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  • Living Building Tour

    Did you know the Hitchcock Center is a Living Building? It is the 23rd building in the world and the 4th in Massachusetts to achieve the Certified Living Building designation! […]

    FREE

  • Owl Prowl

    Dress INCREDIBLY warm because we'll be standing around in the dark a lot. Bring your sharp ears, a flashlight, and a thermos of something hot to drink. We will meet […]

    $12 – $16

  • Nature Play Afterschool: Winter Session

    Playing outside in the winter is super awesome! Hitchcock’s Nature Play Afterschool Program is designed to let kids be kids. Together we will run, jump, climb, invent, imagine, play and be free-range kids all while developing self-confidence and learning valuable social skills. During Winter Nature Play we will explore wooded trails and fields, play in […]

    $210 – $252

  • Going Green Saving Green Luncheon

    While sometimes climate and economic development goals can be viewed as adversarial, the Amherst Area Chamber seeks to rewrite that narrative revealing the ways business and sustainability goals can have […]

    $25 – $35

  • Nature Play Afterschool: Winter Session

    Playing outside in the winter is super awesome! Hitchcock’s Nature Play Afterschool Program is designed to let kids be kids. Together we will run, jump, climb, invent, imagine, play and […]

    $255 – $306

  • Spring Birding

    Join this Hitchcock tradition! Scott has been leading classes since 1979. Space is limited and in high demand. with Scott Surner Evening classes at Hitchcock: Wednesdays, 6:30-8pm, February 12, April […]

    $315 – $380

  • Girls into the Wild: Winter Session

    Often you just need to run, explore and play outdoors! That’s what we do at Girls into the Wild, and lots more. Girls into the Wild is designed to get […]

    $300 – $360

  • Nature Discovery Winter Preschool: Signs of Animals and Tracking

    Celebrate the outdoors in winter with your preschooler and Colleen. Come prepared for winter outdoor exploration! Sign up for one, two or all three winter programs. Friday, January 24: Animals Getting Ready for Winter Friday, February 14: Signs of Animals and Tracking Friday, February 28: Slip, Slide — Ice and Snow! With Colleen Kelley Ages […]

    $25 – $30

  • In a Valley: A reading of poems by local poet Sara Eddy written in collaboration with Dominique Thiebaut’s landscape photography

    ...your heart has always been here, one foot on Mt. Castor, the other on Mt. Pollux, the twins sending out succor and safety to sailors, granting them passage home and blessing them with a constellation’s infinite confidence: you will find your way back, always. (excerpt from “Your Whole Life”) Local poet Sara Eddy will read […]

    FREE