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Connect Kids to Parks Grant Opportunity

The Connect Kids to Parks Grant Program offers up to $750 to cover transportation fees for Title 1 schools, K-12 classrooms to help connect New York public school children with exploring one of New York’s greatest treasures; a state park, nature center or…
The Connect Kids to Parks Grant Program offers up to $750 to cover transportation fees for Title 1 schools, K-12 classrooms to help connect New York public school children with ex…… https://www.ptny.org/news-and-media/you-gotta-have-friends/2016/07/connect-kids-parks-grant-opportunity

New Humphrey Nature Center Opens at Letchworth State Park

The Humphrey Nature Center has officially opened to the public and Letchworth State Park’s more than 650,000 annual visitors can now marvel at its beauty. The Humphrey Nature Center has much more to offer than its gorgeous exterior, inside visitors can en…
The Humphrey Nature Center has officially opened to the public and Letchworth State Park’s more than 650,000 annual visitors can now marvel at its beauty. The Humphrey Nature Cent…… https://www.ptny.org/news-and-media/you-gotta-have-friends/2016/07/new-humphrey-nature-center-opens-letchworth-state-park

Dreaming of Timbuctoo

The exhibit curated by Friends group John Brown Lives! that chronicles a chapter of the Adirondack’s abolitionist history, opened in its new, permanent home at the John Brown Farm State Historic Site in Lake Placid.
“Dreaming of Timbuctoo” chronicles the work of Gerrit Smith, a wealthy white abolitionist who helped black New Yorkers gain the right to vote by giving away 40-acre plots of land.…… https://www.ptny.org/news-and-media/you-gotta-have-friends/2016/07/dreaming-timbuctoo