Welcome to the Friends of Sterling Nature Center
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Walk Our Trails, Wander Our Shores, Find Your Place in Nature
Interpretive Building Summer Hours
Open 7 days a week.
9AM TO 4PM
Kickoff to our End-of-Year Giving Campaign on November 14th
after-hours show
Featuring Matt Venuti’s AmeriCosmos Show Fundraiser.
Experience something truly amazing at the Sterling Nature Center! Join us for an extraordinary evening as Matt Venuti takes the stage with his critically acclaimed AmeriCosmos performance: a live, multi-instrumental musical journey that accompanies breathtaking nature footage captured by Matt throughout the US…with the addition of awe-inspiring views of Earth from above and a fantastic voyage through Deep Space…. courtesy of NASA and the Webb Telescope! Matt recently completed a four-month tour, circumnavigating the country and performing in 55 venues. Check out Matt’s website at :www.mattvenuti.com and learn more about the man and his performances.
Savor the evening with a relaxed cocktail hour and cash bar serving wine, and cider along with light refreshments, then settle in for an immersive show that inspires awe, connection, and wonder.
Your ticket supports the Center’s End-of-Year Giving Campaign, helping us protect wildlife, care for the trails, and keep the Nature Center a place where our community can learn, explore, and feel at home in nature.
Programs to bring the kids to.
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Reading Nature: An Environmental Literature Reading Group
Humankind’s relationship to the nonhuman world is complicated and often contradictory. We love nature yet fear it; we admire its beauty yet try to control it; we are part of it yet seek to rise above it. Writers, artists, scientists, and philosophers have wrestled with these contradictions, leaving behind a rich body of environmental literature, essays, memoirs, poetry, and fiction.
Reading Nature: An Environmental Literature Reading Group invites you to join this exploration. Together we’ll read, reflect, and discuss how these works shape our understanding of humanity’s connection to the natural world.
First Meeting
Sunday, October 19 | 2:00 pm
Sterling Nature Center
15730 Jensvold Road, Sterling, NY
At this first gathering, we’ll talk about how the group will work and shape the path forward together. Reading Nature will be a space to explore this work, share ideas, and reflect on our place in the natural world.
Nature Notes Now
What you might see during your visit to the center.
By Heidi Rothfuss
What's going on in September
The Friends of the Sterling Nature Center is a not-for-profit organization that support's The Sterling Nature Center.
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