Creekside hosts Bob Molinari, author of Joyce’s Ark: On Its Journey to the Rainbow Bridge

Saturday, May 31st at 1pm

Creekside Books & Coffee
35 Fennell Street
Skaneateles, NY 13152
Tel: 315-685-0379

Oswego author Robert Molinari, who wrote a book about his wife’s love of God and more than 75 pets during their 35-year marriage, plans to sign copies of the book this weekend.

http://www.creeksidecoffeehouse.com

Creekside hosts Laurie Halse Anderson, author of Speak
Saturday, June 7th at 1pm

Laurie Halse Anderson grew up in Syracuse, New York, and now lives outside Philadelphia with her husband, two teenage daughters, and way too many books. SPEAK, nominated for the 1999 National Book Award for Young People’s Literature, is her first novel. She is also the author of three picture books, NO TIME FOR MOTHER’S DAY, TURKEY POX, and NDITO RUNS.  Laurie is a past visiting author at Skaneateles High School.

http://www.creeksidecoffeehouse.com

Author and Artist Margot Datz comes home

Saturday, May 10th at 12:30pm

Creekside Books & Coffee
35 Fennell Street
Skaneateles, NY 13152
Tel: 315-685-0379

Creekside hosts Margot Datz, author of Survival Guide for Landlocked Mermaids

Join Margot Datz for lunch and a book presentation. Tickets are $20 each if purchased before May 1st and $25 each afterwards. Tickets include an autographed copy of Survival Guide for Landlocked Mermaids, a light lunch of sandwiches, coffee, tea, and dessert, and a reserved seat for the event. RSVP in the bookstore.

http://www.creeksidecoffeehouse.com

Canoe/Kayak Dock Opens – May 10

Beaver Lake Nature Center 9 am – 4 pm,  Weekends

Enjoy a leisurely paddle on you own across Beaver Lake. Explore the lake’s edge and search for beaver lodges, turtles, herons and osprey. Paddlers may bring their own canoe/kayak or rent one from the Visitor Center. Rental rates are $8 per hour; $2 each add’l half hour.

Beaver Lake Nature Center
8477 East Mud Lake Road, Baldwinsville, NY 13027
315-638-2519

http://www.onondagacountyparks.com/parks/beaver/index.php

A Visit to Cornell Plantations and Bakers’ Acres

May 15, 2008

8 am to 5 pm

Beaver Lake Nature Center
8477 East Mud Lake Road
Baldwinsville, NY 13027
315-638-2519

Experience beautiful Cornell Plantations: a museum of living plants that includes the arboretum and botanical gardens of Cornell University. We will also visit Bakers’ Acres, one of the largest herb and perennial growers in Central New York, and have lunch in their tearoom.  Lunch and transportation included. 

cost $50.00

www.onondagacountyparks.com/parks/beaver/