Seeking Garden Volunteers

Nature Study Museum Garden
photo: Ed McGowan

Wednesday, May 8th or Saturday, May 11th 9:30 am to 12 noon  Swing into Spring by lending a hand in the gardens at Trailside.  Reasons to Volunteer: garden for wildlife and care for the woodlands, learn more about native plants & landscapes, meet other volunteers with similar interests and talk with visitors about gardening.  Assist at Trailside events as garden educator on wildlife habitat gardening. Trailside is transforming spaces overgrown with non-native invasives into gardens for native plants preferred by wildlife.  Workdays on Wednesday and Saturday mornings.  Registration required.  Contact Elaine Brown elaine.brown@parks.ny.gov or 845-786-2701 x 265.

 The First People, the Lenape

photo: Timothy Englert

Visit the History Museum at Trailside to hear Dianne Snake, one of the few contemporary speakers of Lenape, share a brief history of the Lenape Nation.  Ms. Snake tells the story in Lenape against a photographic backdrop portraying the diversity and beauty of the Lenapehoking landscape.  The video was produced by Timothy Englert with funding from the Austen-Stokes Ancient Americas Foundation.