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2010
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Pike County Arts & Craft meeting and demonstration, Borough Hall,
109 West Catherine Street, 1:30 PM.
Bring a friend and a snack to share. Check their website for more information.
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Speakeasy - to benefit The Columns Museum, The Tom Quick Inn, 7 PM.
No one gets in without the password. Reservations strongly suggested. $50 donation.
Please call Lori at 570-296-8126 for more information, or to reserve your place. Checks can be mailed to PO Box 915,
Milford PA 18337. Your donations are tax deductible and very much appreciated. Support your local Historical Society.
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Pike County Arts & Craft meeting and demonstration, Borough Hall,
109 West Catherine Street, 1:30 PM.
Bring a friend and a snack to share. Check their website for more information.
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Grey Towers, LIVING HISTORY PROGRAM: President
Theodore Roosevelt on his friend, Gifford Pinchot. 5:30 pm.
President Theodore Roosevelt re-enactor Joe Weigand helps kick off our
2010 Visitor Season with a living history program, highlighting how the Rough Rider president and his friend Gifford Pinchot
not only started the US Forest Service but changed how America practice conservation of our natural resources. Tickets thru
Grey Towers Heritage Association, 570-296-9625 or email:
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Pike County Arts & Craft meeting and demonstration, Borough Hall,
109 West Catherine Street, 1:30 PM.
Bring a friend and a snack to share. Check their website for more information.
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Grey Towers, Evolution of the Grey Towers Landscape: Springtime in Cornelia’s
Gardens, 1:30 pm.
Come
see the gardens awaken from their winter slumber. Meet Horticulturist Elizabeth Hawke at the Visitor Pavilion for a guided
tour of native flowering shrubs, the historic Sweet Cherry Tree, which should be in full bloom, the flowering bulbs in the
landscape and a tour of the historic landscape.
Regular
tour fees apply.
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Grey Towers, The Pinchot family and Milford downtown walking tour, 11 am.
Join us on this guided walking tour
and learn how the Pinchot family helped shape the community. Meet on the Community House lawn. Regular tour fees apply. Call
570-296-9630 to save a spot.
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Grey Towers, Come Paint with Me 10:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Kick off this year’s landscape painting program with a special,
behind-the-scenes session in the Grey Towers’
walled garden. Bring your own materials and a picnic lunch. Free. For more information, call 570-775-6896.
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Milford Garden Club Perennial Plant Sale.
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Grey Towers, Outdoor Concert, 5:30 p.m..
Connect with nature through music at this free performance in our tented pavilion, featuring the Black
Bear Conservatory of Music.
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Pike County Arts & Craft meeting and demonstration, Borough Hall,
109 West Catherine Street, 1:30 PM.
Bring a friend and a snack to share. Check their website for more information.
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Grey Towers, Art of Lacemaking
Watch as the Lost Art Lacers of North New
Jersey practice the art of lace-making. Learn about the Pinchot lace collection.
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Grey Towers, art workshop and demo: plein
air painting, 11 am- 4 pm.
Learn technique
and then put it to work in the beautiful landscape. Bucks County PA artists George and Emily Thompson will share their expertise at this unique workshop.
$60 per person; pre-registration required. For more information, email:
To register, email:
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Milford Enhancement Committee Welcome Party, Milford.
Click link below for more details:
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Grey Towers, Architecture Tour ,
1:30 p.m.
What does the base of the Statue of
Liberty and Grey Towers have in common? Find out as you
learn about the unique architectural details of the mansion. Regular tour fees apply.
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Pike County Arts & Craft meeting and demonstration, Borough Hall,
109 West Catherine Street, 1:30 PM.
Bring a friend and a snack to share. Check their website for more information.
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Grey Towers, Come Paint with Me 10:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Landscape painting program. You can either join the artists
or observe them at work in the fields and forests of Grey Towers
for these outdoor painting and sketching sessions. Bring your own materials and a picnic lunch. Free. 570-775-6896
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Grey Towers, Pinchot
Timeline Trail walk , 1:30 PM.
Take
a walk through time on this ently slopping trail that follows the history of the Pinchot family from when thy arrived in Milford
in the 1820s to 1963, when Grey Towers was onated to the American public.
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Thurs July 15 -
Mon July 26
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Pike County Arts & Craft 60th Annual Show, Borough Hall, 109
West Catherine Street.
Check their website for more information.
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Milford Garden Club Secret Garden Tour.
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Grey Towers, Tree
ID and Tree Trail walk 1:30 p.m.
Gifford and Cornlelia Pinchot planted more than 100 trees on the estate. Learn about some of the more unique trees and
why they chose these.
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Pike County Arts & Craft meeting and demonstration, Borough Hall,
109 West Catherine Street, 1:30 PM.
Bring a friend and a snack to share. Check their website for more information.
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Grey Towers, Sixth
Annual Festival of Wood.
Handmade crafts, music, arts, programs, children’s activities
and more!
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Grey Towers, Come Paint with Me 10:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Landscape painting program. You can either join the artists
or observe them at work in the fields and forests of Grey Towers
for these outdoor painting and sketching sessions. Bring your own materials and a picnic lunch. Free. 570-775-6896
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Grey Towers, Forest History Hike, 1:30 p.m.
Gain an appreciation for today’s
forest management challenges with this hands-on introduction to the history of forestry in America. Visit the campsite replica of the Yale School of Forestry students who
studied at Grey Towers
in the early 20th century. Regular tour fees apply. Registration suggested.
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Milford Garden Club Flower Show.
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Grey Towers, The Pinchot family and Milford
downtown walking tour, 11 am
Join us on this guided walking tour
and learn how the Pinchot family helped shape the community. Meet on the Community House lawn. Regular tour fees apply. Call
570-296-9630 to save a spot.
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Pike County Arts & Craft meeting and demonstration, Borough Hall,
109 West Catherine Street, 1:30 PM.
Bring a friend and a snack to share. Check their website for more information.
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Grey Towers, Come Paint with Me 10:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Landscape painting program. You can either join the artists
or observe them at work in the fields and forests of Grey Towers
for these outdoor painting and sketching sessions. Bring your own materials and a picnic lunch. Free. 570-775-6896
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Grey Towers, Outdoor Concert, 5:30 p.m..
Connect with
nature as you listen to classical music in our covered outdoor pavilion. $10 per person.
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Grey Towers, ICE CREAM SOCIAL (2-4 pm) AND fee free National Public Lands
Day (10 am-4 pm)
Celebrate the Pinchot gift of Grey Towers
to the American public with a re-creation of Gov. Gifford Pinchot’s popular ice cream social. Tour the mansion for free
and join us for free ice cream; view the video of President John F. Kennedy’s 1963 dedication of Grey Towers.
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Grey Towers, artiFACT tour, 1:30 p.m.
Walk through the mansion with Grey
Towers Museum Specialist Rebecca Philpot to learn more about the background of the historic Pinchot family furnishings and
artwork on display. Regular tour fees apply. Meet on the front porch.
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Pike County Arts & Craft meeting and demonstration, Borough Hall,
109 West Catherine Street, 1:30 PM.
Bring a friend and a snack to share. Check their website for more information.
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Grey Towers, Come Paint with Me 10:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Landscape painting program. You can either join the artists
or observe them at work in the fields and forests of Grey Towers
for these outdoor painting and sketching sessions. Bring your own materials and a picnic lunch. Free. 570-775-6896
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Grey Towers, Envirofest.
Free
environmental films as part of the community Black Bear Film Festival.
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Grey Towers, Evolution of the Grey Towers Landscape:
Autumn in Cornelia’s
Gardens, 1:30
p.m..
Brilliant red, yellow and orange leaves
will be ablaze for this landscape tour. Meet Horticulturist Elizabeth Hawke at the Visitor Pavilion to view the fabulous foliage
displays of the native shrubs, the Japanese maple display, the historic Sugar Maple planted by General William T. Sherman
and the historic landscape. Regular tour fees apply.
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Grey Towers, Dramatic Reading, 6:00
& 8:00 p.m. .
Halloween Dramatic Reading by the American Readers Theatre Company. “A Night With Poe.” Fee.
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Grey Towers, Cemetery Walk, 1:30 p.m. .
Local historian Peter Osborne will
share the history of the Laurel Hill Cemetery, Milford’s original town graveyard, on the grounds
of Grey Towers.
Meet at the Visitor Pavilion in the parking lot. Wear sturdy shoes. Free.
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Pike County Arts & Craft meeting and demonstration, Borough Hall,
109 West Catherine Street, 1:30 PM.
Bring a friend and a snack to share. Check their website for more information.
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Pike County Arts & Craft meeting and demonstration, Borough Hall,
109 West Catherine Street, 1:30 PM.
Bring a friend and a snack to share. Check their website for more information.
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