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More than The Castle at the Castle in the Clouds this Summer
Castle in the Clouds biggest summer event season ever
continues with nature Walks and Talks, the popular Wednesday
night lecture series, and Science Center programs for kids.
The nature Walks and Talks program
continues on Monday, August 23, from 10 AM to noon, with Robert Newton,
Professor of Geology at Smith College, who will highlight the Geology of
the Ossipees. On August 6, Wendy Scribner, a Carroll Country Forester
will conduct a tree identification walk and on August 20, Rick Van de
Poll, a naturalist who has been surveying the Ossipee Mountain terrain
for the Lakes Region Conservation Trust, will talk about mushrooms.
And, back by popular demand, the Castle in the Clouds Wednesday Night
Lecture Series begins on August 1st with a lecture titled
“Sheep on the Mountain and an Old Calico Quilt” by historic textile
expert, Jane Nylander of Portsmouth. Ms. Nylander, past President of the
Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities and former
Curator of Textiles at Old Sturbridge Village will show actual artifacts
from the early farms on the Ossipee Mountains as she looks at how early
settlers in the Lakes Region produced homespun materials, from raising
sheep to spinning weaving, knitting, and sewing.
On August 8, Cristina Ashjian, a respected
independent scholar from Moultonborough, will delve more deeply into the
fascinating history of the Castle in the Clouds property with a lecture
titled "Plant’s Castle Revisited: Country Life at Lucknow.”
On August 15, David Watters, Professor of
English at the University of New Hampshire, will talk about “Robert
Frost’s New Hampshire." Frost, whose work was deeply affected by
New Hampshire landscape and people, spent one summer living in an old
farmhouse on the Castle in the Clouds property.
On August 22, in the final lecture of the series, noted author Tom
Wessels, will introduce a new approach to interpreting a forest’s
history while wondering through it. Based on his popular book, “Reading
the Forested Landscape," Mr. Wessels, founding director of the
Conservation Biology Masters Degree Program at Antioch University New
England Graduate School in Keene, NH, will give us a new way of looking
at our forests and interpreting the stories they tell that some say is
like a walk through the woods with a CSI team member.
The Free Castle Lecture Series, partially funded by the Meredith Village
Savings Bank, begins at 7:30 in the Carriage House. Participants should
use Ossipee Park Road entrance.
And throughout the summer, every Friday at 1 p.m., meeting in front of
the Carriage House, the Castle presents its free kid's programs hosted
by the Science Center. Each Friday program gives kids an up close look
at nature and wildlife in New Hampshire with many hands-on exhibits. For
complete details, visit www.castleintheclouds.org and click on "kid's
programs."
Castle in the Clouds, which is open daily from 10 AM to 4:30 PM, is
owned by the Lakes Region Conservation Trust and supported by the Castle
Preservation Society, a non-profit organization dedicated to the
restoration and care of Lucknow, Tom Plant’s mountain top mansion, and
the entire Castle in the Clouds property. For more information on the
Castle or the summer programs, call 476-5900 or visit the web site,
www.castleintheclouds.org.
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