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January 2022
Friday Morning Healthy Hikes!
Hiking is a great way to improve your physical and mental health! On Friday, January 21 from 10 - 11:30 AM, join the park naturalist for a quickly paced 2.5 mile hike along the trails of WCHP. Please keep in mind that these hikes are intended to maintain a quick hiking pace. Prepare yourself for the day by bringing a full water bottle, wearing sturdy shoes, and dressing for the weather! To register and receive the meeting location for these program please email mtruesdale@pa.gov.
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Hiking is a great way to improve your physical and mental health! On Friday, January 28 from 10 - 11:30 AM, join the park naturalist for a quickly paced 2.5 mile hike along the trails of WCHP. Please keep in mind that these hikes are intended to maintain a quick hiking pace. Prepare yourself for the day by bringing a full water bottle, wearing sturdy shoes, and dressing for the weather! To register and receive the meeting location for these program please email mtruesdale@pa.gov.
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Fly Tying Basics: A Workshop Program Series
Learn the art of tying fishing flies and discover stream ecology! Catching a fish on a hand tied fly that you tied can be an extremely rewarding experience! Join the Park Naturalist for basic fly tying instruction and some watershed education, every Wednesday evening in February from 6:00pm - 7:30pm. Participants will hone and develop fly tying skills through weekly hands on instruction and will tie flies to take home! All materials will be provided, but you are welcome to bring your own tying equipment. Cost for this four class program series is $15 per person and must be paid…
Find out more »Fly Tying Basics: A Workshop Program Series
Learn the art of tying fishing flies and discover stream ecology! Catching a fish on a hand tied fly that you tied can be an extremely rewarding experience! Join the Park Naturalist for basic fly tying instruction and some watershed education, every Wednesday evening in February from 6:00pm - 7:30pm. Participants will hone and develop fly tying skills through weekly hands on instruction and will tie flies to take home! All materials will be provided, but you are welcome to bring your own tying equipment. Cost for this four class program series is $15 per person and must be paid…
Find out more »Lecture – The Revolutionary World of a Free Black Man: Jacob Francis 1754-1836
On Sunday, February 13 at 1:30 PM, author William L. Kidder will discuss his new book The Revolutionary World of a Free Black Man: Jacob Francis 1754-1836. Born in Amwell Township to a free Black mother, Jacob Francis lived his 82-year life in a world of revolutionary change. He became caught up in the rising tide of revolution in the 1760s and 70s and served fourteen months in the 16th Continental Army regiment, including at the Battle of Trenton, and then in the Third Hunterdon County militia regiment for over six years. Establishing himself as a farmer, he married an…
Find out more »Fly Tying Basics: A Workshop Program Series
Learn the art of tying fishing flies and discover stream ecology! Catching a fish on a hand tied fly that you tied can be an extremely rewarding experience! Join the Park Naturalist for basic fly tying instruction and some watershed education, every Wednesday evening in February from 6:00pm - 7:30pm. Participants will hone and develop fly tying skills through weekly hands on instruction and will tie flies to take home! All materials will be provided, but you are welcome to bring your own tying equipment. Cost for this four class program series is $15 per person and must be paid…
Find out more »February Book Club: Surviving the Winters
The February 2022 meeting of the Washington Crossing Historic Park Book Club is set for Tuesday, February 22 at 5:30 PM. This meeting will be held virtually using Zoom. Registration is required. To register, please visit DCNR's website. Zoom meeting details will be provided upon registration. Museum curator Kimberly McCarty will continue the club's discussion of Surviving the Winters: Housing Washington’s Army During the American Revolution by Steven Elliott. Participants should be prepared to discuss chapters six and seven. Book club meetings are free and open to all. Members should provide their own books.
Find out more »Fly Tying Basics: A Workshop Program Series
Learn the art of tying fishing flies and discover stream ecology! Catching a fish on a hand tied fly that you tied can be an extremely rewarding experience! Join the Park Naturalist for basic fly tying instruction and some watershed education, every Wednesday evening in February from 6:00pm - 7:30pm. Participants will hone and develop fly tying skills through weekly hands on instruction and will tie flies to take home! All materials will be provided, but you are welcome to bring your own tying equipment. Cost for this four class program series is $15 per person and must be paid…
Find out more »March 2022
March Book Club: Manufacturing Independence
In partnership with the Friends of Washington Crossing Park the March meeting of the Washington Crossing Historic Park Book Club is set for Monday, March 21, 2022 at 5:30 PM. This meeting will be held virtually using Zoom. Registration is required. To register, please visit the DCNR's website. Zoom meeting details will be provided upon registration. Museum curator Kimberly McCarty will lead a discussion of the book club’s next selection: Manufacturing Independence: Industrial Innovation in the American Revolution by Robert F. Smith; Introduction - Chapter 2. Book club meetings are free and open to all. Members should provide their own…
Find out more »Project Learning Tree Teacher Workshop
On Tuesday, Tuesday March 29 from 9 AM - 3:30 PM, Educators in South-East PA are invited join the Environmental Education Specialists of Delaware Canal State Park and Washington Crossing Historic Park at the Buckstone Farm in Washington Crossing, PA for a fee teacher workshop. This workshop is for formal and non-formal educators teaching grades K-2. During this one-day workshop, you will become trained in the nationwide curriculum, Project Learning Tree! All participants will receive a copy of the PLT K-12 curriculum and activity guide book. Teachers with PPID number will receive 6 Act 48 hours. Limited to 25 participants.…
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