Friends of Pine Hawk

In person at the Acton Memorial Library and via Zoom. Event is free, but registration is required at Friends of Pine Hawk events. Peabody award winning Smithsonian filmmaker Ted Timreck shares documentary footage from two little known discoveries that show the potential of what might be found anywhere in the New England countryside. Presented by The Friends of Pine Hawk. Questions? Email friends.of.pinehawk@gmail.com.

In person at the Acton Memorial Library and via Zoom. Event is free, but registration is required at Friends of Pine Hawk events Eric Johnson of UMass-Amherst provides a retrospective on the excavation of this remarkable 4,000-year-old site in Marlborough, Massachusetts. Presented by The Friends of Pine Hawk. Questions? Email friends.of.pinehawk@gmail.com.

In-person only. Limited to 20, ages 17 and up. Event is free, but registration is required at Friends of Pine Hawk events. Bettina Abe, Acton trail volunteer and retired member of Acton’s Conservation Division, will lead a brisk hike along the Nashoba Brook Trail, with stops at the stone chamber and Native American ceremonial sites. Trail conditions can be rocky, uneven, and often wet, and thus participation is limited. Registrants will receive a detailed email several days before the walk. Presented by The Friends of Pine Hawk. Questions? Email friends.of.pinehawk@gmail.com.

In person at the Acton Memorial Library and via Zoom. Event is free, but registration is required at Friends of Pine Hawk events. Unusual stone features dot the woodlands and hillsides of New England and their provenance has been subject to many theories and debate. Cultural anthropologist Caitlin O’Riordan will give an overview of the changing ways these features have been understood over time and the friction this has caused between avocational researchers and professional archaeologists. Presented by The Friends of Pine Hawk. Questions? Email friends.of.pinehawk@gmail.com.

Event is free, but registration is required at Friends of Pine Hawk events. Join a group discussion of this landmark environmental history by William Cronon, which offers an original and profound explanation of the effects European colonists’ sense of property and their pursuit of capitalism had upon the ecosystems of New England. Presented by The Friends of Pine Hawk. Questions? Email friends.of.pinehawk@gmail.com.

In person. Limited to 25, ages 13 and up. Event is free, but registration is required at Friends of Pine Hawk events. Assist with trail and site maintenance on the Nashoba Brook Conservation Land’s Trail Through Time, a multicultural heritage trail in North Acton. The focus of this annual effort will be trail and site maintenance as well as cleaning trail kiosks. Rain date is Sunday, November 17. Presented by The Friends of Pine Hawk. Questions? Email friends.of.pinehawk@gmail.com.

Acton Arboretum, 2 Taylor Road, Acton. Limited to 12, adults only. Event is free, but registration is required at Friends of Pine Hawk events. Join Kevin Gallant and Bettina Abe for a walk through the Acton Arboretum to observe what may be Native American Ceremonial Stone Landscapes (CSLs). Many cultural structures have been destroyed by development but some may still exist. The walk will be on and off the trail over uneven ground. Presented by The Friends of Pine Hawk. Questions? Email friends.of.pinehawk@gmail.com.