Merry Leaflet
The Merry Leaflet is the quarterly newsletter of the Merry Lea Environmental Learning Center of Goshen College. Contact Merry Lea to be added to the mailing list and recieve a paper copy of this newsletter.
Current
Issue:
Autumn 2011 (<1
mb .pdf)
Merry Lea alumni: Where are they now? This
issue tracks about a dozen former students who passed through Merry Lea
in one way or another, to see how they have used their environmental training.
Also read about a new volunteer training program and the annual turkey butchering.
Back Issues
Summer
2011 (<1 mb .pdf)
Merry Lea's mission statement includes the
desire to provide re-creating experiences for body, mind and spirit. In this
issue, we look at the life of the spirit at Merry Lea, and the ways faith commitments
have shaped the institution. Also read about Dr. Laura Yoder's arrival, Paul
Steury's visit to the tar sands in Alberta, Canada, and our state tree: the tulip
poplar.
Winter/Spring
2011 (<1 mb .pdf)
Announcing
the new Sustainability Semester in Residence,Sugar Bush happnings, volunteer
feature on Alice Brown, red-backed salamanders.
Autumn
2010 (<1 mb .pdf)
Merry Lea's mammals take center stage in this issue.
Other articles cover the new addition on the Learning Center, Kerry Goodrich's
30 years of employment and the first crop of nuts from Bill Minter's chestnut
research.
Summer 2010 (1.6 mb .pdf)
Insects are the focus of this issue, third in a series on creatures that live at Merry Lea. Also read poetry from a Nature Writing workshop and stories from the Agroecology Summer Intensive.
Our series on the animals that live in Merry Lea's ecosystems
continues with a look at amphibians and reptiles. Also read about NatureFest
and a Friends dinner that featured Russian nature preserves.
Winter
2010 (1.8 mb .pdf)
This issue begins a four-part series on the animals that live in Merry Lea's ecosystems. Birds are our winter theme.
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Autumn 2009 (2.5 mb.pdf)
A look at Merry Lea's land base: how restoration is reshaping parts of the property; how fresh eyes from outside have made unexpected finds there; how our graduate students have immersed themselves in local ecosystems.
Summer
2009 (2.6
mb .pdf)
A story behind every donation: a look
at a few of the many donors, large and small, who have shaped Merry
Lea...First graduate students... new greenhouse...Maple scholars...Ephemeral
ponds.
Spring
2009 (2.6 mb .pdf)
A special commemorative issue in memory of Mary Jane
Rieth, founding donor.
Winter 2009 (1.0 mb .pdf)
Merry Lea's public programs...Retreat day options ...Citizen
science...Why adults need nature...Sugar Bush plans...volunteer dinner...Wood
frogs
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Autumn
2008 (2.3 mb
.pdf)
Read about Merry Lea's New Graduate Program...Governor's Award for
Rieth Village...Student research projects ...Two new staff members...Sandhill
Cranes...
Summer
2008 (2.3
mb .pdf)
Read about Merry Lea's K-12 Program...No Child
Left Inside legislation...A BioBlitz...Merry Lea's NatureFest...Dave Miller's
retirement...Great Blue Herons...
Spring 2008 (4.7
mb .pdf)
Read about Merry Lea's Platinum Award from the U.S. Green
Building Council...Sugar Bush 2008...the Northern Water Snake.
Winter
2008 (1.4 mb .pdf)
Read about a growing interest in faith-based
dialogs about creation care...E.O. Wilson's visit to Goshen College...Nature
Photography Workshop...Merry Lea Volunteers...Northern Cardinals.
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September
2007
Read about E.O. Wilson's visit to Goshen College...Larry
Yoder's retirement...soils study at Merry Lea...
June
2006
Read about the dedication of Rieth
Village...Islamic-Christian dialog on caring for the earth...
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December
2005
The
anniversary
series continues with a look at Merry Lea's transfer to Goshen College in
the 1980s.
September 2005
Read about Merry Lea's history: 40th anniversary of
founding and 25th anniversary of affiliation with Goshen College both fell
this year...Construction of Rieth Village.
June
2005
Read about the ground-healing/breaking service
for Rieth Village...Peter Pyle visit...NatureFest...
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September
2004
Read about Merry Lea's new agroecology program...student
research.
June
2004
Plans for Rieth Village move forward...First NatureFest...The
Pearl Diver filmed at Merry Lea.
March
2004
Read about progress on Rieth Village...Grant from Noble
County Community Foundation...First NatureFest.
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December 2002
Rieth Village plans…First Autumn Hope Conference…Enchanted
Forest and Photography…Fox Squirrels.
September
2002
Autumn Sunflower Festival...New staff...Birds of North America sought for
library...Garden spider...
June 2002
Lindsey Fellow Mary Linton
transitions to Wisconsin …Miller attends MAPS bird banding
training…Merry Lea
receives Waugh collection…Midwest Birding to Hartwick Pines, MI.
March 2002
Providing a natural sanctuary: land management at Merry Lea…Volunteer John
Stearns…Construction of Cider Press and Blacksmith buildings at Farmstead…Black-capped
chickadee