The Festival Of Wood is returning to Gifford Pinchot’s Grey Towers Historic Site in Pike County September 24 & 25.  The Festival is being held in connection with National Public Lands Day.

This family friendly event celebrates Penn’s Woods and Pennsylvania’s nation-leading hardwoods industry.

The ancestral family home of Gifford Pinchot, who introduced scientific forestry to America and founded the USDA Forest Service, Grey Towers stands today as a natural resource leadership and education Center.

Pinchot also served as PA Forestry Commissioner and Governor of Pennsylvania for two terms.

Schedule

-- September 24: National Public Lands Day & Ice Cream Social

            A fee-free day of self-guided mansion tours and ice cream during this day celebrating public lands! Bring a non-perishable food item for donation to a local food pantry.

-- September 24 - Festival of Wood Day 1

Handmade wood crafts, programs, children’s activities, educational exhibits, sawmill, chainsaw and tree pruning demos and more! Self-guided tours of all three floors of the mansion ($5/person on Sunday). Refreshments available. Free parking, free shuttle. Rain or shine.

-- September 25 - Festival of Wood Day 2

Handmade wood crafts, programs, children’s activities, educational exhibits, sawmill, chainsaw and tree pruning demos and more! Self-guided tours of all three floors of the mansion ($5/person on Sunday). Refreshments available. Free parking, free shuttle. Rain or shine.

Click Here for more events at Grey Towers this fall.

For more information and a complete schedule of activities, visit the Grey Towers Events webpage, call 570-296-9630 or send email to: info@greytowers.org.

For more information on programs, initiatives and other upcoming events, visit the Grey Towers Heritage Association.  Click Here to sign up for updates from the Association, Like them on Facebook, Follow them on Twitter, visit their YouTube Channel, become part of their Google+ Circle and follow them on Instagram.

  Also visit the Grey Towers Historic Site website and the Pinchot Institute for Conservation website for information on its conservation research and policy programs.  Click Here to sign up for the Institute’s regular updates.

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[Posted: September 14, 2022]

9/19/2022