LEXINGTON - The Kiwanis Club of Lexington celebrated a big birthday this month, commemorating 100 years of helping children and supporting the community.
Virtual Program Explores England’s Belvoir Castle
Historic New England presents a virtual program called
“Belvoir Castle and Capability Brown: Discovering a Lost Landscape” on Thursday, June 3, at noon.
From its high hill, brooding over immense tracts of Leicestershire and Lincolnshire, Belvoir Castle is one of England’s great treasure houses. Since taking charge of the estate, its chatelaine for the new millennium, Emma 11th Duchess of Rutland, has shaken off the dust-sheets and brought back to life a castle which had slept for most of the 20th century.
In this virtual program, join the Duchess as she tells the story of her discoveries, including long-forgotten landscape plans drawn up in 1780 by the great landscape designer Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown, a likely influence on Lyman Estate’s eighteenth century landscape designer William Bell. Brown’s plans for Belvoir were shelved and left forgotten– until now, over 200 years later, Emma is working to bring them
General & Multi Activities
Bilingual Theatre Workshop. Thursdays, 9 a.m.-noon. Redwood Raks World Dance Studio, 824 L St., Arcata. Presented by HC Black Music and Arts Association. info@hcblackmusicnarts.org. www.hcblackmusicnarts.org.
Camp Cooper. June 14-Aug. 6, 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Cooper Gulch Recreation Center, 1720 10th St., Eureka. Environmental education-based, application-based summer camp for qualified families. Free lunch provided by Eureka City Schools. Call for more information. Free. 707-441-4244.
Camp Muni. June 14-Aug. 6, 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Eureka Municipal Auditorium, 1120 F St. Variety of activities including arts, crafts and sports. Free lunch provided by Eureka City Schools. Call for more information. $120/resident of Eureka, $130/non resident. 441-4244.
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