Family Nature Program at the HSRC

FREE Family Nature Program at the Historical Society of Rockland County!

Sunday, August 18, 2013 at 3:00pm

Admission Free, reservations strongly encouraged. All ages are welcome!

Join the HSRC as we welcome Mary Lynne Malone, Director of the Regional Museums in Harriman State Park, and her staff who will come to the HSRC for an afternoon of live animals and nature activities. Participants will learn interesting facts about local animals including common misconceptions and folk tales.

Guests will also be welcome to visit the HSRC’s current exhibition: Greetings from Summer Camp – 100 Years of Groups Summer Camps in Harriman State Park.  This exhibition tells this story using archival photos, historical text, video clips, camp paraphernalia, interactive maps and visual presentations. It also includes an interactive component allowing visitors to record their own camp stories to help create an oral history of the program. Primarily, the exhibit features the children’s camps, but will also highlight the worker, family and outdoor camps.

Harriman Park has had a rich history of sharing nature with campers so that they would develop a stewardship that would blossom through time and help to protect the park for generations to come. 

The exhibition, and all of the exhibition's auxiliary programs including this Family Nature Program, have been made possible by generous contributions from: United Water, Orange & Rockland Utilities, The Sheridan Family, The Len Camber Trust, The Palisades Park Conservancy and Sotheby’s. In addition, the HSRC gives special thanks to Elizabeth Sayles and The Palisades Interstate Parks Commission for their assistance with the preparation of the exhibition.

To make reservations or to learn more about this program or the exhibition, call the HSRC at 845-634-9629 or email info@RocklandHistory.org.

www.RocklandHistory.org

The Historical Society of Rockland County is a nonprofit educational institution and principal repository for original documents and artifacts relating to Rockland County. Its headquarters are a four-acre site featuring a history museum and the 1832 Jacob Blauvelt House located at 20 Zukor Road, New City, New York 10956.