Hike & Write
Participants will be guided on a hike to one of The Ashokan Center’s gorgeous historic sites, stopping at points along the way to free-write based on prompts and found objects. With journal in hand and the idyllic landscape as muse, we’ll allow our eyes, ears and minds to wander, and lead us to write.
Wednesday, September 4, 10 AM-12 PM: Cathedral Gorge
Hike through an old Eastern Hemlock forest along the Esopus creek and explore the natural and social history of the region. The trail passes by relics of the recent and prehistoric past including a 19th century water mill, over a 130-year-old covered bridge, past the site of Native American camps, and into a glacial gorge. The hike culminates in an 80-foot waterfall, the walls of which reveal rock layers millions of years old.
Thursday, September 5, 10 AM-12 PM: 19th Century Writer’s Cabin
Pack your journals! Sit around the wood stove and learn about the lives and works of the great Naturalist writers of the 19th Century and their victories in environmental protection. Thoreau, Muir, and local native John Burroughs sought refuge, peace, and inspiration that can only be found in a cabin in the woods.
Please note: Your festival pass must be Add to Cartd separately.
Participants will be guided on a hike to one of The Ashokan Center’s gorgeous historic sites, stopping at points along the way to free-write based on prompts and found objects. With journal in hand and the idyllic landscape as muse, we’ll allow our eyes, ears and minds to wander, and lead us to write.
Wednesday, September 4, 10 AM-12 PM: Cathedral Gorge
Hike through an old Eastern Hemlock forest along the Esopus creek and explore the natural and social history of the region. The trail passes by relics of the recent and prehistoric past including a 19th century water mill, over a 130-year-old covered bridge, past the site of Native American camps, and into a glacial gorge. The hike culminates in an 80-foot waterfall, the walls of which reveal rock layers millions of years old.
Thursday, September 5, 10 AM-12 PM: 19th Century Writer’s Cabin
Pack your journals! Sit around the wood stove and learn about the lives and works of the great Naturalist writers of the 19th Century and their victories in environmental protection. Thoreau, Muir, and local native John Burroughs sought refuge, peace, and inspiration that can only be found in a cabin in the woods.
Please note: Your festival pass must be Add to Cartd separately.
Participants will be guided on a hike to one of The Ashokan Center’s gorgeous historic sites, stopping at points along the way to free-write based on prompts and found objects. With journal in hand and the idyllic landscape as muse, we’ll allow our eyes, ears and minds to wander, and lead us to write.
Wednesday, September 4, 10 AM-12 PM: Cathedral Gorge
Hike through an old Eastern Hemlock forest along the Esopus creek and explore the natural and social history of the region. The trail passes by relics of the recent and prehistoric past including a 19th century water mill, over a 130-year-old covered bridge, past the site of Native American camps, and into a glacial gorge. The hike culminates in an 80-foot waterfall, the walls of which reveal rock layers millions of years old.
Thursday, September 5, 10 AM-12 PM: 19th Century Writer’s Cabin
Pack your journals! Sit around the wood stove and learn about the lives and works of the great Naturalist writers of the 19th Century and their victories in environmental protection. Thoreau, Muir, and local native John Burroughs sought refuge, peace, and inspiration that can only be found in a cabin in the woods.
Please note: Your festival pass must be Add to Cartd separately.
