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This Week at Crossroads: Digital Nature Photography Class, Trolley to The Escarpment, Antique Appraisal Event
Posted on 24. Oct, 2011 by Coggin Heeringa.
Migrating song birds are making their all-too-brief visit to Crossroads as they leave Door County, but now we see them rather than hear them, uttering only a few subtle cheeps. Birds are no longer singing from the treetops, no longer proclaiming their presence and territory because their breeding season is over. Now, it’s the deer [...]
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Wildcat Joe Marden and the 2nd Annual Running Green for Crossroads, a Rain or Shine walk/run June 25
Posted on 23. Jun, 2011 by Coggin Heeringa.
“Running Green for Crossroads” on Saturday, June 25 headlines the events here at Crossroads at Big Creek this week and with three days of rain, the course should be “interesting.” The second annual presentation of Door County’s only eco-friendly trail walk/run is scheduled to start at 9 am. To learn more about the event, go [...]
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This week at Door County’s Crossroads: White Suckers and DCIST
Posted on 12. Apr, 2011 by Coggin Heeringa.
The fish already have started up Big Creek and any day now, these suckers will be spawning in earnest here at Crossroads. While we may be impatient for the sucker run, our excitement can’t compare to that of the early loggers in Door County. In 1881, a newspaper editor, Charles I. Martin, wrote a book called A Brief History of Door County. It indeed is brief, [...]
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This Week at Door County’s Crossroads: Water, Big Creek Observation Hikes, Master Gardener’s on Grasses
Posted on 28. Mar, 2011 by Coggin Heeringa.
P.T. Barnum never said, “There’s a sucker born every minute,” but if he had said it – rather than one of his bitter rivals – Barnum would not have been talking about the fish. Here at Crossroads, fish swim up Big Creek to spawn and these suckers are only born only in the spring. Our neighbor to [...]
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This Week at Door County’s Crossroads: Phil Pellitteri Lecture, Overwintering, Garden Workshops
Posted on 24. Mar, 2011 by Coggin Heeringa.
Spring is a wonderful time at Crossroads at Big Creek and it officially began on Sunday, March 20… someone please tell Mother Nature. There is no guarantee that Door County weather will henceforth be springlike, but Spring Break is underway in several area school districts. On several recent occasions, I’ve commented that it almost feels [...]
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Upcoming at Door County’s Crossroads: The Color Green from Gardening Workshops to Watercress and Sports Medicine with Dr. Arnold
Posted on 18. Mar, 2011 by Coggin Heeringa.
At Crossroads at Big Creek, we are wearing, growing and living green in honor of natural science and St. Patrick. Certainly the holiday is meaningful to the Irish, but I think that part of the popularity of St. Patrick’s Day may just reflect our deep craving for the color ”green.” Often when teaching nature classes about sunlight and the spectrum, [...]
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This Week at Door County’s Crossroads: Dr. Roger Kuhns on the Geology of Door County, Master Gardener Greg Meissner on Landscape Design and more
Posted on 09. Mar, 2011 by Coggin Heeringa.
We haven’t yet put the snow shovels away and we don’t plan to do so any time soon, but at Crossroads at Big Creek, we are beginning to notice little glimmers of spring. The chickadees and cardinals have been singing their spring songs, the sun is higher in the sky, the daylight lasts a little [...]
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This Week at Door County’s Crossroads: Astronomy Software, Green Fire, Landscape Design,
Posted on 03. Mar, 2011 by Coggin Heeringa.
At Crossroads at Big Creek, we hope to change lives. If we knew the formula, we’d use it every day. But what constitutes a life-changing experience is different for every person. A while back, a young man dropped by to see me. Turns out, he was a former student (though I remembered him as a scrawny eight- year [...]
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New Documentary on Aldo Leopold Screenng at Crossroads at Big Creek, Mar 5
Posted on 03. Mar, 2011 by Coggin Heeringa.
Green Fire, a documentary film that connects legendary conservationist Aldo Leopold with modern environmental projects will be screened on March 5 at 10 am at Crossroads at Big Creek presented by the Door County Libraries. The new film is the first full-length feature ever made about legendary conservationist Aldo Leopold. The host at Crossroads will [...]
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This Week at Door County Crossroads: The Science Behind the Zodiac
Posted on 23. Feb, 2011 by Coggin Heeringa.
The January thaw came in February this year, but at Crossroads at Big Creek, we are confident that it will get cold again and those cold, clear nights are often the best for stargazing. When the members of the Door Peninsula Astronomical Society hold their viewing nights or when school groups enjoy our planetarium shows, [...]
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