This former practice piano sits beneath the towering maples and hemlocks behind the Orwig Music Building, slowly becoming one with the universe. Prior to the intervention of Ph.D. candidate Devanney Haruta, the Brown University Music Department had it slated for a trip to the dump, but inspired by Australian composer Ross Bolleter’s work with “ruined […]
(8.5) The Blackstone Parks Conservancy holds a variety of interesting events during the year most of which involve sensible shoes. Find a pair by this Saturday and go for A Shoreline Walk with Greg Gerritt. Come for a walk along the Seekonk [River] shoreline, beginning at the Blackstone Park kiosk on Parkside Road proceeding through
(3.16) Register now for Drawing Wild: From the Collection at the Museum of Natural History in Roger Williams Park. Bring a small easel or chair and your drawing or painting materials, and choose your subject from the collections of birds, bears, lions, and Oceanic artifacts. Museum staff will also select some special “guests” from the
Glad I checked the nesting box today. The Audubon Society of Rhode Island (ASRI) is pretty excited: Happy Hatch Day! The Providence Peregrine clutch has begun to hatch! Tune in and watch as the eyases emerge. When I first checked the peregrine webcam, one parent was just sitting there covering eggs and chicks, but suddenly
(11.28) Have you always liked the idea of birding but not the early hours? Here’s your bird. Head over to Swan Point Cemetery Wednesday afternoon for a free, guided bird walk hosted by the Audubon Society of Rhode Island. Guides Tracey Hall and Lisa Maloney will show you how to look for owls and other
(6.22) Something a little different for Movies on the Block this week — Planet Earth Season One: Jungles and Deep Sea. And why not. Shouldn’t David Attenborough be getting a Nobel Prize or something for this work. And shouldn’t we be sending “golden records” of this series into outer space for future reference . .
(5.14) The 9th annual Urban Parks Procession kicks off Saturday at 6pm from Roosevelt Lake behind the Casino at Roger Williams Park. The Tomaquag Museum provides this year’s theme as musicians, nature-lovers, historians, and area residents and students parade along the city’s chain of ponds. Because Mashapaug Pond was a settlement site for Indigenous People
A curious installation over at Brown University reifies the collection of a forgotten naturalist. A group of students, professors, and artists calling themselves “The Jenks Society for Lost Museums” has spent the past year researching the Jenks Museum, re-collecting scattered relics and remnants, and transforming words into rooms and fragments of curatorial description into spectral
This has been a remarkable winter for local birders and ornithologists due to the invasion, or irruption, of snowy owls in the area. URI’s resident snowy expert, Natural Resources Science Professor Peter Paton, spoke on CBS Evening News yesterday; unfortunately he seems to have been lost in subsequent editing. (Still, go here to see the
(10.27,28) The Museum of Natural History has some special events scheduled for this weekend. In addition to spooky stories, creature features, mystery guests and a trick-or-treat bag full of Halloween fun, visitors can take haunted museum vault tours (additional admission applies, children under 4 not admitted). According to the ProJo, Only 2 percent of the
Well . . . there is one less rodent in downtown Providence today. There seems to be a fairly regular feeding in the early afternoon; I have good luck checking in at about 1pm. The nesting box, it must be said, is getting pretty funky. At this point the parents do not seem inclined to
[UPDATE: The signal has been restored! The chicks have grown a little bigger. I think number four is still with us. CLICK HERE. BC] We hope temporarily. According to the Rhode Island Audubon Society website the bad weather has knocked out the live feed and they are working to restore the signal. Hope the gang
“Providence” — the city name attributed to Warwick for all things concerning airports and conference locations — is hosting the Eastern Apicultural Society‘s annual convention this week. If you’ve noticed an influx of trucker hats and pickups advertising raw honey, you’re probably somewhere near the Crowne Plaza. Which is where you should be, if you
Providence Community Library, the Friends of Knight Memorial Library and Trees 2020 are excited to present two free environmentally-themed films tonight at the Knight Memorial Library, starting at 6pm. The Man Who Planted Trees (30 minutes animated) This film tells the story of a shepherd who repairs the ruined ecosystem of a secluded valley by
. . . make sure they are the really really tasty-looking kind. Following the confirmed sighting of a great white shark off the coast of Massachusetts, the Coast Guard issued a shark warning last Friday. According to WBZ the Coast Guard suggests that the sharks are attracted by the growing seal population. “Predation is not
Here’s a fantastic article and video about the White House honeybees. Yet a blurb last year about a White House bee swarm prompted one commenter to accuse Michelle Obama of breaking a D.C. ordinance stating that hives can’t be kept within 500 feet of a residence (although “enclosed properties” are exempt—does the White House fence