The park rangers of Hopewell Culture want you to become a junior ranger! Learn all about the earthworks and the practices of the culture and earn the official Junior Ranger badge for Hopewell Culture NHP. Visitors of all ages will have the opportunity to earn numerous types of badges and experience our newest Junior Scientist […]
National parks have sparked creativity for generations, from landscape painters to photographers, and nature enthusiast to writers, the love of national parks is spread far and wide. How do you like to express your love of national parks? Join us on Sunday April 17th to #sParkCreativity by writing a haiku for #internationalHaikuDay and painting a […]
On National Junior Ranger Day, the park rangers of Hopewell Culture want you to come and become a junior ranger and learn all about the earthworks and the practices of the culture. We will be offering our traditional Junior Ranger booklet along with our Junior Archeology activity booklet. If you are feeling extra ambitious the […]
Hopewell Culture National Historical Park is excited to introduce a new archeological series, “Where’s the Line?”. Join our rangers and archeologists in this series of programs as we investigate all the blurry lines that exist in archaeology that lead to important questions which encourage us to keep learning more about the past. Join us on […]
Presented by David J. Shetlar, PhD (the BugDoc) With all the current talk about environmental adverse impacts of modern pesticides, people often adopt a pastoral view that our forefathers had less problems dealing with toxins. In the 1880s, We will find out that a common pesticide was mercury chloride, though benzene (a known carcinogen) and […]
Wander our nature trail with a volunteer from the Scioto Valley Bird and Nature Club in hopes of finding our feathered friends along the way. This event is part of the National Audubon Society's Great Backyard Bird Count in which thousands of people across the US and Canada count and learn about the birds wintering […]
Celebrate Native American Heritage Month with Hopewell Culture National Historical Park. Join us as we welcome Susan Coterel Goldsberry, an author of children’s books and a member of the Cherokee Nation. Susan has always felt a strong connection to the values of the Native Americans, especially with their kindred spirit of respect for nature. The […]
Celebrate Native American Heritage Month with Hopewell Culture National Historical Park. Explore the world created by America's First Peoples. Join us on three Thursday evenings in November to view the series, Native America. The Native America series was produced by PBS and premiered in 2018. The four part series reaches back 15,000 years to showcase […]
