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Hike at ACLT once a month every month in 2021 and win some really cool prizes! Not to mention all the great benefits to your physical and mental health and well-being! Every time you visit ACLT’s trails, use the QR code located at all trailheads to sign in to be sure your hike is counted! Everyone’s a Winner! All adults who complete the challenge win ACLT merch! Choose from water bottles, knit hats, gaiters, mugs or baseball hats! Children receive free ACLT decals and stickers. PLUS one winner will be drawn to win THE GRAND PRIZE which includes a free t-shirt from the ACLT online store and a $25 gift card to Smoothie King!

Miss seeing your favorite otters at Calvert Marine Museum? Wait no longer!! You can now check in with Chumley, Calvert and Chessie Gracie on the Calvert Marine Museum's live web cams.

Annmarie Sculpture Garden and Art Center is transforming the grounds of the 30-acre sculpture garden into a wondrous menagerie of real, imagined, and otherworldly creatures. Works will be installed amongst the woods, trails, trees, lawns, and patios of the sculpture garden.

The Kay Daugherty Gallery at Annmarie Sculpture Garden & Arts Center will feature On Paper: Printmaking, Book Arts & Beyond. Selected work will highlight the expanse of printmaking and book arts as an artistic discipline. Techniques such as relief printing, etching, lithography, paper making, book binding, letterpress, collage and papercut will be explored. All works should showcase the unique process and craftsmanship that goes into each handmande paper, print, or collage. Select media welcome; small to large-scale works; indoor and outdoor works; cash awards will be presented.

This school year, join CMM for a virtual fieldtrip experience! The CMM Education Team has created FIVE new and unique programs for students K-5 to engage in activities focusing on paleontology, estuarine biology, and maritime history. Each program is available to public, private, and homeschool groups. You must complete registration for your requested virtual fieldtrip experience and we will send you the corresponding website link.

CalvART is a cooperative gallery located in Prince Frederick, MD, and affiliated with the Arts Council of Calvert County. CalvART is a showcase for artists from Southern Maryland and highlights work from a wide range of styles and media. Our artists excel in paintings, pottery, jewerly, sculpture, woodturning and photography. "For The Birds" - Linocut prints of birds of all sorts, flying, foraging, flocking and floating. Also included are gourds made into fully functional birdhouses, painted and decorated to become whimsical habitats such as spaceships, creatures, and characters.

Enjoy a read-aloud story about backyard birds. Bring an empty half gallon paper or plastic screw top jug to paint a bird feeder. Wear clothes that can get messy.

Dr. Hali Kilbourne is a Research Associate Professor with the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, at the Chesapeake Biological Laboratory campus. Before coming to Southern Maryland, Dr. Kilbourne was a visiting professor at McDaniel College and held a prestigious U.S. National Research Council postdoctoral position with which she worked at the National Ocean and Atmospheric Administration Earth System Research Laboratory. She obtained her undergraduate training in Geology from Smith College and graduate training in Marine Science from the University of South Florida. She specializes in the fields of Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology. Her research focuses on understanding the climate of the last 2000 years to provide context for modern changes and to improve our understanding of climate system processes driving climate variability. Such information can help us improve climate models used for predicting future climate change.