“The retreat brings people together, builds community in the forest, gets participants outside and off their screens, and uses nature sustainably to heal and inspire minds and souls,” stated Great Mountain Forest Executive Director Michael Zafros. Retreat registration closes on July 30.
Much has been written about Martin Luther King Jr. and the 1963 March on Washington, but there's little on his legendary speech and how King came to write it.
Maplefest attendees will be able to visit a working sugar house, observe the finishing and bottling of the final product, try their hands at tapping a tree and gathering sap, and taste homemade syrup on pancakes and “sugar on snow.”
In response to a study of Norman Rockwell’s ‘Golden Rule,’ on exhibit at the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, Maegan Warner’s third grade class at Muddy Brook Elementary School wrote a poem, and marched a print of the illustration through the school.
