Daily Archives: November 20, 2022

Tuesday, April 18 – Wednesday, April 26, 2023 – Holland and Belgium Springtime River Cruise with New England Botanical Garden at Tower Hill

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New England Botanic Garden at Tower Hill is excited to partner with Collette Travel to offer a stunning trip to Holland and Belgium to see the world-renowned tulips in the spring of 2023. During your trip you will enjoy a river cruise that explores the beauty of Europe where you will stop at key places along the way to see stunning gardens, history, and culture, including Amsterdam, Arnhem, Middelburg, Ghent, Bruges, Antwerp, Kinderdijk Windmills, and Keukenhof Gardens. This is one of New England Botanic Garden at Tower Hill’s most popular trips and for good reason. It is a plant lovers dream! For more information on the full trip itinerary view our trip page on the Collette website.

Thursday, December 1, 12:00 noon – Maria Sibylla Merian: A Biologist to the Bone, Online

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The aesthetic appeal of the images created by Maria Sibylla Merian (German, 1647-1717) has led history to label her as an artist who painted and etched natural history subjects. However, Merian was as passionate a naturalist (biologist in modern terms) as Charles Darwin or Carl Linnaeus, and like all scientists, she was impelled by her curiosity about nature.

Merian was the first person to spend decades studying the relationships of insects and plants, and her work revolutionized what came to be the field of ecology. Kay Etheridge, professor emeritus of biology at Gettysburg College, draws on Merian’s own words to consider her motivations in the context of her time and place, and discusses Merian’s body of work in comparison to that of her near-contemporaries working in natural history. The Smithsonian Associates online lecture takes place December 1 beginning at noon and is $20 for Smithsonian members, $25 for nonmembers. Register at www.smithsonianassociates.org.

Friday, December 2 – Sunday, December 4 – Nantucket Christmas Stroll

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Nantucket is particularly enchanting during the holiday season, when New England’s finest traditions come alive for the 48th Annual Christmas Stroll Weekend, December 2nd – 4th, 2022, part of Nantucket Noel, a months-long celebration organized by the Nantucket Island Chamber of Commerce.

The Annual Christmas Stroll Weekend is a community holiday celebration attracting visitors from around the world. Santa Claus arrives to the island via  Coast Guard vessel and rides up Main Street in a jolly red fire truck accompanied by the Town Crier. Carolers in Victorian costumes, bell ringers, student choirs and other musicians perform on the Main Street stage as well as stroll through town performing, all the while visitors can enjoy Nantucket’s unique shops and restaurants.

For more information, visit the. Annual Christmas Stroll Weekend webpage.