By Karlie Wilhelmi – Student Conservation Association’s NH AmeriCorps Member After a rejuvenating weekend visiting my sister in New York, I came back to Bear Brook and fell into the usual routine. Something was different though, perhaps the hint of spring in the air. While sitting on the front porch, I could hear the murmur […]
Month: April 2018

When I “Breathe”
By Emma Brown – Student Conservation Association’s NH AmeriCorps Member Every Monday before community meeting we have a time called “breathe.” It is a time when we refocus our minds after the weekend. I often take my camera with me to my breathe spot, photography is one of my main creative outlets. I find […]

Endurance!
By Jared Burris – Student Conservation Association’s NH AmeriCorps Member While it would be easy for me to say how much impact we have had in schools the past couple months, and how we have jump-started growth and positive change in the students, I would be sugar-coating things to say that it has been a […]

The “Big Night(s)”
By: Rand Michaels – Student Conservation Association’s NH AmeriCorps Member To briefly paint a picture of life here at Bear Brook State Park in late March; the mud season has begun. Our snow drifts, which once ominously encroached on both sides of the one-way road to camp, have dwindled to a patchy collection of blanks […]