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Posts by Coggin Heeringa
Looking Ahead: A Fish Tale and Comet Trails
Eyes are on the skies this week at Crossroads. Many folks seem to be longing for snow clouds, but next Saturday, it would be splendid if the skies would clear…
Read MoreLooking Ahead: Nature’s Shape
The topic for the Saturday Science program this week is “Hexagons.” It may seem to folks that we at Crossroads are obsessed with hexagons—the six-sided polygons that show up in…
Read MoreLooking Ahead: Ringing in the New Year
This weekend, Crossroads will ring in the New Year! Appropriate to the celebration, our Saturday Science Program will feature “Annual Rings,” and at 4:15 p.m. on Sunday, we host the…
Read MoreLooking Ahead: Long Nights & Twinkling Lights
With the exception of our friends in the Door Peninsula Astronomical Society who think fifteen hours of darkness is a good thing, most of us, regardless of our ancestry or…
Read MoreLooking Ahead: Counting Birds
We count birds every day at Crossroads. So why is the Annual Christmas Bird Count so important? Why are we making it a special event for adults and families? And…
Read MoreLooking Ahead: Conversations About Cones
The Collins Learning Center is decorated for the holidays, and we invite the community to come by each Saturday afternoon between 1:00-4:00 p.m. to see the handiwork of our volunteers…
Read MoreLooking Ahead: Thankful in Door County
As we approach the holidays, we see many images of Dr. Seuss’s antihero, the Grinch. But around Thanksgiving, we at Crossroads think of another Dr. Seuss character who also finally…
Read MoreLooking Ahead: Gathering In
While regularly scheduled classes and activities are taking place at Crossroads this week, it almost seems like a pause. We are done with the frenzy of the growing season and…
Read MoreLooking Ahead: Leaf Litter & Leaf Cover
At Crossroads, we are observing the plants and animals as they make their final preparations for winter, and we humans are preparing for the snowy season as well. But fall landscape work…
Read MoreLooking Ahead: Decomposition Week
With all of the superstitions and mysteries floating about this time of year, Crossroads decided to demystify the mysterious and celebrate a phenomenon that, through the ages, has been associated…
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