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This Week at Door County Crossroads: FRESH, Futurism, Gardening
Posted on 15. Feb, 2011 by Coggin Heeringa.
Crossroads at Big Creek is located at a crossroads, but we like to think of the learning preserve – with our educational emphasis on science and history – as a “crossroads between the past and the future.” That certainly will be the case in the coming week. This winter, we have the privilege of hosting [...]
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This Week at Door County Crossroads: Brain Injury, Native Landscaping, Radon, Community Ski
Posted on 10. Feb, 2011 by Coggin Heeringa.
On sunny days at Crossroads, our solar panels make electricity (we love that) and the male chickadees and cardinals are starting to sing their breeding songs. This behavior always starts around Valentine’s Day, but the birds are probably stimulated by increasing hours of daylight rather than the human calendar. Recently, during a Clearing in Winter [...]
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This Week at Door County Crossroads: Black and Blue, Green and Gold, Ponds and Peak Oil
Posted on 02. Feb, 2011 by Coggin Heeringa.
It’s rather a stretch to consider the Super Bowl part of the Crossroads at Big Creek’s educational focus… unless you want to consider the Titletown legacy as historical – but we are wearing green and gold like most everybody else in Wisconsin. You have to wonder how much green pigment has been used as a [...]
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This Week at Door County Crossroads: “The Real Stars of Harry Potter”
Posted on 19. Jan, 2011 by Coggin Heeringa.
“Sirius, Regulus, Bellatix, Arcturus,” spoken to members of the Door Peninsula Astronomical Society at Crossroads’ Stonecipher Astronomy Center would cause them to think of some of their favorite bright stars. “Say these same words to a Harry Potter fan, on the other hand, and you will evoke a range of emotions - from sympathy for the [...]
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This Week at Door County’s Crossroads: Film Screening, Bird Feeder Workshop, Ski
Posted on 12. Jan, 2011 by Coggin Heeringa.
We sincerely hope that snow conditions in Door County regain their splendor by this weekend so people of all ages can get in touch with nature at Crossroads at Big Creek. Each Sunday that ski trail conditions are good, volunteer members of Friends of Crossroads loan skis or snowshoes to people who visit the Collins Learning Center between 1 [...]
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This Week at Door County’s Crossroads: Hike, snowshoe, bird-watching, astronomy or cross-country skiing
Posted on 05. Jan, 2011 by Coggin Heeringa.
A beginning bird watching class and a beginning astronomy class are offered this week at Crossroads through the wonderful Clearing in Winter program. Consequently, we are paying particular attention to our winter birds and birds are easiest to watch when they are at the feeder. In almost any flock of birds, some individuals are dominant [...]
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This Week at Door County’s Crossroads: “A Winter’s Tail”
Posted on 30. Dec, 2010 by Coggin Heeringa.
Considering how many people use the ski and hiking trails at Crossroads at Big Creek, it’s surprising how little litter we find. Oh, now and then a crumpled piece of pink tissue shows up against the snow and we find stray gloves from time to time, but really, we don’t find much. We like to think that people are considerate. But maybe, the [...]
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This Week at Door County’s Crossroads: Christmas Card Birds, Door County Pioneer Christmas, Inner Planets and a Hike
Posted on 22. Dec, 2010 by Coggin Heeringa.
Wassail, Wassail, and holiday greetings from Crossroads at Big Creek where we will go a wassailing (sort of) as we celebrate the holidays. What does wassail mean? That depends on whether it is used as a noun or a verb. Wassail, the noun, is a spiced ale – usually served around Christmastime. For Crossroads family [...]
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This Week at Door County Crossroads: Decorations Abound, Camel Memories, Lunar Eclipse, Bird Count
Posted on 15. Dec, 2010 by Coggin Heeringa.
Again this year, the Friends of Crossroads at Big Creek have worked their magic on the Collins Learning Center. Over the nine years of their existence, this volunteer group, almost like a family, has developed traditions when it comes to decking the halls. Nutcrackers, toy trains, dolls of the world, and stuffed storybook characters, loaned by the ever [...]
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This Week at Door County’s Crossroads: Hike to the Evergreen Forest, DCIST, Bird Count
Posted on 08. Dec, 2010 by Coggin Heeringa.
At Crossroads at Big Creek, cutting evergreens it an experience-based part of the season. We’ve all about experience-based learning here. From the Door County Historical Society’s “Deck the Village Party,” to the school field trips and family programs, we cut as many as a dozen small trees – which actually isn’t a bad thing in [...]
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