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Fri, 07/23/2021 - 8:15pm
CAMDEN Coastal Mountains Nature Program presents Forests of Lilliput: the Diminutive World of Mosses & Lichens on Saturday, August 7 from 10 a.m. to noon at the Hodson Preserve in Camden.
Jeff Pengel, Maine Master Naturalist and master educator, will introduce you to the subtle and often amazing world of mosses and lichens. Mostly avoiding hardcore identification, attendees will look at the many adaptations for thriving in a world full of microhabitats in order to understand their role in the larger ecosystem.
Bring a hand lens if you have one; a limited amount of loaners will be available. Attendance is limited, and sign-up is necessary at info@coastalmountains.org. If too many people sign up, Jeff is willing to repeat the walk in the afternoon.
Wells Reserve at Laudholm announces June programs
Portsmouth Herald
Tuesday, June 1, 7-10 a.m.
Bird Banding Demonstration. Visit the bird banding station at the Wells Reserve at Laudholm, where scientists from the Biodiversity Research Institute and the Maine Medical Center Research Institute study bird migration, breeding activities, life spans, and vector ecology. Free with site admission. 342 Laudholm Farm Road, Wells. 207-646-1555 wellsreserve.org
Tuesday, June 1, 10 a.m to 12.p.m
Explore the Shore. The treasures we find on the beach can tell us stories about the land, the ocean, and the beach itself. While strolling Laudholm Beach, we will explore questions about the sand, the wrack line, and found objects. Free with site admission. Register at 207-646-1555 ext 110 or caryn@wellsnerr.org. For more information, wellsreserve.org/calendar
And, best of all: universal accessibility.
If you use a wheelchair or a cane or need crutches or walking braces to get around, this trail has been blazed for you. It’s wide, level and hard-packed for your ease and comfort.
“It’s a jewel,” said Gordon Collins, the vice president of Friends of Hope Cemetery & Woods.
The Friends of Hope Cemetery & Woods are expected to celebrate the official opening of the new, accessible trail with a snip of the ol’ ribbon by the Kennebunk-Kennebunkport-Arundel Chamber of Commerce on Friday, May 14.
The woods tucked behind Hope Cemetery on Barnard Lane in downtown Kennebunk comprise 72 acres of forest and meadows and offer nature trails that are open to the public all year long.
University of Maine at Augusta
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The Outbreak Project exhibition, the fine arts component of the wider collaborative Outbreak Project and Plunkett Poetry Festival, explores this year’s academic theme “Outbreak” through the visual arts and will be on display Tuesday, April 6, through Friday, April 30, at the Charles Danforth Gallery at the University of Maine at Augusta. The exhibition, selected by a jury of art leaders drawn from community arts organizations and the University of Maine System, draws from works submitted through an open submission process for the show.
The exhibition will circulate, conceptually and physically, around an installation and performance work by Maine artist and UMA lecturer Patricia Brace. Brace’s work, “Stage” will be a constructed plywood cubic space installed within the recessed center of the Danforth Gallery. With audiovisual equipment installed above, performance artists will choreograph and perform live-streamed dance-bas