StoryWalk® Sunday—April 2025

A special Earth Celebration Day walk along the StoryWalk® trail with a Butterfly Release!

The April StoryWalk® event is held in conjunction with Buttonwood’s Earth Celebration Day. See that event here.

The book, Waiting for Wings by Lois Ehlert (author and illustrator), celebrates spring.

Every spring, butterflies emerge and dazzle the world with their vibrant beauty.
But where do butterflies come from? How are they born? What do they eat—and how do they eat?

Simple rhyming text and color-drenched collage art answers tthese and other questions, as the story follows the life cycle of four common butterflies, from their beginnings as tiny hidden eggs and hungry caterpillars to their transformation into full-grown butterflies. The book also includes butterfly and flower facts and identification tips, as well as a guide to planting a butterfly garden.

Kids will enjoy a guided walk along the story trail as they read the book and participate in fun activities.

“After the story trail, we’ll have a special butterfly release,” said Mary Claire King, Buttonwood’s watershed science coordinator and the event organizer.

The event is FREE and registration is not required. For more information, email to: info@buttonwoodnaturecenter.org or call 717-762-0373. 

All families are welcome, but activities are geared for preschool and elementary age kids.

Beginning in 2025, the stories posted on the StoryWalk® trail at Pine Hill Park will change every two months, with a special StoryWalk event scheduled to mark each season.

Pine Hill’s StoryWalk® trail, a Buttonwood/Institute project, was funded in part by Summit Endowment, Marge Kiersz and Rouzerville Business Association, with in-kind support from Washington Township, Hopewell Manufacturing, Waynesboro Area School District “Be the Village,” and Alexander Hamilton Memorial Free Library.

Additional support is from our Today’s Horizon Fund contributors: The Nora Roberts Foundation; the late Alma W. Oyer; Marge Kiersz; APX Enclosures; Don Gibe and Nancy Erlanson; and the family of the late Carolyn Terry Eddy, with daughters Connie Fleagle & Kim Larkin. Facility support courtesy of Washington Township.

The StoryWalk® Project was created by Anne Ferguson of Montpelier, VT and developed in collaboration with the Kellogg-Hubbard Library. StoryWalk® is a registered service mark owned by Ms. Ferguson.