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Pocono Record Article – PEEC’s 50th
Thank you to Kathryne Rubright, Pocono Record, for a wonderful article about PEEC’s 50th Anniversary: PEEC Celebrating Earth Day, 50th Anniversary with Saturday Festival
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A Love Letter to PEEC
“A Love Letter to PEEC” By Carolyn Licht and Daniel White Here is to another 50 years at PEEC… We have actually only been hiking the trails at PEEC since 11/2000, when we bought our home just a 10-minute drive away. The vicinity of the trails was one of the main drawing points for us…
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Tough as Trails
PEEC 5k APRIL 29, 2023 • 11:00am Registration $35 PEEC’s Annual Tough as Trails 5k event will kick-off our Annual Earth Day Festival. All participants should arrive by 10:30am for final check-in before the race begins. The 5k course has a variety of different surfaces, including pavement, gravel and dirt, as it winds through our…
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It Blooms for Thee
A Naif in the Forest by Darrell Berger Wing Tips to Hiking Boots: Musings of a New, Full-Time Poconos Resident Shortly after we arrived here, we planted a redbud tree where the backyard becomes the forest. It is small even by redbud standards, maybe ten feet tall and one might unkindly call it scraggly. Some…
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One Tough Little Flower
A Naif in the Forest by Darrell Berger Wing Tips to Hiking Boots: Musings of a New, Full-Time Poconos Resident “What is the name of that flower?“ I asked. My wife/photographer answered, “Snake head.” “Yipes,” I replied, noting that it did look like a snake’s head, from the its shape to its color pattern resembling…
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Try to See It My Way
A Naif in the Forest by Darrell Berger Wing Tips to Hiking Boots: Musings of a New, Full-Time Poconos Resident This is a rainbow peeking through the trees, a rare phenomenon here. We don’t have lot of sky to see unless you look straight up, where rainbows never appear. Our weather seems not to change…
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My False Spring
A Naif in the Forest by Darrell Berger Wing Tips to Hiking Boots: Musings of a New, Full-Time Poconos Resident I had been looking forward to spring even more than usual. I was getting the vaccine; the last of winter’s fifty-seven inches of snow was almost gone. In a few days I would be looking…
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Here Comes the Sun
A Naif in the Forest by Darrell Berger Wing Tips to Hiking Boots: Musings of a New, Full-Time Poconos Resident T. S. Eliot wrote that April is the cruelest month and this is certainly true in our part of the forest. Plan for an April picnic; get a snowstorm. Spring baseball practice is an act…
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A Tree for One Season
A Naif in the Forest by Darrell Berger Wing Tips to Hiking Boots: Musings of a New, Full-Time Poconos Resident Last month when we were staying on the southern tip of Maryland’s eastern shore, these spiky, dried pods were everywhere. They are the desiccated fruit of the sweetgum tree, one of the most common trees…
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From Lagoon to Logo
A Naif in the Forest by Darrell Berger Wing Tips to Hiking Boots: Musings of a New, Full-Time Poconos Resident This Great Blue Heron is wading in the Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge on Maryland’s Eastern Shore, where we spent a few weeks being slighter warmer than northeastern Pennsylvania. The Blue Heron’s natural habitat here includes…