Lewis and Clark Exploratory Center

Rain Closing

2011-10-29T10:55:00.002-04:00

Because of the cold, rainy conditions we had to stay closed today. Tomorrow's forecast is for good weather, so please drop by then!

October 29/30 Weekend

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Our 2011 season ends this coming weekend... and 2012 will begin with a brand new building. Completion is scheduled for the spring!

Saturday, 10-4, and Sunday, 12-4, we're preparing for Halloween by making North American animal masks, and masks of Thomas Jefferson. We're doing a last scavenger hunt looking for a variety of colors on the trails, and we're doing painting on wood that you can take home: chessboards and folk portraits. Help us celebrate our last weekend at the Keelboat Barn!

September Schedule

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Saturday, September 3: First Saturday volunteer day, 9 to 11.
Volunteers get in for free. Afterwards we’ll be making model boats
based on the Lewis & Clark keelboat, and we’ll be painting old-style
signs. Come pick your trade and stencil your message...
Sunday, September 4: Boat building and sign painting, inspired by the
book American Folk Art for Kids

Saturday, September 10,
Sunday, September 11: We’re having our last weekend of miniature boat
building and sailing, and last year’s favorite activity, “Mystery of
the Keelboat,” where visitors are given a variety of questions to
answer through clues left aboard the keelboat.

Saturday, September 17,
Sunday, September 18: Do a folk art portrait of yourself, and
practice your calligraphy with a real quill pen. The “Mystery of the
Keelboat” continues... with new clues to find aboard the Red Pirogue.

Saturday, September 24,
Sunday, September 25: Help us decoupage a piece of furniture for the
Center, and take home your own paste collage card. Construct a
weather station and do experiments with the instruments we place
inside.

Volunteer Saturday

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This coming Saturday, September 3, we are having our Volunteer Meet-up from 9 to 11. We hope to see you there! We'll be working on furniture ideas for the Day of Caring and doing touch-ups on the barn.

August 27 and 28

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We will be closed for maintenance this coming weekend, August 27th and 28th. We just want to make sure that everything got through the earthquake all right, and to fix some items that got damaged. Thank you again for your patience! The weather this August has not been cooperative. We hope to have a great September and the activities for the rest of the fall will be posted soon.

Rain Closing

2011-08-06T12:36:00.003-04:00

This morning we opened for our First Saturdays volunteer day. We painted benches, getting them ready for birds and clouds and flowers which we'll add later. Then the rains came! We closed when we got soaked, but we hope to see everyone tomorrow.

August 6 and 7

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This coming weekend we'll be building model boats to sail in the river and we'll be collecting soil samples to turn into all-natural paint. The paint will then be used on paper or as slip on pottery. (Clay is available for small bowls and sculptures.) The forecast says it might rain, so check into the blog for closing in case of thunderstorms.

Dave Matthews Tickets

2011-08-05T07:03:00.002-04:00

All you Dave Matthews/Tim Reynolds/Lewis and Clark Exploratory Center fans, as of today (August 5th) you have the opportunity to give to LCEC when you buy your tickets to the Matthews-Reynolds show at the nTelos Wireless Pavilion in Charlottesville on August 20, 2011. Just go to www.thenteloswirelesspavilion.com and buy your tickets. You'll be given a 14 digit number that you can then use on the www.justgive.org website to designate funds to your favorite charity. Tell your friends to support us also! They'll be supporting environmental education, a new river center, and hands-on activities for kids. And as our visitors you can tell them all about it.

Heat Closings

2011-07-29T12:01:00.002-04:00

Last weekend we were closed because of heat advisories. Because we operate largely outdoors, any heat index over 95 or 96 can be uncomfortable. We don't have a set closing temperature, but if the heat index is over 99 we are likely to be closed. You can also call 996-7282 (weekend hours only) to learn about closings.

July Activities

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The Lewis & Clark Exploratory Center offers families art, carpentry,
and nature activities in an outdoor setting at Darden Towe Park. The
Center is open 10-4 on Saturday and 12-4 on Sundays. Admission is $3
per person. In addition to special activities, there are tours of the
replicas of the historic boats that Lewis and Clark took up the
Missouri. Children must be accompanied by a parent. For more
information, please call 434-979-2425.

July Activities

Saturday, July 2: Volunteer First Saturday, free admission for
volunteers 9 to 11 am. We’re going to be working on the keelboat, and
doing trail maintenance. Come swab the deck! After 11, there will be
Fourth of July printmaking, and a Red, White and Blue scavenger hunt.
From 1-3:30 there will be tours of the Red Pirogue, our newest boat.

Sunday, July 3: Printmaking and bookbinding for kids with artist Rachel Singel

July 9/10: Come learn about the plants that Lewis and Clark would
have used on their expedition, and make pressings out of dandelions
and other common flowers. We’re also constructing model boats. On Sunday,
Rachel Singel will teach bookbinding for children. Visitors can take
home their own handmade books.

July 16/17: We’ll make more model boats and we’ll do weather
experiments from the keelboat. Sunday will be the last session to
learn bookmaking with Rachel Singel.

July 23/24: Come earn your carpentry badge at the Center, and also
have fun with clay.

July 30/31: Carpentry Corner has the return of Nail Art... string,
nails, and wood combine to make bridges, designs, and maps from your
imagination.

Volunteer First Saturdays

2011-06-03T09:29:00.004-04:00

For years, the Lewis & Clark Exploratory Center built its keelboat with volunteer help on the First Saturdays of every month at Darden Towe Park. Now that we have an entire fleet of replica boats, we're starting up the tradition again with Volunteer First Saturdays. We need help keeping the pirogues and keelboat in good working order for tours and for forays into the river. Anyone can come anytime from 9 to 11 on the first Saturdays to clean, spackle, varnish, sand, and paint, depending on the need. Iced water provided. Call 979-2425 for more information.

June 4th is our first get-together--wear clothes you don't mind getting dirty.

June Activities

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For June 4 and 5 we're doing more kite making and flying and trying out of new designs. We're also painting petroglyphs to use for storytelling.

June 11 and 12 there's "Make Your Own Museum" where kids can come and fabricate their own displays. Will it be an art museum, a natural history museum, or a rock collection? There are cabinets to fill and signs to paint.

June 18 and 19, Father's Day weekend, we'll be making hand-made cards for Dad. We'll also have Science Station: Weather, which will include science experiments and cloud searches.

June 25 and 26, Carpentry Corner will feature constructing model boats that you can take to the river or float in our tester tub of water. On Sunday, June 26, printmaker Rachel Singel will teach introductory book binding to both children and adults. Kids can make their own book covers and sew their own bindings.

In addition to these special activities, we have carpentry, beading and nature activities every weekend, as well as keelboat tours and challenges. Hours are 10-4 on Saturdays and 12-4 on Sundays. Activities take place in a rustic barn setting (open air) and outside under tents. Come for a visit and explore art, history, and science! Cost is three dollars per person and includes all materials.

Kite Flying and River Regatta

2011-05-09T09:51:00.003-04:00

This coming Saturday and Sunday, May 14 and 15th will be our Kite-making Weekend, with kite construction, painting, and flying. Come make an owl kite, or help us build a kite that Benjamin Franklin would have flown!

The Rivanna Regatta will also be happening this Saturday at Darden Towe Park, and the Lewis & Clark Exploratory Center will have a boat display and table down at the boat ramp. Come visit the barn and the regatta this weekend...

New Season Begins

2011-04-27T13:13:00.002-04:00

The Lewis & Clark Exploratory Center will be opening its barn doors on Saturday, May 7th at 10 AM. We look forward to greeting and meeting you then. On Saturday, May 8th, we'll be having our Sunday hours, 12-4. From then on out, we'll be changing up activities every weekend through October, as well as offering keelboat tours and carpentry activities.

For the first weekend, we're going to find wildflowers throughout Darden Towe Park and learn how to make illustrations of them in our journals. (No picking please! Just admiring with the eyes and nose.) So far we've found a lovely cluster of bluebells by the river...

Admission is three dollars per person.

October Activities

2010-10-09T08:38:00.002-04:00

We're in the last month of our season, and we have plenty of activities for the weekends--making Halloween masks, creating animal totem poles, and hiking on the trails as the leaves are turning. The Boys and Girls Club of Orange just came by yesterday and made Halloween masks after collecting seeds, leaves, and fall flowers to glue on them. We took a look at the Rivanna River, where many of the children had learned to kayak a few weeks before.

Summer Camps

2010-08-13T10:03:00.002-04:00

The Lewis and Clark Exploratory Center did a lot of new activities during our summer camps this year: we made our own compasses, painted petroglyphs, and did bark rubbings, learning about many different trees. We saw what looked like a great white heron for the first time on the Rivanna. We've seen an eagle, great blue herons, green herons, and osprey--but never the great white heron. We saw it first when we were kayaking, and later when we were swimming. It was as big as the great blue with an impressive wingspan, and bigger than the great egret. Since my book says the great white doesn't get this far North, we need to get a closer look at this bird.

For the first time we crossed the Rivanna River and enjoyed the trails that border Pen Park. In previous years, the river has been too high, but the drought and hot conditions had at least one good outcome. We made it over the shoals and led a wonderful hike on a wide and shady trail.

June Programs

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Yesterday and today the Center hosted the Young Women Leaders Program from the University of Virginia. The young women and their mentors practiced their carpentry skills and made wonderful birdhouses for bluebirds and swallows. There are similar birdhouses near the Lewis & Clark Exploratory Center that are monitored weekly for nests. The YWLP also painted an oar for the Keelboat Barn's collection. We are inviting the other non-profit groups we work with to design oars for display in our barn.

Today we also had a visit from the Boys and Girls Club of Orange. We took our gardening cushions and sat at five different locations around the park, exploring sights and sounds. We shut our eyes for a minute at each location, noticing bird calls, the different sounds of the wind in the trees, and the noise of some rapids in the Rivanna River. We also heard golfers in Penn Park, a truck backing up, and a helicopter--there was a lot to hear out at Darden Towe Park.

May Weekends

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We're open 10-4 on Saturdays and 12-4 on Sundays at the Keelboat Barn. Cost is $3 per person (children 3 and under are free). The theme for this season is "Stories," where we highlight short stories about the Lewis & Clark Expedition and other explorations, stories of the American Indian experience of the Expedition, stories already told and stories our visitors tell. We provide ink and quill pens. Just think of it as a very old-fashioned blog.

Our art activities for May include making Flower Mosaics, using scissors and foam; painting our new collection of animals to hide on the trails; and practising carpentry skills. All ages welcome! And we have new physical challenges: a log walk and two rope swings. Come by and check out what's new on our trail!

Barn Dance May 1st

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Afterschool Workshops

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Our weekend hours will resume in May, and while we're preparing for a busy 2010, we're also leading workshops in the Albemarle County and City of Charlottesville public schools. We're currently working in seven locations: Agnor-Hurt, Johnson, Scottsville, Clark, Burnley-Moran, Stony Point, and the Boys and Girls Club of Orange. The workshops, made possible by the Prana Fund of the Charlottesville Area Community Foundation, have been rewarding for students and mentors alike, and have included painting, printmaking, drawing, mapping, maskmaking, and nature sculpture.

We're going to be having an exhibition of the students' work later in the year, and we'll let you know as soon as we set the dates.

Join Us for Our Capital Campaign Launch

2009-10-14T20:46:00.004-04:00

On Saturday, October 17th, at 4 PM the Lewis & Clark Exploratory Center is launching its capital campaign! We're announcing the final, public phase of our fundraising for our permanent home, and we're almost there--with $300,000 left to raise out of a budget of $1,300,000. We're celebrating with music and refreshments and with the presentation of our newest completed boats: the Red Pirogue and the River Ferry. The Red Pirogue was modelled after one of three boats to take the Lewis and Clark Expedition up the Missouri. The River Ferry, a one person rope ferry, was constructed using a 19th Century ferry design provided by historic boatwright Butch Bouvier. Both boats will be part of the Lewis & Clark Exploratory Center's historic boat display.

Lewis & Clark President Anne Hemenway and Albemarle County Board of Supervisors Board Member Sally Thomas will be making opening remarks at Saturday's event.

September and October Schedule

2009-08-25T10:09:00.002-04:00

We've set the schedule for the rest of the season--by popular demand.

September 5/6: We're going to make animal medallions on wood, and do some new Nail Art designs. (See photos below for some of our earlier designs.)

September 12/13: Discover Geocaching (the Lewis and Clark geocache will be in place); and take part in a Journalling Workshop

September 19/20: Mapping for Young Discoverers; Pottery: Hand Painted Beads and Bowls

September 26/27 Our Explorer's Club will offer Map and Compass workshops. We'll also have beading with our new animal beads.

October 3/4 We'll have Nail Art, Beading, and a Science Table. Bring something from home to examine under the microscope or find something at the Center...

October 10/11 Make paper-mache figurines, and do printmaking with leaves to celebrate the fall season

October 17/18 Get your Halloween costumes ready with paper and paper mache mask-making. Make a paper mache pumpkin, or set out with the Explorer's Club team for a lesson in geocaching.

October 24/25 Paper mask-making, Pottery, and Leaf Art.

October 31 Our last day of the season! Make a Halloween Mask, and do a spooky Artwork. Black, yellow, and orange beading, and Batty Nail Art.

BamaWorks Camp

2009-08-04T20:57:00.003-04:00

August's Camp Explore is now underway at the Center, generously funded by BamaWorks, the charitable foundation of the Dave Matthews Band. The children have been doing art projects, exploring the outdoors, and getting their feet wet in the river. We've been seeing tadpoles and frogs, dragonflies--and honking v's of geese. Today they got a wonderful introduction to nature journaling and to the nature observation games of Joseph Cornell thanks to local educator Eileen Merritt, whom the Center met through a Chesapeake Bay Foundation workshop. More on all this later! We have many more activities planned, including making drums out of recycled materials.

August Schedule

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We have wonderful activities this August for enjoying the last days of summer. We have hikes, and fun with our new microscopes and nature viewing tools...
August 1/2 Animal Painting: Paint an animal on paper or on small wooden medallions you make yourself; Rock Hunting: Look at rocks underneath the microscope then search for your own rocks on the park trails
August 8/9 It’s a Day for the Birds! Learn about all your neighborhood birds at our Ornithology Display. Books, feathers, and squeezable toys… Observe the bluebirds and barn swallows that live near the Lewis and Clark Keelboat Barn and make your own paper feathers and bird masks.
August 15/16 Compass Workshop: Join a Compassing Scavenger Hunt that teaches you how to use a compass. Following the series of clues to discover a secret hiding place. Pottery: Make your own coil pot to take home.
August 22/23 Beading and a Demonstration in Geocaching for Kids
August 29/30 Art in Action: Make Artist Trading Cards; Science Station: Learn the Tools of Mapmaking

Artist Trading Cards

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Here are some of the beautiful Artist Trading Cards made at the Center this past weekend: salmon, deer, and keelboat.

Our July Schedule

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We're having several new activities in July, as you'll see in our schedule below. For the Fourth, we'll feature an art project of red, white and blue. The next weekend, we'll make artist trading cards, where any type of paint, pencil, marker, and any glitter can be chosen--the only rule is that the card has to be 2-1/2 by 3-1/2.

July 4 and 5: At the Art in Action station: Come make Fireworks Transfer Prints by painting a sheet of plexiglass with your favorite red, white and blue colors. Then use a roller on a piece of paper to make your own work of art. Carpentry Corner: Help the Center make Bird Feeders for its resident birds.

July 11 and 12: Art in Action: Join the Artist Trading Card craze. Paint or draw your own trading cards to trade with your friends or to collect yourself. Carpentry Corner: Make a Nail Art sculpture and learn to sand wood and drive nails.

July 18 and 19: Carpentry Corner: Help the Center make Bird Feeders for its resident birds. Science Station: Learn to Test Samples of Water.

July 25 and 26: Art in Action: Artist Trading Cards. Paint or draw your own trading cards to trade with your friends or to collect yourself. Science Station: Rock Hunt. Hike our trails and find four different kinds of rocks.

Carpentry Art

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Here's are some examples of what we'll be working on this weekend and the next: string and nail art. We got the idea from The Kids' Building Workshop, a carpentry book filled with fun projects. A visitor last weekend said that the only piece of art he ever made was string and nail art and that he still has his piece... Little did he know he'd be a resource for our art at the Center!

June Schedule

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Throughout the month of June we'll have our regular exhibits and activities for the season, "The Mystery of the Keelboat,"Nature Observation," and maskmaking and beading. In "Mystery of the Keelboat," visitors of all ages are invited to board the keelboat to find clues. "Nature Observation" takes families out onto the trails to locate painted animals and learn about North American species that Lewis and Clark encountered. Then they can come back to the main Center and paint their own! In addition to these activities, we'll have the following rotating programs:

June is the introduction to Carpentry Corner, a new station where children who have earned their Apprentice Boat Building badges can get more comfortable using carpentry tools. June 6 and 7, and June 13 and 14, we'll be featuring "String and Nail Art." Kids will hammer in nails of various sizes onto boards and then will string yarn of different colors on the nails to make designs. Afterwards, they'll paint their boards to take home. On June 20 and 21, and June 27 and 28, Carpentry Corner will feature "Boats and Birdhouses," and children will be taught new construction skills so they can make miniature boats and functional birdhouses. Adults are also welcome to participate in the programs and take home their own 70's inspired String and Nail Art!

We look forward to seeing you there!

May Schedule at Center

2009-05-11T13:38:00.002-04:00

We've been getting the season underway at the Lewis and Clark Exploratory Center. One of the papers did make a misprint, telling people that we are on Holiday Drive. We are not on Holiday Drive (our office address from 5 years ago)--we are in Darden Towe Park, off Pantops. We apologize for those of you who searched the Aberdeen Barn area for our barn!

Here's the rest of the May schedule, and we hope you can come:

May 16, 17: “Nature Observation”: Can you find the hidden animals in the forest? We’ll hike and try to find animal camouflage paintings hidden in the trees.

May 23, 24: “The Mystery of the Keelboat”: Climb aboard the 55 ft. replica of the Lewis and Clark Expedition Keelboat and find clues to what happened on the original boat. Fill out a detective quiz and be eligible to win a collection of Lewis & Clark coins. The participants with the most answers correct will be placed in a drawing in September. (Adult and child categories.)

May 30, 31: “Introduction to Nature Journaling”: Adult and Teen. At 1 and 3 o’clock, get an introduction to nature journaling based on Clare Walker Leslie’s work. Reservations required. Limit seven. Program lasts approximately one hour. Children’s Activity: “Nature Observation” (see Above).

Opening Weekend!

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We're having our Opening Weekend tomorrow, May 2, and Sunday, May 3! This weekend we're featuring "Camouflage Animals." Visitors can paint their own owls, deer, and frogs to take home, learning about forest adaptations and the hidden lives of animals. Our hours are Saturday, 10-4, and Sunday 12-4. Closed in the pouring rain, but not in light showers.

For Saturday, May 9th and Sunday, May 10th, the Center is offering "Mother's Day Beading." Visitors of all ages can make a bracelet or necklace for a Mother's Day gift--or bring your Mom along to help you choose the seed bead colors. The Lewis and Clark Exploratory staff will be available to finish up your piece and to put on the clasp--and to teach you how.

Admission is $3 per person (same price for children and adults). We're located in Darden Towe Park off Stony Point Road. (Take the 250E Bypass to Pantops, a left onto Stony Point Road, and another left onto Elks Drive after less than a mile. Curve your way into the park.) Admittance on the weekend of the "Mother's Day Beading" activity includes one necklace or bracelet per person. Extra jewelry pieces are $3 for a necklace and $2 for a bracelet.

April 26th River Celebration at the Lewis and Clark Exploratory Center

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Here is the poster for our April 26th Event! We hope to see you there!

River Events

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Two exciting events are coming our way: the 2nd Annual Rivanna River Sojourn, Sunday,April 19, 2009, from the Rivanna Conservation Society, and the Rivanna River Regatta and Races on Saturday, May 9th.

The Rivanna River Sojourn, offered by the Rivanna Conservation Society, is a professionally guided paddle down the Rivanna, focusing on the beauty and history of the river. Families are welcome. Full Sojourn(16.5 Mile Paddle): $75 per adult ($65.00 under 12)Mini Sojourn (6.5 Mile Paddle): $65.00 per adult ($55 under 12). For more info, see www.rivannariver.org

And this is from a Regatta announcement: "The 4th annual Rivanna River Regatta and Races are scheduled for Saturday, May 9, 2009. This annual event includes several classes of races and a recreational paddle. The several classes of races include the highly competitive Open class, a Tandem class, a Parent/Child class and a shorter, less challenging Under Age 14 race with cash prizes in each category up to $100. There is no entrance fee and this event is open to the public. For those who enjoy paddling at a slower pace, they may come and participate in a recreational paddle with others who do not wish to participate in the races on this 8.5 mile stretch of the scenic Rivanna River that skirts Charlottesville from north to east.

"Those wishing to participate in the event should assemble under the Route 29 bridge on Rio Mills Road (just north of Sam’s Club on the upstream side of the bridge) between 9-9:30am on May 9 for sign-in. The first race starts promptly at 10am. Sign-in for the shorter, Under Age 14 race will start at 12pm at Darden Towe Park and that race will begin at 1pm sharp at the north end of Darden Towe Park. The awards ceremony will be at the Darden Towe boat ramp at 1:30pm. This is also the finish line for all races. " Contact info: 434-975-3072; email: RAMBISHOP@aol.com There is also a Facebook page under Rivanna River Regatta group.

Wildlife Center of Virginia

2009-03-16T16:12:00.000-04:00

Yesterday I visited Virginia's only wildlife hospital, the Wildlife Center in Waynesboro, and took the tour of the indoor and outdoor facility. (The Lewis and Clark Exploratory Center is interested in hosting one of the Wildlife Center's educational programs for our summer camps and for our afterschool program in the fall.)

There were many children on the tour who were fascinated by the stories of animal rescue and the little known facts about animal saftey. We learned how to mount decals on windows to help birds avoid flying into the glass (the decals are shaped like birds of prey, so they not only deflect glare, they also scare other birds away because of shape recognition). We were told that throwing an apple from a car can attract animals that may then get hit--so even though the apple is biodegradable, it still should be properly disposed of. And the tour leader taught us that a lone fawn is not usually orphaned--the mother tends to leave the baby alone during the day, so her presence doesn't attract predators to the baby.

We also got a close look at Spike, the resident snapping turtle-educator (animal educators have injuries that make release into the wild impossible), and Pignoli, the one-eyed barred owl.

The Wildlife Center offers many interesting on-site and traveling programs for children, including "Camouflage," which takes place in the woods and teaches how animals blend into their environments.

Summer Camps Scheduled

2009-03-13T13:14:00.001-04:00

We've scheduled our "Camp Explore" summer camps for this year, and we're excited about all the activities planned: kayaking and hiking and journal drawing among them. The weeks of June 8th and June 15th we're hosting children who are recent refugees from countries such as Afghanistan and Somalia. These weeks are made possible by a generous grant from BamaWorks, the charitable arm of the Dave Matthews Band. The International Rescue Committee is spreading the word among families who have recently made Charlottesville their new home.

The weeks of June 22 and July 6th the City of Charlottesville's summer camp participants (elementary school and Middle School children) will be returning after another busy year. We are looking forward to seeing many familiar faces as well as some new ones. The Lewis and Clark Exploratory Center will also offer a special kayaking workshop July 15th and 16th to the City of Charlottesville kids of Walker and Tonsler. Last year being on the river for the first time was the highlight for many of the campers. We hope to bring them increased confidence on the Rivanna River this year--and the wonderful opportunity to cool off and have fun.

New Email Address

2009-02-27T11:20:00.000-05:00

The Lewis & Clark Exploratory Center has a new email address: lewisandclark@lewisandclarkeast.org Drop us a line! We're getting geared up for our 2009 season, and we're taking reservations from school, scouting and tourist groups that want to visit outside of our regular May through October weekend hours. April is a popular month for special tours. Call or email for more information.

April 26, 2009 Event

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We're having the Lewis & Clark Exploratory Center Spring Open House Sunday, April 26, 2009 at the Keelboat Barn in Darden Towe Park from 3 PM to 5:30 PM. Music will be by the Duke Merrick Band (Virginia/Texas Swing). There will be light hors d'oeuvres, a fish fry, beverages, and a silent auction of boats and other river-related items. Some of the auction items will be adventure related: including a guided float down the Rivanna River, a kayak lesson, and a picnic with nature journalling. The public is invited. Please come and enjoy yourselves at our beautiful site! Admission to the event will be $5.00. Children under 12 will be free. RSVP at 434-979-2425 or by email at lewisandclark@lewisandclarkeast.org

Welcome

2009-01-15T10:21:00.000-05:00

Welcome to the new blog of the Lewis and Clark Exploratory Center in Charlottesville, Virginia! We've created this so we can have a new place to communicate with you about our programs and events. We have many exciting workshops, camps, and events planned for 2009, and we want to keep you up-to-date.

In April we'll be having our annual Boat Sale, with music, and then the first weekend in May the Keelboat Barn will be open again to the public. We'll be telling you more about both of these events in the future. Until then, thanks for visiting!