Welcome to the Forest Society's events calendar! Click on the event name to find more information and register through the Forest Society or one of our community partners.
Join us to help with a variety of projects at this relatively new property!
The day is composed of two guided, three-hour wildflower ID walks, led by wildflower enthusiast Ginny Jeffryes and The Rocks' Senior Outreach Manager Nigel Manley. The walks take place on the historic Mile Path, which is typically off-limits to visitors, and discuss the property's storied history, the array of plants growing there, and the forestry work done as part of The Rocks' long-range forest management plan. Choose the morning walk, from 9 AM to 12 PM, or the afternoon walk, from 1 to 4 PM.
To ramble in the United Kingdom means to get out and walk in the countryside. This new group will embrace the natural world and many of the Forest Society properties.
Each month we will host a Rocks Ramblers event, the first being an interpreted horse drawn wagon ride around the picturesque estate. Ramblers will enjoy hearing the history both recent and historic of the property which traversing the fields and lanes at The Rocks.
In this volunteer program, we engage and share information with visitors at the Mt Major trailhead parking area under our new pavilion. During this information session details about the program and training will be covered in further detail.
Become a Seed Seeker! This special opportunity is a partnership between the NH Division of Forests and Lands State Forest Nursery & the Forest Society. The NH State Nursery is looking to the Forest Society as a resource to help collect seeds from our forests across the state. Click to read more about this opportunity.
Join us the third Saturday of each month for our kids craft/nature hour at The Rocks. We will meet in the Carriage Barn and spend the first half hour completing a craft and learning about nature. Each month will feature its own theme. Then for the last 30 minutes, we will spend time outside expanding upon our monthly theme.
Come dressed to be outside and wearing sturdy shoes.
In June, we will talk about wildflowers and bees.
The rise in popularity of the Tiny House has changed how we use this wording in popular language. Come and watch a fascinating program about actual play houses and after the viewing about the play houses join Rocks staff to see the 1886 house and visit the original site of the building.
Join Bill Tyre, Executive Director and Curator of Glessner House in Chicago, as he shares one of the numerous talks he has developed on the Glessner family. This presentation will explore the lives of John and Frances Glessner, with a focus on their two homes. It will also look at the life of their son George, who served several terms in the New Hampshire state legislature, and their daughter, Frances Glessner Lee, the mother of forensic science, who created her famous Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death at The Rocks in the 1940s and 1950s.
The North Country Chamber Players have been impacting the North Country of New Hampshire for over forty-five years. The Players present world class chamber music concerts, on a Pay-What-You-Wish basis, and many free education and outreach programs for children and adults of every demographic.
At this concert, they will be performing Mahler Symphony NO. 4 ("The Heavenly Life") featuring Sara Heaton, soprano.