Posts Tagged ‘2024’

Like it or not [and, our friends in Door Peninsula Astronomical Society actually do like early darkness!] the time changes this weekend. And here at Crossroads, we are observing more…

Halloween is coming and we at Crossroads at Big Creek are noticing skeletons everywhere! But we aren’t talking about holiday decorations.  This time of year, we start noticing leaf skeletons, tree…

The 2024 Wisconsin Science Festival celebrating Agriculture continues this week at Crossroads.  Even our Family Trails & Treats Event on Friday evening will feature a Wisconsin agricultural product – Pumpkins!…

The Wisconsin Science Festival begins this week, and as is our custom, Crossroads at Big Creek joins with the Door County Library to assemble speakers and events for this two-week…

We are past the meteorological fall, the autumnal equinox, and crowds of fall festivals, but for us at Crossroads, the new season starts when the maple trees start to change…

At Crossroads at Big Creek, we and many of our friends, find ourselves obsessing about clouds. Appropriately, “Clouds” will be the topic for the weekly “Science Saturday” program… but clouds—the…

This week, the Climate Change Coalition will bring Lee E. Frelich, director of the University of Minnesota Center for Forest Ecology, to present the program “The Future of Boreal Forests.” We…

The 2024 International Observe the Moon Night is Saturday, September 14, so Crossroads is collaborating with the Door Peninsula Astronomical Society (DPAS) to celebrate the NASA-sponsored event. Crossroads’ weekly 2:00…

Last week, Crossroads at Big Creek did not our regular family program, Science Saturdays, because on Saturday, September 7 from 12:00 noon to 3:30 p.m. we held our fall fundraiser, “Trails…

When we at Crossroads at Big Creek selected “Bubbles” for the topic for Science Saturdays on the final day of August, the idea was to offer an effervescent fun-filled final fling to end our…