The children who visit Crossroads at Big Creek are full of riddles like,”Where do baby Christmas trees come from?” And we answer, “The Wood Storks bring them.” Adults ask questions too, like, “Don’t pine trees grow from pine cones?” Actually, like all trees, pines grow from seeds. Cones are made up of specialized tree leaves called [...] Read more »
DCEC Presents James Ingwersen Portrait of Frances Hamerstrom
A stunning pastel portrait of conservationist and writer Frances Hamerstrom will soon grace the Collins Learning Center at Crossroads at Big Creek. The work of nationally-known portrait painter James Ingwersen, will be presented to Crossroads by The Door County Environmental Council during the Women’s Fund Reception at Crossroads on Wednesday, November 2. The correlation is quite [...] Read more »
Halloween Bats and Cross-Generational Learning Opportunities
By Halloween weekend, we are no longer Going Batty! at Crossroads at Big Creek. But as the holiday approaches, we will have plenty of opportunities to observe bat wings, which isn’t that easy when watching live bats. Check the greeting cards and napkins and you will see that bat wings are actually the equivalent of [...] Read more »
Founders Day Celebration, Oct 18
In 1991, kids were spending hours watching the tube (especially MTV), listening to music on cassette tapes and jabbering on the family telephone then, a guy named Steve Jobs introduced NeXT workstations to schools, but at $9,999 each, it was a hard sell. At the same time a new communications system called the Internet became [...] Read more »
Family Astronomy Day and “Vintage Gardens” Book Launch
Two very different but exciting celebrations will take place this weekend at Crossroads at Big Creek on Saturday and Sunday. Spanning a Martian Year–23 months– the Year of the Solar System (YSS) celebrates the amazing discoveries in our own Solar System. At Crossroads, The Door Peninsula Astronomical Society (DPAS) will celebrate YSS with the re-opening [...] Read more »
Upcoming at Crossroads: Lumberjacks and Door County’s Forest History, DCIST Invasive Earthworms
Crossroads at Big Creek boasts a prairie, uplands fields, meadows and open wetlands and although it may look “natural,” it isn’t! Our land was first surveyed in April and May of 1835 and at that time, the team headed by Sylvester Sybley found the land “rolling and poor, supporting Red Oak, Sugar, (meaning sugar maple) [...] Read more »
School Bus Day, Meet the Wolf, Gardens Alive at Crossroads
The colors are changing at Crossroads at Big Creek. Our meadows are yellow with sunflowers, black-eyed susans and goldenrod, and for the next nine months, our parking lots will be yellow with school buses unloading or loading eager young students. Most folks have memories (fond or otherwise) about riding school buses. Consequently, the Door County [...] Read more »
Door County History Comes Alive as well as Butterflies Everywhere
“Some Women of Early Ephraim” are coming to Crossroads at Big Creek this week. More accurately, Thea Sophia Thompson and Paul Burton of the Ephraim Historical Foundation will be presenting a program on Ephraim’s founding women in conjunction with the Door County Historical Society’s “Sunday in The Village” event. This Sunday, costumed members of the Door [...] Read more »
Outdoor Concerts Human and Otherwise, Umbrels, Mammals, Insects and Caves
The New Day Singers will present an outdoor concert this weekend at Crossroads at Big Creek. This popular vocal ensemble will perform as part of the Door County Historical Society’s Sunday at The Village program at the The Historical Village at Crossroads at 1:30 on Sunday, August 21. The New Day Singers are an outreach [...] Read more »
