SOAR (“Studying Ornithology At Renfrew”) is now virtually year-round! First and third Saturday summer, fall and winter bird walks began on June 16! Birding enthusiasts Sharon and Larry Williams of Waynesboro will lead the walks along the hiking trails at Renfrew Park throughout the summer, and continue in the fall and winter this year. Walks begin at Renfrew’s […]
NEW this year for Summer Institute! Learn how to create your own colorful fabric with a pin loom. Materials include a 200-yard skein (your choice of colored yarn), personal loom, needle, and patterns for how to warp and weave. During the class we will complete one square, but the pattern shows ideas for further projects. […]
Discover park trails and hidden wonders! Come hike the trails of Renfrew. Hikers will discover park trails and hidden wonders, accompanied by institute staff member Kathy Seiler and others. As they explore some of the less-traveled areas of the park, participants will learn about the natural world around them. “We’ll hike trails called Great Blue […]
To celebrate 2018's designation as the Year of the Bird, Tom Keller, the bobwhite quail and wild pheasant biologist with the Pennsylvania Game Commission (PGC), will discuss the reintroduction of the Northern Bobwhite Quail to the Letterkenny Army Depot area. Once a popular game bird and a beloved mascot of the Pennsylvania farmer, the bobwhite quail […]
Donna Selfridge Spangler will lead a workshop to teach the historic art of the fraktur, a Pennsylvania German tradition to decorate documents such as birth or marriage certificates. Using pens, ink and watercolors, and their choice of laid or woven paper, both used during the time period of fraktur, participants will learn basic fraktur lettering and what […]
First program in the 3-part lecture series, Penn’s Woods Over Time. Presented by Dr. David Foster, Professor of Biology & Environmental Science, Messiah College (photo). A local author and forager, Foster spent over a year and a half living outside, and has studied the plants of the world from Pennsylvania to Washington state, Alaska, Florida and the desert […]
Location Change: We have moved this popular series to a larger venue: Social Room of the Church of the Apostles, 336 Barnett Avenue, Waynesboro, Pa. Second program in the 3-part lecture series, Penn’s Woods Over Time. Presented by Dr. Beth Brantley, Associate Teaching Professor of Forestry, Mont Alto Campus Penn State University, where she teaches plant […]
Location Change: We have moved this popular series to a larger venue: Social Room of the Church of the Apostles, 336 Barnett Avenue, Waynesboro, Pa. Final program in the 3-part lecture series, Penn’s Woods Over Time. Presented by Dr. Steve Jasinski, Curator of Paleontology and Geology, State Museum of Pennsylvania. Was Tyrannosaurus rex roaming Pennsylvanian […]
Geologist Jeri Jones In partnership with the Franklin Co. Rock & Mineral Club, geologist Jeri Jones presents a fun and educational program. There have been many reports of gold found in southeastern Pennsylvania and Maryland, where commercial mines operated into the 1940s. Also, learn how fossils are formed and how to find them. Jones will […]
Lane Whigham with an Eastern Hellbender, a species of salamander that live in Pennsylvania waterways. Find out “What’s Up With the Chesapeake Bay?” during a free program on Thursday, April 25 at 7 p.m. in the visitors center at Renfrew Park. The program is presented by Renfrew Institute in partnership with the Antietam Watershed Association […]
Wild, wonderful West Virginia will be the destination of this year's fossil-hunting field trip. Renfrew Institute member discount: $5 per seat. Geologist Jeri Jones will lead the “Almost Heaven Fossil Trip” on Saturday, May 4, from 8:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sponsored by Renfrew Institute in partnership with the Franklin County Rock & Mineral Club, […]
Youth Festival: Be a Hero! Geared for kids of all ages, the event features a variety of workshops, demonstrations, activities, and entertainment throughout the day, including a performance by the Waynesboro Children’s Theatre Troupe. The featured guest performance is by the Maryland Entertainment Group (MEG), Heroic King Arthur and the Sword and the Stone. Click here […]
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