South Mountain Speakers Series: Don't Forget! Take part in the Speakers Series! The call for proposals is now open!

Don't Forget! Take part in the Speakers Series! The call for proposals is now open!

We need your help.

We have begun planning for our 2013 South Mountain Speakers Series- a program that has drawn over 1,500 interested citizens in the last two years. The theme of the Speakers Series is "engaging with the past to protect the future- connecting our social and environmental history to today's issues."

To get an idea of Speakers Series events, check out the 2012 event schedule below.

Click the picture to the left or the link below to send your proposals our way! Speakers Series All Call Survey.

You may also contact Lisa regarding your ideas for an event:

Lisa Brayda
Community Outreach Coordinator
South Mountain Partnership- Appalachian Trail Conservancy
Phone: 717.258.5771
Mobile: 845.521.1973
Email:LBrayda@appalachiantrail.org

We look forward to hearing your ideas and thank you for helping us make the upcoming Speakers Series events amazing! Check out the list of Speakers Series Events happening this 2012 year to kick-start some ideas.

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

Don't Forget! Take part in the Speakers Series! The call for proposals is now open!