South Mountain Speakers Series: RESTORING THE CHESTNUT: The chestnut’s story is rooted in catastrophe but survives through our hope & work

The 2014 South Mountain Speakers Series Schedule

* THE ROTHROCK LEGACY: A FORUM ON THE PAST AND CURRENT CONDITION OF PENN’S WOODS

March 27, 2014 7PM

PSU-Mont Alto

* HALLOWED GROUNDS, ENDANGERED HISTORY: PRESERVING THE HISTORIC AFRICAN-AMERICAN BURIAL GROUNDS OF THE SOUTH MOUNTAIN REGION

April 17, 2014 7PM
Shippensburg University

* THE CHANGING FACE OF AGRICULTURE IN THE SOUTH MOUNTAIN REGION: RE-CREATING THE CIDER INDUSTRY

First two weekends of October (Oct 4-5 & Oct 11-12) 2 PM
National Apple Harvest Festival, Arendtsville, PA

* CHANGING CLIMATE AND THE SOUTH MOUNTAIN REGION

November 13, 2014 7PM

Dickinson College

In the Spirit of the Michaux Lectures

Pennsylvania has a long and compelling history of conservation. Inspired by the state and the nation’s early conservation leaders and their struggles, the South Mountain Partnership seeks to put today’s environmental issues into a broader context and inspire action within our communities.

The South Mountain Speakers Series are organized in the spirit of the Michaux Lectures, a series of talks given by Joseph Rothrock in his work to preserve and restore Pennsylvania’s forests and natural landscape. During the late nineteenth century, the Michaux Lectures as presented by Rothrock were an educational mission that became a catalyst for real change in our state’s environmental history.

It is our hope that as we face the challenges of the twenty first century, the South Mountain Speakers Series can encourage a new generation to find in the past a positive vision for the future of the South Mountain landscape and beyond.

Building on our past to create a legacy for our future

RESTORING THE CHESTNUT: The chestnut’s story is rooted in catastrophe but survives through our hope & work