The 2nd Annual Festival of Wood is being held a Grey Towers, the former home of Gifford Pinchot, the first head of the U.S. Forest Service and Governor of Pennsylvania, in Milford, Pike County.

The Festival serves as an educational event, heightening awareness about the importance of wood in our society and how professional and scientific forestry helps meet that continued need. But it’s also fun!

There will be wood games and activities for children, handmade wood crafts, sales and demonstrations, music and entertainment as well as refreshments. Tours of the Pinchot Grey Towers home are also available.

Gifford Pinchot was picked by Gov. Theodore Roosevelt to create the U.S. Forest Service in 1898 and was a contemporary of Sierra Club founder John Muir, Frederick Law Olmsted the Landscape Architect that created Central Park in New York, J. Horace McFarland, another Pennsylvanian who founded the Cities Beautiful movement at the turn of the 19th Century and was a founder of the conservation movement.

For more information, visit the Festival of Wood webpage.

8/11/2006