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November 15, 2024

Talbot Spy

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Serene Green to Headline Adkins Arboretum Beer Garden Sept. 28

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There’s something magical about live music in nature! Local beer, food trucks and music by nationally touring act Serene Green are all on tap when Adkins Arboretum hosts its annual Beer Garden on Sat., Sept. 28.

Serene Green is a traditional bluegrass band from Northeastern Pennsylvania featuring Quentin Fisher, Michael Johnson, Steve Leonard, Katelynn Casper and Sam Zolla. They desire to honor the traditional side of bluegrass demonstrated by the pioneers of the genre while also showcasing its original compositions and uniqueness. Since the band’s inception in 2017, Serene Green has played in three countries and in over twenty of the United States, released three studio albums and performed at countless festival and venues alongside many nationally and internationally touring acts, including the Del McCoury Band, The Seldom Scene, The Infamous Stringdusters, Rhonda Vincent & The Rage, David Bromberg and Danny Paisley & The Southern Grass, among many others.

The event is Adkins Arboretum’s annual fall fundraiser. It is family friendly and will include hula hoops, bubbles and the opportunity to walk the Arboretum trails. Food and drink will be available for purchase, with Bull & Goat Brewery, Cult Classic Brewing Company and Ten Eyck Brewing Company pulling premium craft beer and Blue Money Street Tacos, the Red Shef and Beltway Bistro serving food.

In commemoration of the Arboretum’s dedication to hosting live music outdoors, a beautiful SE Custom 24 guitar generously donated by PRS Guitars is up for auction, which closes at the event. The winner will be announced that day. For more information, visit adkinsarboretum.org.

The Beer Garden runs from 2 to 4 p.m., with food and beer service beginning at 1 p.m. Seating is limited; bringing chairs or a blanket is highly advised. Only 400 admissions will be sold, so early registration is strongly recommended. Admission is $20 for Arboretum members, $25 for non-members and free for ages 18 and under. The fee increases by $5 on the day of the event. The rain date is Sat., Oct. 6. Register online at adkinsarboretum.org or call 410-634-2847, ext. 100.

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Adkins Arboretum Mystery Monday: Guess the Photo!

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Can you guess what is pictured in photo below?

 

The answer to last week’s mystery is eastern amberwing, Perithemis tenera, pictured below:

 

The eastern amberwing is a small species of dragonfly that only reaches about 1 inch in length. It is the second smallest dragonfly in the United States. Males have clear amber-colored wings, while females have blotch-patterned wings.

Amberwing larvae are aquatic. They have six legs and small wing buds. Gills are located inside the rectum. They breathe by drawing water in and out of their hind end. By forcefully expelling this water, the larvae can move quickly in a form of jet.

Amberwings have the most intricate courtship of any dragonfly. After the male selects several possible egg laying sites, he finds a female and leads her back to his potential nursery. To attract her, he sways back and forth, and hovers with his abdomen raised. Mating only occurs if the females approve – making this one of the few dragonflies where females choose the males.

In late summer, males can be seen along the shores of lakes, ponds, marshes, and slow sections of rivers, bays, and canals. Females are often found in meadows among summer wildflowers.

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Adkins Arboretum, Beech Works to Launch Rooted Wisdom podcast, with Listening Party September 26

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Adkins Arboretum, in partnership with Beech Works, will launch the Rooted Wisdom podcast with a listening party on Thursday, September 26, at 7 p.m. The event will be held in person at the Avalon Theatre in Easton, MD, and will also be available via live stream, viewable at rootedwisdom.org. The event includes the presentation of excerpts from the first three episodes of the new podcast, a panel discussion with the Rooted Wisdom host and episode guests and a Q&A with the panel for both in-person and virtual audiences.

In this new podcast series, Anthony Cohen, Menare Foundation President and explorer of the American past, sets out to find the stories of the Underground Railroad. Visiting well-known and overlooked sites, Rooted Wisdom reveals the people and places that shaped our history and considers how their stories continue to shape our lives today. Building off the 2022 Rooted Wisdom: Nature’s Role in the Underground Railroad Guided Experience, which explores how freedom seekers used their knowledge of and connection to nature to aid in escaping enslavement, the Rooted Wisdom podcast will extend to investigate the larger history of the Underground Railroad.

Cohen, historian and the series host, said, “The podcast format allows us to dig deeper into the lives of the freedom seekers introduced in the guided experience. In talking with our first three guests—a filmmaker, a nature photographer/biologist and a non-profit leader—we can further realize the project’s purpose, which is to inspire conversation about our enslaved ancestors, to honor their knowledge and to discover how their legacy continues to shape us today.”

The series will launch with three episodes in September that revisit the site that kicked off the Rooted Wisdom project: Adkins Arboretum. “The Arboretum is excited to be a part of the growth of this project,” said Adkins Executive Director Ginna Tiernan. “It is important to continually re-evaluate how we use public gardens and outdoor spaces today. We hope Rooted Wisdom will serve as a model for other public gardens looking to engage their sites’ entire history and become more inclusive.”

Rooted Wisdom will be available on rootedwisdom.org/podcast and available for download on all major podcast directories, including Apple Podcasts, Spotify and Amazon Music.

The Rooted Wisdom podcast is a production of Beech Works in collaboration with Cohen’s Menare Foundation. The first three episodes of the series were produced in partnership with Adkins Arboretum and explore how the history of the Underground Railroad and our experiences today converge in nature. The project was supported in part by a grant from the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH), funded by the Department of the Interior, National Park Service, as well as by Eastern Shore Heritage, Inc. with State funds from the Maryland Heritage Areas Authority, an instrumentality of the State of Maryland.

The Rooted Wisdom podcast listening party will take place on Thursday, September 26 at 7 p.m. (doors open at 6:30 p.m.), in-person at the Avalon Theatre in Easton, MD, and livestream at rootedwisdom.org. The event is free and open to all. Registration for the in-person event is required and available here. Registration for the virtual event is encouraged here. The program will include a panel discussion with the series host, historian Anthony Cohen, and episode guests Mecca Lewis and David Greaves. Project collaborator George Burroughs of Beech Works will moderate the discussion.

Located at the headwaters of the Tuckahoe Creek in Caroline County, Maryland, Adkins Arboretum is one of the few botanical institutions focused on conserving and promoting the flora of the Mid-Atlantic Coastal Plain. The Arboretum’s collection comprises 400 acres of native plant communities in cultivated gardens and successional patterns of meadows, old fields, pine plantations, young hardwood forests, mature bottomland forests, and wetlands. The Arboretum strives to inspire environmental stewardship, provide respite and healing, and celebrate natural and cultural diversity through the joy and wonder of the natural world. Learn more at adkinsarboretum.org.

Beech Works is a non-profit organization dedicated to broadening public discourse and advancing public education on social issues through thought-provoking documentary and narrative media projects. With educational and community outreach, Beech Works strives to engage, inspire, and foster discussions on the issues facing our society today. Learn more at beechworks.org.

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Mary-Land Scapes, Photography and Watercolor by Beth Horstman and Joan Machinchick, on view through October at Adkins Arboretum

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“bloomingdale 2019” by Beth Horstman is among the works in Mary-Land Scapes, Horstman’s show with Joan Machinchick on view through Oct. 26 at Adkins Arboretum.

Whether with a simple cornstalk or a vast iconic shoreline, artists Beth Horstman and Joan Machinchick evoke the beauty, wildness and peace—indeed the complexity—of Maryland’s environmental riches. Their exhibit, Mary-Land Scapes, runs through Oct. 26 at Adkins Arboretum, with a reception to meet the artists on Sat., Sept. 14, from 2 to 4 p.m.

Through the mediums of watercolor and photography, both artists explore the shared experience of natural space within our common surroundings. To immerse oneself in this exhibit is to connect with the deep nourishment that nature offers to all of us as we move through our daily lives.

Beth Horstman reflects, “The photographs I chose for this exhibit are a collection of what, I feel, is a taste of the area, for the Eastern Shore, and Maryland’s history that feeds my soul and creates a mood of soft visual calm.”

Joan Machinchick, whose practice also includes a host of related artistic disciplines, states, “The inspiration for my art is the constantly changing beauty and color, unity and diversity of all things in the natural world: the trees, sky and seasons, the wild gardens…the gentle Chesapeake Bay and the line where the water meets the shore and the earth comes alive.”

This show is part of Adkins Arboretum’s ongoing exhibition series of work on natural themes by regional artists. It is on view through October 26 at the Arboretum’s Visitor’s Center located at 12610 Eveland Road, near Tuckahoe State Park in Ridgely. Contact the Arboretum at 410-634-2847 ext. 100 or [email protected] for gallery hours.

A 400 acre native garden and preserve, Adkins Arboretum provides exceptional experiences in nature to promote environmental stewardship.

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Adkins Arboretum Mystery Tuesday: Guess the photo!

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 Can you guess what is pictured in photo below?

The answer to last week’s mystery is a cardinal flower, Lobelia cardinalis, pictured  below:

 

 

Cardinal flower is a native perennial plant from North and Central America. It gets its common name from its brilliant red flowers, which resemble the vestments worn by Roman Catholic cardinals. Its spikes of red flowers on leafy stems grow up to 5 feet tall.

Cardinal flowers are a stunning splash of color that attracts pollinators like hummingbirds and butterflies. Each erect terminal raceme is covered with numerous five-lobed flowers. The tube-shaped flowers open from the bottom to the top over a period of several weeks from late summer to early fall.

Cardinal flowers do best in moist areas like wet woods, stream banks, ponds, swamps, and marshes. They thrive in areas with high humidity. The plant flowers in full sun to partial shade, but they are easily grown in filtered light.

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Adkins Arboretum’s Mystery Monday: Guess the Picture!

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Can you guess what is pictured in photo below?

The answer to last week’s mystery is painted lady butterfly, Vanessa cardui, pictured in photo below.

The painted lady is often confused with the monarch, because their color scheme is similar, but the painted lady is smaller, with a wingspan of 2-3 inches. It also lacks the vein pattern that monarchs are known for. Painted ladies also have a mottled black and brown underside with four eyespots.

The painted lady boasts the world’s farthest known butterfly migratory route, undertaking a phenomenal 9,000-mile round trip from tropical Africa to the Arctic Circle. Some of the reasons for its widespread distribution include the wide variety of plants it feeds and lays eggs on, its ability to migrate to avoid winter, and its ability to continuously reproduce.

The painted lady makes their return migration journey at high altitude, out of view of butterfly observers on the ground. Radar records reveal that painted ladies fly at an

average altitude of over 500 meters on their southbound trip and can clock up

speeds of 30 mph allowing it to travel up to 100 miles per day during its migration

by selecting favorable conditions

Mystery Monday is sponsored by the Spy Newspapers and Adkins Arboretum.

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Adkins Arboretum Mystery Monday: Guess the Photo!

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Can you guess what is pictured in photo below?
The answer to last week’s mystery is jumpseed, Tovara virginiana, pictured in photo below:

This native wildflower is a member of the buckwheat family. It isn’t a spectacularly showy flower, but it is abundant.

Jumpseed is one of the few flowers blooming in shaded woodlands from July to October in our area. A long thin flower stalk, 2-3 feet tall, arches beside or across hiking trails The tiny flowers are white, greenish-white, and sometimes pink. They are spaced at intervals on the long stem. Eventually, the flowers will bear oval shaped seeds that have a hooked tip, which “jump” off the plant when touched.

Jumpseed is native to Eastern, Central, and Southern North America, and is a very cold-hardy plant. It can grow in full sun but prefers rich, moist to wet, woodland soils in shade to partial shade conditions. Jumpseed can also be found submerged along streams and lakes where the seeds provide food for ducks, micro, and macroinvertebrates.

It is grown as an ornamental, valued especially for its various cultivars with variegated leaves.

Mystery Monday is sponsored by the Spy Newspapers and Adkins Arboretum.

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Discussion of On the Tobacco Coast August 25 with Shore Lit Founder Kerry Folan and Artist Jonna McKone at Adkins Arboretum

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On The Tobacco Coast by Christopher Tilghman.

Christopher Tilghman’s new novel, On the Tobacco Coast, is the final installment in his decorated Mason family series set on the Eastern Shore and based on the Queen Anne’s County property that has been in his family since the 17th century. His four-volume chronicle, having spanned centuries and continents, addresses history, environment, race, inheritance and land legacy. It has been called “a moving capstone   of the epic projects in recent American literature.”

Adkins Arboretum and Shore Lit invite the public to a book talk on August 25. During the free event from 2 to 4 p.m., George Mason University assistant professor and Shore Lit founder Kerry Folan and artist Jonna McKone will lead a discussion about the novel. Tilghman will talk about the book with Folan on Sept. 8 at the Avalon Theatre, Easton.

McKone’s photographs of former Eastern Shore tobacco plantations will be on view in the Arboretum gallery. The program will include a guided conversation about the book and consider the changing landscape of the Eastern Shore. She will discuss her work; a reception will follow. McKone’s work will be on view at the Arboretum August 20–31.

Advance registration is appreciated at adkinsarboretum.org. For more information, visit adkinsarboretum.org or call 410-490-6930.

Adkins Arboretum is a 400-acre native garden and preserve at the headwaters of the Tuckahoe Creek in Caroline County. For more information, visit adkinsarboretum.org.

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Adkins Arboretum Mystery Monday: Guess the Photo

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Happy Mystery Monday!  Can you guess what is pictured in photo below?
The answer to last week’s mystery is the pearl crescent butterfly, Phyciodes tharos, pictured below:

The pearl crescent butterfly is a small-to-medium sized, non-migratory, native butterfly. It is named for the crescent-shaped markings on the outer edges of the hindwing.

This black and vibrant orange butterfly is found in all parts of the United States except the West Coast.

All true asters are host plants for the pearl crescent butterfly’s eggs and larvae. The larvae are brownish-black with light dots, yellow lateral stripes, and yellowish-brown spines. The head is black with a pale spot in front.

Female pearl crescent butterflies lay minuscule white-green eggs in clusters (20-300 eggs per cluster) on a variety of asters. Consider planting late blooming asters to attract these butterflies.

The pearl crescent butterfly is a puddle visitor. The males will behave territorially toward other males approaching the same puddle – especially around puddles where females tend to group. They have been recorded darting after other butterflies that come near their perch or puddle, driving them out of the area.

Mystery Monday is sponsored by the Spy Newspapers and Adkins Arboretum.

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