At long last, the trip of a lifetime has arrived—CANYON COUNTRY!
Join us as we travel to Canyon Country out West in the Spring of 2025. A visit to experience the Grand Canyon seems to be on everyone’s Bucket List. We’re thrilled to offer you the opportunity to check it off of your List!
Morris Community Activities (Morris Beach and Recreation / Morris Senior Center) have partnered with AAA Northeast / Collette Tours to bring you this once is a lifetime experience. You will enjoy 8 days / 7 nights in Arizona / Utah / Nevada.
Some of the highlights of your experience include, but are not limited to: visits to Scottsdale; Kaibab National Forest, Grand Canyon, Rafting on Horseshoe Bend, Lake Powell Cruise, Bryce Canyon National Park, Zion National Park and finally...Las Vegas!
We’ll be spending 4 days in Arizona, 2 days in Utah, and one day in Nevada.
Your tour includes 10 meals: 6 breakfasts, 1 lunch and 3 dinners.
This adventure includes your round trip air fare from BRADLEY INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT along with ALL of your transfers including transportation to and from the airport from the Morris Town Hall, hotel accommodations, 10 meals along with activity / museum entry fees. Gratuities not included.
Travel dates are April 25 - May 2, 2025. Cost per person, double occupancy—$3,699. Single / triple rates are available upon request.
Would you like a copy of our color brochure? Email us at Activities@townofmorrisct.com.
Ready to book? Reach out to us at Activities@townofmorrisct.com or directly to Karen Basilone, AAA Northeast at kbasilone@aaanortheast.com
Limited seating remains - don't delay!
CANYON COUNTRY TRIP
Author of Slither: How Nature's Most Maligned Creatures Illuminate Our World
In-Person & on Zoom:
“Stephen Hall is not just a terrific science writer, he’s a terrific writer, period.”
- Michael Pollan
Join us as we explore with author Stephen Hall his spellbinding scientific and cultural study of snakes, the fascination and fear they inspire, and how surprising new science is indelibly changing our perception of these stunning and frightening creatures.
For millennia, depictions of snakes as alternatively beautiful and menacing creatures have appeared in religious texts, mythology, poetry, and beyond. But where there is hatred and fear, there is also fascination and reverence. How is it that creatures so despised and sinister, so foreign of movement and ostensibly devoid of sociality and emotion, have fired the imaginations of poets, prophets, and painters across time and cultures?
Stephen S. Hall has been reporting and writing about the intersection of science and society for more than 40 years. In addition to numerous cover stories in the New York Times Magazine, where he also served as a Story Editor and Contributing Writer, his work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, National Geographic, New York Magazine, Wired, Science, Nature, Scientific American, Discover, The Sciences, Hip-pocrates, Smithsonian, and more. He is also the author of six critically acclaimed non-fiction books about contemporary science. He currently serves as an adjunct professor of journalism at New York University, and previously taught graduate seminars in science writing and explanatory journalism at Columbia University.
Registration required only to attend in-person.
Meet the Author: Stephen S. Hall
At long last, the trip of a lifetime has arrived—CANYON COUNTRY!
Join us as we travel to Canyon Country out West in the Spring of 2025. A visit to experience the Grand Canyon seems to be on everyone’s Bucket List. We’re thrilled to offer you the opportunity to check it off of your List!
Morris Community Activities (Morris Beach and Recreation / Morris Senior Center) have partnered with AAA Northeast / Collette Tours to bring you this once is a lifetime experience. You will enjoy 8 days / 7 nights in Arizona / Utah / Nevada.
Some of the highlights of your experience include, but are not limited to: visits to Scottsdale; Kaibab National Forest, Grand Canyon, Rafting on Horseshoe Bend, Lake Powell Cruise, Bryce Canyon National Park, Zion National Park and finally...Las Vegas!
We’ll be spending 4 days in Arizona, 2 days in Utah, and one day in Nevada.
Your tour includes 10 meals: 6 breakfasts, 1 lunch and 3 dinners.
This adventure includes your round trip air fare from BRADLEY INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT along with ALL of your transfers including transportation to and from the airport from the Morris Town Hall, hotel accommodations, 10 meals along with activity / museum entry fees. Gratuities not included.
Travel dates are April 25 - May 2, 2025. Cost per person, double occupancy—$3,699. Single / triple rates are available upon request.
Would you like a copy of our color brochure? Email us at Activities@townofmorrisct.com.
Ready to book? Reach out to us at Activities@townofmorrisct.com or directly to Karen Basilone, AAA Northeast at kbasilone@aaanortheast.com
Limited seating remains - don't delay!
CANYON COUNTRY TRIP
Presented by Sam King & Nancy Wright
What does it mean to be descended from the stars? How might awareness of our cosmic origins help us fulfill our role in a living Earth community?
This program will offer an immersion into Journey of the Universe, an Emmy Award-winning film weaving together science and spirituality to tell the epic story of cosmic evolution. We will explore the influence of the Jesuit paleontologist Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, with special attention to his ideas of matter-spirit, cosmogenesis, and the emerging noosphere. We will also trace the legacy of the great cultural historian Thomas Berry, considering his visions of a New Story, the Universe as “a communion of subjects,” and the Great Work of birthing an Ecozoic Era of human-Earth flourishing.
Participants will be invited to take part in an outdoor Cosmic Walk, an embodied ritual created by Sr. Miriam MacGillis, tracing the 13.8 billion year story of the Universe.
At a time of ecological crisis, we will explore the implications of a Journey worldview for issues of climate change, biodiversity loss, and environmental justice.
The program will conclude with discussion of how our “shared dream experience” can unleash the vision and creativity needed to restore the well being of the Earth community.
Lunch is included.
Journey to the Universe
Meet at Riverside Cemetery (496 Riverside St, Waterbury, CT 06708) for a walking tour of Riverside Cemetery, led by local historian and Riverside expert, Martin Begnal.
Non-Member: $10 Member: $5
Interested in discounts, free admission, and more? Become a member today!
Sponsored by Linford & Mildred White Charitable Fund
Walking Tour
Author of Hiking Ruins of Southern New England
Live, In-Person & on Zoom:
Don’t miss this fascinating presentation!
Hiking Ruins Southern New England is a guide to hiking archaeological sites in Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island. Many people have no idea that there are archaeological sites in the area, on public lands where they are allowed to hike.
There are numerous hikes featuring historic ruins in Connecticut to explore such as: A hike through Revolutionary War history on the Putnam Memorial State Park Trail; the legendary and significant archeological ruins on the Lighthouse Village and Jessie Gerard Trails in Barkhamsted; the ruins of an old amusement park on the Suburban Park Trail in Unionville; the Farmington Canal Trail, and so much more!
Dr. Nicholas F. Bellantoni is emeritus Connecticut State Archaeologist and an associate research professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Connecticut. He served as the state archaeologist with the Connecticut State Museum of Natural History and Archaeology Center in the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences at the University of Connecticut.
The Curious Cat Bookshop will have books for sale the night of the event.
Registration required for in-person attendance only.
Meet the Author Nicholas Bellantoni
If you enjoy watching and listening to birds and want to help them, please come, discover ways to make your property bird-friendly. We will identify some of the birds that live in our area, and discuss how to help them by providing the plants they depend on. Bring a 2-liter soda bottle or a similar container if you would like to make a birdhouse to bring home. Sponsored by the New Milford Garden Club.
Making Your Yard Bird Friendly
Learn the history of honey harvest, the history of purposeful beekeeping, hives of past and present, the composition of honey and why honey crystallized. What makes honey so dark or so light? How many varietals of honey are there? Why does honey crystallize? Why doesn't honey need to be pasteurized? Learn the answers to these questions and much more during this engaging talk and taste five varietals of honey from The Humble Bee Honey Company!
The Sweet History of Honey with a Honey Tasting
New Milford Youth Agency presents Nature Unplugged. Promoting friendship, team building, kindness and self esteem. Activities include: kickoff at club getaway, various hiking trips, state park explorations, beach time, ice cream, etc
Kids entering 6th - 8th grades
$15 / week
Nature Unplugged
New Milford Youth Agency presents Nature Unplugged. Promoting friendship, team building, kindness and self esteem. Activities include: kickoff at club getaway, various hiking trips, state park explorations, beach time, ice cream, etc
Kids entering 6th - 8th grades
$15 / week
Nature Unplugged
New Milford Youth Agency presents Nature Unplugged. Promoting friendship, team building, kindness and self esteem. Activities include: kickoff at club getaway, various hiking trips, state park explorations, beach time, ice cream, etc
Kids entering 6th - 8th grades
$15 / week
Nature Unplugged
New Milford Youth Agency presents Nature Unplugged. Promoting friendship, team building, kindness and self esteem. Activities include: kickoff at club getaway, various hiking trips, state park explorations, beach time, ice cream, etc
Kids entering 6th - 8th grades
$15 / week
Nature Unplugged
New Milford Youth Agency presents Nature Unplugged. Promoting friendship, team building, kindness and self esteem. Activities include: kickoff at club getaway, various hiking trips, state park explorations, beach time, ice cream, etc
Kids entering 6th - 8th grades
$15 / week
Nature Unplugged
New Milford Youth Agency presents Nature Unplugged. Promoting friendship, team building, kindness and self esteem. Activities include: kickoff at club getaway, various hiking trips, state park explorations, beach time, ice cream, etc
Kids entering 6th - 8th grades
$15 / week
Nature Unplugged
New Milford Youth Agency presents Nature Unplugged. Promoting friendship, team building, kindness and self esteem. Activities include: kickoff at club getaway, various hiking trips, state park explorations, beach time, ice cream, etc
Kids entering 6th - 8th grades
$15 / week
Nature Unplugged
New Milford Youth Agency presents Nature Unplugged. Promoting friendship, team building, kindness and self esteem. Activities include: kickoff at club getaway, various hiking trips, state park explorations, beach time, ice cream, etc
Kids entering 6th - 8th grades
$15 / week
Nature Unplugged
New Milford Youth Agency presents Nature Unplugged. Promoting friendship, team building, kindness and self esteem. Activities include: kickoff at club getaway, various hiking trips, state park explorations, beach time, ice cream, etc
Kids entering 6th - 8th grades
$15 / week
Nature Unplugged
New Milford Youth Agency presents Nature Unplugged. Promoting friendship, team building, kindness and self esteem. Activities include: kickoff at club getaway, various hiking trips, state park explorations, beach time, ice cream, etc
Kids entering 6th - 8th grades
$15 / week
Nature Unplugged
New Milford Youth Agency presents Nature Unplugged. Promoting friendship, team building, kindness and self esteem. Activities include: kickoff at club getaway, various hiking trips, state park explorations, beach time, ice cream, etc
Kids entering 6th - 8th grades
$15 / week
Nature Unplugged
New Milford Youth Agency presents Nature Unplugged. Promoting friendship, team building, kindness and self esteem. Activities include: kickoff at club getaway, various hiking trips, state park explorations, beach time, ice cream, etc
Kids entering 6th - 8th grades
$15 / week
Nature Unplugged
New Milford Youth Agency presents Nature Unplugged. Promoting friendship, team building, kindness and self esteem. Activities include: kickoff at club getaway, various hiking trips, state park explorations, beach time, ice cream, etc
Kids entering 6th - 8th grades
$15 / week
Nature Unplugged
New Milford Youth Agency presents Nature Unplugged. Promoting friendship, team building, kindness and self esteem. Activities include: kickoff at club getaway, various hiking trips, state park explorations, beach time, ice cream, etc
Kids entering 6th - 8th grades
$15 / week
Nature Unplugged
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