StoryWalk® Sunday—February 2025

Our guided walks along the StoryWalk® trail continue.

NEW for 2025, special events will happen four times a year to mark the season. Each StoryWalk® event celebrates the new season in a fun and meaningful way with extra fun and special activities.

The February book is Hibernation Station by Michelle Meadows, with illustrations by Kurt Cyrus. Sweet rhyming text delights young readers as the story introduces them to different types of hibernating animals.

The creatures on the train are preparing to snuggle into sleep, although with a passenger list that includes chipmunks, bears, snakes, hedgehogs, groundhogs, frogs, turtles, mice, bats, and more, there’s a lot of noise! Will the hibernating critters ever get to sleep? Take a trip to Hibernation Station to find out!

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 gather around a roaring campfire where we will share s’mores and hot chocolate,” 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. 

Children in grades K–5 may be dropped off and picked up at 3 p.m. 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; 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.