Mother Nature Moves In, 1964

Mother Nature Moves In, 1964

municiple libraries, displays

A newspaper article describing a program at the library presented by the Nature Center Association.

Tenafly Library Scrapbook 1963 - 1970

1964

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1964

Photo caption: Young naturalists: Margaret Hiscox, 10, left and Robert Ziegler, 12, look over some of the photographs showing a nature walk sponsored last summer by Tenafly's Nature Center Association. The pictures are in the nature display at the Public Library (The Record photo.)

Mother Nature Moves Indoors
Tenafly - The Public Library was taken over by all outdoors yesterday when the local Nature Center Association moved a bit of it's 40-acre wildlife preserve in for an exhbit which will run for 2 weeks.

But visitors to the Library need not come in fear of creatures that creep and crawl, members of the Association assured last night. That part of the display was left out in the bush.

"Besides," added Mrs. Helen Metzel, the Associations nature teacher, "some of them might get out of their cages." At the time she was looking at a cage made of an old stocking and an oatmeal carton, which she said could hold thousands of praying mantises.

The display which includes habitat boxes, terrariums, nature prints and pictures, and a collection of photographs and books on outdoor subjects, was put together by members of Mrs. Metzel's nature classes for children.

INDIAN STYLE PAINTING
Among the items displayed are several paintings the children made with paints mixed in the manner used by American Indians. Mrs. Metsel said that the pigments were made from clays, sandstone, berries, leaves, and flowers, all ground to powder and mixed to make colors.

The exhibit was opened to introduce residents to the type of program the Association has sponsored during past summers and to show them the type of program which the group is planning this year. Photographs with the display show some of the children's activities of past years,including nature walks in the preserve in the Northeast Hills and searches in the shallows of the park's pond for various forms of wild life.

During the opening ceremonies, officers of the Association presented a book and a recording on birds to the Library.

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