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SUMMARY:Big Migrations Volunteer Information Session
DESCRIPTION:Big Migrations Volunteer Information Session \nMonday\, March 2\, 6 – 7 pm\nat the Hitchcock Center \nBecome a Salamander Volunteer after an Information and Training Session! Come to Hitchcock Center for a presentation by Environmental Educator Jeff Mazur all about the Big Migrations season\, what to expect\, data collection\, how to help the salamanders cross Henry Street (and how not to help!) and how human community can support local wildlife and our amphibious neighbors.  \n*Sign up for this event even if you don’t plan to attend to receive 2026 Big Migrations updates to your inbox* \nSIGN UP TO ATTEND
URL:https://www.hitchcockcenter.org/event/big-migrations-volunteer-information-session/
CATEGORIES:Family Programs
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SUMMARY:Little Bear Nature Walk
DESCRIPTION:Little Bear Nature Walks  \nWith Chrissy Larson\nAges 0-5 (Adult required to attend with child)\n10:00 a.m. – 11:15 a.m.\nWalks are outdoors and take place unless there is extreme weather.\nSee dates and locations here \nLittle Bear Nature Walks are guided\, open-ended walks that allow toddlers\, preschoolers and their caregivers explore nature in an age-appropriate way. While on the walk\, children borrow a backpack filled with simple tools for exploring and are led by a preschool educator. Children investigate plants and animals\, engage with rocks\, soil and water\, and use their imaginations to play with the world. Walks incorporate observation\, inquiry\, and sensory learning. Each has a loose theme and includes a trail-side storytime. Come along with us! \nSee dates and locations here
URL:https://www.hitchcockcenter.org/event/little-bear-nature-walk-3/2026-03-03/
CATEGORIES:Family Programs
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SUMMARY:Little Bear Nature Walk
DESCRIPTION:Little Bear Nature Walks  \nWith Chrissy Larson\nAges 0-5 (Adult required to attend with child)\n10:00 a.m. – 11:15 a.m.\nWalks are outdoors and take place unless there is extreme weather.\nSee dates and locations here \nLittle Bear Nature Walks are guided\, open-ended walks that allow toddlers\, preschoolers and their caregivers explore nature in an age-appropriate way. While on the walk\, children borrow a backpack filled with simple tools for exploring and are led by a preschool educator. Children investigate plants and animals\, engage with rocks\, soil and water\, and use their imaginations to play with the world. Walks incorporate observation\, inquiry\, and sensory learning. Each has a loose theme and includes a trail-side storytime. Come along with us! \nSee dates and locations here
URL:https://www.hitchcockcenter.org/event/little-bear-nature-walk-3/2026-03-09/
CATEGORIES:Family Programs
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260319T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260319T111500
DTSTAMP:20260405T132009
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SUMMARY:Little Bear Nature Walk
DESCRIPTION:Little Bear Nature Walks  \nWith Chrissy Larson\nAges 0-5 (Adult required to attend with child)\n10:00 a.m. – 11:15 a.m.\nWalks are outdoors and take place unless there is extreme weather.\nSee dates and locations here \nLittle Bear Nature Walks are guided\, open-ended walks that allow toddlers\, preschoolers and their caregivers explore nature in an age-appropriate way. While on the walk\, children borrow a backpack filled with simple tools for exploring and are led by a preschool educator. Children investigate plants and animals\, engage with rocks\, soil and water\, and use their imaginations to play with the world. Walks incorporate observation\, inquiry\, and sensory learning. Each has a loose theme and includes a trail-side storytime. Come along with us! \nSee dates and locations here
URL:https://www.hitchcockcenter.org/event/little-bear-nature-walk-3/2026-03-19/
CATEGORIES:Family Programs
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260319T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260319T200000
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SUMMARY:On the Same Page '26: Beaver Tales with Dr. Bruchac
DESCRIPTION:Beaver Tales: Native Traditions and Colonial Relations\nThursday\, March 19 at 7:00 p.m.\nLocated at North Amherst Library Meeting Room\n\nThis talk by Dr. Margaret M. Bruchac considers shifts in Indigenous approaches to hunting beaver in the Connecticut River valley. For millennia\, hunting practices were rooted in reciprocity and sustainability\, as recorded in oral traditions and archaeological records. During the 1600s\, however\, the English colonial settler fur trade encouraged over-hunting and introduced a debt economy\, provoking land loss and conflicts that resonate into the present day. \nDr. Margaret M. Bruchac is Professor Emerita of Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania\, where she founded the Native American and Indigenous Studies Initiative. For more than 30 years\, she has also served as a consultant to Historic Northampton\, Historic Deerfield\, the Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association\, and Old Sturbridge Village Museum.\nThis is part of the On the Same Page 2026 Community Read! A series of free programs for all in collaboration with Amherst Jones Library.  \nLearn more about the program series \n 
URL:https://www.hitchcockcenter.org/event/on-the-same-page-26-beaver-tales-with-dr-bruchac/
CATEGORIES:Family Programs
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SUMMARY:On the Same Page '26: Family Beaver StoryWalk
DESCRIPTION:Family Beaver StoryWalk and Program\n\nSaturday\, March 21 at 10:00 a.m. – Wentworth Farm Conservation Area\nKatie Koerten\, Hitchcock Center Education Director\n \n\nWood you believe that beavers are some of nature’s most important engineers? Join the Hitchcock Center for a beaver StoryWalk for young ones! We’ll waddle through beaver habitat\, reading the pages of a beaver-themed StoryWalk as we go. We’ll slap our “tails\,” waddle like beavers\, and sing a song about our favorite lodge-builders. Spend time in the outdoors engaging in early literacy and movement. Best for little explorers ages 1-6 with their caregivers. Led by Katie Koerten of the Hitchcock Center.\nThis is part of the On the Same Page 2026 Community Read! A series of free programs for all in collaboration with Amherst Jones Library.  \nLearn more about the program series
URL:https://www.hitchcockcenter.org/event/on-the-same-page-26-family-beaver-storywalk/
CATEGORIES:Family Programs
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260323T180000
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SUMMARY:On the Same Page '26: Screening of "Beaver Family Life"
DESCRIPTION:Screening of Beaver Family Life\n\nMonday\, March 23 at 6:00 p.m. – Hitchcock Center @ 845 West Street \n\nJoin us at the Hitchcock Center for a screening of a new documentary by New England Forests\, as we follow a beaver family over a year’s time\, beginning in autumn as they prepare for and endure winter; and then as warm spring and summer weather returns. The filmmaker\, Ray Asselin\, will be on hand to answer questions.\nThis is part of the On the Same Page 2026 Community Read! A series of free programs for all in collaboration with Amherst Jones Library.  \nLearn more about the program series
URL:https://www.hitchcockcenter.org/event/on-the-same-page-26-screening-of-beaver-family-life/
CATEGORIES:Family Programs
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260325T100000
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SUMMARY:Little Bear Nature Walk
DESCRIPTION:Little Bear Nature Walks  \nWith Chrissy Larson\nAges 0-5 (Adult required to attend with child)\n10:00 a.m. – 11:15 a.m.\nWalks are outdoors and take place unless there is extreme weather.\nSee dates and locations here \nLittle Bear Nature Walks are guided\, open-ended walks that allow toddlers\, preschoolers and their caregivers explore nature in an age-appropriate way. While on the walk\, children borrow a backpack filled with simple tools for exploring and are led by a preschool educator. Children investigate plants and animals\, engage with rocks\, soil and water\, and use their imaginations to play with the world. Walks incorporate observation\, inquiry\, and sensory learning. Each has a loose theme and includes a trail-side storytime. Come along with us! \nSee dates and locations here
URL:https://www.hitchcockcenter.org/event/little-bear-nature-walk-3/2026-03-25/
CATEGORIES:Family Programs
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260325T190000
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SUMMARY:On the Same Page '26: Author Event with Leila Philip
DESCRIPTION:On the Same Page with Leila Philip\n\nWednesday\, March 25 at 7:00 pm\nAt Munson Memorial Library Hall \n\nJoin us for an exciting in-person evening with author Leila Philip\, as she reads from and discusses her book Beaverland. \nThis is part of the On the Same Page 2026 Community Read! A series of free programs for all in collaboration with Amherst Jones Library.  \nLearn more about the program series
URL:https://www.hitchcockcenter.org/event/on-the-same-page-26-author-event-with-leila-philip/
CATEGORIES:Family Programs
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260328T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260328T111500
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SUMMARY:Little Bear Nature Walk
DESCRIPTION:Little Bear Nature Walks  \nWith Chrissy Larson\nAges 0-5 (Adult required to attend with child)\n10:00 a.m. – 11:15 a.m.\nWalks are outdoors and take place unless there is extreme weather.\nSee dates and locations here \nLittle Bear Nature Walks are guided\, open-ended walks that allow toddlers\, preschoolers and their caregivers explore nature in an age-appropriate way. While on the walk\, children borrow a backpack filled with simple tools for exploring and are led by a preschool educator. Children investigate plants and animals\, engage with rocks\, soil and water\, and use their imaginations to play with the world. Walks incorporate observation\, inquiry\, and sensory learning. Each has a loose theme and includes a trail-side storytime. Come along with us! \nSee dates and locations here
URL:https://www.hitchcockcenter.org/event/little-bear-nature-walk-3/2026-03-28/
CATEGORIES:Family Programs
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260331T100000
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SUMMARY:Little Bear Nature Walk
DESCRIPTION:Little Bear Nature Walks  \nWith Chrissy Larson\nAges 0-5 (Adult required to attend with child)\n10:00 a.m. – 11:15 a.m.\nWalks are outdoors and take place unless there is extreme weather.\nSee dates and locations here \nLittle Bear Nature Walks are guided\, open-ended walks that allow toddlers\, preschoolers and their caregivers explore nature in an age-appropriate way. While on the walk\, children borrow a backpack filled with simple tools for exploring and are led by a preschool educator. Children investigate plants and animals\, engage with rocks\, soil and water\, and use their imaginations to play with the world. Walks incorporate observation\, inquiry\, and sensory learning. Each has a loose theme and includes a trail-side storytime. Come along with us! \nSee dates and locations here
URL:https://www.hitchcockcenter.org/event/little-bear-nature-walk-3/2026-03-31/
CATEGORIES:Family Programs
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