2010 Museum Programs
February 20, 2010
1:30 - 2:30 PM
Community Room, Hopkinton Town Library, Contoocook
Directions: Hopkinton Town Library
Information: 603-746-6121
"Vermiculture: The Wonderful World of Worm Composting"
 Joan O'Connor, of Joan's Famous Composting Worms, will show anyone from farmers to apartment dwellers how to take any container and turn it into a worm bin.
Learn how to create wonderful compost during the winter for your summer garden and help the environment.
Her program is suitable for young people and adults.
FREE - Donations Appreciated
April 10, 2010
"What's So Great About Great Bay?"
1:30 - 2:30 PM
Community Room, Hopkinton Town Library, Contoocook
Directions: Hopkinton Town Library
Information: 603-746-6121
N athan Hazen, a UNH marine docent of 10 years, will highlight the invaluable and unique habitats of Great Bay, a NH seacoast jewel. Nate's illustrated program will include the development of Piscataquag Basin and the history of the area. Discover how and why Great Bay is so unique!
FREE - Donations Appreciated
April 17, 2010
"Discover Wild NH Day"
10 AM - 3 PM
FREE
NH Fish & Game, Hazen Drive, Concord, NH
April 24, 2010
"Ben Kilham on Bears"
1:30 - 2:30 PM
 Community Room, Hopkinton Town Library, Contoocook
Directions: Hopkinton Town Library
Information: 603-746-6121
Ben Kilham has been featured in numerous national TV programs and newspapers. He has researched bear behavior for years by raising orphaned or starving cubs and releasing them back to the wild. Ben's illustrated program will help us learn more about bears and about the research methods that he's used to help us learn to live with bears.
FREE - Donations Appreciated
June 26, 2010
Museum Opens for the Season at 1 PM
August 6, 2010
"Child Survival: Teaching Your Child to Survive Getting Lost in the Woods"
 Let us teach your children skills that will reduce their chances of getting lost.
Grades 2 - 4, 11 AM - 12:30 PM
(a parent & child must attend together; no charge for accompanying parent.)
Grades 5 - 7, 2 - 4 PM
$7 museum Members; $10 nonmembers (includes a survival pack).
Preregistration is required (call 603-746-6121 to register)
"Advanced Child Survival Skills"
Learn to build a fire for warmth and to erect a survival shelter.
Grades 5 and up 12:30 - 2 PM
$5 Museum Members; $7 nonmembers
Preregistration is required (call 603-746-6121 to register)
Instructor: Rudy Bourget* (proceeds after expenses go to the Museum)
September 11 and 12
NatureFest 2010
11 AM - 5 PM
(co-hosted by the Museum and Gould Hill Orchards), rain or shine
"Thru the Time Machine, Part 1"
Grades 5 and up 11 AM - Noon
Go back in time 2000 years, in a non-virtual adventure, with Rudy Bourget.*
Learn to build a cooking fire as the Romans did. Start it using flint and steel; and cook bread on a stick over the fire.
Participants must purchase a bandana at the Museum for admission.
Bandana Cost - $5, museum members; $7, nonmembers.
Group size limited to 10; proceeds benefit the Museum.
"Edible Wild Plants"
Workshop Sat. and Sun.
Noon – 1 PM with Rudy Bourget*
FREE - Donations Appreciated
"Thru the Time Machine, Part 2"
Grade 6 through adult 1:30 – 2:30 PM
Go back in time 15,000 years, in a non-virtual adventure, with Rudy Bourget.*
Participate in a mastodon hunt and learn about mastodons and other extinct mammals.
Learn how to use an atlatl as our ancestors did to hunt for mastodons.
Participants must purchase a bandana at the Museum for admission.
Bandana Cost - $5, museum members; $7, nonmembers.
Group size limited to 10; proceeds benefit the Museum.
Hayrides; Special program at 2:30 PM; special exhibits;
hands-on children’s nature activities; family fun!
Rain or shine (FREE - Donations Appreciated)
October 23, 2010 (Raindate October 24)
"Map & Compass Workshop"
 Grades 6 - 8, 9 AM - Noon
Grades 9 - adult 1 PM - 5 PM
Learn the skills to keep you from getting lost in the woods that include map reading, using a compass, and basic GPS.
$7 museum Members; $10 nonmembers
Preregistration is required (call 603-746-6121 to register)
ENROLLMENT IS LIMITED to 12.
Instructor: Rudy Bourget* (proceeds after expenses go to the Museum)
*Information about the Instructor
 Rudy Bourget has studied primitive outdoor and wilderness survival skills for over 40 years, and has been very active in Boy Scout and Cub Scout leadership and training for nearly 20 years. He has been a Merit Badge counselor for emergency preparedness, wilderness survival, camping, hiking, backpacking, and others.
Rudy has been a volunteer EMT on the Weare Rescue Squad and has been a volunteer First Aid Instructor for the Manchester Chapter of the American Red Cross. He has also assisted NH Fish and Game Dept.’s Hunter Safety program for six years teaching Survival and First Aid. Rudy was a wilderness survival instructor while in the Army in the late 1960's.
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