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  • Saturday, September 29, 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm – A New View of Olde Cape Cod: How LiDAR Lights Up the Landscape

    Visit The Cape Cod Museum of Natural History on Saturday, September 29  at 1 pm for an interesting lecture entitled A New View of Olde Cape Cod: How LiDAR Lights Up the Landscape. Would you like to see the Cape’s landscape just as it was after the last major glacial advance, and in great detail? Richard Heeley will explore that landscape with a new technique, called LiDAR, which stands for Light Detection and Ranging. In airborne LiDAR, pulsed laser beams are transmitted from an aircraft, bounce off solid ground, and return to the detection unit. So many pulses are sent that some always pass through vegetative cover, and the remainder is filtered out.

    Heeley will take a detailed look at the area in Barnstable and Sandwich that surrounds the Olde Fairgrounds Golf Course and the West Barnstable Conservation Area. He will also look at the entire area containing the moraine ridges that constitute the “backbone of Cape Cod,” from a little east of Bass River to Buzzards Bay–an area covering nearly two thirds of the Cape’s landmass. This will provide an overview of how the Upper Cape was constructed, and the LiDAR mapping will be supplemented with topographic mapping and cross sections available online through a U.S. Geological Survey program called “the National Map.”

    Richard studied geology at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, where he completed a Master of Science degree in Hydrogeology specializing in glacial geology.

    Free with Museum Admission

    For more information please call: 508-896-3867, ext. 133, or visit http://www.ccmnh.org/Events/A-New-View-of-Olde-Cape-Cod

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  • Saturday, June 9, 11:30 – 12:30 am and 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm – Plants Behaving Badly

    The Cape Cod Museum of Natural History presents a two part PBS documentary film Plants Behaving Badly on Saturday, June 9 at 11:30 am and 1 pm.  Two groups of plants exhibit such intriguing behavior that a century and a half ago they attracted the attention of Charles Darwin. These same plants, the orchids and the carnivorous plants, still fascinate scientists today. In two one-hour films, Plants Behaving Badly reveals a world of deceit and treachery worthy of any fictional thriller. The Museum is located at 869 Main Street, Route 6A in Brewster. Free with admission. For more information visit http://www.ccmnh.org/Events

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  • Sunday, February 18, 10:30 am or 12:30 pm – Amazing Animal Ambassadors

    Bethany Jakubson is the owner of Amazing Animal Ambassadors and grew up on Cape Cod. She has been working in zoos and aquariums since 2006 and went on to get a Bachelor of Science degree in Captive Wildlife Care and Education at Unity College in Maine. She has studied Wildlife Management through the University of Pretoria in South Africa as well. Bethany went on to work for several traveling companies who teach with an assortment of animals, and over the years she has rescued many animals of her own. Two years ago she started the company using some of the animals she had rescued over the years and since then has been expanding the business to have a wide variety of reptiles, birds, mammals and even amphibians and insects. It is Bethany’s passion.

    Bethany will be bringing to this Cape Cod Museum of Natural History program some of her favorite members of the natural world including: Cali, the talking Sulfur Crested Cockatoo; Boomerang, the Kookaburra, a member of the Kingfisher family; Big Red, the Red Tegu which is a large lizard from the rain forest of South America; Milo the Fennec Fox and Peter Pan the African Pygmy Hedgehog (pictured) that is covered with quills but not related to the porcupine. Bethany will also be bringing an assortment of smaller reptiles and insects. Fun for the whole family! Tickets ($8 for museum members, $12 for nonmembers) available online at http://www.ccmnh.org/Events/Amazing-Animal-Ambassadors $15 at the door. For more information call 508-896-3867, x 133. The Museum is located in Brewster, Massachusetts.

     

  • Wednesday, December 27, 10:00 am, 12:30 pm, and 3:00 pm – Owls of the World – Who’s Watching You?

    The Cape Cod Museum of Natural History in Brewster presents its annual Owls of the World event on Wednesday, December 27 at three times, 10, 12:30, and 3. Have you ever seen an owl up close? Join naturalist Marcia Wilson and photographer Mark Wilson as they introduce you to live owls of New England and beyond…including the Great Horned Owl, the Snowy Owl and the Eurasian Eagle Owl. The owls you will see, due to injury or mishap, are unable to survive in the wild. Learn about their field marks and natural history. Everyone is treated to a hooting lesson, as well as tips on attracting and protecting the owls near you. $15 at the door, online $10 for Museum members, $12 for nonmembers. Photo from www.eyesonowls.com. Reservations are required at http://www.ccmnh.org/Events/Owls-of-the-World-2017

  • Friday, December 8, 11:30 am – The History of Cacao

    Just in time for the Holidays, Master Chocolatier Raymond Hebert presents a History of Cacao from Pre-Columbian Central America to the Palaces of Western Europe. From aphrodisiac, to health food, to confection and back to health food, Cacao has come full circle. In addition, Ray will discuss new archaeological discoveries in North America that show the presence of Cacao in ancient Native American sites in the West that are re-writing the history of the movement of Cacao from Meso-America to other areas on the planet, where it cannot possibly grow on its own. The new evidence being offered suggest that 1000 years ago trade in cacao moved over a 1200 mile range to the North. This Cape Cod Museum of Natural History Lunch and Learn will take place Friday, December 8 at 11:30 am at the Museum, 869 Main Street, Route 6A, in Brewster.

    Admission: CCMNH Non-Member $25 / Member $15 / Includes Program, Box Lunch & Museum . Advance Tickets Recommended: 508-896-3867, ext. 133. Sandwich choices include Roast Beef, Turkey Club or Tomato Basil.

     

  • Monday, August 7, 11:30 am – 12:30 pm – The Secret Lives of Fireflies

    Lunch and Learn at The Cape Cod Museum of Natural History , 869 Main Street in Brewster, on Monday, August 7 with Science Educator Don Salvatore speaking on The Secret Lives of Fireflies. Watching fireflies is a special part of warm summer nights in New England and a memorable experience. We watch, we enjoy, and as kids we use to catch them in a jar to get an up-close look at them. However, do we really know what these creatures of the night are saying? Why are they flashing, are they bugs or beetles, are they male or female? Fireflies, also known as “lightning bugs” are so much more than a flash in the night. Join Don Salvatore for this fascinating and enlightening look into the secret lives of fireflies!

    Don Salvatore grew up in Weymouth, a small coastal town south of Boston. He spent his professional career as a science educator at the Children’s Museum in Dartmouth, the Roanoke Valley Science Museum in Virginia, and for the last 36 years, at the Museum of Science in Boston where he founded and coordinated the Firefly Watch and citizen science program. He has taught programs in all the sciences; biology, physics, chemistry, geology, meteorology and biochemistry. ­Through them all, he has come to a deeper understanding of natural history.

    CCMNH members $15, nonmembers $25, includes program, box lunch and museum admission. Advance tickets only – call 508-896-3876, ext 133. Lunch choice includes roast beef, turkey club, or tomato basil sandwiches.

  • Tuesday, June 20, 12:30 pm – What’s Your Tick IQ?

    The Cape Cod Museum of Natural History will present Tick Training and Lyme Disease Prevention with the Cape Cod Medical Reserve Corps on Tuesday, June 20 at 12:30 pm at the Museum, 869 Main Street in Brewster. Those of us who live on Cape Cod are probably familiar with the high incidence of Lyme disease in our area; however, people who visit in the summer as vacationers, campers or camp counselors may know very little about this problem. It is essential that they understand about Lyme disease, prevention of tick bites and monitoring and dealing with tick bites.

    The Museum is pleased to offer this one hour program to our visitors, volunteers and staff. This program is taught by Medical Reserve Corps volunteers who have extensive training in Tick borne Illness.

    Free with Museum Admission. For directions and more information visit www.ccmnh.org.

  • Saturday, June 24, 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm – The Healing Garden

    Since the dawn of history, humans and animals have sought healing from plants. Although many of today’s most popular remedies are compounded in laboratories, there are still vast numbers of commercial cures whose major medicinal ingredients are derived from green herbs, trees, and shrubs. In this illustrated presentation at The Cape Cod Museum of Natural History in Brewster on Saturday, June 24 at 1 pm, Cindy Sauers will share with you her garden journey collaborating with the plants, the soil, wind, sun, cold, heat, rain… and all of nature for food and medicine for the body and soul. You will be able to gently and easily begin your own healing garden or, if you don’t have a space for your own garden you will have new insight to how plants, trees and weeds throughout Cape Cod provide us with healing food and medicine. Cindy will help you identify our wild natural Cape Cod plants and she will share with you easy ways to make remedies to relieve many of our everyday discomforts and fortify our bodies and our minds.

    Cindy Sauers is an artist, shepherd, gardener and herbalist who works in collaboration with her ‘medium’. As a gardener, she collaborates with nature; shaping and adding elements while observing how nature responds and what nature adds or subtracts from the garden. As an herbalist, she has been using plants as healing remedies, scented gifts, and food since 1973. Cindy and her garden, along with her husband and the sheep, the Baa Boys, were recently featured in Country Gardens Spring 2017 magazine. Cindy can’t imagine anything more rewarding than sharing the joy she gets from these sweet plants with you.

    Free with admission. For more information please call: 508-896-3867, ext. 133.

  • Thursday, May 4, 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm- Henry David Thoreau at 200: From Concord to Cape Cod

    American author and naturalist Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) is best known for spending one night in jail for nonpayment of the state poll tax, and for living for two years along the shores of Walden Pond in Concord, Massachusetts, which sprouted the enduring book Walden. As part of the “Concord Quartet” Thoreau and his contemporaries Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Louisa May Alcott, revolutionized political, social and literary thinking and became known as “Transcendentalists”.

    Based on several trips to Cape Cod and originally published as a series of articles, Henry David Thoreau’s Cape Cod is a remarkable work that depicts the natural beauty of Cape Cod and the nature that surrounds it. Thoreau, a consummate lover of the outdoors and nature is right at home in the Cape and he details his excitement of the area with naturalist portraits of the indigenous species and animals. Now 200 years after his birth, Thoreau’s essays and books are still being read, and his words are still printed on inspirational posters, greeting cards, and social media graphics. What are his basic philosophies, and how do they resound with us today? On Thursday May 4, beginning at 1 pm at the Cape Cod Museum of Natural History, you will learn a bit more about this “Transcendentalist” and discuss what threads connect us to him ­ including what he saw and experienced during his trips to Cape Cod.

    Corinne H. Smith is a writer, poet, and outdoor educator. She is the author of Westward I Go Free: Tracing Thoreau’s Last Journey, as well as a biography for middle-schoolers, Henry David Thoreau for Kids: His Life and Ideas, With 21 Activities. Corinne serves as an occasional interpreter and blog writer for Thoreau Farm: The Birthplace of Henry David Thoreau in Concord, MA.

    For more information please call: 508-896-3867, ext. 133. Free with admission.  The Museum’s address is 869 Main Street (Route 6A) in Brewster.

     

  • Sundays, March 5 – April 9, 1:00 pm – Gardening For Life

    The Cape Cod Museum of Natural History, 869 Main Street in Brewster, will sponsor a five part series of classes on Sundays, March 5 – April 9, on Gardening for Life.  Register online ($45 for the series, $12 for individual talks) at http://www.ccmnh.org/Gardening-for-life

    On March 5, Trevor Smith will discuss Waterwise Landscape Designs.  On March 12, Claudia Thompson speaks on Lessons from the Garden: What Native Plants Have Taught Me.  Mark Richardson of NEWFS follows on March 26 with his well received lecture Kill Your Lawn!  Nanette Masi, on April 2, covers Bird-Friendly Gardens, and the final lecture on April 9 by Michael Talbot is entitled Attractive Native Plants for the Cape Cod Garden.  For reservations, call 508-896-3867.