Garden Club Program, May 23-The Past, Present & Future Of North America's Monarch Butterflies

By SHANNON HICKS

Published: May 12, 2006 12:00 am

Garden Club Program, May 23â

The Past, Present & Future Of North Americaâs Monarch Butterflies

The Monarch butterfly migration and the related stories of global warming, deforestation, gardening and habitat preservation will be the focus of The Garden Club of Newtown in a program presented by Eric Mollenhauer. His program will begin at 1 pm on Tuesday, May 23, in the Olga Knoepke Memorial Room of the Cyrenius H. Booth Library, 25 Main Street.

Eric Mollenhauer has worked for 30 years in the field of education. He has taught science and science education at the high school and university level in New Jersey, Minnesota and England.

He has developed programs used by teachers in 42 states and ten countries and has received teaching awards at the local, state and national levels.

The most successful of these projects is the Monarch Butterfly Teacher Network. Each summer the program teaches hundreds of teachers how to bring the Monarch Butterfly story into classrooms and communities. Over 900 teachers from New Jersey, Connecticut and other states and provinces have been trained so far.

During his garden club appearance, Mr Mollenhauer will share the story of the Monarch Butterfly and its migration through a slide lecture. This story is more than science and more than Monarchs, it is about the past, present and future of North America and its people as well.

The public is invited to join the members of The Garden Club of Newtown for this lecture. There is no charge and registration is not necessary.

For more information call 270-1108.

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