Upcoming Events

October
Thursday, October 5, 6:30 p.m.
​1910 Building Annex, 381 Main Street, West Newbury
Feeding Backyard Birds
 
Join us for Bill Gette’s, former Director of Joppa Flats Education Center, presentation on birds seen at local feeding stations and your yard. Bill will highlight how the ranges and populations of bird species have changed in recent years due to climate change, land use and development. Learn about what you can do to create a sanctuary for our local feathered friends.
There is a $5.00 guest fee.
​November
Thursday, November 2, 6:30 p.m.
1910 Building Annex, 381 Main Street, West Newbury
A Native Transformation
 
Katie Banks Hone of Ipswich, will share her story on transforming her property in Ipswich, MA with over 80 species of native plants. See non-native foundation plantings replaced by native pollinator gardens and terraced rain gardens built over eroding slopes. Tour her “garden rooms” now filled with native plants supporting birds, bees and butterflies while conserving water along one of the nation’s top ten endangered rivers.
There is a $5.00 guest fee.

Remembering Dot Cavanaugh

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Click here for a remembrance and appreciation of Mary Dorothy (Dot) Cavanaugh in the Newburyport Daily News. 
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Visit this link to view Dot as she educates the public about the history of the Almshouse Cemetery at the end of a Historical Commission video in 2021. ​