland Voices: An Anthology of Indigenous Writing from New England with a bookmark of suggested readings, and then join a group conversation via Zoom.
Join Cook Memorial Library and Chocorua Lake Conservancy for a screening of the film Dawnland, and the short film Dear Georgina, followed by a Q&A with Esther Anne, film participant and co-director of Maine-Wabanaki REACH; gkisedtanamoogk, film participant and Truth and Reconciliation Commission commissioner; and film director Adam Mazo.
Stop by the Cook Library in Tamworth to pick up a copy of Dawnland Voices: An Anthology of Indigenous Writing from New England with a bookmark of suggested readings.
Join Cook Memorial Library and Chocorua Lake Conservancy for “Poetry and the Land,” a reading and conversation with poet Cheryl Savageau. Savageau’s poems draw on her Abenaki and French heritage, and her deep roots in the Granite State.
More than 12,000 years ago, small groups of Paleoindians endured frigid winters on the edge of a small river in what would become Keene, New Hampshire...
An exploration of the local glacial and bedrock geology of the Clark Reserve in Chocorua with geologist Rick Allmendinger and naturalist Lynne Flaccus. The hike will offer an opportunity to see eskers, glacial meltwater channels, and kame terraces, as well as two types of granite with different ages.
An exploration of the local glacial and bedrock geology of the Clark Reserve in Chocorua with geologist Rick Allmendinger and naturalist Lynne Flaccus. The hike will offer an opportunity to see eskers, glacial meltwater channels, and kame terraces, as well as two types of granite with different ages.
Each new season offers us opportunities to notice the always-changing world around us, and spring is a thrilling time to take our noticing outdoors.
Celebrate the end of the busy summer season with a magical lantern parade on Chocorua Lake at dusk.
We know how hard it is to get through a New Hampshire winter even with all the modern conveniences. How did the people who inhabited these lands before English colonists arrived live and survive through our changing seasons?
