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  • Twin Oaks

    The Land We Protect: Conserving Our Natural Resources

    Academy Building 24 Main St, Salisbury, CT, United States

    Exhibit highlights our local resources—water, forests, critical habitats, and more—and how the Land Trust, in cooperation with conservation partners, is working to conserve them.

  • Exploring Salisbury’s Main Street game

    Main Street of Salisbury

    Looking for a fun activity with family or visitors on a summer afternoon? Play the new walking tour game, an exploratory of Salisbury’s Main Street. Pick up for free at the Academy Building. Or download the walking tour questions and answer sheet HERE. Whether you’re new to town or a long-time resident, you’ll discover interesting tidbits about places we pass every day.

  • Guided Mushroom Walk

    Sugar Hill in Amesville, Salisbury

    Dave Patton will lead a walk at Sugar Hill to learn about easy-to-identify mushrooms that are edible, toxic, and have medicinal properties. Limited to 20. Rain or shine. Pre-register.

  • 4th of July Celebration at the Grove

    Town Grove, 42 Ethan Allen Street, Lakeville

    SAVE THE DATE! Be sure to join us for the annual 4th of July Celebration at the Town Grove. Reading of the Declaration of Independence, music by the Salisbury Band, food by Extras...fun time for all!

  • Bat Program and Count

    Scoville Memorial Library and Academy Building 38 Main Street, Salisbury, CT

    Learn about the flying mammals that roost in the attics of the Academy Building and Scoville Memorial Library from Devaugh Fraser, a CT DEEP wildlife biologist and a specialist in bats. Then help count the bats on their nightly flight out of the Academy Building.

  • Wells Hill Rd

    What’s In a Name?

    Academy Building 24 Main St, Salisbury, CT, United States

    What is the story behind the fascinating names of our streets and places...The Lock-up, Asylum, Ore Hill, Joyceville, Wells Hill? This interesting and fun exhibit tells the origins of street names and places in Salisbury.

  • What’s In a Name?

    Academy Building 24 Main St, Salisbury, CT, United States

    What is the story behind the fascinating names of our streets and places...Lock-up, Asylum, Ore Hill, Chapinville, Wells Hill? This interesting and fun exhibit tells the origins of street names and places in Salisbury. Reception on Sunday, July 30 from 4-6. Everyone is invited!

  • Housatonic Heritage Walk—The Ames Iron Works

    Ames Iron Work, Falls Village, CT Falls Village, CT, United States

    Lou Bucceri, from the Salisbury Association Historical Society, will share the fascinating history about the Ames Iron Works factory and the people that produced the most powerful cannon of the Civil War.

  • Housatonic Heritage Walks – Dark Hollow Preserve

    Salmon Kill Road in Salisbury Salisbury, CT, United States

    Join Tom Key, from the Salisbury Association Land Trust, for a walk on the three major trails which run through mixed hard-woods and pine/hemlock forests, skirt large rock out cropings, and descend along fields and wetlands. 1 hour – 2.5 miles. To view trail maps, visit www.salisburyassociation.org/land-trust/hiking-trails-preserves.

  • Guided Mushroom Walk

    Sugar Hill in Amesville, Salisbury

    Dave Patton will lead a walk at Sugar Hill to learn about easy-to-identify mushrooms that are edible, toxic, and have medicinal properties. Limited to 20. Rain or shine. Pre-register. 10 am - 11 am

  • Salisbury Affordable Housing Poster

    Affordable Housing exhibit

    Academy Building 24 Main St, Salisbury, CT, United States

    The affordable housing crisis has been negatively affecting Salisbury residents, workers, and business owners for decades. Visit the exhibit to learn what affordable housing is, why we need more of it, and the organizations creating housing solutions for Salisbury residents. Preview future affordable housing projects and learn how to get involved.

  • Salisbury’s Iron Industry

    Scoville Memorial Library 38 Main Street, Salisbury, CT

    Dick Paddock, a member of the Salisbury Association Historical Society, will give an illustrated talk about the history of the iron industry in Salisbury/Lakeville. The Northwest Corner had vast areas of iron ore, limestone, and wood to make charcoal--the three main ingredients for iron
    production. The early blast furnace produced tools and cooking utensils and then cannons for the Revolutionary War. It was replaced with the Holley Manufacturing Company, one of the early producers of pocketknives in the country. 4 pm - 5:30 pm