Herman E. Sheets Family Forest Preserve

Enjoy hiking in this picturesque landscape with views of bogs, vernal pools, the Green Fall River, and rolling forested hills.&nbsp; There are also several historic features along the trail including foundations, rock walls and an old mill.&nbsp; This hike is roughly 3 miles over moderate terrain.&nbsp;&nbsp;
Pre-registration is required: <a href="https://55308.blackbaudhosting.com/55308/tickets?tab=2&amp;txobjid=963407e3-f695-4503-9868-f16283cc4297" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">55308.blackbaudhosting.com/55308/tickets?tab=2&amp;txobjid=963407e3-f695-4503-9868-f16283cc4297</a><a href="https://55308.blackbaudhosting.com/55308/tickets?tab=2&amp;txobjid=963407e3-f695-4503-9868-f16283cc4297" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"></a>&nbsp;This program is suited for adults and interested children.
Members and non-members: FREE

Local Event: Sheets Family Forest Free Guided Hike

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Stonington-Mystic

Connecticut

Sheets Family Forest Free Guided Hike

Enjoy hiking in this picturesque landscape with views of bogs, vernal pools, the Green Fall River, and rolling forested hills. ...

Bluff Point State Park

June is the one of the best times to search for horseshoe crabs as they mate and lay eggs along our local shores. Learn more about their amazing life cycles and biology as we explore the beach searching for them. Be prepared to get wet and walk at least 2 miles over sandy and rocky terrain with wet and sandy shoes. (Be sure to wear appropriate footwear; no flip flops or crocs.)
Pre-registration is required: <a href="https://55308.blackbaudhosting.com/55308/tickets?tab=2&amp;txobjid=e4a53245-9bb3-49b1-a4bc-6f6f9d916afa" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">55308.blackbaudhosting.com/55308/tickets?tab=2&amp;txobjid=e4a53245-9bb3-49b1-a4bc-6f6f9d916afa</a><a href="https://55308.blackbaudhosting.com/55308/tickets?tab=2&amp;txobjid=e4a53245-9bb3-49b1-a4bc-6f6f9d916afa" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"></a>This program is suited for adults and families with children who can handle the conditions.
Members and non-members: $10

Local Event: Horseshoe Crab Walk at Bluff Point

Horseshoe Crab Walk at Bluff Point

June is the one of the best times to search for horseshoe crabs as they mate and lay eggs along our local shores. Learn more...

Denison Pequotsepos Nature Center

Ages 6-10 years
Join us the second Saturday of every month as we adventure into nature! This month, we will explore our duck pond and see who we can find living in the water. Learn how to use our pond dipping nets to scoop up some fun and see how many different animals you can catch. Be sure to come prepared with close toed shoes that can get wet/muddy (no crocs or flip flops). Water you waiting for? Hop to it and register today!
Pre-registration is required: <a href="https://55308.blackbaudhosting.com/55308/Adventures-in-Nature-Pond-Dipping-13Jun2026" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">55308.blackbaudhosting.com/55308/Adventures-in-Nature-Pond-Dipping-13Jun2026</a><a href="https://55308.blackbaudhosting.com/55308/Adventures-in-Nature-Pond-Dipping-13Jun2026" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"></a>Meets at DPNC.
Free with generous support of the Dominion Foundation.
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Local Event: Pond Dipping Adventures (Free Children's Program)

Pond Dipping Adventures (Free Children's Program)

Ages 6-10 years
Join us the second Saturday of every month as we adventure into nature! This month, we will explore our duck...

<h4>Part of CT Open House Day</h4>
Join us at the nature center for a presentation including some of our most popular resident animals.&nbsp; Learn about their stories and how we can help these species in the wild. Meets at DPNC.Pre-registration is required:&nbsp;<a href="https://55308.blackbaudhosting.com/55308/tickets?tab=2&amp;txobjid=d047f06b-3834-4992-96b8-396ef276e709" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">55308.blackbaudhosting.com/55308/tickets?tab=2&amp;txobjid=d047f06b-3834-4992-96b8-396ef276e709</a>
Members and Nonmembers: FREE

Local Event: Meet Our Resident Animals & Free Admission

Meet Our Resident Animals & Free Admission

Part of CT Open House Day
Join us at the nature center for a presentation including some of our most popular resident animals. ...

Forest Bathing Therapy is a healing mindfulness practice that allows people to experience the forest in a complete way they don’t normally get to. Forest bathing can reduce anxiety and stress and reconnect people with the earth and grounds their energy.
Join Amelia South, the No-BS Herbalist, a local herbalist and foraging instructor from Black Sun Farm in Killingly.
No experience necessary.&nbsp;Pre-registration required:&nbsp;<a href="https://55308.blackbaudhosting.com/55308/tickets?tab=2&amp;txobjid=813e2e8e-8efa-4a24-a5ff-b87cece4a1a6" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">55308.blackbaudhosting.com/55308/tickets?tab=2&amp;txobjid=813e2e8e-8efa-4a24-a5ff-b87cece4a1a6</a>Meets at DPNC.
Members: $29.75; non-members: $35

Local Event: Forest Bathing with Amelia

Forest Bathing with Amelia

Forest Bathing Therapy is a healing mindfulness practice that allows people to experience the forest in a complete way they...

Join a DPNC naturalist for a walk at the Conn College Arboretum where we can access their Native Plant Collection/Bolleswood Natural Area.Pre-registration is required:&nbsp;<a href="https://55308.blackbaudhosting.com/55308/tickets?tab=2&amp;txobjid=8e33de6a-2c6b-4ccb-9957-be8886144e80" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">55308.blackbaudhosting.com/55308/tickets?tab=2&amp;txobjid=8e33de6a-2c6b-4ccb-9957-be8886144e80</a>We will meet at 33 Gallows Lane New, London, CT 06320.
Members and non-members: FREE

Local Event: Conn College Arboretum Free Guided Hike

Conn College Arboretum Free Guided Hike

Join a DPNC naturalist for a walk at the Conn College Arboretum where we can access their Native Plant Collection/Bolleswood...

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Gardens by the Sea (June 12 &amp; 13, 10-4 both days) is a self-guided garden tour through the historic Borough of Stonington. Experience the beauty hidden beyond its garden gates and explore waterfront vistas, terraced landscapes, and enchanted pocket gardens, designed in styles ranging from formal to eclectic. "Plein Air" artists will be painting in selected gardens. All gardens are within walking distance, and free parking will be available. In addition, there will be a tented Marketplace on Wadawanuck Square featuring a wide variety of vendors offering garden-inspired items, clothing, jewelry, and home decor. Event is rain or shine; tickets are non-refundable. For tickets (available starting on Feb. 1, 2026), go to www.stoningtongardenclub.org/garden-tour.

Local Event: Gardens by the Sea Garden Tour

Gardens by the Sea Garden Tour

Gardens by the Sea (June 12 & 13, 10-4 both days) is a self-guided garden tour through the historic Borough of Stonington....

Jay Heritage Center

Nothing says spring better than our popular Classic Design Luncheon and Lecture! We’re honored to feature Genevieve Wheeler-Brown, the author of&nbsp;<a href="https://beyondblueandwhite.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">“Beyond Blue and White.”</a>
Wheeler-Brown’s book explores the history of Delftware ceramics, focusing on the often-overlooked roles of women as makers, patrons, and collectors, from 17th-century factory owners like&nbsp;Barbara Rotteveel&nbsp;to Gilded Age collectors like&nbsp;Mrs. J. Pierpont Morgan. A must for devotees of decorative arts and the history of material culture. 
Location: The award-winning Jay Estate Gardens designed by Nelson Byrd Woltz. Co-Chairs, Tracy Edwards, Liz Garrett, Emmy Lambert, Lindsay Bello Martin and Suzanne Clary.
Guests will enjoy botanical cocktails and a tour of the blue and white blooms of our gardens at 11:30am followed by lunch and lecture at 12 Noon. Booksigning at 1:30pm. Catering provided by Scarborough Fair Catering.
Spring garden attire and hats encouraged! 
Tickets start at $150. Tables of 10 start at $1500
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All proceeds will benefit JHC's family and adult horticulture programs.
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GENEVIEVE WHEELER BROWN
Founding Genevieve Wheeler Decorative Art Advisory in 2003, Genevieve comes to the advisory business with more than 12 years of experience in the auction world, strong generalist knowledge and a wide range of contacts in American, European and Asian decorative and fine arts.
Genevieve began her career with Christie’s in 1992 with the European Decorative Arts Department after working as an intern at The Phillips Collection, Washington D.C. in 1990. She was then asked to run Overseas Consignments at Christie’s Park Avenue, a department that handled inquiries for European based auctions including Indian and Southeast Asian art, Islamic Art, Miniatures, Textiles and Cameras. In 1995 Genevieve became the New York contact for sales of Fabergé and Russian Silver at Christie’s Park Avenue and most recently was as a specialist in Fine Musical Instruments at Christie’s Rockefeller Center from 1998 to 2003.
While at Christie’s, she was involved with important sales such as ‘The Pine Cone Egg’ by Carl Fabergé and ‘The Taft’ Stradivari which fetched the auction record for an instrument sold in the United States. She has also been an appraiser on the PBS production ‘The Antiques Roadshow’.
A supporter of several fine and decorative art related institutions, Genevieve has served on the Board of the National Society of Colonial Dames in the State of New York, served as a member of the Young Fellows Steering Committee of the Frick Collection from 1995 to 2005 and co-Chaired the Winter Antiques Show Young Collector’s Night, New York in 2004, 2005, and 2006.
Genevieve currently advises several organizations including <a href="https://www.dumbartonhouse.org/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Dumbarton House</a>, a Federal period house museum in Georgetown, as a board member as well as for <a href="https://www.thewintershow.org/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">The Winter Show</a> as a vice-chair of Opening Night and as co-founder of The Winter Show Luncheon.About The Jay Heritage Center
The nonprofit Jay Heritage Center (JHC) is dedicated to preserving, protecting, and revitalizing a place that has meaning for all Americans: The Jay Estate. The property is the centerpiece of the Boston Post Road Historic District, Westchester County's only National Historic Landmark District,&nbsp;an irreplaceable cultural and natural resource.&nbsp;
Through lectures, workshops, volunteer opportunities, school programs, and concerts, JHC offers timely lessons in history, environmental conservation, architecture, and social justice, while tracing the evolution of democracy in the United States. It hopes to inspire the future historians, civic advocates, and stewards of our fragile cultural and natural resources.&nbsp;
Just as the architects of our nation’s government pursued self-improvement through dialogue about our nation’s most relevant topics, JHC promotes learning through programs led by prominent experts, Pulitzer Prize-winning authors, and academics in a variety of disciplines from sustainability to legal history.
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Local Event: Classic Design Luncheon & Lecture: Beyond Blue and White with Genevieve Wheeler-Brown

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Classic Design Luncheon & Lecture: Beyond Blue...

Nothing says spring better than our popular Classic Design Luncheon and Lecture! We’re honored to feature Genevieve...

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Sheets Family Forest Free Guided Hike

JUN

7

3:00 PM

Herman E. Sheets Family Forest Preserve, Puttker Rd, North Stonington, CT

Horseshoe Crab Walk at Bluff Point

JUN

12

6:00 PM

Bluff Point State Park, 55 Depot Rd, Groton, CT

Pond Dipping Adventures (Free Children's Program)

JUN

13

10:00 AM

Denison Pequotsepos Nature Center, 109 Pequotsepos Rd, Stonington, CT

Meet Our Resident Animals & Free Admission

JUN

13

2:00 PM

Denison Pequotsepos Nature Center, 109 Pequotsepos Rd, Stonington, CT

Forest Bathing with Amelia

JUN

14

10:00 AM

Denison Pequotsepos Nature Center, 109 Pequotsepos Rd, Stonington, CT

Conn College Arboretum Free Guided Hike

JUN

18

2:00 PM

33 Gallows Ln, New London, CT

Gardens by the Sea Garden Tour

Classic Design Luncheon & Lecture: Beyond Blue and White with Genevieve Wheeler-Brown